A 54-year-old North Cornwall Township man is facing up to 192 years in prison for a litany of sexual crimes.
Chris Coyle
Chris Coyle writes primarily on government, the courts, and business. He retired as an attorney at the end of 2018, after concentrating for nearly four decades on civil and criminal litigation and trials. A career highlight was successfully defending a retired Pennsylvania state trooper who was accused, 40 years after the fact, of falsifying evidence in a 1970s murder case.
LebTown is his first foray into reporting, motivated by the decline of the once-great, locally-owned print newspaper he grew up with and read daily. Chris lives in the city of Lebanon. He holds degrees from Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (and misses Pittsburgh every day). He and his wife have two grown sons and a few grandkids. He enjoys all kinds of music, tinkering with electronic stuff, and lifting weights to avoid becoming a shriveled old guy.
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PennDOT to replace Jonestown’s Lancaster St. Bridge, six month detour to start Monday, May 11
PennDOT announced last week that it is about to replace the bridge carrying Jonestown’s South Lancaster Street (SR 1003) over the Little Swatara Creek. The bridge connects Jonestown to Bunker Hill.
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Quittie body identified, second body found in North Cornwall Township
Lebanon City Police investigating the deaths of two males discovered days apart in the Quittapahilla Creek.
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WLBR 1270 suddenly changes to “Classic Hits” format, drops talk shows
Lebanon County’s oldest continuously-operating radio station, WLBR 1270, suddenly changed its format at 9:00 a.m. today to “Classic Hits,” and began identifying itself as “Big Wilbur – 1270.”
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DA discusses details, process that led to justified shooting finding in Thome death
Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf spoke to LebTown about the investigation and the process that led to her findings.
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Hershey Med Center improvises to make COVID x-rays safer, quicker
Faced with the challenge of how to give lots of chest x-rays quickly and safely to suspected COVID-19 patients, HMC medical, technological, and facilities employees put their heads together to solve the problem.
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Historic Old Annville Day cancelled due to coronavirus, will return in 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of this year’s Historic Old Annville Day, a more than three decade old community celebration that had been scheduled for Saturday, June 13.
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Pa. Dept. of Health to share municipality-level COVID-19 data with counties
The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced today that counties, but not the public, will now have access to municipality-level data about people who test positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus.
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WellSpan Good Sam holds COVID-19 video conference for public officials
WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital held a noontime video conference on Thursday for local government and school officials.
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Cornwall cop tests positive for COVID-19; mayor, council majority differ on whether to quarantine all officers
A majority of the Cornwall Borough Council disagrees with Cornwall Borough Mayor Mark Thomas on whether a quarantine of all officers is the best way to protect the public, now that an unidentified borough police officer has tested positive for COVID-19.
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County calls for PPE donations, other local coronavirus updates
As LebTown continues to track the fast-moving story of the novel coronavirus, we’ve put together a summary of other COVID-19 related news in the past 48 hours.
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“Major Disaster” for PA, new Penn State Health dashboard, other COVID-19 news
As the novel coronavirus continues to disrupt all areas of American life, LebTown is here to keep you current with hour-by-hour developments.
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County enters another week of COVID shutdown, MedExpress begins testing
Here are recent updates on how Lebanon County is responding to the threat of the novel coronavirus.
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Lebanon County enters another week of physical distancing
Here’s a review of COVID-19 developments over the weekend.
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Mayor Capello delivers 2020 State of the City address without usual live audience
City of Lebanon safer than 10 years ago, in good shape overall, according to Mayor Capello’s State of the City address.
