Missing Pottsville Teen Found
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A missing teenager, who state police issued an Amber Alert for today, has been found. State police issued the alert earlier in the day for 17-year-old Cassidy Bowers of Pottsville,...
View Article12-Year-Old Girl Survives After Being Sucked Into Drainpipe
SCHUYLKILL (KDKA) – A 12-year-old girl is home from the hospital after being swept several hundred yards through a flooded drainpipe is Schuylkill County. Taylor Russell says the experience was...
View ArticleLawmaker Angered Over PSU Chief’s Hands-Up Gesture
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) – A state lawmaker is demanding that Penn State University’s president apologize for making the “hands up” gesture associated with nationwide protests over the killing of a...
View ArticleBottled Water Recalled After Tests Detect E. Coli At Source
HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA/AP) – Niagara Bottling has recalled 14 brands of bottled spring water produced at two Pennsylvania manufacturing plants after the operator of one of its contracted springs failed...
View ArticlePa. Fire Company To Host 2nd ‘Naughty Bingo’ Fundraiser
HOMETOWN, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania volunteer fire company has turned to titillation to raise money. The Hometown Volunteer Fire Company in Schuylkill County is getting ready to host its second...
View ArticleTwo Pennsylvania Women Charged In Fight Over Shoveled Parking Spot
ASHLAND, Pa. (AP) – State troopers have charged two Pennsylvania women with disorderly conduct for a hair-pulling fight that erupted over a newly shoveled parking spot on a snowy street. Troopers in...
View ArticleToddler Girl Hospitalized After Consuming Meth, Parents Charged
PINE GROVE, Pa. (AP) – Police say a toddler girl has been hospitalized after consuming methamphetamine in her Pennsylvania home, and her parents are facing child endangerment charges. Police say the...
View ArticleSon Charged In Death Of Father; Body Left On Couch For Weeks
FRACKVILLE, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania man has been charged with killing his father, who authorities say was shot to death and his body then left on a couch for weeks. Twenty-four-year-old Tyler Swantek...
View ArticleBoy Scouts Suffer Concussion-Like Symptoms After Leader Allegedly Smashed...
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PINE GROVE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania Boy Scout leader accused of smashing two Scouts’ heads together at a camp meeting has been criminally charged. State police on...
View ArticleMan Who Allegedly Threatened To Kill Trump Spotted In Eastern Pa.
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter TAMAQUA, Pa. (KDKA) — A man accused of threatening to kill President Donald Trump was spotted in eastern Pennsylvania this weekend. There were two sightings in...
View ArticlePennsylvania Family Searches For Runaway 14 Year Old
MAHANOY CITY, Pa. (KDKA) — A teenager from Schuylkill County is missing, according to his family and news outlets. Brandon Foresman, 14, has not been seen for over 12 hours by his family. He was last...
View ArticleFire Kills Woman, Teenage Brother, Injures 2 Other Relatives
ASHLAND, Pa. (AP) – Authorities say a woman and her teenage brother were killed in a fire that destroyed an eastern Pennsylvania home, also injuring two other relatives. Officials in Schuylkill County...
View Article38-Year-Old Man Stabbed To Death After Road Rage Confrontation In Pennsylvania
ORWIGSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two people got into a fight after a road rage confrontation on a Pennsylvania road, and one died after he was stabbed multiple times, state police said. Police in Schuylkill...
View ArticlePennsylvania Game Commission Employee Seriously Injured In ATV Hit-And-Run Crash
By: KDKA-TV News Staff HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA) — A juvenile has been arrested in connection with an ATV hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a Pennsylvania Game Commission employee, authorities...
View Article3 Killed In 50-Vehicle Pileup On I-81 During Snow Squall
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP/KDKA) — A Pennsylvania county coroner said Monday at least three people died in a collision involving more than 50 vehicles that closed a portion of an interstate and sent more than...
View ArticleCleanup Of Deadly Pileup Keeps I-81 Closed
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A stretch of an interstate highway in Pennsylvania remained shuttered Tuesday, a day after at least three people were killed and more than a dozen others injured when...
View ArticlePolice: 6 Killed In Schuylkill County Pileup Of 80 Vehicles
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A deadly pileup involving 80 vehicles on a Pennsylvania interstate during a snow squall killed six people, state police said Wednesday. “There were 6 fatalities involved in this...
View ArticleDNA Samples Sought To Identify I-81 Crash Victims
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Genetic material will be needed to positively identify the six people killed during an 80-vehicle pileup on a Pennsylvania interstate during a snow squall last month, authorities...
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