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The deaths of a married couple were being investigated “as a murder-suicide,” Adams County Coroner Pat Felix said Sunday afternoon. The two resided in a house in Hampton, where state police conducting a well-being check found them deceased on the floor, Felix said. The man, 71, and woman, 64, had been deceased for “less than 48 hours,” said Felix, who declared them dead at the scene. She did not release names because notification of next-of-kin had not yet been certified. An autopsy of the woman’s remains was planned Wednesday at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, F...

Fire ripped through a home at 95 Chapel Road Extended near Marsh Creek Road in Cumberland Township Friday evening. Heavy fire was showing from both floors of the home when

Harrison Jones As the old saying goes, “a cat always lands on its feet.”  That was the case Saturday afternoon in Reading Township, Adams County, where a stray kitten leapt from 75 feet without injury while firefighters from United Hook & Ladder attempted to rescue it using a ladder truck. The homeowner at the property on the 100 block of Stony Point Road called the firehouse around 2:15 p.m. to report a cat high up in their tree, according to United Hook & Ladder Assistant Chief Buzz Phillips.  The homeowner reported the kitten had been up the tree for about 36 hours, Phillips said, s...