Orrtanna News

The smallest angel squirmed beside the manger. The other stretched her legs. Angels above opened their arms.

The National Weather Service has a snowfall map that's updated periodically. As of 10 a.m., it showed snowfalls in the region ranging from just under 2 inches in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, to more than 8 in Orrtanna, Adams County.

The trial begins today for the Fairfield man accused of stabbing a teenager to death and burning the body.

Seventeen-year-old Raymond Puckett stood at the helm of a landing craft as it moved toward the beaches of Normandy, France, for the D-Day invasion.

Jerry Althoff picks up apples that have been gathered and bagged by volunteers. He and his wife deliver the gleaned fruit to those in need of food.

VANDALISM: John R. Cole, 51, Orrtanna, allegedly threw a tomato through the glass window of a storm door at 1:30 a.m. Monday at 5289 Cumberland Highway, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg.

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.

An Orrtanna man faces charges after police say he had sex with a 14-year-old girl.

AUG. 7 8:17 a.m. State police were contacted regarding a fraud on Pine Grove Furnace Road, Menallen Township.

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.

John Kramb, co-owner of the Adams County Winery in Orrtanna, talks at the winery Saturday with Philadelphia residents Diane Guzzi and Phyliss Paone.

I try to never miss an opportunity to visit the "Homeplace" gardens of Rose Gerke and Paul Bruck.

The mood of the Steelton Fire Department was somber on Sunday as members mourned the loss of one of their own, Donald Mummert Jr., who was killed Friday morning in a motorcycle crash.

Two people were killed in a motorcycle accident early Saturday in western Adams County.

Restitution has been set for a trio accused of throwing a rock throw a Freedom Township couple's window - an incident that led to an insurance-fraud trial for the couple.

ACCIDENT: Samuel L. J. Gillespie, 44, Chambersburg, lost control of his motorcycle just before 8 a.m. Tuesday while going east on New Franklin Road, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg.

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