Mechanicsburg News

Summer entertainment is stadium rock and throbbing nightclubs, but it's also picnics in the park, art exhibits and a somewhat gentler strain of music.

Bath salts file photo In this Jan. 26, 2011, file photo, containers of synthetic drugs known as 'bath salts' sit on a counter at Hemp's Above in Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, flanked by campaign volunteers Jordan Furr, left, and Sherrie-Kaye Miller, both of Mechanicsburg, Pa., telephones a potential voter from a call center at his Pennsylvania campaign headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, April 5, 2012.

Police charge a Cumberland County man with stealing food from a Giant Food store.

This afternoon, a vessel exploded and caught fire on Chautauqua Lake in the area of Smith Boys marina.

Zoe Wray of Mechanicsburg High School . Photographed at Cornerstone Coffee House in Camp Hill, frame provided by ARTWORKS in Mechanicsburg.

State police in Cumberland County are investigating an overnight shooting that sent a 25-year-old man to the hospital.

PennDOT Secretary Barry J. Schoch recognized 31 PennDOT employees for their outstanding performance with the Star of Excellence Award, PennDOT's highest recognition on Wednesday.

The mobile food truck trend keeps on movin'. At least two more portable food trucks are on the road in the midstate.

Crabtree Rohrbaugh and Associates , the Mechanicsburg PA architectural firm that is being used extensively for renovations of and additions to buildings in the Pottstown School District , has been hired by the neighboring Pottsgrove School District to study and make recommendations on proposed structural upgrades to Pottsgrove High School, Kauffman ... (more)

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The poor get no love from the Corbett administration.

Members of the 'Green Team' from left to right: Jeanne Poe, Andrew Dagens, Vince Poe and Kevin Kane, sing their version of the Backstreet Boys' 'I Want it That Way' at Cherry Lane Saturday during Anna's Amazing Race.

The 11th annual Art and Wine Walk features live music, courtesy of the Historic Singer Band , in addition to a chance to sample wines and explore the specialty shops in Mechanicsburg.

More than 40 grave markers at the Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Mechanicsburg were stolen Tuesday night.

Several children were nearly struck by falling rocks and some homes were damaged by a blasting accident at a Cumberland County construction site, police said.

It is said that every great story has already been written and what we have now are simply reimaginations of the same basic plot.

F&M Trust announced plans to open a new banking office at Silver Creek Plaza on the Pike near Mechanicsburg.

A two-year-old girl was burned by a cigarette that was flicked into a car during a road rage incident in Cumberland County, according to police.Silver Spring Township police said a female passenger flicked A two-year-old girl was burned by a cigarette that was flicked into a car during a road rage incident in Cumberland County, according to police.

Those were some of the words Mechanicsburg businesswoman Linda Willis used to describe her reaction to a decision by Borough Council to delay any consideration of changes in zoning to allow personal services businesses in a section of the borough's downtown.

ALL WEEKEND A See an IMAX film for free A Buy one full price admission ticket and get mom's ticket free for IMAX movies this weekend.