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An analysis by professors from Penn State and Wright State suggests that marijuana legalization of all types is about to hit a wall.

The estate of Victoria “Tori” Herr has settled with Lebanon County over claims of civil rights violations and wrongful death involving the Lebanon County Correctional Facility. Herr’s estate will receive $4.75 million.

Nonprofit investigative news outlet ProPublica has compiled a database that explores racial disparities in public and charter school systems across the country.

Yesterday in North Cornwall Township, a Hummelstown man, Tyler Brandt Dormer, was charged with homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence as a result of the March death of Karen Elizabeth Graham of Lebanon.

With unseasonably warm weather and an especially wet summer, the West Nile threat in Lebanon County this summer has been both longer and more pronounced than in previous seasons.

With a guilty plea for all counts except those involving conspiracy, Scott Kirchner II ended the Commonwealth’s case against him and now awaits sentencing scheduled for October 17.

Fort Indiantown Gap is once again a frontier of sorts with the forested area serving as a major barrier preventing the further spread of the invasive insect, the spotted lanternfly.

The trial for one of the men charged with the murder of Lebanon man last year began yesterday at the Municipal Building with jury selection under the judgeship of Samuel Kline.

A vehicle collision on Route 422 this morning briefly shut down the road while rescue crews moved the vehicles and removed an individual who had been pinned into one of the cars by the force of the impact.

Police said that Richard Lee Via of Jonestown crossed the double yellow line before hitting and killing Harrison Fenstemaker, who was riding a motorcycle.

According to a military press release, airmen from the Horsham-based 111th Attack Wing of the Pennsylvania National Guard left Fort Indiantown Gap today for McEntire Joint National Guard Base, near Columbia, South Carolina, where they will assist in Florence rescue and recovery efforts.

In a press release this morning Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo cleared Kevin C. Rhoades of all outstanding allegations regarding potential sexual abuse while in his former position as bishop of the Roman Catholic Church’s Harrisburg Diocese.

In new reports by the United States Census Bureau, Lebanon County’s median income and the percentage of its residents living beneath the poverty line both saw slight changes compared to 2016.

In an op-ed for the Patriot News, Lebanon Valley College President Lewis E. Thayne announced a new program in which students recovering from drug addiction will live in a special Collegiate Recovery House staffed by a Caron employee.

Fort Indiantown Gap will be holding mortar and demolitions training this month, with the mortar training this weekend September 7-9 and the demolitions training on September 19. These training events will take place between the hours of 8am to 11pm.