Dauphin County News Archives

A Dauphin County woman who just lost her husband in Iraq now has to find a new home for her and her 5-day-old son after her apartment was condemned.

A Salem Township man was one of four men recently arrested by the state Attorney General's office for allegedly using the Internet to sexually proposition agents posing as teenage girls.

A 17th century stone barn converted into a home for a book dealer and his artist wife burned down Tuesday, destroying 30,000 rare books the man had collected.

State Attorney General Tom Corbett said today authorities are reviewing the records of nearly 200 registered sex offenders in the state who have opened accounts on the MySpace social networking Web site.

The dozen defendants in the state's bonus scandal will make their next court appearances in October.

Should Sex Offenders Wear GPS Monitoring Anklets?Troy Martin, FOX43 News DERRY TOWNSHIP, DAUPIN COUNTY - Speaking to members of the House Judiciary Committee, State Auditor General Jack Wagner recommended sex ...

PA House Bill 164 would require five years of Global Positioning System monitoring for sex offenders who break the law and fail to verify their addresses.

Police have identified the man killed in a crash late Monday night in Dauphin County as Wilfredo Caldena-Ortiz, 28, of Harrisburg.

"All I could see was head and ears back here on the hillside. He had a field of view looking down over," says Bruce Harter from behind his Middletown home.

A preliminary hearing has been set for a cadre of current and former lawmakers and legislative staffers at the center of an alleged government corruption scandal.

Police in Montgomery County are on the lookout for a missing woman. Lower Providence Township Police say 20-year-old Megan Beers was last seen leaving the Eagleville Hospital on July 11th.

On Thursday afternoon, four people will appear before Dauphin County President Judge Richard Lewis.

A man is shot at the East Ridge Apartments in Dauphin County. The apartments are located in Swatara Township, near Derry and Lancaster Streets.

Shocked by the ease with which a defense attorney looking for the source of grand jury leaks was able to obtain prosecutors' phone records, district attorneys and state police are backing a bill that would ...

A convicted serial killer should serve life sentences for his crimes instead of facing the death penalty because he is mentally disabled, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

It was a wild chase for members of the Pennsylvania Game Commission after a woman discovered a goose was shot by an arrow.

The cost of the first murder trial of convicted killer Joseph Clark will top $60,000, Bedford County officials said Wednesday.

A convicted serial killer should serve life sentences for his crimes instead of facing the death penalty because he is mentally disabled, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

A suspect in a September 2006 shooting at Laurel Lodge in Chambersburg gave up his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday on charges connected to that crime and an armed robbery that occurred two days earlier.

Police say 35-year-old Stanley Mosley confessed. They say he admitted he was the man who broke into a string of Asian restaurants in Dauphin and Cumberland Counties in June and July.

Police allege a Fawn Grove man took out his anger on a slot machine at a Dauphin County casino with spit.

A 77-year-old Fawn Grove man allegedly made his losing streak worse than it had to be Monday at the Hollywood Casino at Penn National Racetrack.

If anything is as disturbing as two grand juries' allegations of corruption within the General Assembly, it is rank-and-file members' tolerance for the culture of privilege and power that fostered the allegedly ...

For the second time in less than five months, a ManorCare South resident died after its staff didn't respond properly to a resident's serious medical symptoms, state health department officials said.

A firefighter was taken to the hospital after a house fire in Dauphin County. The fire broke out about 6:30 Friday evening, on Stone Mill Road in South Hanover Township.

A Dauphin County Prison inmate on a work detail stole an SUV and escaped this morning before being captured by police a short time later.

State police are investigating a single-vehicle crash in Dauphin County which injured four people early this morning.

A Dauphin County sex offender is back in prison after supposedly looking into people's homes.

HARRISBURG, Pa. A judge has thrown out subpoenas issued to 15 Pennsylvania journalists who were summoned to testify at a hearing on whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate alleged ...

Fire destroyed a vacant farmhouse in Dauphin County late Wednesday night. Firefighters from 9 companies responded to the blaze just after 10 o'clock off Blue Mountain Parkway in Lower Paxton Township.

An 80-year-old man is accused of groping two women in a Dauphin County store parking lot.

A Hamburg man pleaded guilty Monday in Dauphin County Court to failing to properly account for $3,280 seized in drug investigations while he was police chief in Lykens, Dauphin County.

In her first public statement since the 2006 murder of her estranged husband, the widow of Dr.

Police in Dauphin County arrested a man for allegedly trying to kill his wife. Derry Township Police say Jason Arthur Powell of Hershey tried to strangle or drown her in the Swatara Creek during a family ...

A Pike County man is accused of using Internet chat rooms to sexually proposition what he believed were young girls from the Harrisburg area, Attorney General Tom Corbett announced Tuesday.

