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Jillian Pikora

Senior Assistant Managing Editor

jpikora@dailyvoice.com

Jillian is an editor and reporter based out of Pennsylvania's capital city of Harrisburg. She has a degree in Political Science and is a former political campaign manager. For over a decade, she has worked as a staff reporter and freelance writer at Sisters Magazine, The Tempest, Huffington Post, CairoScene, and several other outlets. Before joining Daily Voice, Jillian worked as a digital news editor at Hearst's local NBC affiliate, WGAL News 8. She currently assists in managing Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts; as well as reporting stories in Pennsylvania for Daily Voice.

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Man Threatened To Kill Two Women During Central PA Standoff: Police Man Threatened To Kill Two Women During Central PA Standoff: Police
Man Threatened To Kill Two Women During Central PA Standoff: Police More details have emerged following a standoff in central Pennsylvania on Tuesday, May, 24. Waynesboro police were called to a report of an armed man in a home during a domestic violence incident in the 200 block of North Potomac Street around 7:17 a.m., according to a release by the department. The man in the home— later identified as Christopher Adam Repman, allegedly had a black and purple pistol and said it was “in case those two heffers come downstairs,” referring to two women in the home, TriState Alert reports citing the criminal complaint.  It is unclear when the two women in…

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Juvenile Caught With Loaded Handgun In Central PA: Police Juvenile Caught With Loaded Handgun In Central PA: Police
Juvenile Caught With Loaded Handgun In Central PA: Police A juvenile was found with a loaded handgun in central Pennsylvania on Tuesday, May 24, police say. The 16-year-old was spotted with the gun in the waistband of his pants in the 100 block of North 6th Street around 8 p.m., according to a release by the Columbia Borough police department. It was later revealed that the gun was a fully loaded Smith & Wesson, .380 caliber handgun, police stated in the release. The teenage boy was arrested and charged with several violations of the Uniform Firearms Act, according to the release. He has been committed to the Youth Intervention Center, polic…

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PA Man Accused Of Raping Four-Year-Old Boy: Police PA Man Accused Of Raping Four-Year-Old Boy: Police
PA Man Accused Of Raping Four-Year-Old Boy: Police A 22-year-old man is accused of raping a boy when he was a teenager, police say. An approximately 11-year-old boy claims when he was 4-years-old he was repeatedly raped until he was 7-years-old— from 2015 until 2017, according to a release by East Pennsboro Township police. Police were first made aware of the incident that had happened in the 1600 block of Holtz Road in Enola around 8 a.m. on Feb. 23, 2022, as detailed in the release. The child’s accused rapist, Jacob Michael Montgomery, of Enola, was arrested on four felony charges of Rape and Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse— two…

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Schools
More Details Emerge After PA Teacher Killed In Front Of Her Three-Year-Old Daughter: Police More Details Emerge After PA Teacher Killed In Front Of Her Three-Year-Old Daughter: Police
More Details Emerge After PA Teacher Killed In Front Of Her Three-Year-Old Daughter: Police New details are emerging about a dispute between neighbors that ended in a murder-suicide. Erin Michelle Walker, 36, was shot dead by her neighbor, Daniel Berry, 59, in an apparent murder-suicide in the 400 block of Hill Street in Spring Garden Township around 6:15 p.m. on Saturday, May 21— she was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m. on Sunday, May, 22, according to the York County coroner’s office. Her killer, Berry, was pronounced dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to a separate release from the coroner’s office. It is now known that Walker’s 3-year-o…

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Sports
Pittsburgh Steelers' QB Dwayne Haskins' BAC 3X Legal Limit, On Ketamine When He Died: Reports Pittsburgh Steelers' QB Dwayne Haskins' BAC 3X Legal Limit, On Ketamine When He Died: Reports
Pittsburgh Steelers' QB Dwayne Haskins' BAC 3X Legal Limit, On Ketamine When He Died: Reports New details are emerging about Pittsburgh Steelers' Quarterback and New Jersey native, raised in Maryland, Dwayne Haskins, 24, who was struck dead by a dump truck on a Florida highway on Saturday, April 9. The 24-year-old Highland Park, NJ native, who was raised in Potomac, Maryland, was trying to cross the westbound lanes of Interstate 595 while trying to get gas in Florida when he was struck and killed, authorities previously said.  Haskins death has been ruled an accident caused by blunt force, multiple media outlets report citing an autopsy report released by the Broward Medical Ex…

