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'Bad Haircut' Prompts BF To Stab Pennsylvania Mom To Death: Affidavit 'Bad Haircut' Prompts BF To Stab Pennsylvania Mom To Death: Affidavit
'Bad Haircut' Prompts BF To Stab Pennsylvania Mom To Death: Affidavit A community is rallying for a family after a Pennsylvania mom was stabbed to death by her boyfriend allegedly over a "bad hair cut" according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice on Thursday, Nov. 7.  Carmen Martinez-Silva, 50, was found dead in the yard of her home in the 2900 block of Dell Lane in East Hempfield Township at 1:40 p.m., according to the coroner's release and as Daily Voice reported at the time.  "EMS transported two individuals to Lancaster General Hospital for lacerations. A third victim succumbed to their injuries on scene," the East Hempfield Township po…

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by Jillian Pikora
News
'Career Drug Dealer', PA Mom Convicted In 5-Year-Old's Fatal Fentanyl Overdose: AG 'Career Drug Dealer', PA Mom Convicted In 5-Year-Old's Fatal Fentanyl Overdose: AG
'Career Drug Dealer', PA Mom Convicted In 5-Year-Old's Fatal Fentanyl Overdose: AG Mom and a "career drug dealer" have been sentenced for the overdose death of her daughter, according to a release by Pennsylvania's Attorney General Michelle Henry on Wednesday, July 17.  Volaura 'Val' Askew, 28 of Johnstown, "exposed her 5-year-old daughter to fentanyl/heroin in the hours and days before the child was found dead in her Johnstown home on October 27, 2022," the Attorney General explained when Daily Voice first reported her charges in July 2023. In February of 2024, she pleaded "guilty to involuntary manslaughter and related charges, and is serving a 2-to-4-year state pri…

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by Jillian Pikora
Obituaries
PA Woman Who Died At National Park Was Traveling Nurse With 'Zest For Life,' Fund Says PA Woman Who Died At National Park Was Traveling Nurse With 'Zest For Life,' Fund Says
PA Woman Who Died At National Park Was Traveling Nurse With 'Zest For Life,' Fund Says Gillian Tones of North Apollo was identified as the Pennsylvania woman who drowned at Glacier National Park in Montana over the weekend. She was 26.  Nations Parks Service officials said Tones slipped and fell into the water above St. Mary Falls on Sunday afternoon, June 23.  Witnesses said bystanders pulled her from the water after she was washed over the falls. She never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead at 7 p.m., according to park rangers.  According to her obituary from Curran Funeral Home, Tones was a 2015 graduate of Apollo-Ridge High Schoo…

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by Mac Bullock