Pennsylvania prosecutors are expected to urge the Legislature to close a loophole that allowed a defense lawyer to obtain the cell-phone records of law-enforcement officials involved in the criminal prosecution ...

Harrisburg Police say 32 year old James Buckner was killed by Antonio Horne Sunday morning during a gunfight inside Buckner's home on the 400 block of South 17th street.

A former police chief has pleaded guilty to theft in Dauphin County Court. Chris Wade failed to properly account for more than $3,000 seized in drug investigations when he was police chief in Lykens borough.

A 90-year-old Grantville woman was killed and two others injured in a two-vehicle crash yesterday morning in East Hanover Township, Dauphin County.

Police in Middletown have identified and arrested a woman suspected in a number of fraud and theft incidents in Dauphin County.

In Dauphin County, there's a new way to track prison inmates - 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Police arrested a suspect in a burglary at a chinese restaurant in Cumberland County.. Some broke into the China Wok Restaurant in the West Shore Plaza sometime Thursday night, according to police.

Rachel Manzo was released on her own recognizance yesterday, then returned an hour later to pay $10,000 -- all in $20s -- to bail her husband out of police custody.

Nearly dozen people appeared in handcuffs in front of television cameras Friday, just a day after Attorney General Tom Corbett announced charges in one of the largest government scandals.

A two-car accident with injuries in Dauphin County knocked a pole and wires down.

Corbett scheduled a 2 p.m. news conference in Harrisburg to announce the results of the grand jury probe.

The 22-month-old boy who fell from the second-story roof of a Reading apartment building while riding his tricycle has died, officials said Tuesday.

The attorney general's office says a Dauphin County man has been arrested for allegedly trying to have sex with underage girls.

Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced that agents from the Attorney General's Child Predator Unit have arrested two men, including a bank branch manager from Dauphin County and a contractor from ...

The 22-month-old boy who rode a tricycle off a roof in Reading is dead. The Dauphin County coroner's office says Joshua Garcia was pronounced dead in Hershey Medical Center on Monday.

Three men charged in separate cases with going into an online chat room, meeting what appeared to be a 14-year-old girl and starting conversations with her that became sexually graphic on their part, will head ...

The bald eagle continues to supplant its recent - and remarkable - nesting successes with new records, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

Dauphin County Republicans, hoping there won't be much time to get used to their new minority status, kicked off a voter registration drive over the weekend.

Joseph Clark lost 100 pounds before his murder trial, but jurors still believed he was the "big fat man" who abducted and killed a Bedford County woman eight years ago.

The conviction of Joseph Clark brought closure, but not only for the family of murder victim Holly Notestine.

Neighbors in Williamstown, Dauphin County awoke early Wednesday morning to see flames shooting from a house down the street.

The mother of a 2-year-old child who was beaten to death is now charged with homicide, accused of doing nothing to save her daughter from repeated abuse, allegedly at the hands of the woman's boyfriend.

Police arrested a Dauphin County man on charges related to a sexual assault which occurred in Harrisburg last month.

Army investigators and Dauphin County officials are looking into the death of a child who was found unresponsive in a day care center at Defense Distribution Region East, the Army's depot near New Cumberland.

Firefighter friends of a Dauphin County soldier killed in Iraq gave him a sendoff on the 1978 Mack pumper that he loved to ride.

State Police are investigating an overnight fatal fire in Northern Dauphin County.

The state Senate's top Democrat said his staff helped a lawyer who was trying to obtain cell phone numbers of Pennsylvania reporters subpoenaed in an investigation of alleged grand jury secrecy violations, a ...

For weeks, tensions have been high at the Dauphin County Prison. The tension culminated with a prison revolt on June 16 that lead to a weeklong prison lockdown.

The man who set fire to his house before shooting and killing himself in Upper Dauphin County was scheduled for a court appearance today.

A big flashing sign reading Do Not Enter sits on Hoffer Street in Penbrook. Last week it was a busy two way street.

State police in Dauphin County said a house fire was intentionally set. The fire was discovered shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday in a duplex in the 300 block of Julian Street in Williamstown, state police said.

At a little after 10:30 a.m. the jury announced its verdict in the Joseph W. Clark capital murder case.

The owner of a Harrisburg-based Internet broadcast news site testified Tuesday before a judge examining whether the secrecy of a grand jury investigation was violated.

The Star Barn, a Dauphin County landmark along Route 283 in Lower Swatara Township, will be dismantled and moved to a new home.

Timothy I. Ray Sr., 36, of Harrisburg, is an accused sex offender. Authorities are looking for an accused sex offender who is believed to be in York County, according to the sheriff's office.