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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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Police & Fire

Driver Escapes Pick-Up Truck Crash Into Pond In Lititz: Police A driver escaped after their pick-up truck crashed into a pond on Tuesday afternoon, Northern Lancaster Regional Police announced. Details about the crash have not been released but somehow the driver, and their pick-up, ended up in a retention pond along West Millport Road in Warwick Township on Jan. 2. "The driver was able to exit the vehicle with assistance and will be treated by responding EMS crews," NLCRPD said. Officers remained on the scene as of 2:25 p.m. The accident remains under investigation. Anyone with information "related to this accident" is asked by police to call …

by Jillian Pikora

01/02/2024

News

Mechanicsburg Man's Fatal Heart Attack Crashes Car Into York Light Pole On New Year's Eve A 66-year-old Mechanicsburg man died following a car crash on New Year's Eve, but the coroner believes his actual cause of death was a "probable acute coronary event," as stated in a release late on Monday night. David Geesey of the 600 block of Billet Avenue was in a single-vehicle crash on Broadway, near Stock Street, Hanover, according to the York County Coroner's office. The crash happened around 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, the coroner's office detailed. Witnesses told police that Geesey's car was heading south before it suddenly veered off the road and struck a light p…

by Jillian Pikora

01/02/2024

Police & Fire

Lebanon Ex-BF Allegedly Threatening To Kill Lititz Woman Arrives As Officers Make Welfare Check A Lebanon man who had been texting and calling an ex-girlfriend and "threatened to kill her" made the mistake of coming to her home just as police were making a welfare check, the Northern Lancaster County Regional Police Department announced in a release on Jan. 2, 2024. The ex-boyfriend, 32-year-old Blake Joseph Strangarity, had supposedly contacted the Lititz woman over a bracelet, the NCLRPD explained. Just four days after Strangarity's birthday, on December 20th, 2023 NLCRPD Officers went to conduct the welfare check at his ex-girlfriend's home in the first block of Green A…

by Jillian Pikora

01/02/2024

News

First Baby Of 2024 Welcomed At WellSpan York Hospital Just two minutes after midnight the first baby of 2024 came into the world at WellSpan York Hospital. Grayson Hayes Zornes was born at 12:02 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2024. The city's White Rose Drop had happened minutes before but we're pretty sure he did not care that he missed the festivities. This little boy weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces, and was 20 inches long. His mom Casey Zornes is tired but "doing well," the hospital says. Two more babies were delivered within the first hour of the New Year at WellSpan York Hospital. WellSpan has five labor and delivery units across our…

by Jillian Pikora

01/02/2024

News

First New Year's Baby Welcomed At WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital Not quite a strike of midnight birth, but baby Mattie was the first infant to come into the world in 2024 at WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital. Mattie Ann Eckenrode was born at 3:43 a.m. She weighed 9 pounds, 5 ounces, and was 20 inches long. Her proud but sleepy parents are Renee Cuff and Matthew Eckenrode. Members of the WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital Family Birthing Services team, helped them deliver their daughter. WellSpan has five labor and delivery units across our region in our eight hospitals, with birthing units at WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital, WellSpan Ephrata Commun…

by Jillian Pikora

01/02/2024

Police & Fire

DNA Matches Lititz 18-Year-Old To Rape Of 15-Year-Old Girl: Police A Lititz teen has been charged in connection with the rape of a younger teenage girl, Northern Lancaster Regional Police announced on Jan. 1, 2024. Elyas Ryan Hoag, 18, was identified as the suspect through evidence including a DNA match, according to the police. NLCRPD detectives began their investigation into the incident after the 15-year-old girl's rape in the first block of Apple Hill Drive Warwick Township was reported at 12:48 a.m. on April 11, 2023. The DNA samples and additional evidence was reviewed the caseby Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office and the …

by Jillian Pikora

01/02/2024

Police & Fire

Troopers Among 5 Injured In New Year's Day Crash On I-95 In Delco, State Police Say A three-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 sent two Pennsylvania State Police troopers and three young men to area hospitals on New Year's Day. The crash happened in the southbound lanes of I-95 near mile marker 5.3 in Chester City around 3:20 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2024, as detailed in the PA State Police release. The troopers were helping a disabled driver of a gray 2012 Dodge Challenger in the left lane before the crash. They had just gotten back into their marked police vehicle when a white 2010 Acura TL crashed into the rear of their vehicle, according to the PSP release. The Dodge C…

by Jillian Pikora

01/01/2024

Police & Fire

Girl Under 6-Years-Old Sexually Assaulted By Lititz Man, Police Say A man has been charged in connection with multiple sexual assaults of a girl under the age of six, Northern Lancaster County Regional police announced on Monday, Jan. 1., 2024. Detectives began investigating Wesley Franklin Kilpatrick, 27 of Lititz, in July 2023. That's when they "received a report of alleged sexual assault of a female under the age of 6," as stated in the police release. The police explained that the "investigation revealed that Kilpatrick assaulted the victim multiple times during 2021 and 2022." All of the assaults reportedly took place at a home in the 900 …

by Jillian Pikora

01/01/2024

News

Man Dies Nearly 20 Years After Motorcycle Crash: Lehigh County Coroner Approximately 19 and a half years after a motorcycle crash seriously injured a man he died from complications of those injuries. Eric J. Fenstermaker, was 52 when he passed at St. Luke's Hospital, Allentown at 10:50 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 31, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio detailed. When the Northampton man was about 32 years old he was riding "a motorcycle that was in collision with a pickup truck," Buglio said. The crash happened at the Intersection of Route 309 North at Route 143, Lynn Township, Lehigh County at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, June 1, 2004…

by Jillian Pikora

01/01/2024

Traffic

Witnesses Sought After Serious I-81 Crash At Ramp In Carlisle (Update) Police activity shuttered a ramp along Interstate 81 in Central Pennsylvania on Saturday night and now officers are searching for witnesses. The ramp closure was first announced by Carlisle Police at 5:58 p.m. on Dec. 30, but on Wednesday, Jan. 3, the police said the crash really happened around 4:45 p.m. A two-vehicle caused the initial closure at Walnut Bottom Road and I-81 Exit 45:College Street off-ramp in Carlisle Borough, according to Carlisle PD. Later both the on and off ramps on I-81 South were closed. Walnut Bottom Road was also closed at Belvedere Street f…

by Jillian Pikora

12/30/2023

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