Mostly Cloudy 70°

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.

Jillian Pikora's Contributions

Police & Fire
Update: US 22 Reopens After Deadly Multi-Vehicle Crash: PA State Police Update: US 22 Reopens After Deadly Multi-Vehicle Crash: PA State Police
Update: US 22 Reopens After Deadly Multi-Vehicle Crash: PA State Police The victims have been identified, click here to read more. UPDATE: US 22 Westbound reopened around 4 p.m. on Friday, according to Pennsylvania State Trooper Megan Ammerman. US-22 West is now open — Trooper Megan Ammerman (@PSPTroopHPIO) March 18, 2022 ORIGINAL: At least one person has died in a crash along US 22 on Friday, authorities say.  Multiple multi-vehicles crashes happened on US 22 between Jonestown Road, Lockwillow Avenue, and Mid-Atlantic Machinery and Shannon drives in Harrisburg on Mar. 18 just after 12:30 p.m., according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. …

SHARE

by Jillian Pikora
News
Plumbing Issue Unearths Decomposed Body Under PA Mobile Home: State Police Plumbing Issue Unearths Decomposed Body Under PA Mobile Home: State Police
Plumbing Issue Unearths Decomposed Body Under PA Mobile Home: State Police While fixing a plumbing problem, residents find a decomposed body under their mobile home, Pennsylvania state police say. Ohioville police were called to the in the 400 block of Midland Road but requested state police to help secure the scene around noon on Thursday, Mar. 17, according to a release by state police. The body was “in an extreme state of decomposition,” state police say. The identity of the body and the manner of death is yet to be determined as an investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call PSP Beaver Criminal Investigation Unit at 724-773-7400.

SHARE

by Jillian Pikora
News
Delaware Fugitive Caught With Drugs, Underage Girl Leads Police On Pursuit In Pennsylvania Delaware Fugitive Caught With Drugs, Underage Girl Leads Police On Pursuit In Pennsylvania
Delaware Fugitive Caught With Drugs, Underage Girl Leads Police On Pursuit In Pennsylvania A Delaware fugitive— was found with a 15-year-old girl and drugs in his car— before leading police on a pursuit in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, according to a release by the police. William Edward Sawyer, 35, of Wilmington, was spotted by East Lampeter Township police in a silver 2018 Honda Accord in the parking lot of the American Music Theater 2425 Lincoln Highway East on Mar. 16 at approximately 3:48 a.m., the department stated in the release on Thursday. Police observed suspected marijuana and other drug paraphernalia in plain view, but when they asked Sawyer to exit his vehicle he “pla…

SHARE

by Jillian Pikora
News
PA Public Safety Director Crashed Car While DUI With High BAC: Police PA Public Safety Director Crashed Car While DUI With High BAC: Police
PA Public Safety Director Crashed Car While DUI With High BAC: Police A Public Safety Director serving in central Pennsylvania was arrested for driving under the influence with a high blood alcohol level on Wednesday night, police say. Derry Township police were called to a crash on West Chocolate Avenue/state route 422 at the intersection of Hockersville Road on Mar. 16 at approximately 9:48 pm, according to a release by the department. "Upon arrival, officers found a vehicle had gone off the north side of the highway and collided with a tree," the release states. The uninjured driver was identified as William M. Baldwin, 51, of Hummelstown— the public safe…

SHARE

by Jillian Pikora
News
Man Bites, Head-Butts Troopers, Pennsylvania State Police Say Man Bites, Head-Butts Troopers, Pennsylvania State Police Say
Man Bites, Head-Butts Troopers, Pennsylvania State Police Say An unnamed man bit one state trooper and head-butted another one on Tuesday afternoon, Pennsylvania state police say. Pennsylvania state police troopers from Chambersburg were called to a report of a suspicious person on Wagner Road in Green Township on Mar. 15 at 3:30 p.m., state police wrote in the release. The troopers attempted to arrest the man but he "actively resisted and bit one trooper on the hand and head butted another trooper," as stated in the release. Both troopers suffered "significant injuries in the incident," according to the release. The man was taken into custody and h…

