At the end of October, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement staffer emailed nine of its partner law enforcement agencies in Lancaster and York counties to coordinate federal immigration removal operations.
ICYMI: Last week, Bruce Imel and his daughter, Kaitlyn, touched down in the U.S. after being stuck in a Dubai hotel for five days following the attack on Iran.
Bruce and Kaitlyn said they could hear the booms of missiles being intercepted throughout the night
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The Northwest Regional Police Department was the first in Lancaster County to sign a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and it is one of the first to take advantage of lucrative reimbursements offered by the…
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“Our goal here is for Dayspring to return to what it’s supposed to be, for Dayspring to become healthy again,” Will Mullin told LNP | LancasterOnline last week.
via @lancasteronline.bsky.social
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What we can’t drag race down Canton Ave now?!
Quarryville Borough officials last week issued an unattributed statement explaining why the borough police department was no longer party to a cooperation agreement with the federal government’s primary immigration enforcement agency.
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Talking to GOP insiders this month, Pa. Treasurer Stacy Garrity revealed how she secured a coveted endorsement from President Donald Trump in this year’s governor’s race.
In her telling, Garrity landed Trump’s support by answering a single question.
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Josh Shapiro boasts a 56% approval rating as governor among Pennsylvanians. But only 40% of voters say he'd be a good president — as he faces rumors of a bid — compared to 43% who say he wouldn't.
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BREAKING: Republicans clear the primary field for state Rep. Tom Jones, as his only serious opponent, former Manheim Twp commissioner Mary Jo Huyard, agreed to drop out -- after meeting with Jones and state Sen. Scott Martin.
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Kudos to NYT for citing Roger Sollenberger, the independent journalist who got this first. But, how are the mightiest investigative teams in the country playing catch-up in one of the biggest stories of the century?
From yours truly. Let me know what I got wrong:
“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union.
This could have tremendous implications for voting:
See you there!
Four years after Russian invasion, many Ukraine war veterans and refugees have found support and community in the Philadelphia region. But with no end to the war in sight, and not enough action from the government, they say the future is uncertain.
@inquirer.com
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Lancaster County commissioners have been working for years to plan and organize the construction of a new prison that officials, former prisoners, local criminal justice advocates and prison staff have pined for over the last two decades.
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Rep. Smucker: "Where we have run into trouble is when the state and local governments have not worked with them to apprehend these violent criminals."
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WITF sought ChatGPT logs from more than two dozen agencies last year under Pennsylvania's public records law.
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office and the state's open records agency rejected those attempts. (🧵) www.witf.org/2026/02/18/p...
My latest. So far no local law enforcement has provided reimbursement records, though some have said they don’t have any.
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.
We'll let their words speak for themselves.
My latest: Staff at Dauphin County Prison warned ICE agents that Chaofeng Ge had a history of self harm. ICE never passed that info to medical at Moshannon Valley Processing Center and Ge died by suicide 5 days later.
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Data released by the Lancaster County Youth Intervention Center last week show a remarkable drop in the use of physical intervention in the facility’s detention wing, a decline county officials attributed to a culture change at the institution and the…
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Yes, one of our moderators told me that Facebook has disabled some functions, blocking comments being one of them. Inappropriate comments themselves not as new of an issue.
Sadly, this story was taken off LNP's Facebook page bc producers could not block some beyond-the-pale comments. Apparently, this has been an issue with Facebook recently.
