Hershey (Dauphin, Pennsylvania)

Canneries in Alaska can continue to hire foreign workers until at least November under the J-1 Summer Work and Travel Program.     The visa program brings more than 100,000 foreign college students to the United States each year.     The State...

Two Waynesboro women were killed early Sunday when their vehicle hit a guardrail on Interstate 81 north of Harrisburg, Pa. Molly K. Kever, 20, and Sara J. Ballard, 21, died after a 1996 Dodge Neon driven by Kever entered a grass median off a curve,...

Franklin County (Pa.) Commissioner Robert L. Thomas, who has been a commissioner since 1995, announced Friday that he will be able to continue serving in the post even as he undergoes treatment for the blood and bone marrow disease myelodysplastic...

Former Pennsylvania Gov. George Michael Leader died Thursday, having created a legacy of humanitarianism, progressive statesmanship and entrepreneurial advancement over a long life that started on a York Township chicken farm. The 95-year-old Leader had...

A 48-year-old Chambersburg man who was struck by a car while riding a bicycle in Southampton Township Friday night has died, Pennsylvania State Police said in a news release Sunday. Jeffrey I. Coons was riding a bike south on Airport Road at 11:02 p.m....

Student choirs and individual musicians from Windsor High School took home impressive awards at the recent Music in the Parks Festival at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J. The students will perform at Windsor High's free "Choral Essence of Spring...

Mrs. Dora Catherine "Dee" (Strassler) Ream, 76, of 15369 Young Road in Greencastle, Pa., and currently a guest of ManorCare Nursing Home in Chambersburg, Pa., died Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at 10 a.m. at the nursing home. Born May 30, 1936, in Stoystown,...

Master Sgt. Kenneth Chester Wing, U.S. Air Force, retired, 66, of Greencastle, Pa., died late Saturday afternoon, April 6, 2013, at his residence.  He was the husband of Mrs. Reitta Sue Gurley Wing, his wife of 31 years. Born Oct. 22, 1946, in Holyoke,...

A room full of women — and at least one man — gyrated and sweated Sunday as they exercised for charity. Proceeds from a Zumbathon at the Franklin Fire Co. benefited PA Hero Walk and the Wounded Warrior Project. Area Zumba instructors took to...

Few are brave enough to risk opening a business in today’s uncertain economy. But times were just as financially tumultuous in the recession-ravaged 1980s when Tim Myers, Nancy Motichka and her son, Tom Motichka, took a risk and opened The Jewelry...

Get ready for more change along the Las Vegas Strip: Look for alterations to the faces of the New York-New York and Monte Carlo hotels and the addition of an expansive public plaza featuring a variety of new restaurants and shops. The new outdoor space,...

Borough police continue to await an autopsy report for a 28-year-old man who died a day after being found in the McDonald’s parking lot. Robert Branson, of 247 Tract Road in Fairfield, Pa., died April 13 at Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center, according...