Multi-vehicle crash causes all lanes on I-81 to close down in Franklin County, Pa.

IN SCHOOL NOW. THEY WERE MAKING THE STUDENTS COME OUT WITH THEIR HANDS UP. A SCHOOL IN LANCASTER COUNTY DISMISSES EARLY AFTER A LOCKDOWN. WHY? STUDENTS WERE TOLD TO COME OUT WITH THEIR HANDS UP. A LANCASTER COUNTY MAN IS UNDER ARREST, CONNECTED TO THE DRUG BUST OF OVER 30 POUNDS OF DRUGS. A WARM END TO OUR SUMMER AND THEN SHOWER CHANCES RISE THIS WEEKEND. FIND OUT WHEN TO EXPECT THE RAIN AND IN COMMITMENT COVERAGE. THE RESULTS OF THE LATEST FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE POLL IS RELEASED WITH THE NUMBERS SAY ABOUT THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. THIS IS COVERAGE YOU CAN COUNT ON. WGAL NEWS EIGHT AT FOUR STARTS NOW. GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO NEWS EIGHT AT FOUR. I’M THIS MEAN MATTHEWS AND I’M MICHAEL FULLER. WE BEGIN WITH ANXIOUS MOMENTS AT THE LANCASTER COUNTY CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER IN WILLOW STREET, WESTLAND POLICE RECEIVED A 911 CALL ABOUT A POSSIBLE ACTIVE SHOOTER ON THE CAMPUS. THAT LED TO AN EVACUATION. NEWS EIGHT’S BARBARA BARR IS LIVE OUTSIDE THE CTC, WITH MORE ON THE SCHOOL THREAT. BARB. THAT’S MEAN AND MICHAEL, THE CTC WAS PUT ON LOCKDOWN THIS MORNING AFTER THAT CALL CAME IN TO 911. WEST LAMPETER TOWNSHIP POLICE THAT THERE WAS A POSSIBLE ACTIVE SHOOTER RIGHT HERE ON THE CAMPUS. NOW, POLICE HAVE SINCE SAID THAT THIS IS KIND OF A VAGUE THREAT THAT HAS BEEN CIRCULATING FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND THE SCHOOL PUT OUT A STATEMENT THIS AFTERNOON THAT THEY DID NOT BELIEVE IT WAS A CREDIBLE THREAT. THE BUILDING WAS CLEARED, BUT STILL, THIS WAS AN INCREDIBLY EMOTIONAL TIME. A LOT OF TENSE MOMENTS FOR EVERYONE IN THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY AS WELL AS POLICE AND ALL INVOLVED. AND THERE WERE PLENTY OF HUGS, TEARS, EMOTIONAL REUNIONS AT THE MENNONITE CHURCH ON WILLOW STREET THIS MORNING AFTER STUDENTS WERE REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES. AFTER CERTAINLY SOME TENSE HOURS, WEST LAMPETER POLICE SAY THE 911 CALL CAME IN RIGHT BEFORE 930 FROM A RELATIVE OF A STUDENT WELL-MEANING REPORTING A POSSIBLE ACTIVE SHOOTER THREAT. THE SCHOOL WENT ON LOCKDOWN, POLICE, ARMED WITH RIFLES, SEARCHED THE BUILDING, EVACUATED STUDENTS WHO WERE TOLD TO PUT THEIR HANDS UP. THEN THEY WERE BUSED TO THE CHURCH. EVERYONE RELIEVED THAT NO ONE WAS HURT, BUT CERTAINLY SOME SCARY MOMENTS. SHE CALLED 930 THIS MORNING EXTREMELY UPSET. I MEAN, I COULDN’T EVEN UNDERSTAND. I WAS JUST WORRIED. SO I’M WHAT’S GOING ON AND I CAN HEAR OVER THE LOUD SYSTEM THROUGH THE SCHOOL THAT THEY WERE CURRENTLY IN LOCKDOWN. AND THEN THE PHONE DISCONNECTED AND WE HEARD THE THING GO OFF, AND THEN THEY SAT US IN THE CORNER AND THEN THEY LOCKED US IN CLOSETS AND WE’RE PREPARED AND NOTHING. THANK GOD THAT NOTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENED BECAUSE WE WERE PREPARED AND WE WERE SAFE. AND POLICE ARE WORKING TO TRACK DOWN THE ORIGIN OF THAT THREAT. BUT AGAIN, THEY BELIEVE IT HAS BEEN CIRCULATING FOR A WHILE. WE’VE SEEN SEVERAL SCHOOL THREATS RECENTLY, AND THE SCHOOL THANKED EVERYONE FOR FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS AND ALSO THANKING