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• Doors open for some Pa. State Police cadets, while others stay firmly closed

  18-03-2016 23:52
  
  Graduation day was a joyous time for 48 members of the 144th State Police Academy class.
  
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• Multi-vehicle accident closes lane of Route 581 eastbound

  18-03-2016 22:49
  
  One vehicle overturned in the accident.
  
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• Route 15 reopened in Adams County after vehicle fire

  18-03-2016 22:30
  
  PennDOT reported that fire around 5:00 p.m.
  
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• DA wants to try Lycoming County home invasion suspects together; woman still missing

  18-03-2016 22:25
  
  The Lycoming County district attorney's office filed a joinder notice signifying its intent to try Michael James Houseweart and Brian Matthew Vroman together as co-conspirators.
  
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• Inmate gets 30 months for threatening federal prosecutor, probation officer

  18-03-2016 22:20
  Chapman had admitted he wrote a letter that contained threats against now retired Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon A. Zubrod in Harrisburg and probation officer Cheryl Kennedy in Williamsport.
  
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• Free egg hunt for children at Fort Hunter Park rescheduled

  18-03-2016 20:30
  
  Thousands of candy-filled plastic eggs will be scattered on the east lawn of the park to be hunted by children ages 2 to 9.
  
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• 10 things you have the right to know by law

  18-03-2016 20:30
  
  The following are 10 public records, according to the Office of Open Records, that people received in 2015.
  
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• 'The fight of her life': Inside burned girl's long battle to go home

  18-03-2016 20:03
  
  After being badly burned in 2014, Reese Burdette's road ahead is still long. It will still be hard. But this was a day to celebrate, as she finally came home to Mercersburg, Pa.
  
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• Man who asked mom for sex with six-year-old is arrested, police say

  18-03-2016 19:43
  
  Shane N. Bunting, 25, of East Petersburg also previously served time for unleashing a pit bull on a group of Lancaster County partygoers in 2013 and more recently on charges of DUI.
  
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• Man who asked mom for sex with six-year-old is arrested, police report

  18-03-2016 19:43
  
  Shane N. Bunting, 25, of East Petersburg also previously served time for unleashing a pit bull on a group of Lancaster County partygoers in 2013 and more recently on charges of DUI.
  
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• Wegman suspends campaign for Congress after petition signatures challenged

  18-03-2016 19:19
  
  The suspension of his campaign leaves one Democrat, Christina Hartman, in the race for Joe Pitts' 16th-congressional seat which encompasses parts of Lancaster, Chester, and Berks counties.
  
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• Two crashes cleared in Cumberland County

  18-03-2016 19:07
  
  Two crashes that had affected traffic have been cleared.
  
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• Pa. State Police welcome 48 new troopers from embattled academy

  18-03-2016 18:56
  
  Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Tyree Blocker welcomed 48 new troopers from the 144th cadet class, which has been at the center of cheating allegations that led to the departure of 36 cadets and the launching of an outside investigation.
  
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• 48 state police troopers graduate from embattled academy

  18-03-2016 18:56
  
  Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Tyree Blocker welcomed 48 new troopers from the 144th cadet class, which has been at the center of cheating allegations that led to the departure of 36 cadets and the launching of an outside investigation.
  
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• Pa. town turns out to welcome home 8-year-old burn victim (videos)

  18-03-2016 18:35
  
  MERCERSBURG -- Wearing clothes and decorating the town in purple ribbon, the people of Mercersburg turned out to welcome home 8-year-old Reese Burdette, who has been in Johns Hopkins Children's Center for almost two years recovering from burns.
  
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• Traffic alert: Crashes cause backlogs in Cumberland County

  18-03-2016 18:27
  
  The crash has caused backlogs on I-83 as well as Route 581 in the Lemoyne area, according to the Cumberland County Public Safety Communications and Emergency Management Agency.
  
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• Family of Philadelphia newspaper owner sues over his death in plane crash

  18-03-2016 18:17
  
  The family of Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz, who was killed with six others in a 2014 plane crash in Massachusetts, is suing the plane manufacturer, the estates of the pilot and co-pilot and others.
  
