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Female Central PA Pastor Accused Of Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl: Report
A pastor from Central Pennsylvania is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl several times a week for about a year when she was 26 a decade ago, PennLive reports.
Lindsey Melnick, 36, was arrested on charges of statutory sex assault, aggravated indecent assault and more, court documents show. She was released on $15,000 unsecured bail and her next court hearing is set for Jan. 11.
Melnick, the pastor at the Breakthrough Church in Duncannon, was a teacher's aide in the girl's classes when she "manipulated and groomed her," in part using a fake Facebook account to talk to her, Penn…
Fleeing DUI Motorcyclist Gets Stuck In Central PA Railroad Tracks, Authorities Say
A drunken motorcyclist from North Carolina in town for a car show became stuck in railroad tracks while trying to flee from police who stopped him in Central Pennsylvania, authorities said.
Carlisle police stopped Phillip Westmoreland, 34, while operating his Honda Grom on the 800 block of W High Street just before the N Orange Street overpass around 2:25 a.m. on Oct. 2, local authorities said.
Westmoreland, of Climax, NC, tried to flee, but got stuck in the ballast along the railroad track, police said. Westmoreland was apparently the area for the Fall 2021 Car Show.
He was found to be in…
PA Military Fort Is The Country’s Busiest Training Center, Officials Say
A central Pennsylvania fort is the busiest National Guard training center in the United States, according to an official release by the military.
Fort Indiantown Gap, which covers over 17,000 acres in northern Lebanon and Dauphin counties, is the nation’s top training center for the second year in a row and fifth time in the last seven years, based on the release.
FTIG hosted 113,075 personnel for a total of 727,878 “man-days” of training, over the last fiscal year, the report stated. Man-days are a computation of the number of personnel multiplied by the number of days they trained on po…
