Paxtang News

A story in Monday's Patriot-News misreported the status of the Paxtang Grill on Derry Street in Paxtang.

Share + Oct 24, 2009 11:13 am US/Eastern A federal judge has denied a central Pennsylvania man's appeal of an order that he be extradited to Peru to stand trial in the murder of the 21-year-old woman he married there.

A federal judge has denied a Paxtang man's appeal of an order that he be extradited to Peru to stand trial in the death of his wife there .

Yokobel Kwarteng, center, is consoled by a friend during her fiancee, Michael Dada Amissah, burial at Paxtang Cemetery.

Evidence is marked and photographed at the scene of a shooting at South 19th Street and Bellevue Road in Harrisburg.

Jana Claudia Gomez Menendez of Trujillo, Peru, and William T. Smith II, of Harrisburg, who met on the Internet in 2005 and married in March 2007.

A former Harrisburg attorney and an Allentown businessman have been charged by state Attorney General Tom Corbett with stealing thousands of dollars from elderly clients.

Dolores Heimbaugh is proud to care for her ailing, 85-year-old husband. But the Susquehanna Twp.

Two men, one carrying a gun, blindfolded a Paxtang woman and restrained her before stealing multiple items early Sunday morning from her residence in the 3500 block of Derry Street, state police said.

Fire destroyed a duplex in the first block of Royal Terrace in Harrisburg and damaged two neighboring duplexes.

Ruby Brenda Velasquez Arce had spent all of her 23 years in Peru when she made a dazzling, multifaceted leap into the unknown -- single to married, South America to North America, Spanish to English.

Gas-powered motorized vehicles will be banned 30 days from now on Capital Area Greenbelt in Harrisburg, following an ordinance passed by city council Tuesday.

Lucas and Lindsey's wedding day arrives, and Peyton must decide how she should handle this momentous occasion.

Bob Viguers of Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, has a passion for spending countless hours in Harrisburg, Pa., area cemeteries writing down every word from every grave marker and compiling the lists in self-published books.

Edith Duncan, top, of Harrisburg hugs Theresa Granthon during the May 15 funeral for her son, Brandon Granthon , a 27-year-old Harrisburg University student who was shot and killed in Harrisburg on May 5. More than 100 guests attended Granthon's funeral at Wallace Funeral Home, and he was buried at Paxtang Cemetery.

Just in time for Mother's Day arrives Garden Faire at Fort Hunter Park, 5300 N. Front St., Harrisburg, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday with displays of plants, Victorian music and dancing and items for sale including soaps, garden wares and jewelry.

Alesia Skinner of Linglestown bought Paxtang Cemetery in 2006. Established in 1898, the land is more than 30 acres of rolling hills that includes a large mausoleum made of granite and white marble built in two parts in 1916 and 1922.

Sewer bills paid by Harrisburg residents and businesses may not go up as much as predicted to meet new pollution restrictions designed to restore the Chesapeake Bay.