POLICE FOR ALL THEY DID TO MAKE SURE NO ONE WAS HURT. A LOT OF RELIEVED, VERY EMOTIONAL FAMILIES, BUT THEY JUST SAY THEY’RE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE TIMES THEY ARE LIVING IN THAT THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH A TRAUMATIZING EVENT SUCH AS THIS. LIVE IN LANCASTER COUNTY, BARBARA BARR NEWS EIGHT. THANK YOU BARBARA. WE APPRECIATE IT. AND THE DEFENSE HAS RESTED IN THE TRIAL OF A TRACTOR-TRAILER DRIVER CHARGED IN A CRASH THAT KILLED TWO SIBLINGS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. 40 YEAR OLD CESAR TORRES IS CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF VEHICULAR HOMICIDE AND TWO COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER IN THE MAY 20TH, 21 CRASH THAT TOOK THE LIVES OF BRANDY AND LINNIE CASPER. TODAY’S TESTIMONY FOCUSED ON THE CRASH RECONSTRUCTION REPORTS. NOW, THE DEFENSE REFUTED THE COUNTY’S EXPERT, WHO DETERMINED THAT TORRES RAN A RED LIGHT AND WAS TRAVELING AT A HIGHER RATE OF SPEED THAN THE POSTED LIMIT AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH. THEIR EXPERT TESTIFIED THAT THERE IS NO WAY OF KNOWING WHETHER THE LIGHT WAS RED OR GREEN AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH. ANDREW YANG FOR LANCASTER CITY POLICE ANNOUNCED A SECOND JUVENILE HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO MONDAY’S SHOTS FIRED INCIDENT THAT EVENING, AFTER 9 P.M., LANCASTER POLICE SAY THEY RECEIVED MULTIPLE CALLS OF GUNSHOTS AROUND EAST NEW STREET AND NORTH SHIPPEN STREET. POLICE SAY IT ALL STARTED WHEN A FIGHT BROKE OUT DURING A HOUSE PARTY, AND MOMENTS LATER, TWO PEOPLE SHOT INTO THE HOME. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED, BUT THERE WAS MINOR DAMAGE TO HOMES AND TO TWO HOMES NEARBY. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT POLICE AND STAYING IN LANCASTER. A MAN IS UNDER ARREST, CONNECTED TO THE RECOVERY OF OVER 30 POUNDS OF DRUGS. CITY POLICE SAY THEY RESPONDED TO REPORTS ON JULY 18TH ON NORTH PRINCE STREET. A MASKED MAN TRYING TO BREAK INTO A RESIDENCE. OFFICERS WENT INSIDE AND WHILE THEY DIDN’T FIND ANY INDIVIDUALS, THEY DID FIND 31 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA, A STOLEN GUN, $3,000 IN CASH AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. NOW, AN ARREST WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR MARCUS CLYDE, THE OWNER OF THE HOME. HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON SEPTEMBER 13TH. HE’S BEING HELD IN THE LANCASTER COUNTY PRISON ON $10,000 BAIL. GETTYSBURG COLLEGE SUSPENDED TWO OF ITS STUDENTS, WHO WERE ACCUSED OF SCRATCHING A RACIAL SLUR INTO THE ARM OF ANOTHER STUDENT. NEWS EIGHT’S JERE GISH. JOINING US NOW WITH THE RESPONSE FROM THE SCHOOL AND HOW GETTYSBURG POLICE HEARD ABOUT THE ACCUSATIONS. JERRY, WITH US BEING GETTYSBURG COLLEGE, SENT US A STATEMENT DESCRIBING THE SITUATION. IT SAYS MEMBERS OF THE SWIM TEAM SCRATCHED A RACIAL SLUR ONTO A TEAM MEMBER USING A PLASTIC OR CERAMIC TOOL. THE STATEMENT GOES ON TO SAY, QUOTE, THIS IS A SERIOUS REPORT WHICH IS BEING ACTIVELY ASSESSED THROUGH THE STUDENT CONDUCT PROCESS AT THIS POINT, THE STUDENTS INVOLVED ARE NOT PARTICIPATING IN SWIM TEAM ACTIVITIES PENDING THE OUTCOME OF THE STUDENT CONDUCT PROCESS. WE SPOKE TO STUDENTS NEAR