Bendersville News

Man found dead in Cumberland Twp. Cumberland Township Police say they found a 35-year-old man dead Friday morning on Woodcrest Drive.

Yu Wei performs her dance Rainbow for Bendersville Elementary School students on Wednesday.

The Rev. Bernardo Pistone, left, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church in Gettysburg, chats with Steve Barnes, of Bendersville, during the annual Life Chain event Sunday afternoon in Lincoln Square, Gettysburg.

Steffanie Hernandez and Jasmin Muminovic, Hanover, a daughter, Sept. 1, 2009, at Hanover Hospital.

The second of three area men accused of taking part in a burglary spree late last year was sentenced to two to eight years in state prison Friday.

With the latest in a series of deadlines unmet, one local municipality last week took a preliminary step toward severing ties with its local fire company.

State police at Gettysburg arrested five people as a result of a sobriety checkpoint held overnight Friday on Route 234 on the eastern edge of Biglerville.

Of the three men accused of a spree of burglaries throughout Adams County late last year, one pleaded guilty Monday, and two others are scheduled for trial.

Hamilton Township switched to state police coverage in 2006 after the police department it shared with Abbottstown Borough disbanded.

Pennsylvania municipalities without full-time police forces would have to pay for the state troopers who patrol their streets under a bill that a state House committee narrowly passed Wednesday.

Three men accused of a committing a spree of burglaries through November and December appeared last week in Adams County court.

A 15-year-old Bendersville boy was flown to Hershey Medical Center with injuries Sunday evening after the bicycle he was riding was struck by a vehicle along state Route 34 in Biglerville.

Joe Dunkin, of Bendersville, adds the tabs collected by the children at Gettysburg s Growing Place to the ones a group of bikers collected in their effort to support the Ronald McDonald House in Hershey.

Blossoms decorate apple trees along Main Street near Bendersville. According to fruit growers in Adams County, the apple industry itself also is blooming locally and has been helped along, believe it or not, by recent gas-price spikes.