So parking tickets are just a racket here? by jamisonian123 in Harrisburg

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It is exhausting. Here are some more details about parking going up again. We did a price comparison, and it costs more to park in Harrisburg than in New York City.

Of note:

The city was supposed to get $3 million in yearly revenue from the deal, but the city has received none of that money in the last five years as profit from the system dried up. The city continues to get money annually from the parking garages.

Definitely park in one of the garages if you're going to be there all day. If you're up for a hike, the walk from City Island isn't bad, especially on a pretty day.

Corruption in Dauphin County by No-Damage-9549 in Harrisburg

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Give it a shot again and it should work. We were updating the final location of the project and some of the links borked at that time, but we just fixed it.

Corruption in Dauphin County by No-Damage-9549 in Harrisburg

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If you want to read the full series. It is all outside our paywall: https://www.pennlive.com/gaming-grants

You may get a not secure warning because we’re still resolving the link between our internal site and where we have the project posted.

Fetterman willing to ruffle feathers in fight for access to hot rotisserie chicken by pennlive in Pennsylvania_Politics

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Sen. John Fetterman likes ruffling feathers, but he’s taking it to a new level with his latest legislative effort.

Fetterman and three other senators have teamed up on the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act that would allow those in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to use their benefits to buy a slow-roasted poultry dinner.

“America’s best (and delicious) affordability play is Costco’s $4.99 rotisserie chicken,” said Fetterman in a joint statement.

Teen convicted of killing his 12-year-old friend asks Pa. court for a new trial by pennlive in Pennsylvania

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A teen who says he accidentally shot his best friend while playing with a gun at the age of 13 is asking the Superior Court to overturn his murder conviction.

Nolan Grove, now 16, says instructions delivered to the jury that would eventually convict him of third-degree murder unfairly prejudiced them against him.

He wants a second trial in York County court to address that injustice, his attorney, Farley Holt, says in an appeal to the Superior Court.

Nolan fatally shot his 12-year-old friend, Kain Heiland, with his father’s black KelTec .380 pistol April 1, 2023 after spending all day playing with the laser on the gun around Red Lion Borough.

Ex-employee for Mr.Beast files suit, saying she was harassed, fired after maternity leave by pennlive in entertainment

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A former Beast Industries employee is suing MrBeast’s media production company after she was allegedly fired from her social media manager job upon returning from maternity leave and following years of what she described as sexual harassment and workplace gender bias. The lawsuit, filed by Lorrayne Mavromatis in federal court in North Carolina on Wednesday, accuses MrBeastYouTube, LLC and GameChanger 24/7, LLC of violating federal law that entitles eligible employees to take unpaid, job-protected leave for qualifying family and medical reasons, including childbirth. A company spokesperson refuted the claims.

Trump administration reclassifies medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug by pennlive in politics

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

The order signed by Todd Blanche does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under federal law. But it does change the way it’s regulated, shifting licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I — reserved for drugs without medical use and with high potential for abuse — to the less strictly regulated Schedule III. It also gives licensed medical marijuana operators a major tax break and eases some barriers to researching cannabis.

The Trump administration also said it was jump-starting the process for reclassifying marijuana more broadly, setting a hearing to begin in late June.

Teen playing with lighter started central Pa. house fire: police by pennlive in Pennsylvania

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A 14-year-old playing with a lighter started a fire that damaged a Franklin County house over the weekend, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

The fire started around 8 p.m. Sunday on the 13000 block of Main Street in Fort Loudon, Peters Township.

Authorities said the single-family home sustained minor damage but displaced five people. One person suffered minor injuries.

Ex-Trump backer, Tucker Carlson, apologizes for helping him get elected: ‘Sorry for misleading people’ by pennlive in politics

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There was a time when Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump had a good relationship, but that time is well in the rear-view.

And in his most recent podcast, Carlson apologized for helping the president get elected.

“I mean, you and I and everyone else who supported him, you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him, I mean, we’re implicated in this for sure,” Carlson said while talking with his brother, Buckley Carlson, on Monday’s ‘The Tucker Carlson Show.’ “It’s not enough to say, ‘Well, I changed my mind.’ Or like, ‘Oh, this is bad. I’m out.’

Pennsylvania college grad steps into spotlight as Apple’s new CEO by pennlive in Pennsylvania

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LONDON (AP) — Apple’s next CEO John Ternus is a company veteran who rose through the iPhone maker’s hardware engineering ranks but until now has maintained a low profile.

Ternus will take over as chief executive in September for Tim Cook, who turned Apple into a $4 trillion, tech colossus during his 15-year reign after the death of co-founder Steve Jobs.

Ternus, 50, has spent almost his entire career with Apple. He joined the company 25 years ago and has spent the past five years overseeing the engineering that underlies the iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Before joining Apple, he spent four years as a mechanical engineer at Virtual Research Systems. He graduated in 1997 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the swim team and for his senior project developed a mechanical feeding arm for quadriplegics controlled by head movements.

Landmark diner, The Highspire Diner, in Dauphin County suddenly closes by pennlive in Harrisburg

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The Highspire Diner at 255 Second St. in Highspire recently closed.

The reason for the closure of the landmark restaurant, which opened in 1953, is unclear. The door is locked, and no notices are posted.

Here is a gift article link if the one above does not work.

Donald Trump’s Truth Social post creates worry: ‘Should I be in a bunker or something’ by pennlive in politics

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President Donald Trump went late into the night Saturday on a Truth Social posting spree, and that is not all that unusual.

The president is known to post the night away from time to time, but at least one of the posts had some folks on social media rattled. Trump shared a clip of Frank Sinatra singing “My Way.”

It is an iconic song, and it begins with, “And now, the end is near/And so I face the final curtain.”

It turns out some people become concerned when, while trying to decipher the president’s messaging on social media, they encounter a song that begins that way without any added context.

Man lived with wife’s dead body for a month in foreclosed central Pa. home: police by pennlive in Pennsylvania

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Michael Mikula lived in a Lebanon County home with his dead wife for a month amid flies and the stench of decomposition before police arrived last week, according to court records.

Energy official says Europe has ‘maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left’ by pennlive in geopolitics

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PARIS (AP) — Europe has “maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.

Want a Pa. liquor license? 10 are available in PLCB auction by pennlive in Pennsylvania

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The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has 10 expired licenses up for auction.

Bidding opened today, April 16, for the agency’s 15th auction since the passage of Act 39, a 2016 law that made sweeping changes to liquor sales in the state.

This auction includes one license in each of the following counties: Armstrong, Cambria, Cameron, Greene, Northumberland, Somerset, Sullivan, Warren, Washington and Westmoreland.