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Jillian Pikora

Senior Assistant Managing Editor

jpikora@dailyvoice.com

Jillian is an editor and reporter based out of Pennsylvania's capital city of Harrisburg. She has a degree in Political Science and is a former political campaign manager. For over a decade, she has worked as a staff reporter and freelance writer at Sisters Magazine, The Tempest, Huffington Post, CairoScene, and several other outlets. Before joining Daily Voice, Jillian worked as a digital news editor at Hearst's local NBC affiliate, WGAL News 8. She currently assists in managing Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts; as well as reporting stories in Pennsylvania for Daily Voice.

Jillian Pikora's Contributions

Police & Fire

Lancaster Man Last Seen In Delaware County Found, Police Say (Update) UPDATE: Dereje Waldemariam, 29, of Lancaster, was located at 12:32 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, 2023, city police announced around 2:30 p.m. ORIGINAL: A 29-year-old man with a "mental health diagnosis" has been missing since May 8, 2023 and is considered an endangered missing person, police say. Dereje Waldemariam of Lancaster City was last seen in Media, Delaware County, according to an announced by the Lancaster City Bureau of Police late on Wednesday, May 10. Waldemariam has diagnosed with mental health issues, the police said. He has a shaved haircut, unlike the photo of him, acc…

by Jillian Pikora

05/11/2023

Lifestyle

Taylor Swift Sends PA Girl Roses A 16-year-old girl received four dozen red roses from 12-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift. This isn't a story of Swift's latest love song, but a sweet "thank you" and apology to a businesswoman. Ripleigh Maring, of Ripleigh's Creamery in McSherrystown, PA and Emmitsburg, MD, is a Swiftie who is a lover of the Billboard hits (she's also a savvy saleswoman) so she made "The Era Collection" of ice cream flavors to sell at her shop ahead of Swift's "Eras Tour" stop in Philadelphia. The collection includes Lavender Haze, Karma, and Bad Blood (plus, there are Enchanted and Bejeweled milkshakes…

by Jillian Pikora

05/11/2023

Police & Fire

4 Masked, Gloved, Armed Robberies In 3 PA Counties, Police Say Four robberies— three of which were armed— in three Pennsylvania counties are under investigation according to three separate releases by different agencies all issued on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. The four robberies had similar suspects and began two weeks before the releases were issued. Each county appears to be handling the investigations separately despite the clear similarities. York County: The first robbery happened at the Mt. Rose Ave Central Mart in York on Wednesday, April 26 around 10:50 p.m., according to the Spring Garden Township Police Department. The suspect has been de…

by Jillian Pikora

05/10/2023

Police & Fire

NJ Psychic Pulls 'Death Card' Con On PA Couple: Police A Pennsylvania-based fortune teller from New Jersey not only failed to predict the future but allegedly conned a family while doing it, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Police in Pennsylvania have formally charged 25-year-old Billie Loren Mitchell of Kearny, NJ on April 27, 2023, but have yet to apprehend and arraign her, according to a police release on May 9, 2023. Mitchell runs Psychic World at 501 East Main Street in Palmyra, PA, and claims to be a "Clairvoyant psychic and certified holistic healer," as stated on her Facebook page. An elderly coup…

by Jillian Pikora

05/10/2023

Police & Fire

Dad Charged With Murder Of First Baby Born At Penn State Hampden: Authorities The first baby who was born at Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center has died and his father has been charged with his murder, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Avery Sampson was 8 lbs and 12 ounces when he was born to Kathryn "Kat" Durham and Timothy "Tim" Lloyd Sampson at the Hampden Medical Center in Enola at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, according to Penn State Health News. The 13-month-old was "found died under suspicious circumstances" at the couple's home in the 100 block of Big Spring Terrace in West Pennsboro Township, Newville at 7:10 a.…

by Jillian Pikora

05/09/2023

Police & Fire

3 Pipe Bombs Found At Public Safety Building In Harrisburg: Authorities (Update) Three pipe bombs were brought to the Public Safety Building in Harrisburg and the "good samaritan" who found them on Cameron Street has been interviewed and released as of Wednesday, May 9, 2023, Harrisburg Director of Communications Matt Maisel told Daily Voice. "A man came to the Public Safety Building at 123 Walnut around 11 claiming to have found a bag on Cameron St with explosives inside," Maisel said on Tuesday, May 8. "Police immediately detained the bag in question and the man for questioning." All three floors of the building were evacuated and the police "closed down the 100…

by Jillian Pikora

05/09/2023

Obituaries

17-Year-Old ID'd After Motorcycle Crash On Ritner Highway, Route 11 A Newville 17-year-old has been identified by his family following a deadly motorcycle crash involving a tractor-trailer at Ritner Highway and Route 11. Drew Benfield was days away from graduating when his 1999 Kawasaki motorcycle "impacted with the trailer" of a 2017 Kenworth truck in the 3400 block of Ritner Highway onto Route 11 in West Pennsboro Township on Monday, May 8, 2023, around 12 p.m., according to a release by Pennsylvania State Police. Patrick Dowler of Hagerstown, MD was driving the truck. He was seatbelted and unharmed, PSP noted, adding that Benfield was also wearing h…

by Jillian Pikora

05/09/2023

Police & Fire

York Co. Family Of 7 Displaced By Fire Gets Surge Of Support Thanks To Their HOA Homeowner's associations get a bad reputation. HOAs are known for rules about house color, where to place your basketball hoop, and when you should bring up your trash cans, but one York County HOA is quickly building a good rep. by helping a family in their neighborhood after a devasting house fire. Courtney Cadden's family of seven (including her three siblings, dad, stepmom, and boyfriend) are safe but they have "literally lost everything" after the house fire on Sunday, May 7, 2023, as she told CBS21. Everyone please say a prayer for our family, our house burnt down early this mo…

by Jillian Pikora

05/08/2023

Lifestyle

Ironman: 3 Years After MS Diagnosis PA Army Vet. To Compete Internationally Army Veteran, Stephen Glaus is getting ready to compete in his fourth Ironman— (this time internationally) after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in August 2018. Three weeks after his MS diagnosis Glaus "was unable to see, walk, or even control my bladder. I woke up multiple times having wet the bed. Doctors told me that I could be permanently wheelchair-bound within a few years," he said a post on his GoFundMe. Within a few doses of intravenous steroids and chemotherapy, Glaus slowly regained the use of his legs, which motivated him, in his words, "to defy the odds". So even th…

by Jillian Pikora

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

Cold CASE: 20-Year-Old Woman Found In Nothing But Her Socks Along The Susquehanna River Exactly 27 years to the day Kimberly "Kimmie" Ann Yohe went missing, the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop H, Harrisburg, continue their investigation into the cold case of her homicide— and so is the FBI. Kimmie was "found naked, beaten, strangled, hands bound behind her back floating in the Susquehanna River," podcasters at Keystone Cold Cases put it on Oct. 25, 2021, asking, "Who could commit such a heinous crime?" If you know you could be eligible for a big reward, according to PSP. She had last been seen at her home in Etters at 9 p.m. on May 8, 1996, PSP said. Her 1987 Mazda 626 was…

by Jillian Pikora

05/08/2023

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