Mercersburg News

Tuscarora school district teachers walk picket lines Tuesday in front of James Buchanan Middle School and James Buchanan High School.

Big decision: Tuscarora School District voters are being asked to vote Tuesday on the school boards plan to borrow as much as $35 million to repair and renovate James Buchanan High School, Mercersburg.

A 17-year-old male from Fort Loudon turned himself in yesterday after stealing a truck Sunday from East Coast Green, 2629 McDowell Road, Peters Township.

The Tuscarora Education Association announced Saturday afternoon that teachers would strike on the first day of the 2008-09 school year, prompting the Tuscarora School District to cancel classes.

Police are investigating the theft of five 14-foot guide rails and other metal from the Montgomery Township municipal office.

Retiring: Mercersburg Police Chief Larry Thomas checks on residents last year in one of the areas newest communities, Findlay Park, Mercersburg Police Chief Larry Thomas has announced he will retire on Oct.

Mandy Clark honed her public-speaking skills in FFA competitions on the topic of recombinant bovine somatotropin and by talking to her cows, practices that paid off Monday night with her being named Franklin ...

Franklin County's new face of agriculture has long curly hair and a winning smile -- one that earned Mandy Clark the crown as Franklin County Fair Queen on Monday night.

WVU football commit Curtis Feight went from a "nobody" to somebody by crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. See Jane Tyson's hallway mural featuring Mercersburg, Pa., landmarks.

Whitetail Resort is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the recent vandalism.

Helen E. Trostle, 88, a resident of Penn Hall Nursing Center, Chambersburg, PA and formerly of Littlestown, PA, entered into God's eternal care on Saturday, August 2, 2008.

Paul H. Carbaugh, 80, of 12041 Mountain Road, Orrstown, departed this life Sunday August 3, 2008 at 6:40 AM in the Chambersburg Hospital.

Fire companies from Pennsylvania and Maryland battled a house fire on Burkett Lane around 2 a.m. today.

For a good cause: Marsiglia performed at Rock 4 Drew on April 21, 2007, at Market Cross Pub in Shippensburg.

Residents of the Tuscarora School District have until Monday, Aug. 11, to register to vote in the Sept.

A Mercersburg area man was killed today during a shooting on Blue Spring Road. A man, whom police did not identify, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:36 a.m. by Franklin County Coroner Jeffry Conner, ...

A man was killed today during a shooting in an apparent land dispute. The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene in the 9300 block of Blue Spring Road in Western Franklin County.

The man who allegedly shot his neighbor Monday over a land dispute died from injuries he suffered in a fight, according to Franklin County Coroner Jeffrey R. Conner.

Authorities have released the name of a man killed yesterday in a Mercersburg altercation.