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Jillian Pikora

Assistant Managing Editor

jpikora@dailyvoice.com

Jillian is an editor and reporter based out of Pennsylvania's capital city of Harrisburg. She has a degree in Political Science and is a former political campaign manager. Over the past decade, she has worked as a staff reporter and freelance writer at Sisters Magazine, The Tempest, Huffington Post, CairoScene, and several other outlets. Prior to joining Daily Voice, Jillian worked as a digital news editor at Hearst's local NBC affiliate, WGAL News 8. She currently manages and reports stories in Pennsylvania for Daily Voice.

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Loaded Guns Found At Two PA Airport Checkpoints On Same Day: TSA Loaded Guns Found At Two PA Airport Checkpoints On Same Day: TSA
Loaded Guns Found At Two PA Airport Checkpoints On Same Day: TSA TSA officers intercepted loaded firearms at Harrisburg International Airport and Pittsburgh International Airport on Monday, Dec. 16, delaying travelers at both checkpoints, officials announced. At Harrisburg International Airport, a Lancaster man was caught with a loaded 9mm handgun containing 13 bullets in his carry-on bag. TSA officers halted the screening process until police arrived, removed the weapon, and cited the man on a weapons charge. The firearm was returned to the passenger’s vehicle before he resumed his travels, TSA said. Meanwhile, at Pittsburgh International Airport, TSA o…

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Police & Fire
Stevens Man Charged For Sharing Child Pornography: East Cocalico Police Stevens Man Charged For Sharing Child Pornography: East Cocalico Police
Stevens Man Charged For Sharing Child Pornography: East Cocalico Police A Stevens man has been charged with possessing and sharing child pornography following a two-month investigation, East Cocalico Township Police announced on Tuesday, Dec. 17. Michael Pierce, 50, was charged with possession of child pornography, dissemination of child pornography, and criminal use of a communication facility, according to police. Pierce was arrested in Stevens on Tuesday, Dec. 10. Pierce’s preliminary arraignment was held, and he was released on non-monetary bail, authorities said. His preliminary hearing is pending.

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Politics
York County Coroner Pam Gay To Retire, Chief Deputy Tania Zech Announces Candidacy York County Coroner Pam Gay To Retire, Chief Deputy Tania Zech Announces Candidacy
York County Coroner Pam Gay To Retire, Chief Deputy Tania Zech Announces Candidacy York County Coroner Pam Gay announced she will retire at the end of her third term in January 2026, after serving 12 years in office. Gay shared her decision in a statement on Monday, Dec. 16, highlighting her office’s accomplishments since she first took office in 2014. “I have been humbly honored to serve the people of York County during what will be my three terms as their Coroner,” Gay said. “There have been many improvements in staffing and office modernization since I began… We were finally able to provide the community with the office and morgue facility that was so desperately neede…

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Schools
Perkiomen School Failed To Stop Sexual Assault Of Faculty Member’s Child By Coach’s Son:Lawsuit Perkiomen School Failed To Stop Sexual Assault Of Faculty Member’s Child By Coach’s Son:Lawsuit
Perkiomen School Failed To Stop Sexual Assault Of Faculty Member’s Child By Coach’s Son:Lawsuit An elite Pennsylvania boarding school allowed a basketball coach’s 12-year-old son to repeatedly sexually abuse a faculty member’s 7-year-old child due to failed safety measures and administrative negligence, a newly filed lawsuit claims. The lawsuit, filed Monday, Dec. 16, in Montgomery County Court, names the and its Head of School, Mark Devey, as defendants. It alleges the school ignored glaring security hazards and failed to act on numerous reports of faulty doors, locks, and cameras—conditions that enabled the abuse. The complaint, brought by the child’s mother under the pseudonym…

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Nurse Charged With Criminal Sexual Contact Of Patients At Penn Medicine Nurse Charged With Criminal Sexual Contact Of Patients At Penn Medicine
Nurse Charged With Criminal Sexual Contact Of Patients At Penn Medicine An Ewing man working as a nurse at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center is accused of inappropriately touching several patients, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Plainsboro Police Chief Eamon Blanchard announced on Monday, Dec. 11. Andre Angus, 39, was arrested following an investigation into multiple reports from patients alleging they were subjected to unwanted sexual contact while under his care, authorities said. The incidents were reported by patients who claimed the male nurse inappropriately touched them during their time at the Plainsboro-based medical center, Cic…

