Over the past months, I have read news reports of more U.S. service member casualties (killed in action). The last casualty was a Green Beret NCO reported in mid-September, bringing the total to 17 in 2019. This is the 18th year that U.S. servicemembers have been engaged in combat in Afghanistan.
We know there isn’t a city, town or borough in the commonwealth, or in the nation, left untouched by the opioid epidemic. We know that this epidemic is an equal opportunity disease — there is no gender, race, ethnicity, income bracket or education level left untouched by this disease. In the…
For years, the General Assembly acted as if they were the ones who determined the meaning of Article I § 27. After the legislature diverted hundreds of millions of dollars from DCNR’s Oil & Gas Lease Fund, they didn’t count on the nonprofit Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation t…
The Sentinel published a story Feb. 16 featuring comments from Pennsylvania Sen. John Eichelberger (R-30), who represents parts of western Cumberland County, made during a town hall meeting in West Pennsboro Township Feb. 13.
Carlisle Borough Council will decide Thursday night whether or not to approve a proposed non-discrimination ordinance.
Police officers are invaluable to the people they serve every day. Thursday’s announcement that police filed homicide charges against a Carlisle man in a June shooting at the Haines Stackfield American Legion in Carlisle emphasizes that point.
Feedback is a valuable part of any job, and so far this week this is what we’ve heard about ourselves.
At the time John Wayne Strawser possessed and used a gun to kill Amy Lou Buckingham on April 16, 2015, he was a convicted felon, on probation, and facing a peace order.
Worried about a warehouse “moving in” next door to you? if you live in Cumberland County, that is a likely scenario.
With a little patience, we could soon have a voice in cost-savings for our state government.
Sometimes the end justifies the means.
If you are a parent you understand the fear and trepidation of handing over the car keys to your children.
Carlisle Borough voters will determine Tuesday the fate of a proposed home rule charter.
We support Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan for a severance tax on the value of natural gas extracted from Pennsylvania, but at a slightly lower rate than what he has suggested.
Read through the obituaries published in The Sentinel
Results from an online survey show that nearly four out of every five Cumberland County residents feel that an endowment fund should be created.
This week's Recall Roundup includes peanut butter Tastykakes in chocolate packaging, mild wing sauce in regular wing sauce bottles and ice cream without a walnut warning.
Browse through recently listed homes in the Cumberland County real estate market and find your next home!
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. May 27, 2023.
An Associated Press examination found that more than half of state legislatures in recent years have passed changes to their state victim compensation programs, where thousands of people turn each year for help with funeral costs, medical bills or other expenses after becoming the victim of a violent crime. It’s also where the AP found that a disproportionate number of Black families and victims were denied help in many states, often for subjective reasons rooted in racial bias. Those denied victims have largely driven the changes at legislatures and are advocating for a federal overhaul of compensation guidelines that officials at the U.S. Office for Victims of Crime confirm is underway.
A lawyer for the man charged in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history has acknowledged that he planned and carried out the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue and made hateful statements about Jewish people. Defense attorney Judy Clarke told jurors Tuesday that Robert Bowers went to the Tree of Life synagogue and “shot every person he saw." Bowers went on trial Tuesday, more than four years after the attack that killed 11 worshippers. He could face the death penalty if he is convicted of some of the 63 counts he faces. The defense hopes to persuade the jury to spare his life.
Prosecutors, who rejected Bowers' offer to plead guilty in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table, opened their case by describing the terror he sowed as he moved through the synagogue.
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🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
Testimony from several State Police troopers and forensic pathology expert Wayne Ross during the hearing showed the 13-month-old boy suffered from asphyxia, the DA's office said.
Amid a push for police forces to represent and reflect more of the population they protect, solutions aren't as simple as "hiring more."
Listen to the final chapter of Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles that examines the circumstances surrounding a death in a New Jersey resort town.
🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
Kelly Neiderer and Gary Eichelberger are likely Republican nominees for commissioner, while a district judge race became tied with provisional ballots added.
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court will take its first crack at whether a governor can force power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
The fourth town hall hosted by Cumberland County regarding mental health funding will be held in Perry County Wednesday evening.
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