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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

ER Patient Kicks Nurse In Face At Hospital In Ephrata, Police Say An emergency room patient has been charged after he kicked a nurse in the face at WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital, police say. Ethan D. Sorensen, 22, of Ephrata, injured the nurse and also damaged a hospital room door by punching a window during the incident on December 7, 2022, at 2:42 p.m., according to a release by area police in January 2023. He was out on $35,000 in bail for aggravated indecent assault of a child and indecent exposure in March 2022 at the time of the incident, court records show. He has been arrested for this incident and another assault on Dec. 17 ac…

by Jillian Pikora

01/14/2023

News

Ex-Corrections Officer Charged For Assaulting Inmate At Dauphin County Prison: Authorities A former Dauphin County Prison correctional officer was charged on Friday, January 13, 2023. with misdemeanor indecent assault regarding contact with an inmate late last year, authorities say. Donald Drybola Jr., 47, of Gettysburg, worked as a correctional officer for 21 months "prior to his separation from the county on Dec. 9," Dauphin County Communication Director Brett Hambright stated in a release Friday evening. "The inmate consent to the alleged indecent contact because of Drybola’s position as a correctional officer." Details about the incident were no…

by Jillian Pikora

01/13/2023

Police & Fire

Driver Flees Deadly Crash On Route 15: Report A driver fled the scene of a deadly crash that closed Route 15 in Latimore Township on Friday, Jan. 13, DOT officials tell PennLive. The two-vehicle crash happened between Latimore Valley Road/Mountain Road and the exit for Route 94 (Hanover/York Springs) in Latimore Township around 2:30 p.m., according to emergency dispatch in Adams County. Around 4:30 p.m., Carroll Township police released the following statement, "Route 15 South at Old Mill/N. Baltimore St, Mountain Rd and Range end Rd. are closed until further notice. Additional information about the crash was not immediate…

by Jillian Pikora

01/13/2023

Business

Met-Ed Lebanon Shot At, Police Say Someone opened fire at the Met-Ed building in Lebanon on Thursday night, according to the police. Police were called to shots fired at the building at 600 South 5th Avenue on Friday, January 13, 2023, at 5:57 a.m. Upon further investigation, it was clear that no one was hurt but "the front doors of the building had been struck by three bullets," the South Lebanon Township police say. The police think the shooting happened around 11 p.m. Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the police.

by Jillian Pikora

01/13/2023

News

Rivers Casino Gaming Floor Floods In Pittsburgh (Video) A cracked pipe caused the gaming floor of Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh to flood on Friday, January 13, 2023. Rivers Casino flooded by the sportsbook and main entrance Posted by Brandon Davis on Friday, January 13, 2023 You can watch a video clip of the flooding in the players below. Details about what caused the crack have yet to be officially released, but Samantha Carol was there when the flooding started and she sent the following information to Daily Voice. "We were getting ready to leave and stopped at one more machine and all of a sudden the ceiling just opened up like a waterf…

by Jillian Pikora

01/13/2023

News

Lancaster Man Licks Sleeping Child, Police Say A 62-year-old Lancaster man supposedly bribed a child to sleep in his bed and then licked them and sexually assaulted them, police detailed in a release on Friday, January 13, 2023. George S. Cooke of the 1300 block of Orchard Street was first brought to the police's attention when a parent overheard their child say Cooke touched their genitals. Over the course of several interviews with Lancaster County Children and Youth Social Services, it was revealed that "Cooke licked and touched the victim’s groin area. He did this after he bribed the victim with access to a computer game…

by Jillian Pikora

01/13/2023

Police & Fire

Mechanicsburg Woman Dies In PA Turnpike's Longest Tunnel: State Police A Mechanicsburg woman died at the scene of a crash inside the longest tunnel on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The unnamed 64-year-old driving a 2007 Chrysler Town and County minivan crossed over over the eastbound lane, plowing through "multiple barricades" inside the Tuscarora Tunnel on Thursday, January 12, 2023, around 7:30 p.m. Pennsylvania state police detail in the release. She "then proceeded to travel around two truck-mounted attenuators with activated arrow boards that were positioned in each of the two westbound lanes of travel," the police say. She stopped wh…

by Jillian Pikora

01/13/2023

Lifestyle

Lucky Pennsylvania Player Wins $1.66 Million In Lottery A winning lottery ticket for Match 6 Lotto drawing on Thursday, January 12, 2023, sold in York County according to lottery officials. The ticket matched all six balls: 2-15-21-38-40-47, to win $1.66 million, less applicable withholding. It sold at the 7-Eleven located at 101 Limekiln Road in New Cumberland, which will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. More than 50,600 other PA Lottery Mega Millions tickets won prizes of various amounts in the drawing, including more than 8,300 tickets purchased with Megaplier. Players find out if they've won any priz…

by Jillian Pikora

01/13/2023

News

Dad Found With Child Porn, Police In York County Say A 31-year-old dad has been arrested after police conducted a warranted search of his home and found child pornography on Thursday, January 12, 2023. Myles Andrew Howell, 31, of Manchester's home was found to have numerous images and videos containing child pornography, according to the Newberry Township police. Howell is a father according to his social media which now has comments from community members calling him a "pedo." In a recent creepy social media update, he changed his bio on Facebook to read, "New Year's Resolution: Self Love Awareness, and being comfortable in one'…

by Jillian Pikora

01/13/2023

Police & Fire

Man Who Murdered Lancaster Dad Learns His Fate, DA Say A confessed killer is heading to prison, according to a release by the Lancaster County district attorney's office on Friday, January 13, 2023. Police were dispatched for a report of a stabbing at 505 Pearl Street on Sept. 1, 2021, just before 7 a.m. The officers arrived to find Brandon Schweers, 36, of the 500 block of Pearl Street in Lancaster, with visible injuries to his head and knee, as well as having difficulty breathing. Prior to being taken to the hospital, Schweers told the officers that Aaron Robertson was the person who attacked with a knife and pepper spray. During t…

by Jillian Pikora

01/13/2023

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