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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.

Jillian Pikora's Contributions

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

Obituaries

UPitt Pharm Student Lindsay Heck Dies Suddenly At 25 Years Old A 25-year-old doctor of Pharmacy died suddenly in Pittsburgh in December, just before her father was rushed to the ICU, loved ones say in a GoFundMe campaign. Dr. Lindsay Ann Heck, 25, died unexpectedly from an unknown cause on Dec. 20, 2022, as stated in her obituary. A best friend, hurdle buddy, and one of the most genuine people I’ve ever met….. rest easy Linds ❤️ Posted by Morgan Manglaviti on Friday, December 23, 2022 She was known as "the light of everyone’s life" with a "smile (that) lit up a room, and her laughter was contagious. She was a loyal friend and trusted confidante t…

by Jillian Pikora

01/13/2023

Obituaries

Teen Dies In Airborne Crash Into Utility Pole, Tree, Pennsylvania State Police Say A 17-year-old boy was killed in a three-vehicle airborne crash in Williamstown on Thursday, January 12, 2023, Pennsylvania state police in Lykens announced that evening. Kenneth Long, 74, of Williamstown, was taking a left turn in his 2012 Chevrolet Silverado onto Railroad Street when the unnamed Tower City teen driving a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt entered the intersection and struck Long in the "11 o'clock position," in the southbound lane of State Route 209 just after 7:30 a.m., according to the release. The Colbalt was "projected through a utility pole and into a tree" before falling back t…

by Jillian Pikora

01/12/2023

Schools

Flasher Questions Girls At School Bus Stops Pennsylvania State Police Say A man allegedly exposed his genitals and asked inappropriate questions to girls at school bus stops through Lancaster County, Pennsylvania state police say. Two girls waiting for a school bus were approached by a white middle-aged man with brown hair, a gray mustache, crooked teeth, and a thin build driving a royal blue four-door sedan at a school bus stop in Salisbury Township who asked them explicit questions before fleeing north on Narvon Road, turning right on to Red Hill Road on Wednesday, Jan. 11 around 8:14 a.m., according to the PSP release the following day. Mu…

by Jillian Pikora

01/12/2023

News

Teens Arrested, Ghost Guns Seized After Shots Fired In York, Police Say Two 19-year-olds were arrested on warrants and two guns were seized following a shots-fired incident in York city on Wednesday, January 11th, 2023. The York City Police were called to a report of shots fired in the 600 block of South Queen Street and witnesses directed the officers to the suspect hiding inside 608. The officers obtained a search warrant and found the ghost guns, other evidence, and arresed the wanted teens. Details about what the teens were wanted for and their identities were not released.

by Jillian Pikora

01/12/2023

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