On a call today with reporters and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman about the newly formed Health Disparity Task Force, Governor Tom Wolf called for COVID-19 health care providers and medical facilities conducting tests to follow the Department of Health’s mandate to include race and ethnicity data in demographics provided to the department with COVID-19 test … Continue reading “Gov. Wolf Calls for Mandated Race and Ethnicity Data Collection and Increased Testing Amid COVID-19”
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To ensure that Pennsylvanians have opportunities to safely enjoy outdoor recreation as a way to maintain positive physical and mental health, and in keeping with the commonwealth’s stay-at-home orders to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, Governor Tom Wolf today announced that the Wolf Administration is lifting some restrictions on businesses related to certain outdoor activities. … Continue reading “Governor Announces May 1 Statewide Reopening of Limited Outdoor Recreational Activities to Help Pennsylvanians Maintain Positive Physical, Mental Health”
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April 28, 2020 Grants to eliminate food waste will help keep food banks stocked and prevent farm losses The Wolf Administration is making immediate changes to the Food Recovery Infrastructure Grant Program to help ensure food banks are adequately supplied to meet the needs of Pennsylvania residents. Increased demand on the charitable food system related … Continue reading “Wolf Administration Expands Food Recovery Infrastructure Grants to Help the Charitable Food System April 28, 2020”
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As the construction industry prepares to resume work, the Wolf Administration today issued guidance for all construction businesses and employees to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. All businesses in the construction industry in the commonwealth are permitted to resume in-person operations starting Friday, May 1 – one week earlier than previously announced. Previously, Governor Tom Wolf and … Continue reading “Wolf Administration Issues Guidance as Construction Industry Prepares to Resume Work May 1”
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An Elizabethtown woman will serve up to 20 years in prison for suffocating her infant daughter, found unresponsive in an apartment in July 2018. Candace Parrow, 25, previously pleaded no contest guilty but mentally ill to 3rd-degree murder and related counts regarding the 4-month-old girl’s death. Lancaster County Judge Jeffery Wright sentenced Parrow on Monday … Continue reading “Elizabethtown Woman Sentenced for Strangling to Death her 4-Month Old Daughter”
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By: LCDA’s Office This information was included in the March 2020 newsletter distributed by the Lancaster County Crime Prevention Task Force. We present this as a release of information so parents and children can be fully aware. Staying up to date on trending apps among kids is crucial. The popular apps and web forums can … Continue reading “The ‘Ultimate’ Guide to Voxer, Tellonym and Other Apps Teens are Using”
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An East Earl man will serve at least 38 years in prison for years of sexual abuse of four pre-teenage girls, abuse which has inflicted permanent trauma on the victims who are now struggling with instinctual sexually deviate behaviors. David S. Smucker, 75, declined to say anything about the crimes or issue an apology to … Continue reading “East Earl Man Jailed Decades for ‘Offensive and Evil’ Acts of Child Abuse”
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By: Lancaster County D.A.’s Office The Lancaster County Special Emergency Response Team assisted the County Drug Task Force in a raid this week at a city home that uncovered two stolen pistols, ammo, and several ounces of marijuana. A man and a woman were arrested during the early-morning operation Tuesday in the 600 block … Continue reading “SERT, Drug Task Force Seize Stolen Guns, Charge 2 in Raid at Lancaster Home”
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