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A Lebanon County inmate whose dreadlocks violated the jail’s haircut policy has been released from solitary confinement after more than a year, although his federal lawsuit is still pending.

On this day in 1951, race car driver Cyrus Patschke died. Here’s our article from last year looking at Lebanon in the time of motorsports’ heyday.

State Representative Frank Ryan (R-101) introduced the legislation to address the pandemic and the “financial turmoil” it is causing at “all levels of the government and in the lives of Pennsylvania residents.”

On the occasion of May the 4th, we’re resharing an article from last year exploring the links between Lebanon County and Star Wars.

After being on a waiting list for years, Cornwall’s Michael McSherry was asked to report to the hospital within just a couple of hours: doctors found him a match, and he was finally getting a kidney transplant.

A procession of about 30 cars circled the Bell & Evans plant Friday morning in a mock funeral procession to demand the plant shut down following the coronavirus-related deaths of a chicken plant employee and the spouse of another employee.

Eight workers who often traveled to work together in a van all got sick from the coronavirus. Crammed together for the 30-mile drive, none of them could keep their distance from one another on their way to jobs they couldn’t afford to give up.

Lebanon Catholic and Holy Family Consolidated Catholic School in Berwick are closing due to decreased enrollment and continuing financial issues, the diocese said.

The first non-essential business citation has been issued in Pennsylvania. Middle Creek Roofing in Lebanon County was handed a citation on Thursday for violating Gov. Wolf’s mandate that non-life-sustaining businesses remain closed. The business was previously warned twice by state police prior to being given a citation.

The idea of First Fridays are to bring people together in the heart of the community. This month, that obviously couldn’t happen in most places, like Lebanon.

Two weeks after U.S. Middle District Judge Jennifer P. Wilson ordered Just Wing It of Annville to pay $40,000 to Ricky Lee Bugg Jr., the Harrisburg law firm that represented Bugg, Smigel, Anderson & Sacks, has filed a motion asking her to order the eatery to pay $73,438 in legal fees.

Workers at farms and agribusinesses must wear masks as part of new coronavirus-prevention rules from Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health.

Sheetz announced that it has expanded its Kidz Meal Bagz program, which provides free meals to children during the COVID-19 pandemic, to all 600 of its stores.

The ‘Your Neighbor Needs You’ relief fund is up over half a million dollars and all of that money is being distributed to Salvation Army posts across the country.