York County robotics team win shows what STEM can do

"I actually taught him how to drive the robot," said Krtanjek, who said Gov. Wolf was surprised by how well he did.

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VIDEO: Local robotics team heading to World Championship

Local robotics team TechFire is prepping for the upcoming World Championship in Detroit.

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Dallastown to honor ex-head coach Ray Geesey

The Dallastown Invitational will soon be named the Ray Geesey Track and Field Invitational in honor of the Wildcats' longtime former head coach.

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Democrats subpoena former White House lawyer McGahn

According to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, Don McGahn was among the Trump aides who effectively halted the president’s efforts to influence the investigation, rebuffing his demand to set Mueller’s firing in motion.

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Sri Lanka’s military gets special powers after deadly bombings

The suicide bombings struck three churches and three luxury hotels Sunday in the island nation’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war ended in 2009.

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Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate, payrolls set new records

Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s slowest-growing state economies in recent decades, saw its unemployment rate drop by one-tenth of a percentage point to 3.9% last month, the department said.

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Herman Cain withdraws from consideration for Fed, Trump says

Cain is a former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza who dropped out of the 2012 presidential race as he faced allegations of sexual harassment and infidelity. The issues resurfaced after Trump said he intended to nominate Cain to the central bank’s board of governors.

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READ: Redacted Mueller report posted

Department of Justice has released a redacted version of the Mueller report.

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Prison for Dover-area woman who caused DUI crash that killed husband

A York County jury in January took less than an hour to find Lisa Sheaffer guilty, her prosecutor said.

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SpaceX suffers serious setback with crew capsule accident

Over the weekend, the Dragon crew capsule that flew to the International Space Station last month was engulfed in smoke and flames on an engine test stand.

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PHOTOS: York County’s 2018 homecoming dances

The York Dispatch is giving the "red carpet" treatment to all of York County's high schools for their 2018 homecoming dances. Have a look to see the fashion, fun and frills at the dances!

Medicare, Social Security face shaky fiscal futures

Both programs will need to eventually be addressed to avert automatic cuts should their trust funds run dry. Neither President Donald Trump nor Capitol Hill’s warring factions has put political perilous cost curbs on their to-do list.

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Johnson calls McNabb a snake over Wentz remarks

Eagles offensive lineman Lane Johnson has called ex-Eagles QB Donovan McNabb a snake after his remarks about current Eagles QB Carson Wentz.

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Sanders’ rising stock ‘validated’ decision

Miles Sanders' rising NFL draft stock has 'validated' his decision to leave Penn State early.

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Free women’s self-defense course offered by Spring Garden PD, York College

The R.A.D. Systems course is comprised of four classes, each three hours long, with classroom and hands-on instruction, police said.

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Southwestern Regional Police board to meet Tuesday at N. Codorus Twp.’s request

The Southwestern Regional Police board will hold a special meeting Tuesday evening, at the request of North Codorus Township.

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Puerto Rico transplants: Farming a new sense of identity after Maria

When Sarah and Paul Ratliff uprooted their lives in California to farm in the misty mountains of Utuado, Puerto Rico, the couple knew only five words of Spanish between them.

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Crash cleared on I-83 northbound

PennDOT's traffic website 511pa.com reported that the crash closed lanes between Exit 24, Emigsville, and Exit 28, Strinestown about 6:45 a.m. Monday, April 22.

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Police: Upskirting leads to child porn charges for former York Hospital employee

A man caught taking a photo of an unsuspecting York Township restaurant employee led to police searching his phone and finding child pornography, according to authorities.

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Springetts PD: Driver fired gun in area bustling with Good Friday traffic

"Market Street on Good Friday in Springettsbury Township is typically very crowded," Lt. Tony Beam said, adding that was the case Friday.

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Coroner IDs three people killed in Paradise Township crash

The York County Coroner's Office has identified the three people who were killed in a crash late Saturday afternoon in Paradise Township.

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PHOTOS: Locks shorn as York City supports St. Baldrick’s

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VIDEO: Finding a home - and farm - in Puerto Rico

Alongside Sarah and Paul Ratliff, 11 cats, three dogs, one bird, seven goats and pigs, one buck and too many chickens and ducks to count, have also taken up residence at the Ratliffs’ Spanish terracotta-style home in the misty mountains of Utuado, Puerto Rico.

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VIDEO: Mainland transplant finds identity in Puerto Rico

“I really started identifying with Puerto Ricans in a way I hadn’t before,” Sarah Ratliff said. “I’ve always felt assimilated into Puerto Rico, but after the hurricane … I really felt less American, I felt less multiracial — I felt Puerto Rican.”

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Central York grad Shorts is D-III All-American

Central York High School graduate Landon Shorts has been named an NCAA Division III First-Team All-American in men's volleyball.

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Commissioner candidates weigh in on proposed stormwater authority

The York County Planning Commission will present a proposal for a stormwater authority, along with several alternative options, to the county commissioners in early May.

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HOUSEHOLDER: Hall of Fame Team keeps on winning

The Hall of Fame Team, featuring driver Lance Dewease, owner Donnie Kreitz Jr. and mechanic Davey Brown, just keeps on winning.

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OP-ED: Not a level playing field

The world of sports over the last 30 years has often been a sea of negative trends around excessive emphasis on money and an indifference to fans. The biggest positive development that I’ve seen is the growing

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OP-ED: How did Sanders say that with a straight face?

Now that’s funny. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who has never found a fact she couldn’t twist, denied Friday morning that there’s a culture of lying at the White House.

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump, AG spread untruths on Mueller report

President Donald Trump is still distorting the truth about the Russia investigation , claiming exoneration from a special counsel’s report that he is also assailing as hopelessly biased.

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OP-ED: Here’s hoping Notre Dame, and Christianity, rise again

It is so awful, the fire that destroyed huge parts of the inspiring, beautiful, historically significant and spiritually riveting 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. No one died, but France mourns, mill

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PIAA not interested in ‘segregating’ membership

The PIAA has no "interest in segregating the membership.” Instead, it would like its competitive-balance efforts given time to work.

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OP-ED: Mueller left a strong hint on obstruction

In coming to terms with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, we should adopt a principle of neutrality and put entirely to one side our enthusiasm, or our lack of enthusiasm, for President Donald Trump. It

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