CAMPUS TODAY WHO ARE NOW PROCESSING WHAT HAPPENED. I WAS HONESTLY REALLY SHOCKED. I MEAN, I MEAN, THE SCHOOL HAS NO PLACE FOR INCIDENTS LIKE THAT. AND YOU KNOW, WHEN I HEARD ABOUT IT, I JUST I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT. AND WE ALSO REACHED OUT TO GETTYSBURG POLICE TODAY. THEY TELL US THE SCHOOL NEVER REPORTED THE SITUATION TO THEM. GETTYSBURG POLICE CHIEF ROBERT GLENN JUNIOR SAID THE COLLEGE TOLD HIM, QUOTE, THAT THE STUDENT VICTIM CHOSE NOT TO HANDLE THIS THROUGH POLICE, BUT RATHER THROUGH THE COLLEGE’S INTERNAL INVESTIGATORY PROCESS. THE SCHOOL MAINTAINED THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO ENCOURAGE THE STUDENT TO TAKE THIS MATTER TO THE POLICE, BUT IT IS ULTIMATELY THE STUDENT’S DECISION. POLICE TELL US THEY LEARNED ABOUT THE SITUATION THIS MORNING THROUGH THE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER. THE COLLEGE SAYS THEY CANNOT SHARE ANY OTHER DETAILS, CITING PRIVACY LAWS AND THAT STUDENT CONDUCT PROCESS. MICHAEL, BACK TO YOU. DISTURBING STORY, BUT WE KNOW YOU’LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW IT. ALL RIGHT, JERRY. THANK YOU. NOW WE’RE LEARNING NEW INFORMATION FOLLOWING A DEADLY CRASH THIS MORNING. SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP POLICE SAY TWO VEHICLES COLLIDED AROUND 230 THIS MORNING ON WALNUT STREET IN SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP, SHUTTING DOWN THE ROAD FOR NEARLY FIVE HOURS. THE DRIVERS OF BOTH VEHICLES WERE TRANSPORTED TO LOCAL HOSPITALS FOR THEIR INJURIES. ONE OF THE DRIVERS WAS LATER PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE HOSPITAL. NOW, POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR EYEWITNESSES FROM THE CRASH SCENE. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT POLICE. AND NOW TO HARRISBURG. WE’RE LEARNING NEW INFORMATION. AFTER YESTERDAY’S FIRE ON SOUTH CAMERON STREET. HARRISBURG CITY FIRE CHIEF BRIAN ENTERLINE TELLS US THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IS HELPING TEN PEOPLE, SIX CHILDREN AND FOUR ADULTS DISPLACED BY THE FIRE. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE HAS BEEN RULED AS ELECTRICAL. WE’RE SWITCHING GEARS NOW, TAKING A LIVE LOOK ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ON THE NEWS EIGHT SKYCAM NETWORK. YOU CAN SEE BIG, BEAUTIFUL SKIES ACROSS THE BOARD. A GORGEOUS DAY OUTSIDE. METEOROLOGIST ETHAN HUSTON IS HERE WITH A CHECK OF THE FORECAST. BUT THE QUESTION IS, WILL THIS GREAT WEATHER CONTINUE INTO THE NIGHT? THAT IT SHOULD WE START THE DAY OFF WITH CLOUDS AND SOME SPOTTY SHOWERS ACROSS THE VALLEY. BUT THROUGH THE DAY, THAT CLOUD COVER HAS ERODED ACROSS THE MAJORITY OF THE REGION FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. SO IT’S FAIRLY SUNNY RIGHT NOW IN HARRISBURG, SKY CAM AND TEMPERATURES SUMMERLIKE RIGHT NOW WE’RE AT 84 DEGREES AND A LIGHT BREEZE OUT OF THE WEST NORTHWEST DEW POINT SITTING IN THE UPPER 50S, MAKING IT FEEL PLEASANT ACROSS THE REGION. SO ALL IS QUIET, RIGHT? QUIET RIGHT NOW ON THE LIVE LOCAL RADAR AND THE STORM TEAM LIVE RADAR NETWORK. AND THERE’S A LOOK AT THE TEMPERATURES AS WELL. 85. IF YOU’RE WATCHING US IN LANCASTER AND ALSO IN CARLISLE, THOSE SHOWERS THAT WE HAD EARLIER THIS MORNING, THE ENERGY FROM THEM THAT’S