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Police & Fire
Man Who Murdered Lancaster Dad Learns His Fate, DA Say Man Who Murdered Lancaster Dad Learns His Fate, DA Say
Man Who Murdered Lancaster Dad Learns His Fate, DA Say A confessed killer is heading to prison, according to a release by the Lancaster County district attorney's office on Friday, January 13, 2023.  Police were dispatched for a report of a stabbing at 505 Pearl Street on Sept. 1, 2021, just before 7 a.m. The officers arrived to find Brandon Schweers, 36, of the 500 block of Pearl Street in Lancaster, with visible injuries to his head and knee, as well as having difficulty breathing. Prior to being taken to the hospital, Schweers told the officers that Aaron Robertson was the person who attacked with a knife and pepper spray. During t…

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by Jillian Pikora
Schools
Coatesville Student Discharges Pepper Spray On School Bus Coatesville Student Discharges Pepper Spray On School Bus
Coatesville Student Discharges Pepper Spray On School Bus A Coatesville high school student discharged pepper spray on a school bus carrying nearly 50 students Monday, Sept. 12, dispatch tells Daily Voice. No students were sickened in the incident near N Chester Avenue and Coates Street around 2:45 p.m., district officials said. Several students were evaluated but most did not leave the bus, per instruction from EMS. One student complained of mild respiratory irritation, but refused medical treatment. The student's father signed off saying he did not want his son to be treated, officials said.  The bus was ventilated and students …

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by Cecilia Levine
News
$8.5M Settlement Reached In Pepper Spray Death Of Philadelphia Inmate $8.5M Settlement Reached In Pepper Spray Death Of Philadelphia Inmate
$8.5M Settlement Reached In Pepper Spray Death Of Philadelphia Inmate The family of an inmate who died after pepper spray was used on him at a state prison in 2019 will receive an $8.5 million settlement -- the largest settlement for a state prison death in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections filed the agreement for Tyrone Briggs' family on Tuesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.  Briggs -- who had asthma -- was arrested at 15 years old for raping a girl two years his junior at gunpoint.  He was facing up to 30 years in the State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, when a corrections officer tried to break up a f…

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by Nicole Acosta