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State police in Pennsylvania said they're investigating an apparent murder-suicide after a father, mother and two young children were found dead in their Westmoreland County home this week. Paul ...
Frackville, Pennsylvania: State Correctional Institution – Phoenix: Skippack, Pennsylvania: Opened July 11, 2018, replacing the adjoining State Correctional Institution – Graterford, which had been Pennsylvania's largest prison. Graterford opened in 1929 and worked with Eastern State Penitentiary until its closing in 1970.
The Springtown, Texas, mom shared an emotional post about the holidays in a Facebook group called “Grown and Flown Parents,” for parents of adult kids, about how her 23-year-old son, Ryan ...
Sharon Budd, a 53-year-old schoolteacher from Uniontown, Ohio, was a passenger in a car being driven east on I-80 in Pennsylvania by her daughter on July 10, 2014, when a rock smashed through the windshield of her car, hitting her directly in the face. [3] [4] Budd suffered catastrophic injuries, including blinding of one eye.
Heather Oravitz, 51, who was Plum's community development director, was killed in the blast along with Plum Borough Manager Michael Thomas, 57, and three others who lived in the neighborhood ...
The prison, located on Graterford Road off of Pennsylvania Route 29, [3] was about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Philadelphia. [2] The prison, described by Joseph Stefano of The Philadelphia Inquirer as the primary state prison serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area, [4] once housed a small number of male death row inmates. [5]
The Pennsylvania State Police announced that they’ve filed felony and misdemeanor charges against the person they say hit and killed two Pennsylvania state troopers and a pedestrian on I-95.
In 2017, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections considered closing the prison, as part of an attempt by the state government to reduce the state's budget deficit. However, the prison was spared closure. Had SCI - Frackville closed it would likely have dealt a significant blow to the local economy, as it employs over 400 staff. [1]