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Police & Fire
Motorcycle Crash Along I-81 Slows Traffic In Central PA: Dispatch Motorcycle Crash Along I-81 Slows Traffic In Central PA: Dispatch
Motorcycle Crash Along I-81 Slows Traffic In Central PA: Dispatch A motorcycle crash has slowed traffic for eight exits along Interstate 81 in central Pennsylvania around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 24, according to emergency dispatchers. The crash happened in the northbound lanes near mile marker 31.9 in South Newton Township but it reportedly affected traffic from exits 29 to 37, according to a Cumberland County Emergency Management supervisor. The number of persons or vehicles involved is not immediately clear  No airlift services or coroner were called to the scene, the supervisor told Daily Voice. 

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Arrest Made At 'Police Incident' In Central PA Neighborhood: Authorities Arrest Made At 'Police Incident' In Central PA Neighborhood: Authorities
Arrest Made At 'Police Incident' In Central PA Neighborhood: Authorities One person has been arrested following a "police incident" in central Pennsylvania, authorities say. Waynesboro police issued the alert to avoid the 200 block of North Potomac Street around 8 a.m. on Tuesday, May 24, according to a release by the department.  An emergency tactical team, state police, and a coroner have been called to the scene, PennLive reports.  The area reopened around 1 p.m., according to the police.  "The police incident...has concluded peacefully," police say, No one was injured in the incident. 

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PA 'Single-Dad' Nabbed For Child Sexual Abuse, Child Porn: Police PA 'Single-Dad' Nabbed For Child Sexual Abuse, Child Porn: Police
PA 'Single-Dad' Nabbed For Child Sexual Abuse, Child Porn: Police A self-described "single father that works hard for his son" has been arrested for child abuse and possession of child porn. Scott Allen Bess, 45, of the 900 Block of Lititz Pike, Warwick Township, has been under investigation on suspicions of possessing child porn for months, according to Northern Lancaster Regional police detectives. He was arrested for four felonies: sexual abuse of children, child pornography, and two counts of criminal use of a communication facility, police say and court records confirm. He was released from the Lancaster County Prison on $100,000 in bail the same …

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PA State Trooper Caught On Cam Kicking Driver In The Chest Authorities Say PA State Trooper Caught On Cam Kicking Driver In The Chest Authorities Say
PA State Trooper Caught On Cam Kicking Driver In The Chest Authorities Say A Pennsylvania state trooper is accused of assaulting a motorist during an arrest earlier this year, state police say. Israel T. Moore "used his right leg to deliver two strikes to the upper torso of a motorist who led troopers on a vehicle pursuit on the evening of Feb. 13" according to a criminal complaint filed by internal affairs. Another trooper was handcuffing the motorist at the time of the alleged attack, PSP IA says. Moore was working in Troop H, Chambersburg when he started chasing the driver, which ended in a grass field near the intersection of High Street and Lincoln Way…

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Homeland Security Arrests Pennsylvania State Corporal During Child Porn Hearing: Reports Homeland Security Arrests Pennsylvania State Corporal During Child Porn Hearing: Reports
Homeland Security Arrests Pennsylvania State Corporal During Child Porn Hearing: Reports A Pennsylvania state corporal who admitted to looking at child porn after Dropbox tipped off Pennsylvania state police that he was saving child pornography to its cloud — has had all charges against him dropped after Federal agents took him into custody on Monday, May 23, according to multiple media outlets. Sean Ryan McKenzie, 37, of Perryopolis, was accused of putting a camera in his bathroom to record a young girl and a child in a swimsuit, police said when charges were first filed against him in March. He was found with child pornography on a USB, in a Dropbox, and on his phone. He…

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