NOW MOVING OVER WEST VIRGINIA, THE PANHANDLE OF MARYLAND. FOR US, THOUGH, THE TRENDING OF THE CLEARING CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE AFTER SUNSET. SO A FEW PASSING CLOUDS OUT THERE IN SOME LOCATIONS. BUT LOOK FOR PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AS WE GO THROUGH THE NIGHT TONIGHT. NOW WE’LL STAY DRY FOR MOST OF US, AND MOST ACROSS THE VALLEY FOR YOUR FRIDAY. BUT THE RAIN CHANCES WILL GO UP TO START THE WEEKEND. FIND OUT WHEN TO EXPECT THE SHOWERS AND STORMS AGAIN. COMING UP IN THE FULL FORECAST IN A FEW MINUTES. ETHAN. THANK YOU SO THE NAMES ON PENNSYLVANIA’S MAIL BALLOTS MAY HAVE BEEN FINALIZED, BUT THE FIGHT OVER WHICH ONES WILL COUNT ARE STILL NOT SETTLED. NEWS EIGHT’S TOM LEHMAN JOINS US LIVE FROM OUR HARRISBURG NEWSROOM WITH THE LATEST. TOM. IT DOES MEAN THE QUESTIONS ESSENTIALLY ALL HAVE TO DO WITH THIS. THE MAIL BALLOT ENVELOPES YOU HAVE TO FILL OUT ON THE BACK HERE. SIGN AND DATE AND THE LAW REQUIRES YOU TO DO A NUMBER OF THINGS WITH THOSE ENVELOPES TO ENSURE THAT YOUR VOTE COUNTS ON ELECTION DAY. AND I WILL TELL YOU, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME DEVELOPMENTS, EVEN IN JUST THE LAST HOUR, IN ONE CASE THAT I’LL TELL YOU ABOUT IN JUST A MOMENT. BUT OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE SEVERAL LAWSUITS GOING ON IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT COURTS REGARDING EVERYTHING FROM THE DATE THAT YOU PUT ON THE BALLOT ENVELOPE TO HOW COUNTIES ARE SUPPOSED TO HANDLE CASES WHERE AN ENVELOPE IS MISSING A SIGNATURE, OR IF IT’S MISSING THAT PRIVACY ENVELOPE THAT ALSO GOES AROUND YOUR BALLOT. ONE PARTICULAR CASE DEALS WITH WHETHER THAT DATE REQUIREMENT IS EVEN LEGAL. THE ACLU AND OTHER VOTING GROUPS ARGUED IT WAS NOT. WE FILED THIS SUIT BACK IN THE SPRING, CHALLENGING ENFORCEMENT OF THE DATE REQUIREMENT, ENFORCING IT IN A WAY THAT REQUIRES PEOPLE WHO DON’T COMPLY WITH IT TO BE DISENFRANCHIZED FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN A SLIP OF THE PEN. ON THIS DATE LINE. NOW, THE STATE SUPREME COURT JUST RULED THAT ITS OWN DECISION TO VACATE A RULING FROM A LOWER COURT LAST WEEK THAT THE REQUIREMENT WASN’T LEGAL EFFECTIVELY ENDS THAT LAWSUIT. THE ACLU OF PA SAYS THAT THERE IS GOING TO BE MORE ACTION ON THAT MATTER, THOUGH. AND OBVIOUSLY WITH THIS CASE AND OTHERS STILL WORKING THEIR WAY THROUGH LITIGATION AND APPEALS, IT’S CAUSING A LOT OF CONFUSION FOR SOME ELECTIONS DIRECTORS COMING UP AT FIVE. I’LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT HOW THAT IS AFFECTING OPERATIONS AROUND THE STATE FOR NOW IN OUR HARRISBURG NEWSROOM. TOM LEHMAN, NEWS EIGHT. TOM, THANK YOU SO FROM THE NOVEMBER 5TH ELECTION, HERE ARE THE DEADLINES YOU NEED TO KNOW. OCTOBER 21ST IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR THE ELECTION. OCTOBER 29TH IS THE LAST DAY YOU CAN REQUEST A MAIL IN BALLOT. THAT BALLOT MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE ELECTIONS OFFICE BY 8 P.M. ON ELECTION DAY. AND IN COMMITMENT 2024 COVERAGE. THE RESULTS OF THE LATEST FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE POLL WERE RELEASED THIS MORNING. NEWS EIGHT’S MATT BARCARO HAS THE NUMBERS IN THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. THIS POLL SURVEYED