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Updated: May. 13, 2025, 5:48 p.m.|Published: May. 13, 2025, 5:47 p.m.CARLISLE - Two people who required medical treatment after a Tuesday house fire in Carlisle are doing well, a family member told PennLive. The fire at 629 S. Hanover St. was dispatched at 7:49 a.m., and caused heavy damage. A teen who ran back inside to grab his suit for an upcoming high school prom wound up breaking a basement window to make his final escape. He was treated for a hand injury and released.

2 days ago | pennlive.com | Charles Thompson

NewsPublished: May. 13, 2025, 11:20 a.m.CARLISLE - This video shows the rough point of origin at Tuesday morning’s house fire in the 600 block of South Hanover Street. More photos of the scene can be found in the gallery below. Fire on South Hanover Street in CarlisleA family of seven was displaced by the 7:49 a.m. blaze, which caused extensive damage. One of the residents was taken to a hospital for evaluation. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

2 days ago | pennlive.com | Charles Thompson

Fire on South Hanover Street in CarlisleOne person was rescued and another was taken to a hospital during a house fire in Carlisle Tuesday morning. Emergency crews were dispatched to the 600 block of South Hanover Street in the borough at 7:49 a.m. A second alarm was dispatched for manpower. Seven people were in the single-family brick home and all escaped. However, a teenager was helped out of the basement by firefighters, and a woman was taken to a hospital to be checked out.

2 days ago | pennlive.com | Charles Thompson

EPHRATA - An Ephrata woman will go to criminal court on charges that her one-woman protest of the Lebanon County District Attorney’s handling of a rape case crossed the line into harassment. Kimberly Baylor has built her defense on free speech grounds. But Magisterial District Judge Torrey Landis mostly punted on Baylor’s constitutional arguments at a preliminary hearing Monday, stating Baylor will have her forum to make that case down the road.

5 days ago | pennlive.com | Charles Thompson

A newly-released tape of the 911 call that preceded last summer’s shooting death near Harrisburg’s St. Patrick Cathedral doesn’t answer all questions. But it certainly documents the frantic and final escalation of a road-rage incident that left Paul Kattouf, 52, laying dead in the 200 block of State Street. Dauphin County officials authorized release of the recording in response to a Right-to-Know request from PennLive.com.