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Nazareth, PA
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Nazareth Man Sentenced After Agents Find More Than 100 Child Sex Abuse Files
A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to prison for possessing more than 100 photos and videos of child sexual abuse after a cybertip led investigators to his Northampton County home and workplace, authorities announced Friday, Oct. 16. Matthew John Kocher, 32, of Nazareth, was sentenced this week in Northampton County Court to 12 to 24 years in prison after previously pleading guilty to numerous felony counts of sexual abuse of children, according to Attorney General Dave Sunday. Kocher will also serve three years of probation and be subject to sex offender supervision conditions following…
Worcester, MA
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HomeGoods Expanding Across Northeast With New MA Stores: See Where
HomeGoods is growing across the Northeast as the home decor retailer continues opening new stores nationwide. The chain has announced fall opening dates for 10 new stores on its website. Four of the new locations will be in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. The new stores are part of an ongoing expansion by parent company TJX Companies, which also operates T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and Sierra. TJX announced plans in 2024 to add about 141 net new stores nationwide and internationally that year, including 40 HomeGoods locations in the US, according to Retail Dive. The first Northea…
Lower Makefield-Yardley, PA
Breaking News
NJ Deputy Attorney General From Lower Makefield Arrested In PA For AI Child Sex Abuse Material
A New Jersey deputy attorney general has been arrested in Pennsylvania after investigators said he used artificial intelligence to create and distribute child sexual abuse material and shared images depicting real children, authorities announced Thursday, Oct. 15. Brian Richard Fitzgerald, 51, of the Yardley area of Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, was arrested at his home in the 900 block of Edgewood Road on Thursday morning, according to information released by the Bucks County District Attorney's Office and updated Friday, Oct. 16. Fitzgerald works as a deputy attorney general for…
Southampton, NY
Weather
Snow Outlook: National Weather Service Releases Winter Forecast
Will this winter bring buried driveways or another season of waiting for snow? A new federal outlook offers clues about what the Northeast could face. NOAA’s National Weather Service released its winter outlook Thursday, Oct. 15, favoring above-average temperatures across the Northeast and wetter-than-average conditions along the East Coast from December through February 2027. That combination leaves an important question unresolved: How much of that precipitation will fall as snow? The NOAA outlook does not predict seasonal snowfall totals. Its maps show the odds of warmer, colder, wetter…
New Holland, PA
Breaking News
Women Pepper-Spray Maryland Man Accused Of Stalking At New Holland Fair: Police
Several women attending a Lancaster County fair pepper-sprayed an 18-year-old man after he repeatedly approached them for their phone numbers and Snapchat accounts, refused to leave them alone, and left them fearing for their safety, police said. The incident unfolded at the New Holland Fair near North Roberts Avenue and East Main Street around 8:20 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3, according to a release issued by the New Holland Police Department on Wednesday, Oct. 14. Officers working at the fair were alerted to a physical altercation and arrived to find a man lying on the ground after being spr…
Harrisburg, PA
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Husband Of Harvard-Stanford
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Harrisburg Doctor Charged With Murder, Arson As Daughter Slept
A Harvard and Stanford graduate who became a UPMC pediatrician was killed by her husband, who then set her body on fire inside their Harrisburg home while their 7-year-old daughter slept upstairs, police said. Jonathan Alan Gatto, 41, was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated arson, arson, abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, and endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the killing of his wife, Dr. Julia Pederson, 41, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Gatto is being held at Dauphin County Prison without bail following his arrest on Tuesday, Oct…
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Power Grid Emergency Issued In Three States: What To Know About Unusual October Alert
The world's largest power grid operator has issued an emergency alert as unusually warm October weather and widespread equipment outages put pressure on electricity supplies across the region, including New Jersey and Pennsylvania. PJM Interconnection issued a Maximum Generation Alert and Load Management Alert for Tuesday, Oct. 13, as higher electricity demand and planned equipment outages put pressure on the regional power supply. The alerts mean power companies are being asked to keep as much equipment running as possible, including postponing maintenance that could take power plants or t…
Willow Grove, PA
Breaking News
Unauthorized Person Found Inside Eastern Center For Arts And Tech; Students, Staff Evacuated
Students and staff at a Pennsylvania technical school were evacuated after an unauthorized person was discovered inside the building on Tuesday, Oct. 13, authorities announced. The Eastern Center for Arts and Technology was evacuated to the nearby Upper Moreland High School campus in Montgomery County as a precaution, according to an alert issued at 2:47 p.m. All students and faculty members were safe, accounted for, and unharmed, officials said. The Eastern campus was expected to remain closed for several hours while authorities conducted an investigation. Officials did not immediately r…
Harrisburg, PA
Breaking News
Former Campaign Treasurer Admits Stealing $1M From Clients, Including PA Congressional Campaign
A former political campaign treasurer who stole more than $1 million from clients across the country, including a Pennsylvania congressional campaign, has pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges, authorities announced. Yolanda Brown, 47, also known as Yolanda Rumph, of Arlington, Virginia, entered her guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Chad F. Kenney in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Sept. 23, according to U.S. Attorney David Metcalf. The FBI Philadelphia division shared the case on Thursday, Oct. 8. Brown owned and operated Brown Financial & Consulting Services Group LLC, providin…
Cranbury, NJ
Breaking News
6 PA Boys Involved In Deadly Cranbury NJ Turnpike Crash: 2 Dead, 4 Hospitalized
Six Pennsylvania teens were involved in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed two of them and sent four others to the hospital, authorities said. The crash happened around 5:06 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, in the southbound outer lanes near mile marker 69.9 in Cranbury, Middlesex County Prosecutor Linda Estremera and New Jersey State Police Acting Superintendent Jeanne Hengemuhle said. The vehicle was carrying six people when it crashed, ejecting two occupants, a 19-year-old from Warminster and a 16-year-old from Hatboro, authorities said. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. The four…
Abington, PA
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Abington Army Veteran, SEPTA Bus Driver Gunned Down On Route, Killer Sentenced
A 24-year-old Philadelphia woman who shot and killed a U.S. Army veteran while he was driving a SEPTA bus has been sentenced nearly three years after the murder that left a family grieving and prompted calls for stronger protections for public transit workers. Zhontay Capers was sentenced to 32½ to 67 years in state prison on Friday, Oct. 9, for the Oct. 26, 2023, murder of Bernard Nicholas Gribbin, 48, of Abington, Pennsylvania, according to Philadelphia County court documents obtained by Daily Voice on Saturday, Oct. 10. Gribbin, a 12-year SEPTA employee and Army combat veteran originally…
Waterford-Atco, NJ
Breaking News
Person Killed By Train Near Atco, NJ Transit Says
A man was struck and killed by an NJ Transit train that had left Pennsylvania, near the Atco station in Camden County on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 10, authorities said. At 3:25 p.m., Atlantic City Rail Line train 4679 struck the man near the Atco Avenue, NJ Transit Media Relations Director John Chartier said. The train had departed Philadelphia at 2:31 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Atlantic City at 4:06 p.m., Chartier said. None of the 80 passengers or crew members aboard were injured, NJ Transit said, Chartier said. Service was suspended in both directions between Hammonton and Linde…
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