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Four child molestation victims sue ex-York swim coach and businesses where he taught Updated 9:29 PM; In April 1999, York-area swimming instructor Ronald D. Wolfe — who also worked for York County Children and Youth Services and volunteered in scouting — pleaded guilty to molesting 20 children between the ages of 4 and 11, all of whom took swimming lessons from him. Sixteen of the 20 children were between the ages of 5 and 7. Four of the victims were girls, 16 were boys. Wolfe indecently t...

Office of Open Records orders North York to turn over Liberty Fire Co. audit York Dispatch The state Office of Open Records this week ordered North York officials to provide The York Dispatch with an audit of the now-disbanded Liberty Fire Co. The borough has 30 days from Thursday to turn over the audit — which borough officials commissioned at the same time York County detectives were investigating former Fire Chief Stephen Miller, who was later charged with embezzlement. The York Dispa...

Apr. 6—There were 14 shootings in York City during the first quarter of 2021, a record-breaking number that Police Commissioner Michael Muldrow partially attributed to the spread of crime throughout the city. Muldrow detailed the recent uptick in shootings during a public forum in front of about 50 city residents Monday evening at Stillmeadow Church of the Nazarenes York City campus. The number of shootings between Jan. 1 and March 31 marked a 75% increase over the same time period last ye...

York County mom pleads guilty to wrapping jump rope around neck of 4-year-old Updated 9:52 PM; A Fairview Township woman has avoided additional jail time and possible conviction on a felony child-endangerment charge for wrapping a jump rope around the neck of her 4-year-old son, which police said caused ligature marks and bruising. Brittany Rose Simpson is deeply remorseful about what happened and accepted responsibility for her actions from the start, according to York County public defender...

York County reports 135 new COVID-19 cases York Dispatch There were 135 additional COVID-19 cases reported in York County Wednesday, bringing the case total to 37,393 since the outbreak began, the state Health Department reported. There were no additional deaths reported, leaving the death toll at 743. There have been 135,186 patients who have tested negative for COVID-19 in the county, about 3.4% of the total 4,018,759 negative patients in the state. Statewide, the case total hit 973,721,...

Mar. 16—The state Department of Agriculture conducts annual inspections of food-serving businesses to ensure public safety and safe food-handling practices. Schools are inspected twice per year, according to the Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratories. Whether an establishment is considered compliant or non-compliant is the discretion of the inspector. There are, however, several violations for which inspectors should automatically consider establishments non-compliant. Called "critical vio...

Of those cases, 86 were reported on Sunday and 51 were reported on Monday.

Six-time York felon with ties to cousins killing is now accused of intimidating a witness York Dispatch A six-time felon with ties to the York City homicide of his underage cousin is now accused of trying to intimidate the alleged victim in a felony domestic assault case. Kaishan Juantaun Hudson is free on bail in two criminal cases. He was still locked up on the first case when he allegedly used a phone in York County Prison to call a woman and urge her to drop charges on the man accused of ...

Eight months later, York County hasnt released all public information sought by York Dispatch York Dispatch A legal battle between The York Dispatch and York County for information that the state’s Office of Open Records has said is clearly a public record is now in its eighth month, with no end in sight. And although the county released most of the requested information last month, there’s still information it refuses to make public — specifically, the start and end dates of employment f...

The countys case total also hit 36,923, an increase of 142 cases over the day prior.