BURNHAM A 21-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday after she was linked to an impounded vehicle that contained more than 500 packets of fentanyl. According to a report issued by Mifflin County Regional Police, officers on patrol in the Lewistown Heights of Derry Township observed a 2006 Nissan Sentra traveling on Knepp Avenue with an […]
Helen Mae (Rothrock) (Legradi) Yocum, 90, formerly of Lewistown, passed away peacefully with her family by her side on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey. She was born in Lewistown on March 11, 1933, to Trilba Agatha Grace (nee Narehood) and Samuel E. Rothrock. Helen graduated from Yeagertown High School […]
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LEWISTOWN – A Mifflin County man is facing aggravated assault and other charges related to an early Wednesday morning shooting on Woodland Avenue in Derry Township, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit of probable cause filed at Magisterial District Judge Kent Smith’s office.
Mifflin County Regional Police Department said 32-year-old Randy Lynn Dressler Jr. and 31-year-old Eric McMinn were arguing just after 2 a.m. Wednesday outside Dressler’s Lindy Lane residence when Dressler fired one round from a 9mm rifle that struck McMinn in his right thigh just above the knee.
McMinn was flown to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville for surgery to treat his injury. His condition is not known.