SHARE

by Jillian Pikora
News
PA Man Who Assaulted Teen Sought By Police After Escaping House Arrest PA Man Who Assaulted Teen Sought By Police After Escaping House Arrest
PA Man Who Assaulted Teen Sought By Police After Escaping House Arrest A man who assaulted a 16-year-old is being sought by police after he escaped from house arrest, according to a release by the police. Chambersburg police are asking the public for help locating Elijah Pough Jr., 46, originally of Steelton, who escaped from GPS monitored house arrest in Chambersburg on Thursday, Mar. 17, according to a release by the police department. Charges related to his escape are being filed by the department. Pough was originally arrested for an assault of a 16-year-old in the 500 block of South Second Street just before midnight on Sept. 30, 2021, according to an …

SHARE

by Jillian Pikora
Schools
PA Teacher Threatened Coworkers In Emails, School Switches To Remote Learning: Police PA Teacher Threatened Coworkers In Emails, School Switches To Remote Learning: Police
PA Teacher Threatened Coworkers In Emails, School Switches To Remote Learning: Police A Pennsylvania high school teacher has been arrested after he threatened his coworkers, according to the police. David Scott Delong, a 53-year-old teacher at Harrisburg high school, sent threatening emails to other staff members the morning of Wednesday, Mar. 16, the Harrisburg bureau of police said in a release on Thursday. "The emails contained several messages that could reasonably be translated as veiled threats," Harrisburg police say. Delong was not at the school when the emails were sent or when police started their investigation, according to the release. He has no prior cri…

SHARE

by Jillian Pikora
News
Man Was High On Mushrooms When Coworker Killed Him In PA Cabin: DA Man Was High On Mushrooms When Coworker Killed Him In PA Cabin: DA
Man Was High On Mushrooms When Coworker Killed Him In PA Cabin: DA What a family believed was a “modern-day lynching,” appears to have been a case of a hallucinogenic drug trip turned deadly, authorities say. Peter Bernardo Spencer, 29, of Pittsburgh, was found dead in the front yard of a home his coworkers had rented and invited him to in Rockland Township on Dec. 12, at 2:26 a.m. by state police, according to a release by the Venango County district attorney’s office in January. “We believe in this case that there is enough evidence presented for self-defense that we are not going to be able to overcome our burden and show this was not self-defense bey…

SHARE

by Daily Voice
Schools
PA Man Hid In Elementary School Bathroom To Film Girls: Police PA Man Hid In Elementary School Bathroom To Film Girls: Police
PA Man Hid In Elementary School Bathroom To Film Girls: Police A 26-year-old man was allowed to enter an elementary school to use the restroom and stayed to film in the girl's bathroom, police and school officials say. Brian Mintmier entered Ramsey Elementary School under the guise of using the restroom on Tuesday, Mar. 15 around 2:19 p.m., Gateway school district Superintendent Dr. William Short said in a letter to Ramsey school families. Mintmier then went to a girl's bathroom where he hid for 40 minutes — attempting to take a video on his cell phone, a child told the school principal Mr. Joseph Rosi, according to the letter. Rosi contacted Monroevi…

SHARE

by Jillian Pikora
News
$1.4M Of Fentanyl Seized From Man In Record PA Drug Bust, AG Says $1.4M Of Fentanyl Seized From Man In Record PA Drug Bust, AG Says
$1.4M Of Fentanyl Seized From Man In Record PA Drug Bust, AG Says One of the largest drug busts in the history of Pennsylvania was announced by Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Thursday. Domonique Taylor, 37, had his home on Moody Street in Pittsburgh’s Braddock neighborhood searched as part of an investigation five police departments were assisting in since Aug. 2021. The warranted search led to the discovery of multiple drugs, guns, vehicles, and more than $545,000 in cash on Mar. 11, according to the release and court records. Taylor is a convicted felon who is barred from owning a gun. Here’s a more detailed list of what investigators found: A…

SHARE

by Jillian Pikora
Prev Page 561 of 748 559 560 561 562 563 Next
5,601 - 5,610 of 7,474 articles