Pennsylvania
White Christmas; Ukraine refugees; Franco’s death: Good Morning, Pennsylvania
What it’s essential to know in the present day, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022.
Excessive: 44; Low: 28. Partly cloudy. Messy climate is coming.
Hanukkah, the Competition of Lights, was celebrated on the Capitol with the lighting of Pennsylvania’s menorah this week.The occasion was sponsored by Chabad-Lubavitch and featured music, dancing, youngsters’s actions, presents and latkes. (Photograph by Vicki Vellios Briner, for PennLive.com)Vicki Vellios Briner | Particular to PennLive
A secure haven: For Liliia Petrova and her household, the sense of vacation marvel is essentially gone. She and her household are among the many Ukrainian refugees in central Pa. who fled the Russian invasion, which marks its tenth month on Christmas Eve.
White Christmas?: Days of chilly, snow, rain and wind may result in a white Christmas in central Pa. After a sunny day in the present day, some snow is anticipated, and it’ll be too chilly to soften. Journey might be problematic. At the moment is the primary day of winter.
Fuel costs: The nationwide common value for a gallon of gasoline is anticipated to fall underneath $3 by Christmas Day, $1.83 a gallon decrease than six months in the past. In Pa., although, a gasoline tax enhance is coming.
‘Managed chaos’: The Battle 5 Nerf Extraction Area, a 12,000 sq. foot indoor play space, opens subsequent week on the Colonial Park Mall. The previous CVS retailer is crammed with greater than 80 inflatable obstacles and obstacles with sufficient area for teenagers and adults, armed with Nerf weapons, to run and blow off steam.
Brief freedom: Christopher Williams had served almost three many years in jail, together with 25 years on Pennsylvania’s demise row, earlier than being exonerated and freed. However final week he was fatally shot whereas attending a funeral in Philadelphia.
New child’s demise: A Pa. couple who had a child at house have been charged after the days-old toddler struggled to breathe and died with out getting medical care. A good friend of the household additionally was charged.
Robust recollections: Virtually 20 years in the past, Ernest Wholaver Jr. killed the daughters he was accused of molesting and his ex-wife of their Dauphin County house. Their our bodies have been found on Christmas 2002, leaving a mark on the vacation for a lot of.
Pittsburgh Steelers Corridor of Famer Franco Harris in 2021. (John Kuntz, cleveland.com, file)John Kuntz, cleveland.com
#RIP Franco: NFL Corridor of Famer Franco Harris of the Pittsburgh Steelers has died at 72, information companies are reporting. Fifty years in the past this week, Harris caught the ionic “Immaculate Reception” within the Steelers’ first playoff victory over the Raiders.
SIgning Day: 1000’s of 2023 prospects will ship of their signed letters of intent to play for faculties in the present day. Penn State’s 2023 soccer class appears comparatively settled.
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