Former pastor arrested for killing 8-year-old girl who was walking to Bible camp nearly 50 years ago
An 83-year-old former pastor has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of a neighboring pastor's daughter in 1975, Pennsylvania officials announced Monday.
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Body of 2-year-old child found in Delaware River after she and her missing brother were swept away by floodwaters
The body of a 2-year-old girl who vanished last weekend with her younger brother after a wall of water from intense flooding swept them away was found Friday evening in the Delaware River, officials said.
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NTSB investigation into Pennsylvania candy factory explosion reveals natural gas was leaking from 2 service lines
An investigation conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board into the explosion at an eastern Pennsylvania candy factory that left seven people dead in March revealed that natural gas was leaking from two service lines, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday.
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Rescue crews continue search for 2 children swept away by Pennsylvania floodwater that killed their mother
Crews in Pennsylvania are still searching for two children who were swept away over the weekend by turbulent floodwaters that killed their mother as a violent storm slammed the region.
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Search intensifies for 2 children swept away in the raging floodwater that killed their mother in Pennsylvania
Officials have tripled the number of resources Monday in the search for the 2-year-old girl and her 9-month-old brother, who were swept away after a ferocious storm pummeled southeast Pennsylvania.
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A train derailment outside Philadelphia leads to precautionary evacuations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Emergency crews are investigating a train derailment in southeast Pennsylvania, the Whitemarsh Township manager said.
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Exclusive: Pennsylvania, New Mexico secretaries of state interviewed as part of special counsel's 2020 election interference probe
Federal prosecutors have interviewed the secretaries of state for both Pennsylvania and New Mexico in recent months as part of the ongoing investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to two sources familiar with the probe.
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Hidden stash of food, clothes and supplies found during weeklong manhunt likely left by Pennsylvania escapee, official says
A bag covered by a tarp and hidden under a log was almost certainly used by Michael Burham, who has been on the run for about a week since escaping a jail in northwestern Pennsylvania, a state patrol official said Thursday.
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Corrections officer watching surveillance video sounded the alarm as a Pennsylvania inmate escaped in seconds, official says
Surveillance cameras caught inmate Michael Burham's escape from a jail in northwestern Pennsylvania last week, Warren County Commissioner Jeff Eggleston said in a news conference Wednesday.
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5 members of Jehovah's Witnesses congregations charged with child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania
Five members of Jehovah's Witnesses congregations were charged with child sexual abuse by the Pennsylvania's attorney general on Friday, following a yearslong investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in the church.
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Authorities say inmate who escaped from Pennsylvania jail is dangerous and has survivalist skills
Pennsylvania authorities are searching for a "dangerous" inmate with survivalist skills who they say escaped Warren County Prison by elevating himself on exercise equipment and exiting the jail yard through a metal gated roof, a county spokesperson said Friday during a news conference.
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2 state troopers were shot, 1 fatally, in a manhunt that included several shootouts in Pennsylvania, police say
Two state troopers were shot, one fatally, in a multi-scene shootout with a man who initially fired bullets into state police vehicles outside police barracks in central Pennsylvania, authorities said.
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