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• Judge rules for former Mayor Stephen Reed in open records battle with Harrisburg officials

  18-03-2016 18:04
  
  Reed, who is fighting criminal charges alleging that he broke laws in funding his quest to cast Harrisburg as a city of museums, is seeking three lengthy sets of documents dating back to his tenure in office.
  
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• Get out the snow shovel, especially in Lancaster and Lebanon

  18-03-2016 17:35
  
  Snow in some parts of the midstate could get an unspringlike 3 to 4 inches deep.
  
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• Pa. town prepares for badly burned girl's homecoming (video)

  18-03-2016 17:34
  
  Check out the video to see burn victim Reese Burdette receive a generous and emotional small town greeting like no other this afternoon in Mercersburg, Pa.
  
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• PETA joins in search for person who shot pony 130 times with paintball gun; reward reaches $5,000

  18-03-2016 17:13
  
  PETA has joined in the search for the abuser of a pony, found shot 130 times with a paintball gun and abandoned at a Lancaster County stable earlier this week.
  
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• 'These young men carry guns like the rest of us carry cell phones,' DA on Harrisburg shooting spree

  18-03-2016 16:42
  
  Sadly, the gun violence of the past week is "not all that unusual," District Attorney Ed Marsico said.
  
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• Harrisburg neighborhood dubbed 'Space Mountain' held hostage by gun violence

  18-03-2016 14:47
  
  As alarming as the drug problem is, there's an even more pressing epidemic plaguing this neighborhood.
  
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• Spring snow is nothing unusual for the Harrisburg area

  18-03-2016 14:23
  
  The latest the Harrisburg area has ever recorded a trace amount of snow was on May 16, 1956, according to the National Weather Service at State College.
  
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• Pittsburgh man dies in crash on Pa. Turnpike in Cumberland County: Police

  18-03-2016 13:40
  
  The accident occurred just after 9 p.m. along the eastbound lanes of the turnpike near mile marker 222 in North Middleton Township, just west of the Carlisle Interchange in Middlesex Township, police said.
  
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• From Woodrow Wilson to Obama, have taxpayers been footing the bill for the oil and gas industry?

  18-03-2016 13:05
  
  How many tax breaks has the industry received?
  
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• One man dead, another facing charges after crash in Adams County: Police

  18-03-2016 12:46
  
  John P. Mummert, 47, of Gardners, was a passenger in a vehicle traveling north along the Carlisle Pike in Huntingdon Township just before 12:30 a.m. Thursday, police said.
  
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• Monk, friar, priest: What is the difference

  18-03-2016 12:30
  
  Did the news of criminal charges brought on three members of a religious order in Blair County have you wondering what the difference between a priest, monk or friar was?
  
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• Pa. girl badly burned in fire comes home after nearly 2 years

  18-03-2016 12:22
  
  The burns over 35 percent of the 8-year-old's body weren't the worst part. She suffered extreme smoke inhalation, so devastating to her heart and lungs that she had to be placed on a complicated bypass system.
  
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• Teacher aide's harassment conviction for hitting special needs student overturned by Pa. court

  18-03-2016 12:16
  
  The court found no proof the aide, who said the contact was accidental, intentionally struck the boy after he hit her.
  
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• Amid a rash of shootings: PennLive rides with Harrisburg police

  18-03-2016 12:05
  
  PennLive is planning to ride along with police officers Saturday night, March 19, to see how they tackle a spate of violence that has wounded six victims in the past week.
  
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• Police impersonator; worker attacked at Pizza Hut: Overnight police report

  18-03-2016 11:39
  
  Here's what you may have missed in police and court-related stories from around the midstate on Thursday.
  
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• Snowy start to spring expected for the midstate this weekend

  18-03-2016 10:45
  
  But exactly how much snow is still anyone's guess at this point.
  
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• Ex-justice Eakin may keep pension despite Porngate allegations

  18-03-2016 00:25
  
  The Judicial Conduct Board filed a motion to withdraw one of four ethics charges against Michael Eakin, a count that potentially triggered pension forfeiture.
  
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• Boy killed by basketball hoop; missing man's body pulled from river; brutal bar beating: Daily Buzz

  18-03-2016 00:01
  
  Welcome to the Daily Buzz, a quick and compelling rundown of the stories people are talking about right now.
  
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