Adams County News

Not many nine year olds can say they helped save a person's life, but Carrie Bair of New Oxford, Adams County can.

City detectives were at the Grayco Apartments at 15 North Street, and officers could be seen searching a first-floor room and loading evidence into a police vehicle just before 3 p.m. Tuesday.

The testing will get underway around 6 p.m. and is designed to detect breaks and defects in the sewer system.

Hauser Estate Winery, 410 Cashtown Road, Gettysburg, will offer the second annual renewal of marriage vows Sunday, June 23 at 1:30 p.m. It will be a mass renewal of vows with all couples participating at the same time.

With the summer comes mosquitoes, and with mosquitoes comes the chance of West Nile Virus.

The westbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike are closed near the Susquehanna River Bridge due to a multi-vehicle crash.Authorities said there are traffic incidents near mile markers 241.9 and 247.4.The The westbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike are closed at the Susquehanna River Bridge due to a multi-vehicle crash.

A Hagerstown, Md. man riding a bicycle in Adams County was struck by a vehicle and later pronounced dead at York Hospital, according to the York County Coroner's Office.

Best-selling war author Jeff Shaara speaks during a lecture at the Adams County Agriculture & Natural Resource Center on Saturday in Gettysburg.

To do that, he and coworker Logan Reed will attempt something they've never done before: biking almost 150 miles in one day to benefit the local Make-A-Wish chapter, which grants wishes to sick children in York and Adams counties.

Interest is perking up from potential buyers as Franklin County commissioners continue to weigh the possible sale of the county's nursing home.

Police say a Harrisburg man used several counterfeit $20 bills to purchase tickets at the carnival at Delone High School.

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That was the message sent to dozens of business representatives and residents at a planning meeting open to the public at the Gettysburg Gateway Theater on Wednesday.

A man who an Adams County prosecutor described as "basically homeless" faces up to 90 days in jail and a $5,000 fine for possessing a torn and dirty American flag.

The email mentions the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General in the body and was sent Wednesday between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. The 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl whose efforts to qualify for a transplant drew public debate over how organ donation should be done is getting a new lung.

The eastbound lanes of the Turnpike will be closed between the Harrisburg West interchange and the Harrisburg East exit starting just after midnight Saturday until Sunday at 4 a.m. for overhead bridge work.

A rabid cat was found Tuesday at Oakside Community Park in Biglerville and officials are warning people to use caution in approaching animals they do not know.

An investigation on Warren, 68, began last month when a 13-year-old girl came forward accusing Warren of sexually assaulting her at his house several years ago.

A Hamilton Township man was arrested without incident Wednesday morning for the alleged rape of a child several years ago, according to Pennsylvania State Police at Gettysburg.

Hamilton Township and Abbottstown officials should have ample time to gear up for a slowdown of Lincoln Highway traffic - the old East King Street bridge over Beaver Creek is not scheduled for reconstruction until 2015, said Penn DOT media relations agent Greg Penny.