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2.5K Suspected Fraudulent Voter Registrations Discovered In Pennsylvania: Officials 2.5K Suspected Fraudulent Voter Registrations Discovered In Pennsylvania: Officials
2.5K Suspected Fraudulent Voter Registrations Discovered In Pennsylvania: Officials Three Pennsylvania counties are investigating possible voter registration fraud, as mail-in ballots are rapidly coming in.  Approximately 2,500 voter registrations dropped off at the Lancaster County Board of Elections could be fraudulent, the county commissions and County District Attorney Heather Adams announced at a joint press conference on Friday, Oct. 25. These applications were collected by paid canvassers during the summer at shopping centers, parking lots of grocery stores, other businesses, sidewalks, and parks in Lancaster County.  The registration applicatio…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Historic One-Room Amish School House Catches Fire: Lancaster Co. Disptach (DEVELOPING) Historic One-Room Amish School House Catches Fire: Lancaster Co. Disptach (DEVELOPING)
Blaze Breaks Out At Bunker Hill Road Amish Schoolhouse: Lcwc A historical one-school house caught fire on Friday night, Aug. 2, according to Lancaster County Wide Communications.  The call to 911 about the fire at the Bunker Hill School/Strasburg Township Municipal Building came into LCWC at 7:35 p.m., dispatchers told Daily Voice.  Emergency crews were called to the blaze at the intersection of Shaub, Deiter, and Bunker Hill roads in Strasburg Township. The fire broke out in the one-room schoolhouse but additional information was not immediately available.  No injuries had been reported as of 9 p.m. Lancaster History wrot…

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by Jillian Pikora
News
Heartless Husband Killer Heads To Prison: LanCo. DA Heartless Husband Killer Heads To Prison: LanCo. DA
Heartless Husband Killer Heads To Prison: LanCo. DA A Quarryville woman who gave her estranged husband a deadly Valentine's— heartlessly slaying him at PNC Bank in Strasburg on Valentine's Day 2021— has been sentenced, according to the Lancaster County district attorney's office. Danielle Beweley, 30, was convicted of murder in the first degree of her husband Mitchell Beweley during a five-day bench trial before Lancaster County Judge Merrill Spahn that concluded on Wednesday, Dec. 21. She was sentenced has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder by Lancaster County Judge Merrill Spahn,&…

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by Jillian Pikora
Obituaries
Funeral Details Released For Amish Mother Of 8 Killed In Central PA Farm Tractor Rollover Funeral Details Released For Amish Mother Of 8 Killed In Central PA Farm Tractor Rollover
Funeral Details Released For Amish Mother Of 8 Killed In Central PA Farm Tractor Rollover Members of two Amish families have been identified as the victims of a deadly accidental farm vehicle rollover crash, authorities say.  Katie Ann Stoltzfus, 36, two of her daughters, Mary Etta, 14, and Naomi Rose, 7, all of Brogue, and Caleb Emmanuel Fisher, 9, of Lancaster, all died from blunt force trauma at the scene of the accidental farm tractor rollover crash in the 1100 block of Furnace Road near the intersection at Indian Steps Road in Lower Chanceford Township around 11:15 a.m., on Friday, July 29, according to Pennsylvania state police and the York County coroner's office.&nbs…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
PA Thieves Wanted For Stealing Thousands Of Dollars In COVID-19, Flu Meds: Police PA Thieves Wanted For Stealing Thousands Of Dollars In COVID-19, Flu Meds: Police
PA Thieves Wanted For Stealing Thousands Of Dollars In Covid-19, Flu Meds: Police Police are on the lookout for two men they say stole thousands of dollars’ worth of COVID-19 and flu medications from a Pennsylvania grocery store. Derrick Anthony Bleach and Legious R. Minder, both of Allentown, arrived at Giant Food Stores on Lititz Pike in Warwick Township in a dark-colored sedan around 11:50 p.m. on Nov. 27, Northern Lancaster County Regional Police said. The pair walked to the medications aisle, where Bleach took out a large gift bag that had been hidden in the back of his jacket. Bleach was then seen on surveillance footage picking out various medicine boxes and slid…

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by Valerie Musson
News
Amish Father, Son Sentenced For Sexually Abusing Children For 10 Years: Lancaster DA Amish Father, Son Sentenced For Sexually Abusing Children For 10 Years: Lancaster DA
Amish Father, Son Sentenced For Sexually Abusing Children For 10 Years: Lancaster DA A Lancaster County father and son have been sentenced after pleaded guilty to sexually abusing young children over a ten year period, according to the Lancaster County district attorney's office. Daniel Glick Beiler, 52, of Strasburg, was sentenced to serve a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to nine felony and six misdemeanor charges including statutory sexual assault, two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and unlawful sexual contact with a minor, according to a release by the district attorney's office. Beiler's two victims were 13 and …

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by Jillian Pikora
News
'There's A Bomb In There': Police Seek Woman Accused Of Threatening Lancaster County Judge 'There's A Bomb In There': Police Seek Woman Accused Of Threatening Lancaster County Judge
'There's A Bomb In There': Police Seek Woman Accused Of Threatening Lancaster County Judge A 24-year-old woman has been charged Terroristic Threats and Threat to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction after threatening to "blow-up" a magisterial judge. Anna Marie Shreiner, 24, last known address in Strasburg, PA, called in a bomb threat to Magisterial District Judge Russell’s Office, located at 609 East Main Street in Ephrata Borough on May 19, as Daily Voice previously reported. Shreiner was scheduled to turn herself in for arraignment on drug charges at Russell’s Office that day at 10 a.m. Instead she called the office at 9:26 a.m. and told a staff member that “you’re gonna blow up t…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Reading Ambulance Thief Leads Pursuit, Crashes In Strasburg UPDATE: Reading Ambulance Thief Leads Pursuit, Crashes In Strasburg
Update: Reading Ambulance Thief Leads Pursuit, Crashes In Strasburg A thief who stole a Reading ambulance from the scene of an incident led a brief police pursuit before crashing in Strasburg, authorities said. EMS personnel on the scene of a medical call at the Kennedy Senior Center on 4th Street were leaving the building with the packaged patient when they realized the rig had been stolen around 11:30 a.m., Reading Fire Chief William I. Stoudt, Jr. said. Focusing on their duty, paramedics reported the incident and requested another unit to transport their patient. Sometime around 1 p.m., an off-duty Reading fire department member spotted the ambulan…

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by Cecilia Levine
Lifestyle
Smoked Meat: Fire Damages Butcher Shop In Lancaster County Smoked Meat: Fire Damages Butcher Shop In Lancaster County
Smoked Meat: Fire Damages Butcher Shop In Lancaster County A fire damaged part of a butch shop near Strasburg on Tuesday morning. Fire crews were called to Rocky Ridge Meats at 240 block of Hartman Bridge Road just before 4:30 a.m. for a smoker fire reported by the owner of the shop who saw the fire from his home located next door. Upon arrival, crews determined the smoke was coming from a smoke house, the fire chief of the Strasburg Fire Department says excess old soot as the probable cause. The butcher shop, Rocky Ridge Meats is along Route 896 near Strasburg. Although the fire was out in about 30 minutes and crews were on the scene for less …

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by Jillian Pikora