Lebanon County News

The Partridge Street Redevelopment Project area, in the shadows of the Norfolk Southern Railroad overpasses on Ninth and 10th streets, is one of six new Keystone Opportunity Zones in Lebanon.

Although the counting of ballots is done after the polls close at 8 p.m., the write-in ballots are not tabulated until the official counting is done on Friday.

The six public and four private high schools in Lebanon County have scheduled their graduation ceremonies, beginning with Lebanon Catholic School on Friday and concluding with Lebanon Christian Academy and New Covenant Christian School on June 8. Lebanon Catholic School's commencement will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday at the school's auditorium.

One night before the primary election, Ann Gruber, a candidate for the Republican nomination of Jackson Township supervisor, found herself in handcuffs at the supervisors' regularly scheduled meeting.

It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov.

The event, called a sprint triathlon, started with a 500-yard swim in the lake, followed by a 16-mile bike ride in Lebanon and Lancaster counties and a 5K run on the nearby Lebanon Valley Rail Trail.

Barbara Neil works at the computer in her office at the Lebanon Community Library.

Pennsylvania State Police confirmed a new sighting of the car belonging to Matthew Royer, 21, a Skippack Township man who went missing on his way home from a Rhode Island Thursday night, according to abclocal.com . Police say Royer's car was seen at 1 p.m. on Friday at Route 501 and Route 22 in Lebanon County.

Dawn Resanovich is seeking her fourth four-year term as Lebanon County's register of wills and clerk of orphans court.

After 24 years serving as sheriff, Mike DeLeo has decided to turn in his badge at the end of the year, and there are two men who want to wear it.

Fort Indiantown Gap National Ceremony hosted 28 buglers playing Taps at a special performance in honor of service men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Midstaters gave blood and saved lives in honor of the victims killed or injured in last month's Boston Marathon bombings.

The prize increased by another $50 million Friday - now at a whopping jackpot of $600 million - as players continued to buy $2 tickets for a chance to strike it rich.

The first carnival of the season at the Schaefferstown Fire Company Carnival Grounds.

Superior Court candidate Vic Stabile, right, speaks with Lebanon County Commissioner Bill Ames Thursday at the Lebanon County Republican Committee's Pre-Election Day Rally at the Lincoln Republican Club in Lebanon.

Ms. Pennsylvania Senior America 2012 Linda Bullock of Fleetwood, left, poses with state pageant director Doris Ulrich of Lebanon County.

Surveillance camera stills show the male and female police believe to have stolen more than $500 in cosmetics from the Giant store on Cocoa Avenue.

South Londonderry Township police investigate a crash in the 1400 block of Mount Wilson Road that claimed the life of Brandon Cline Jr., 31, of 1274 Mount Wilson Road.

Lingle Avenue Elementary School students, from left, Tea Ceresini, Allie Knudsen, Scout Bucks and Kaia Garcia inspect a black bear skin during the Lebanon County Elementary Envirothon on Friday at Coleman Memorial Park in Lebanon.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Ronald J. Tomalis will be the featured speaker at a public affairs luncheon on May 30 hosted by the Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce at Hometown Restaurant, 1 North Londonderry Square, North Londonderry Township.