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Six Members Of PA/NJ Catalytic Converter Theft Ring Sentenced: DAac Six Members Of PA/NJ Catalytic Converter Theft Ring Sentenced: DAac
Six Members Of PA/NJ Catalytic Converter Theft Ring Sentenced: DAac Six members of a multi-million-dollar catalytic converter theft ring that spanned the Delaware Valley have been sentenced, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced on Monday, Dec. 16. The defendants included Michael Williams, the 53-year-old owner of TDI Towing in Philadelphia, his three sons-in-law Michael Bruce, Kevin Schwartz, and Patrick Hopkins, his wife Deborah Davalos, and her sister Lisa Davalos. Williams, of Huntingdon Valley, was sentenced to 2 ½ to 5 years in state prison, followed by two years of probation, and was ordered to pay $124,900 in restitution to 157 vic…

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3X Varsity HS Athlete ID’d As Maryland Man Killed In High-Speed Crash With Tractor-Trailer: PSP 3X Varsity HS Athlete ID’d As Maryland Man Killed In High-Speed Crash With Tractor-Trailer: PSP
3X Varsity HS Athlete ID’d As Maryland Man Killed In High-Speed Crash With Tractor-Trailer: PSP A 21-year-old former three-sport varsity athlete from South Hagerstown High School was killed when his car rear-ended a tractor-trailer on Interstate 81 in Antrim Township, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Monday, Dec. 16. Dru N. Feeley, of Hagerstown, died at the scene of the crash, which occurred around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, near mile marker 6.9, troopers said. He was driving a 2005 Dodge Neon at a high speed in the left lane of I-81 North when he struck the rear of a 2021 Peterbilt 579 tractor-trailer, investigators said. The tractor-trailer, driven by 34-year-old Michael May…

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Elizabethtown Man ID'd In 12-Year Cold Case Through Genetic Genealogy: Coroner Elizabethtown Man ID'd In 12-Year Cold Case Through Genetic Genealogy: Coroner
Elizabethtown Man ID'd In 12-Year Cold Case Through Genetic Genealogy: Coroner The Lancaster County Coroner’s Office has identified skeletal remains discovered in a wooded area of West Donegal Township in 2012 as Mitchell L. Mendelson of Elizabethtown, officials announced. The remains were found by a hunter on November 1, 2012, near Cemetery Road, according to a release from the coroner's office. Mendelson, 60, had retired from Red Rose Transit Authority in Lancaster and moved to Elizabethtown in 2011. The identification was made through genetic genealogy and mitochondrial DNA analysis, a breakthrough that came more than a decade after the remains were recovered. F…

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Police & Fire
Missing Endangered Man Found Dead In Delaware: PA State Police Missing Endangered Man Found Dead In Delaware: PA State Police
Missing Endangered Man Found Dead In Delaware: PA State Police An 86-year-old man reported missing from Glen Mills, Delaware County, last week has been found dead in Wilmington, Delaware, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Monday, Dec. 16. Vito D’Amore, of Concord Township, was located alongside his black 2017 Ford Edge on an access road near I-495 Southbound, just prior to the Christina River Bridge, state police said. Delaware State Police discovered D’Amore at approximately 10:10 a.m. on Monday and contacted the Pennsylvania State Police Media station to report their findings, authorities detailed. D’Amore had been reported missing on Wednesd…

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Next Of Kin Sought For Reading Man, 75, Who Died At Hospital: Coroner Next Of Kin Sought For Reading Man, 75, Who Died At Hospital: Coroner
Next Of Kin Sought For Reading Man, 75, Who Died At Hospital: Coroner The Berks County Coroner’s Office is seeking the public's help to locate the family of a Reading man who recently passed away. Camilo R. Rosa, 75, of 835 Franklin Street, died at Penn State Health – St. Joseph Hospital on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, according to the coroner's office. Anyone with information about Rosa’s relatives is asked to contact the coroner’s office at 610-478-3280. No additional details have been released.

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