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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline)

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Professional journalist. Deputy Opinion Editor at LNP | LancasterOnline. Covering Lancaster and York counties in Pennsylvania.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1h
US oil industry warns diesel prices will not return to normal for a year ft.trib.al/XLBMDBD
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US oil industry warns diesel prices will not return to normal for a year
Dallas Fed survey finds energy executives believe high cost of fuel will persist
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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 2h
No, you’re providing concentration camps that hold people against the law in horrific conditions without access to counsel.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2h
'The materials that make up the 2026 Suicide Prevention Total Force Awareness Training use several video segments with AI-generated characters, scenarios and presenters to deliver portions of the annual instruction required across the force. '
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 4h
Hegseth is destroying the military academies along with the military.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 4h
What a surprise. Not.
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Daniel Payne @danielpayne.bsky.social · 4h
RFK Jr. last night continued his praise of AI to fix U.S. health care, saying the technology is better informed than doctors. But on the ground in rural America, health providers say AI is nowhere close to solving their problems: www.statnews.com/2026/09/10/r...
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Trump officials say AI will help save rural health care. Some leaders in the field don’t believe it
Rural health care providers have struggled for years. The Trump administration is pointing to a cutting-edge, if unproven way to save them: artificial intelligence.
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LNP | LancasterOnline @lancasteronline.bsky.social · 20h
Local libraries and the countywide nonprofit that assists in their operations asked the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners for an 8% increase in grant funding for the upcoming 2027 budget year, citing the loss of revenue from providing passport services… lanc.news/46NdaID
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Lancaster County library system among nonprofits to request increase in commissioners' grants
Local libraries and the countywide nonprofit that assists in their operations asked the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners for an 8% increase in grant funding for the upcoming 2027 budget
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LNP | LancasterOnline @lancasteronline.bsky.social · 8h
ICE arrests of poultry workers in Lancaster County spell trouble for our economy and values [editorial] lanc.news/4hnRMQc
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ICE arrests of poultry workers in Lancaster County spell trouble for our economy and values [editorial]
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 5h
That seems worrisome.
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Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's no polite way to say this - the Trump Admin is hellbent on murdering Americans by depriving them of healthcare. Now this - millions of Americans who rely on prescriptions from Canada are about to be cut off. gift link www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Americans Are About to Lose Access to Cheap Gray-Market Prescriptions From Canada
Millions who use online pharmacies from Canada and other countries could get cut off in October.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22h
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
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How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h
I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 20h
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a misuse of taxpayer dollars that likely runs afoul of anti-propaganda law. to.pbs.org/46W8fFh
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Homeland Security spending $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a ...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20h
Can the president rename
Artificial Intelligence?

No. Official sources do not show that a president can rename the term "artificial intelligence" itself.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the polls is illegal. And it’s deeply unpopular among voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Nearly half of Americans don’t want ICE at polls, survey shows
Nearly 40% of Americans surveyed also don't want national Guardsmen at polling places. Public dissent comes as three major lawsuits were filed to block federal interference at polling places this mont...
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 29/09/2026
UPDATE: ICE says it bought four robot dogs for $1.3 million in part for cross-border tunnel operations. It also says the robots will help tactical teams, listen for movement inside buildings, and look on top of closets and bunk beds.
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ICE buys $1.3 million in robot dogs from Connecticut company
The agency bought the robots without seeking competing bids, and chose a version built to detect chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards.
