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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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News

Nursing Home Resident Shows Child Porn To 14-Year-Old, Manheim Twp. Police Say A child who befriended an elderly man in a nursing home discovered the resident had a phone full of child pornography, authorities say. The 14-year-old was visiting Conestoga View Nursing Home at 900 East King Street when 74-year-old Kenneth Frazer Kuehne, befriended the young visitor and invited the child to his room in December 2022, Manheim Township police detail in a release on Feb. 15, 2023. The children's parents later learn that he had "shown photographs, to their child, one of the photos was a young boy who was completely nude. Another nurse’s aide who had assisted Kuehne with his c…

by Jillian Pikora

02/15/2023

News

Runaway From 'Behavioral Treatment' In Littlestown Found Safe Month Later: PSP Two teenage girls receiving behavioral treatment at the Hoffman House in Littlestown ran away in early January, 2023—but only one was found with in the first week of their disappearance, and it was over a month later when the other girl's whereabouts where revealed, according to the Pennsylvania state police. Jasmine Vought, 16 years old, was one of the two girls who were reported missing on Jan. 4 around 11:40 p.m., according to Pennsylvania state police Troop H. "The other juvenile female has since been located," the state police in Gettysburg said on January 10. "Vought …

by Jillian Pikora

02/15/2023

Obituaries

Memorial For Councilman Shot Dead At PSE&G Will Help Daughter Through College In PA A former PSE&G employee shot and killed his supervisor outside the utility company's Somerset County facility on Wednesday, Feb. 8, authorities say. But this "one-of-a-kind" man's legacy will live on through his daughter, according to his family. Russell "Russ" D. Heller, 51-year-old councilman in Milford, NJ, was gunned down by 58-year-old Gary T. Curtis on Weston Canal Road in Franklin Township shortly after 7 a.m. Feb. 8, Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald said. Curtis soon turned the gun on himself, and both men died the same day, as Daily Voice previously reported. H…

by Jillian Pikora

02/15/2023

News

Child Assaulted By 77-Year-Old Mount Joy Man, Police Say A child under the age of 13 was sexually assaulted by a 77-year-old man, authorities announced on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Roscoe M. Geib, of Mount Joy, " inappropriate comments and touched the victim in an inappropriate manner," while the young child was in his care, borough police allege. Following an investigation, Geib was charged with indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, and corruption of minors police say and court documents confirm. His arraignment was pending at the time of publication so no additional details were available.

by Jillian Pikora

02/14/2023

News

Bruised Infant Found 'Facedown In Bathtub' After Mom Leaves Son With BF, PA State Police Say A central Pennsylvania man is behind bars after an infant "was found face down in a bathtub," authorities detail in court documents obtained by Daily Voice. An unnamed woman had left the 1-year-old boy in the care of her 25-year-old boyfriend Dontae Thomas in her apartment in the 1000 block of Hill Street in Chester Borough on Friday, February 10, Trooper Matthew Peacock explains in the affidavit of probable cause citing an interview Pennsylvania state police had with Thomas. That morning, Thomas had been in bed with the infant when he noticed blood coming from the child's mouth…

by Jillian Pikora

02/14/2023

News

No Suspect After Four Students Shot At High School In Pittsburgh, Authorities Say (Update) Four students were shot outside of Westinghouse Academy in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood, Pittsburgh public safety officials announced on Tuesday, Feb. 14. just before 2:25 p.m. Ten rounds were fired during school dismal in the 1100 block of North Murtland Street, Pittsburgh police say. Officers arrived on the scene in just over one minute dinding three gunshot victims. Pittsburgh EMS Medic units 5, 11, and 12 transported them to the hospital, police explain in an updated release the following morning. A fourth victim was taken to the hospital in a p…

by Jillian Pikora

02/14/2023

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Allegheny County Controller Employee Sent Nudes To 8th-Grade Boy Through Snapchat: Police A 15-year-old boy was sent more than 25 nude images and videos by an Allegheny County Controller's office employee, police allege in court documents obtained by Daily Voice. While working as an accounting department employee for the Allegheny Controller's office, 25-year-old Cam Zmenkowski, sent "sexually explicit messages and sexual assaults occurred over the past several months," county officials stated in a release on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. Allegheny County Police detectives and Indiana Township Police served a sealed search warrant at the residence of Zmenkowski, locat…

by Jillian Pikora

02/14/2023

News

Got Him! Chambersburg Convict Who Cut Off His Ankle Monitor Arrested, Police Say UPDATE: Pedro Luis Medina De Leon was arrested in the morning of Thursday, February 16, 2023, Chambersburg police said in an updated release. No additional information was provided and his court docket had yet to be updated at the time of publication. ORIGINAL: A probationer and former convict is on the loose after he cut off his ankle monitor, authorities say. While under supervised release, 23-year-old Pedro Luis Medina De Leon cut off his ankle monitor sometime on Jan. 30., according to the Chambersburg Borough police department's release on Thursday, Feb 9. He w…

by Jillian Pikora

02/14/2023

News

Woman Beats Man With Wood, Sprays Him With Aersol, Police In Lancaster Say A domestic violence incident involving construction equipment has landed a 31-year-old woman with charges, authorities announced on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Mariya Y. Gortman, of the Denver/Reinholds area, was arrested after police arrived at the scene of a reported domestic dispute and "found evidence that she sprayed the victim in the face with an aerosol can and struck him several times with a piece of wood, causing injuries," East Cocalico Police state in the release. The incident on Feb. 9 led to police charging Gortman with simple assault and harassment, according to court do…

by Jillian Pikora

02/14/2023

Schools

Bomb Said To Explode In Two Hours Leads Police To Evacuate Harrisburg School: Authorities Students and staff were rushed to another nearby school after a bomb threat was called into Capital Academy on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, around 7 a.m., authorities say. Everyone at the school in the 1400 block of Cameron Street was rushed to the nearby Downey School after a bomb was reportedly set to go off by 9 a.m., City of Harrisburg Director of Communications Matt Maisel said in a release around 11:30 a.m. School officials called 911 about the threat at around 7:28 a.m., according to the release. "Police got to the scene around 7:30 a.m., and a K9 team swept the property …

by Jillian Pikora

02/14/2023

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