State Line News

If you drove on local interstates Sunday, you probably saw the following scenes: Cars facing into oncoming traffic after skidding out on black ice Cars and trucks sliding off the road shoulders into adjacent ditches Big-rigs jackknifed throughout the area, shutting down traffic for hours It's all the result of a sever, 72-hour lake-effect storm ...

Pennsylvania State Police report that I-90 is closed from Route 8, Exit 29, eastbound to the New York State Line, due to poor weather and road conditions.

ACCIDENT: A Chambersburg woman was hospitalized with major injuries after her vehicle hit another head-on. Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg, said Betty L. George, 29, Chambersburg, crossed into the opposite lane while driving east on Boyer Mill Road at 6:55 a.m. Thursday.

Greencastle will light up its 19th Annual Heritage Christmas celebration by illuminating the tree in Center Square Friday night at 7 p.m. The tree-lighting ceremony marks the start of Greencastle's Christmas celebration, which continues through Dec.

Phil Bennett hopes children can have role models like those he had. Bennett, the new executive director of Washington County's Big Brothers Big Sisters chapter, said certain people significantly helped him personally and professionally, and he's grateful.

Christian singing group forming The Freed-in-Spirit Singers is a newly-formed non-denominational group for anyone who wants to get together to praise the Lord in song.

Two area churches have planned Halloween alternative programs for children. All activities are free.

HARASSMENT: Timothy Ray Stoey, 42, State Line, was arrested for harassment and public drunkenness at 6:49 p.m. Monday, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg.

ACCIDENT: Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg, report a two-vehicle crash at 3:15 p.m. Thursday at 4030 Lincoln Way East.

Most area residents are thankful Pennsylvania now has a budget, but a little unsure exactly how that new fiscal spending plan will affect them as individuals.

A jury handed down a death sentence for Paul Devoe, the man convicted of killing a Franklin County woman in 2007.

A handyman accused of killing six people in a cross-country spree was convicted Friday in two of the deaths, and could face the death penalty.

Blind from birth, master keyboardist Duncan Holmes will present programs of contemporary praise, jazz, traditional hymns, comedy and satire at two area churches this weekend.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell will visit Franklin County today for the announcement of a new intermodal rail facility in Antrim Township.

Celebration: Barbara Jeannette kisses her husband, Louis, after receiving a ceremonial check for $395,686.50 Wednesday at Earls Market, State Line.

Barbara Jeannette of Chambersburg , Franklin County , won $395,686.50 from the July 27 Cash 5 drawing.

Celebration: Barbara Jeannette kisses her husband, Louis, after receiving a ceremonial check for $395,686.50 Wednesday at Earls Market, State Line.

In 1969, Gary Gembe had a talk with his grandmother about men walking on the moon.

The following reports were compiled from information provided by area law enforcement agencies Tuesday: CHAMBERSBURG THEFT: Chambersburg police are investigating the theft of a solar powered light from Cherie Kauffman's 1112 Scotland Ave.