Two people ended up in the hospital after a Sunday afternoon fire in Palmer Township. "Sunday afternoon around 12:45, we got alerted to a house fire at 3008 William Penn Highway," McPherson said. Ken McPherson, with the Palmer Township Fire Department, says an elderly resident and a firefighter were taken to the hospital but both are expected to be fine. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Multiple injuries were reported after a crash in Lehigh County over the weekend. Authorities say it happened Saturday afternoon when multiple vehicles collided on Route 309 near Snowdrift Road in South Whitehall Township. Officials say four people sustained minor injuries. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
The Emmaus community pool and park, which were closed due to flooding Monday, have reopened. The borough says the pool and playground reopened at noon Saturday. Both were closed after rain Monday night caused flooding in Emmaus and nearby areas. The flooding made it into the pools, which required borough officials to drain, clean and refill them before reopening.
A Lancaster County plane crash ends with the pilot's death. Adam Webber is with the Northern Lancaster County Regional PD. "The plane had initially taken off from the Lancaster Airport and had crashed in the field just north of the airport shortly after takeoff," Webber says. The pilot is identified as 58-year-old Musaddiq Nazeeri, of Lebanaon. He was the only person aboard the plane. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating what happened.
Congress has approved a package containing billions of dollars in spending cuts, sending it to President Trump's desk. The measure claws back at spending on foreign aid and public broadcasting. Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Dave McCormick backed the package. "What happened here was essentially a haircut to eliminate some of this crazy stuff like LGBTQ opera in Central America, or whatever it is. The American people don't think foreign aid is for that and it isn't for that," McCormick says. The bill passed last week with a 216-213 vote in the House.
Pennsylvania is sending reinforcements to crews battling wildfires in the Western U.S. Wildland firefighters with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources are being deployed to Colorado, where multiple fires have burned thousands of acres. The group gathered in Dauphin County Saturday before beginning their journey out west. The deployment is expected to last for two weeks.
The Republican National Committee has filed suit against New Jersey's Division of Elections over what it calls voter roll records and election integrity. The Republican committee accuses state election officials of slow walking access to records about voting machines. The committee says it had requested information on the state's voter record rolls from the June primary election. State election officials have declined comment on the suit. Three years ago, the RNC successfully sued Mercer County for ballot cure letters from the 2021 election.
A Superior Court judge has approved a request by the New Jersey Attorney General's office to bar former Senator Bob Menendez from future public office or government employment in the state. Attorney General Matthew Platkin had requested in May that Menendez be permanently barred from ever holding any office or position of honor, trust or profit, under the state or any political subdivisions. The former senior senator began serving an eleven-year prison term last month for his conviction on federal bribery charges.
Ocean City's beaches are being rated the best in New Jersey. For the 12th year in a row, the Jersey Shore location topped a survey of beachgoers that was conducted by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium. Margate came in second. A ceremony doling out the honors was held at Ocean City's iconic Music Pier.
Former Penn State AD Sandy Barbour is returning to collegiate athletics. Barbour has been announced as the interim athletic director at Utah State University. Barbour led Penn State Athletics from 2014 to 2022, overseeing the program through multiple national championships and the introduction of NIL. She will lead Utah State as it prepares to move to the revamped Pac-12 conference next year.
A recent study is revealing the most popular ice cream flavor in Pennsylvania. A report from Beach-dot-com lists Neapolitan as the most sought-after flavor in the Keystone State. Researchers used Google search data for the last five years to compile the rankings. Neapolitan's trio of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry was also the most popular ice cream across the nation overall, landing at number one in a total of 19 states.