A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA VOTERS, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY SAY RIGHT NOW FOR THEIR CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT. YOU SEE, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS CURRENTLY LEADING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, 49% TO 46%. HARRIS IS UP THREE POINTS SINCE THE AUGUST POLL. TRUMP IS UP TWO POINTS. THERE ARE THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES IN THIS POLL, BOTH COMING IN AT JUST 1%. IN AUGUST. ROBERT F KENNEDY JR HAD 6%. HE WAS AN INDEPENDENT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. HE HAS SINCE DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE AND ENDORSED TRUMP. SO IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT HIS LACK OF PRESENCE IN THE POLL HAS CHANGED ALL THAT MUCH IN THE HEAD TO HEAD MATCHUP. AS FOR THE U.S. SENATE RACE, WHICH WE ARE ALSO TRACKING FOR NOVEMBER, THE INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT BOB CASEY, IS IN THE LEAD 48% TO 40%, WITH DAVE MCCORMICK, THE REPUBLICAN. CASEY HAS HELD STEADY SINCE HIS AUGUST SHOWING IN THIS POLL AT 48%. MCCORMICK SUPPORT HAS ACTUALLY GROWN FOUR POINTS SINCE AUGUST, SO WE’LL SEE IF THIS RACE CONTINUES TO TIGHTEN AS WE HEAD INTO NOVEMBER. MATT BARCARO WGAL NEWS EIGHT. AND OUR COMMITMENT 2024 COVERAGE CONTINUES ONLINE AT WJHL.COM, WHERE YOU’LL BE ABLE TO FIND THESE FULL POLL RESULTS, AS WELL AS OUR GET THE FACTS AD WATCHES, WHERE WE CONTINUE TO BREAK DOWN MANY OF THE POLITICAL ADS YOU’RE SEEING DURING OUR COMMERCIAL BREAKS. AND COMING UP ON NEWS EIGHT AT FOUR, IT’S NATIONAL FARM SAFETY AND HEALTH WEEK. WE’VE GOT SOME TIPS YOU CAN USE ON THE FARM AND A LITTLE BIT LATER AT FOUR, WE’LL GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE OCEAN CITY BEE CHAPTER MEDICAL WASTE WASHED UP ON SHORE. VIEWERS ARE REACHING OUT ABOUT A LETTER INFORMING THEM THAT THEY MAY BE INVOLVED IN A DATA BREACH. IT INVOLVES A COMPANY THAT MANY PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HEARD OF. I’M CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROACH, AND I’M ON YOUR SIDE WITH WHAT YOU NEE

Multi-vehicle crash causes lane restrictions on I-81 in Franklin County

Updated: 10:29 PM EDT Sep 19, 2024

Multi-vehicle crash causes lane restrictions on I-81 in Franklin County around 4:15 p.m. Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8 Today.The crash occurred on I-81 southbound between Exit 5: Greencastle-Waynesboro and Exit 3: US 11 Molly Pitcher. No injuries have been reported at this time. Stay with WGAL as we learn more. For live traffic updates, click here. Do you have photos or video of an incident? If so, upload them to Be sure to include your name and additional details so we can give you proper credit online and on TV.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. —

Multi-vehicle crash causes lane restrictions on I-81 in Franklin County around 4:15 p.m.

Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8 Today.

The crash occurred on I-81 southbound between Exit 5: Greencastle-Waynesboro and Exit 3: US 11 Molly Pitcher.

No injuries have been reported at this time.

Stay with WGAL as we learn more.

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