Community Rallies Raising $37K For Families Of 2 Fatal Crash Victims In Gettysburg
A crash in Adams County claimed two lives on Friday, according to the Pennsylvania State police.
Mike Green, 32, of Thomasville and Karigen Emig, 22, of Gettysburg, died on impact in the crash just before 10 p.m., according to the Adams County Coroner.
Green was driving his Suzuki GSX 13000R at a high speed while heading east on Route 30, state police say.
Emig was driving her Kia Forte, making a left turn out of the parking lot near C&D Bar and Grill by Stanley Drive.
Green struck the driver's side door, spinning the vehicles onto Route 30 and pushing them several feet.
They were …
33 Year-Old Cold Case Homicide Solved; One Relative Innocent, Another Guilty, Authorities Say
DNA evidence and a confession have led to an arrest in a brutal homicide cold case committed 33 years ago.
Christopher Joseph Larry Speelman, 58, New Oxford, confessed at the Gettysburg State Police barracks on July 27 to the murder of Edna Laughman, 85, of Oxford Township over three decades earlier.
Laughman was raped and murdered in her home located on 1500 block of Carlisle Pike on Aug. 13, 1987.
Her nephew Barry Laughman falsely confessed to killing her-- spending 16 years behind bars, but DNA evidence in 2003 exonerated them.
A new test was conducted on the attackers DNA in 2018, po…
5 Arrests Made At DUI Checkpoint In Adams County, State Police Say
Summer brings hot nights, water sports and chilled beer, which can often mean more DUIs.
"In an effort to ensure the safety of the motoring public and the citizens of the Commonwealth during these summer month," Pennsylvania State Police says it has set up targeted enforcement and DUI checkpoints throughout the state to deter people from driving while impaired.
A Sobriety Checkpoint within Hamilton Township, Adams County on Saturday night led to the following five arrests:
Andrew Alwine, 44, DUI alcohol
Kelly Rice, 46, DUI alcohol
Vickie Hoffheins, 62, DUI alcohol.
Madeline Ribot, 31…
'So I Raped You': Man Admits Raping Gettysburg Student From NJ Over Facebook Years Later
Police in Adams County are looking for a California man who they say admitted through a Facebook message that he raped an 18-year-old Gettysburg College student in 2013, reports say.
An affidavit alleges that Ian Cleary, 28, of Saratoga, California, stalked Shannon Keeler at a party in December 2013, and followed her to her dorm, where he sexually assaulted her, according to the Associated Press.
Keeler, a lacrosse player from Moorestown, spent years trying to get prosecutors to investigate the 2013 rape case, collecting evidence over time.
Things came to a head last year when she got an u…
