Hempfield senior draws notice in L-L and beyond after switching to shot put, discus Wilder Long was “done.” Not from a full athletic scope, but his love for baseball was fading fast.

Wilder Long was “done.” Not from a full athletic scope, but his love for baseball was fading fast.
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Heart transplant leads Manheim Twp. man to true calling, helping diagnose patients with heart conditions For Kevin Poff, finding his life’s purpose took a decade-long circuitous path, starting with a harrowing diagnosis and culminating in an organ transplant and its aftermath.

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Pennsylvania's motor-voter system effectively screens non-citizens from voter registration • Pennsylvania Capital-Star The audit also revealed problems with PennDOT’s data security protocols and recommended tighter internal controls.

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.

They found one. One.

And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

Room at the Top, by Tom Petty

Church founded by Vietnam refugees celebrates 50th anniversary In 1976, a small group of refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam found themselves settling half a world away in Lancaster County, leaving behind family and the world they

In 1976, a small group of refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam found themselves settling half a world away in Lancaster County, leaving behind family and the world they knew.
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To those mentioned in the story who are looking for solutions, thank you. But let's just say that not everyone with some responsibility for maintaining accessible facilities was interested in even hearing about Claudette's request. /end

If you read the piece, you'll know that the wheels are slowly turning to improve accessibility for anyone who, like Claudette, uses a wheelchair or scooter can enjoy one of Lancaster County's tourism jewels. 5/

The Clunans decided someone ought to know about it. They didn't want an apology, they wanted action -- accessible and well-marked walkways at the parking lot, an, better signage pointing people to Central Market's lone accessible entrance. 4/

... when the Clunans went to Central Market, they hit a frustrating series of barriers. Claudette uses a wheelchair when she's outside of the home. The parking lot the Clunans found themselves in didn't have a pedestrian pathway that her wheelchair could fit through. 3/

Claudette moved to Lancaster County during the pandemic. Her niece, Rebecca, is her caretaker, but let's be clear: Claudette is full of spunk and doesn't want to sit around the house. At 88, she's energetic and ready to explore her new'ish home.

But back in March ... 2/

Got to put my reporting hat on after talking with Rebecca Clunan about the hassle she had taking her aunt, Claudette, to Lancaster Central Market.

Claudette is a real hero. She enlisted in the Navy in 1959 and rose through the ranks as a nurse, retiring three decades later as a captain. 1/

The woman who took down Jeffrey Epstein was forged in Philly “Philly is in my bones. I would not be where I am right now if not for Philadelphia.”

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3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town? Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weird...

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MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.

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The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

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A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.”

Also: it misquotes the Pope.

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Also, Eastman directed the fake electors scheme, personally directing them to file knowingly falsified electoral certificates.

Friends, do you think lawyers should face discipline for directing the creation and filing of false documents? I do.

A small cohort of ("prominent"?) law professors are trying to portray John Eastman as some kind of innocent victim of viewpoint discrimination, and his disbarment as some kind of assault on the First Amendment.

That's complete and utter bollocks. As usual, @gabrielmalor.bsky.social brings receipts:

I'll stick to the Voight-Kampff test

And we have receipts. Jim Dolan's security team at Madison Square Garden surveilled this woman over the course of *years* and in the smallest detail ... because she was trans.

U.S. Government Agrees to $1.25 Million Settlement in Michael Flynn Suit Lawfare obtained the settlement document through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this year.

NEW: We obtained the government’s settlement agreement with Michael Flynn.

As previously reported, DOJ agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle Flynn’s claims that he was wrongfully prosecuted.

But docs suggest a separate settlement could be in the works: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/u.s....

Network of online influencers back Nate Morris for Senate. Are they getting paid? They post on X with the same message, at the same time. They have more than a million followers. They’re backing Nate Morris for US Senate.

New: "On the same day, at the same time, 3 of America's biggest conservative influencers on X all had the same thing to say about KY U.S. Senate candidate Nate Morris."

I went long on that campaign, many others across the US & one of MAGA’s biggest young stars.

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Did he just DEI-splain Black mortality during the pandemic?

JOURNALISM JOB OPENING -- Breaking news reporter in Lancaster, Pa.
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A clerk specialist in the Lancaster County Prothonotary’s Office has been charged with improperly using his position to access and share the personal information of a subject of a federal law enforcement investigation. Lucas Keener, of the 400 block of West Marion Street in Lancaster city, was charged with a misdemeanor count of obstructing the administration of law or other governmental function, specifically by breach of official duty. Keener, 31, is accused of abusing his position as a county employee the afternoon of Jan. 16 by accessing the personal information of an Iranian national (initials “M.M.”) who had recently entered the United States illegally. Keener then improperly shared that information with a local watchdog group without authorization in order to obstruct a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) investigation. “Public servants abusing their positions in order to prevent a federal agency from carrying out their lawful mission is an unacceptable breach of trust and potentially endangers law enforcement and our community,” said District Attorney Heather Adams. “We firmly believe that the actions the defendant is accused of committing are not a reflection of the professionalism and dedication shown every day in our county’s agencies. “ Two uniformed CBP agents entered the Lancaster County Courthouse shortly before 3 p.m. to obtain publicly filed information about M.M., who has a pending criminal case in Lancaster County, as part of their investigation. The agents’ interaction in the Clerk of Courts office lasted about 20 minutes after which they immediately exited the courthouse. Moments after the agents departed Keener is alleged to have entered the Clerk of Courts office where he began asking an employee about the information CBP was gathering. The employee, who is familiar with Keener due to his employment with the county and official interactions with the Clerk of Courts office and believing his question to be related to county business, allow…

Interesting case out of Lancaster County, Pa.
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The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.

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Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

One job of journalism is to identify changing circumstances that require changes in policy. So when the first-ever convicted-felon president assaults the free press, why would reporters honor him at a dinner just because “that’s what we always do”?
Wake up. Cancel the Correspondents’ Dinner.

Iran secretly acquired a Chinese spy satellite in late 2024 that allowed it to target U.S. military bases across ​the Middle East during the recent war, the Financial Times reported on ‌Wednesday.