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LNP | LancasterOnline @lancasteronline.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Manheim Central School District’s board voted to consider the termination of former head football coach Dave Hahn from his current role as a physical education teacher in the district’s high school. lanc.news/3TxsgyJ
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Manheim Central board unanimously approves charges against former head football coach Dave Hahn
Manheim Central School District’s board voted to consider the termination of former head football coach Dave Hahn from his current role as a physical education teacher in the district’s high
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LNP | LancasterOnline @lancasteronline.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An upcoming right lane closure on northbound Route 222 and a temporary stop sign on the ramp from westbound Route 30 are expected to cause overnight travel delays, according to the state Department of Transportation. lanc.news/4hvtum7
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Nighttime delays expected near Route 30/222 interchange Oct. 12-16
An upcoming right lane closure on northbound Route 222 and a temporary stop sign on the ramp from westbound Route 30 are expected to cause overnight travel delays, according to
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Sen. Mike Rounds, who sits on the Appropriations Cmte, says Trump’s $810 million unilateral rescission undermines a funding deal, including GOP goals of more military money: “It’s going to make it very hard for us to actually get an outcome in the next appropriations bill.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., slams the White House’s pro-Trump ad that’s paid for with taxpayer money and says it is not a PSA: “I hate it. I tell you, it feels like Viktor Orbán talking to the Hungarian people. There’s no place for that sort of thing.”
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"So many people are coming to us who have never come to the food bank before. It used to be people who were working hourly-wage jobs. Now we see salary employees." Maybe we should measure the "strength" of the economy not by the stock market but by the length of the line at our local food bank?
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C. Allen @callenofgeorgia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Splitting MMR vaccines into multiple shots will keep people from completing the full course due to multiple visits, increased costs, and more confusion. Measles, Mumps, Pertussis, and Polio -- once nearly eradicated, now increasing. All courtesy of R. F. K. jr.... Now people getting sick from 👇
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lisa Bartelt, a district resident, said the policy was, “at best misguided fear and at worst exclusion that violates civil liberties.” lancasteronline.com/news/regiona...
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Conestoga Valley school board approves first reading of proposed sports eligibility policy
When: Conestoga Valley school board meeting, Sept. 22. Phil Beningno, Diana Martin, and Laura Givler were absent.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 28/09/2026
Pennsylvania's measles outbreak continued to worsen, with 68 new infections reported since Wednesday last week, bringing the total to 903 on Monday, health department data showed, as the state grapples with the worst measles resurgence in decades.
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Pennsylvania measles cases cross 900 as outbreak grows
Pennsylvania's measles outbreak continued to worsen, with 68 new infections reported since Wednesday last week, ​bringing the total to 903 on Monday, ‌health department data showed, as the state grapples with the worst measles resurgence in decades.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A whole generation of us grew up, having seen Anita Hill testify, and learned the lesson that we would not be believed if we came forward. Nicole is so right, we need to make the world better for those coming behind us.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m glad that so many people are talking about the Cornell 7. If you’re wondering how we got to this point, don’t disregard the impact pro sports have had on telling young men that SA isn’t that big of a deal.
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Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault - Dame Magazine
Within days of his election on November 5, Donald Trump, a man adjudicated liable for sexual abuse by a jury of his peers, nominated four men credibly accused of sexual misconduct for high-level cabin...
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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 28/09/2026
More than three dozen sailors and Marines wounded this month in support of the Iran war trib.al/kdvd49O
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More than three dozen sailors and Marines wounded this month in support of the Iran war
The new casualties, revealed quietly last week, mark a sharp uptick in both services’ wounded in the war since the start of summer
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have a lot to say about the Cornell case, but I'm largely keeping it on the inside, since I'll be honest: I find it triggering. But I have one specific ask: parents, talk to your sons. Talk to them and make sure they understand accountability. Talk to them about consent. Do it now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Mike Johnson says opposition to data centers "is a Chinese psyop. I really believe that. That's not a conspiracy theory."
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
JUST IN: The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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The Trump administration weakens fuel efficiency standards for new cars
The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for nearly a year.
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
29 sailors and 9 Marines were wounded in September according to the Pentagon's casualty tracker. It is a sharp increase in WIA for both services (Navy WIA now at 50 since July). The Army had previously seen nearly 100% of all new casualties since fighting restarted in July.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/09/2026
With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views. www.wired.com/story/these-...
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These Extremists Are Running for Election in November
With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lancaster County reader letter (2/2): "Let me tell you this: News outlets report the facts. Simple as that. The fact is that this is an administration that shares many qualities of a toilet, and it’s constantly clogged." lancasteronline.com/opinion/lett...
