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• Search for armed jewelry thief continues, efforts move away from wooded area

  18-08-2016 23:50
  
  Lt. Robin Weaver of East Lampeter Township police said the "manhunt" portion of the search has concluded in Christiana and police are pursuing leads to apprehend the suspect elsewhere.
  
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• Pa. wants medical marijuana input

  18-08-2016 22:05
  
  The state has already begun allowing parents and caregivers to possess marijuana for sick children.
  
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• Harrisburg man gets state prison for knife-point rape

  18-08-2016 21:52
  
  Emmanuel Contreras-Perez also had homemade knives in prison.
  
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• Police: Teens arrested after stolen car crashes into house

  18-08-2016 21:33
  
  Police are still trying to identify a third juvenile suspect.
  
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• False arrest, racial profiling lawsuit against Drexel University cops revived by Pa. court

  18-08-2016 21:12
  
  A Philadelphia man claims he was arrested after university police unjustifiably accosted his brother and another black man.
  
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• Woman charged with manslaughter after 4-year-old was left in hot car

  18-08-2016 20:50
  
  The four-year-old was found unresponsive on the floorboards of the front passenger side of Borgess' car in the 500 block of West Fourth Street about 3:30 p.m. on July 22.
  
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• Chance of rain this weekend in the Harrisburg area

  18-08-2016 20:46
  
  Rain is likely this weekend and temperatures are expected to drop next week in the Harrisburg area.
  
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• Heroin, painkiller addiction to be addressed Thursday evening

  18-08-2016 20:35
  
  An array of experts and public officials will participate in a forum focusing on the heroin and opioid epidemic. The forum is set for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. this evening (Aug. 18, 2016) in the Rose Lehrman Arts Center...
  
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• Local group asks Department of Justice to investigate Harrisburg fatal police shooting

  18-08-2016 20:09
  
  Harrisburg police fatally shot Earl Shaleek Pinckney Aug. 7 after 911 callers said he had threatened his mother with a knife.
  
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• Naked man seen peering through 73-year-old woman's window, police say

  18-08-2016 19:51
  
  The incident occurred in Shrewsbury Township.
  
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• Police, Lebanon Transit officials seek cause of bus crash that injured 17

  18-08-2016 19:27
  
  The bus kept going after being hit by an unlicensed driver, police said.
  
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• King of Prussia expansion: Check out new stores and eateries, from Cartier to Shake Shake

  18-08-2016 19:12
  
  King of Prussia celebrates the opening of its 155,000-square-foot expansion with a ribbon joining ceremony today.
  
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• Company sues to gain access to Tioga County gas well site so it can be restored

  18-08-2016 19:05
  SWEPI contends Damon and Kendra Baker will not permit access to their Deerfield Twp. property so it can be restored as required by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
  
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• Judge clears troopers of using excessive force on motorist stunned multiple times

  18-08-2016 19:04
  The troopers had no knowledge if Kircher, a former radio daytime talk show host in Philadelphia, had any weapons in his car, Brann wrote.
  
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• Is Aetna's Pa. pullout part of revenge plot over insurance merger rejection?

  18-08-2016 18:54
  
  One of the nation's biggest insurer is pulling out of 11 Obamacare markets.
  
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• Is Aetna's Pa. pullout part of revenge plot?

  18-08-2016 18:54
  
  One of the nation's biggest insurer is pulling out of 11 Obamacare markets.
  
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• Halifax man accused of raping 12-year-old at Elizabethville park facing more charges

  18-08-2016 18:52
  
  Police said a 13-year-old girl claimed Broc Ferguson had sex with her at the park last month
  
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• Harley-Davidson fined $12M, ordered to find and destroy illegal tuning devices it sold

  18-08-2016 18:26
  
  Harley-Davidson has been fined $12 million and ordered to stop selling and to buy back and destroy illegal tuning devices that increase air pollution from their motorcycles
  
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• Harley-Davidson fined $12M, ordered to destroy illegal tuning devices

  18-08-2016 18:26
  
  Harley-Davidson has been fined $12 million and ordered to stop selling and to buy back and destroy illegal tuning devices that increase air pollution from their motorcycles
  
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• Gov. Tom Wolf names Bruce Beemer as successor to Kathleen Kane

  18-08-2016 18:23
  
  Gov. Tom Wolf named Bruce Beemer, a longtime prosecutor and current inspector general, to succeed Kathleen Kane as attorney general.
  
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• Harrisburg man's drug conviction, jail term overturned due to illegal probation search

  18-08-2016 18:12
  
  Two Dauphin County probation officers didn't properly seek permission to enter Antoine Black's home, a state court panel ruled.
  
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• 'She wasn't a human being to him,' prosecutor says in West Virginia murder trial connected to I-81 shooting

  18-08-2016 18:00
  
  John Wayne Strawser Jr. is on trial in Preston County, West Virginia, facing charges in the death of his ex-girlfriend, Amy Lou Buckingham. He has also been charged in the I-81 shooting death of Timothy "Asti" Davison.
  
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• Home surveillance catches burglar in act, police seek to ID man

  18-08-2016 17:55
  
  The man who burgled the home was caught on surveillance footage taking a flat screen TV. Police say the burglary occurred at around 9:40 p.m. Aug. 12 on near Strawberry and High streets in Lancaster.
  
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• Insurance cancellation over $42K dog bite was OK, Pa. court says

  18-08-2016 17:49
  
  Unprovoked dogs bites can provide legal grounds for cancelling insurance policies, a Commonwealth Court panel noted.
  
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• Bus crashes into cars, bridge, pole, church and trash bin; 17 hurt

  18-08-2016 17:38
  The transit bus crashed Wednesday night in Lebanon.
  