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Trump lashes out at free press instead of making America great again [letter]
What is going on in President Donald Trump’s world today? Is he fixing the problem he caused with high gas prices? No. Is he reeling in his “Brownshirts” before they
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Our hospitals have limited rooms, limited negative pressure rooms, and when those rooms are being used by these very very sick measles patients, then that impairs our ability to care for other illnesses." www.ms.now/news/measles...
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Measles is spreading through Pennsylvania’s Amish country. Doctors are scrambling to keep up.
At a rural clinic near the heart of the outbreak, physicians describe patients arriving gravely ill, while federal officials dispute the death toll.
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lancaster County reader letter (1/2): "The truth is a threat to Trump’s presidency and to him, so, as authoritarians are apt to do, he tries to block it." lancasteronline.com/opinion/lett...
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Media outlets face ongoing challenges in covering Trump administration [letter]
The president of the United States is trying to ban a few news outlets from the White House, with “more to come.” He claims, without specific examples, that they are
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pairing our Sunday editorial with this: lancasteronline.com/opinion/edit...
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Lancaster County is already a measles hotbed. Let's protect ourselves against flu and COVID-19. [editorial]
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The auditor general’s findings echo many of the failures Spotlight PA has documented over its two-year-long investigation into Pennsylvania’s older adult protective services system." lancasteronline.com/news/politic...
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Weaknesses with Pa. aging department’s oversight could leave older adults at risk, audit finds
The audit’s stinging findings echo many of the failures Spotlight PA has documented in its investigation into Pennsylvania’s older adult protective services system.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I served in multiple authoritarian states, both communist and otherwise--Russia, Vietnam, Iraq, the Sultanate of Oman, and Ukraine before the Orange Revolution brought in democracy. One common thread among all of them is government spending on propaganda to glorify the dictator/sultan.
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White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’ | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The auditor general’s findings echo many of the failures Spotlight PA has documented over its two-year-long investigation into Pennsylvania’s older adult protective services system." lancasteronline.com/news/politic...
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Weaknesses with Pa. aging department’s oversight could leave older adults at risk, audit finds
The audit’s stinging findings echo many of the failures Spotlight PA has documented in its investigation into Pennsylvania’s older adult protective services system.
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pairing our Sunday editorial with this: lancasteronline.com/opinion/edit...
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Lancaster County is already a measles hotbed. Let's protect ourselves against flu and COVID-19. [editorial]
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was released on this day 62 years ago. I have a first edition & come back to it often, including this paragraph in the chapter "Obligation to Endure." It's worth reading. "We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts."
Cover of Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonThe last paragraph in the Silent Spring chapter Obligation to Endure, reads, in part, " We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts... The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know."
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LNP | LancasterOnline @lancasteronline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Artificial intelligence can be a boon rather than a menace, but it needs guardrails [column] lanc.news/4hc1kOe
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Artificial intelligence can be a boon rather than a menace, but it needs guardrails [column]
Artificial intelligence is moving so quickly that even some of the people building the most powerful systems are now asking whether we are moving too fast.
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LNP | LancasterOnline @lancasteronline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lancaster County is already a measles hotbed. Let's protect ourselves against flu and COVID-19. [editorial] lanc.news/3TNwUJb
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Lancaster County is already a measles hotbed. Let's protect ourselves against flu and COVID-19. [editorial]
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hahn resigned as football coach in June, just weeks after the district announced it was investigating the student misconduct allegations alongside a criminal investigation by Manheim Borough Police Department. lancasteronline.com/news/local/f...
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Former Manheim Central football coach says he ‘was not present’ for alleged misconduct
Manheim Central High School’s longtime football coach and physical education teacher Dave Hahn said in a statement Friday that he was not present during an alleged incident of student misconduct
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lancaster County has logged 35 new cases of measles in the past week, bringing the number of people who have fallen ill with the virus in the county to 359 this year. lancasteronline.com/news/health/...
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35 new measles cases in Lancaster County this week; state total nears 900
Lancaster County has logged 35 new cases of measles in the past week, bringing the number of people who have fallen ill with the virus in the county to 359
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