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• Groom charged with doping race horses

  18-08-2016 17:21
  
  Marian Vega gave impermissible amounts of a performance enhancing drug to her steeds, the attorney general's office claims.
  
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• At least 1 dead after multi-vehicle crash on I-81

  18-08-2016 17:21
  A tractor-trailer went out of control and rolled onto its side after hitting a guide rail, WNEP reports.
  
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• Missing Central Pa. girl, 17, last seen at concert in Pittsburgh

  18-08-2016 17:20
  
  Seventeen-year-old Olivia Miller left State College last Wednesday, hopping a Mega Bus for a concert in Pittsburgh with other friends. Yet, when her friends came out of the Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg concert, Olivia was gone.
  
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• Lane restrictions on I-83 bridge begins Friday night

  18-08-2016 16:53
  
  The southbound direction of the bridge that carries Interstate 83 over the Susquehanna River in the Harrisburg area will be restricted to a single lane of traffic Friday night.
  
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• 'A sweet, wonderful person': Grieving father discusses suicide, mental illness in daughter's obit

  18-08-2016 16:37
  
  The tragic story of Penn State alum Katie Shoener, 29, ended the way far too many end for people with bipolar disorder. She died alone and too soon.
  
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• Drugs an issue at Dorney Park: Report

  18-08-2016 16:20
  
  Police say 50 drug arrests were made at the amusement park in July.
  
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• What's the secret King of Prussia knows that dead and dying malls don't?

  18-08-2016 15:58
  
  The new King of Prussia addition opens Thursday.
  
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• Missing Franklin County woman found in Ohio, is safe: Police

  18-08-2016 15:36
  
  Julie McCutcheon, 36, of the 13,000 block of Williamsport Pike in Antrim Township, was located in Ohio, police said.
  
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• Uber testing self-driving cars for customer rides in Pa. city

  18-08-2016 15:26
  
  So would you trust a self-driving car summoned using Uber's smartphone app? Tell us.
  
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• Bail set at $1 million for man who became angry after his weights were moved

  18-08-2016 15:21
  
  The man was ordered held in the Franklin County Jail on $1 million bail.
  
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• 'She was behind my mom's rose bushes:' Sister describes finding murder victim's body

  18-08-2016 15:02
  
  John Wayne Strawser Jr. is on trial in West Virginia, accused of shooting and killing Amy Lou Buckingham. He's also facing charges in Franklin County in an I-81 fatal shooting.
  
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• 'She was behind my mom's rose bushes': Sister describes finding murder victim

  18-08-2016 15:02
  
  John Wayne Strawser Jr. is on trial in West Virginia, accused of shooting and killing Amy Lou Buckingham. He's also facing charges in Franklin County in an I-81 fatal shooting.
  
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• 201 police-officer hopefuls will try to pass agility, written tests to join local forces

  18-08-2016 14:30
  
  A group of 201 men and women who would like a chance to serve as your local police officer will be undergoing the physical and written tests this weekend in Cumberland County to determine if they are up to the task.
  
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• Grotto Pizza, Geisinger Medical sued over Pa. girl 'violently ill' after gluten-free mistake

  18-08-2016 13:45
  
  Two iconic companies in northern Pennsylvania are facing a high-dollar lawsuit contending that a 10-year-old girl fell violently ill after eating a supposedly gluten-free pizza that wasn't, then was made to wait hours for medical attention.
  
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• New stores and restaurants open at King of Prussia

  18-08-2016 13:32
  
  The King of Prussia Mall expansion opens Thursday with new stores and restaurants.
  
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• Man drowns attempting to swim across Pa. river

  18-08-2016 13:13
  
  A 40-year-old man attempting to swim across the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania met his own death, instead, as the swift currents of even the rain-depleted river took him under the surface.
  
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• Claims of 'bullying,' 'intimidation' aimed at coalition created to fight domestic violence

  18-08-2016 13:00
  
  In the spring of 1976, a handful of women gathered around a kitchen table to discuss a topic that had received little attention: domestic violence. From that gathering arose a coalition that would shape not only Pennsylvania legislation on domestic abuse, but federal law. Now that organization is under fire for what some former employees call a "toxic" work environment.
  
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• Arrests in York County homicide; stabbing in Harrisburg: Overnight Police Report

  18-08-2016 12:51
  Here's what you may have missed in police and court-related stories from around the midstate on Wednesday.
  
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• Relief from the heat and humidity is in sight for the midstate

  18-08-2016 12:26
  
  High temperatures are expected to be around 80, with lows at night around 60, for much of next week, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Will your kindergartner end up next to an unvaccinated kid? Vaccine questions answered

  18-08-2016 12:15
  
  State health and education officials hoped it would be in place by the start of the upcoming school year.
  
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• Crash closes portion of I-83 south in southern York County

  18-08-2016 11:45
  
  The crash, reportedly involving an overturned tractor-trailer, occurred after 10 p.m. Wednesday just north of Exit 10, the exit for Loganville and Route 214 in Springfield Township, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
  
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• 3 injured in two Harrisburg shooting incidents

  18-08-2016 07:32
  
  The second shooting occurred only blocks away from the first.
  
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• 3 injured in 2 Harrisburg shootings: Clerk shoots robbery suspect; 2 hurt in car

  18-08-2016 07:32
  
  The second shooting occurred only blocks away from the first.
  
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• 3 hurt in two Harrisburg shootings: Clerk shoots robbery suspect; 2 hit in car

  18-08-2016 07:32
  
  The second shooting occurred only blocks away from the first.
  
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• Man shot by police was threatening mother with knife, caller told 911: Report

  18-08-2016 05:20
  
  Dauphin County 911 dispatchers were told by a caller that Earl Shaleek Pinckney "has a knife in his hand and has the mother locked in a room" and was threatening to kill her, according to 911 police logs obtained by WHTM ABC 27.
  
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