UPDATE: Route 283 crash clears after causing severe delays (2024)

NEWS EIGHT AT 11. THE FINAL WORD ON THE DAY’S NEWS AND WEATHER. THIS IS COVERAGE YOU CAN COUNT ON WGAL NEWS EIGHT TODAY STARTS NOW. BREAKING OVERNIGHT. ONE PERSON IS DEAD AFTER BEING HIT BY A VEHICLE IN LANCASTER COUNTY. A LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY RALLYING AROUND A FAMILY. HOW THEIR SON WHO WAS HIT IN A HIT, WHO WAS KILLED IN A HIT AND RUN, WAS HONORED. ALSO, POLICE IN YORK COUNTY ARE LOOKING FOR. SUSPECTS. TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO. YOU CAN SEE A CAR SMASHED THROUGH A DEALERSHIP AND POLICE SAY IT WAS ALL TO TRY TO STEAL ANOTHER CAR. AND WE’LL SHOW YOU MORE OF THAT VIDEO. SO STAY TUNED FOR THAT. IT IS 430 RIGHT NOW. GOOD MORNING. IT’S TUESDAY REGINA AHN MATT BARCARO. I’M KATELYN SMITH GETTING A CHECK ON OUR FORECAST WITH CHIEF METEOROLOGIST CHRISTINE FERREIRA. AND IT’S IN THE 50S OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. IS THAT ABOUT RIGHT? YEAH, 50 DOESN’T FEEL TOO BAD THIS MORNING. AND LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT WE HAVE OUTSIDE ON OUR STORM TEAM LIVE RADAR NETWORK, BECAUSE WE’RE GOING TO BE WATCHING SOME SHOWERS COME UP FROM THE SOUTH AND EVENTUALLY THE SHOWERS WILL BE AFFECTING US LATER THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON. AND EVEN THIS EVENING THERE’LL BE SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS. SO ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN. NOT A WASHOUT TODAY. RIGHT NOW, CLOUDS ARE GRADUALLY INCREASING AND TEMPERATURES. THERE YOU GO. IN THE 50S, 52 IN LEBANON, 57 IN CARLISLE, 56 DEGREES IN YORK. NEXT 12 HOURS CALLING FOR A HIGH IN THE LOW 70S. NOT QUITE AS WARM AS YESTERDAY, BUT STILL AROUND AVERAGE FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. NOTICE THOSE SHOWERS START TO WORK IN IN MOST AREAS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING, BUT THERE STILL COULD BE A COUPLE JUST POKING AROUND THIS MORNING. SO OVERALL A COOLER DAY TODAY, A CLOUDIER DAY. AND WE BRING BACK THOSE SHOWER CHANCES BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT THANKS FOR SOME BREAKING OVERNIGHT IN PARADISE, LANCASTER COUNTY. A PERSON IS DEAD AFTER BEING HIT BY A VEHICLE. DISPATCHERS SAY THIS HAPPENED JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON ROUTE 30 EAST BETWEEN PARKWAY MANOR DRIVE AND LA PARK AVENUE. THEY DID NOT SAY IF THE DRIVER STAYED AT THE SCENE. STATE POLICE ARE NOW INVESTIGATING, AND RIGHT NOW POLICE ARE ALSO INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT LEFT A WOMAN DEAD IN HARRISBURG. POLICE RESPONDED TO NORTH FOURTH AND WOODBINE STREETS AROUND 545 LAST NIGHT FOR A REPORT OF SHOTS FIRED, AND WHEN POLICE GOT THERE, THEY SAY THEY FOUND A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN SHOT. SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE SHE DIED. NOW NEWS 8 DID REACH OUT FOR MORE INFORMATION. SO FAR WE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT HARRISBURG POLICE, OR YOU CAN ALWAYS SUBMIT A TIP THROUGH CRIME WATCH. AND THIS COMES TEN DAYS AFTER A HOMICIDE AT A CONVENIENCE STORE AT SIXTH AND WOODBINE STREETS, JUST BLOCK AWAY FROM THAT SHOOTING. NEIGHBORS IN THE UPTOWN SECTION OF HARRISBURG CAME TOGETHER YESTERDAY TO CLEAN UP THAT AREA. THEY SAY THIS IS THEIR WAY OF TAKING BACK CONTROL OF THE STREETS. HARRISBURG COUNCILMAN LAMONT JONES HELPED ORGANIZE THIS CLEANUP. HE SAYS THAT HE’D LIKE TO SEE MORE CAMERAS AND LIGHTS IN THAT AREA. THERE’S CRIMES THAT GO ON BACK HERE. WE HAVE TO LIKE SOME OF OUR CHILDREN, TAKE SHORTCUTS AND COME THROUGH THIS. SO THAT’S DANGER, YOU KNOW? AND THAT’S TO ME IS A PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE. JONES SAID THE CITY SHOULD ALSO LOOK AT HOW TO BETTER ENFORCE PROPERTY CODES, TO TRY TO CUT DOWN ON SOME OF THOSE ISSUES. NEW THIS MORNING FROM CUMBERLAND COUNTY. A MOTHER IS FACING CHILD ENDANGERMENT CHARGES. MIDDLESEX TOWNSHIP POLICE SAY THEY RESPONDED TO A DOMESTIC DISPUTE BETWEEN 37 YEAR OLD ASHLEY WITTERS AND HER DAUGHTER. THIS WAS LAST FRIDAY. POLICE SAY WITTERS KICKED BIT HEAD BUTTED AND PUT HER DAUGHTER IN A CHOKE HOLD. WITTERS WAS TAKEN TO THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PRISON TO BE ARRAIGNED. POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A WOMAN WHO THEY SAY STOLE MORE THAN $15,000 WORTH OF PHONES AND MORE THAN $500 IN CASH FROM A STORE AT A CUMBERLAND COUNTY MALL. LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP POLICE SAY THEY WERE NOTIFIED OF THE THEFT AT THE T-MOBILE STORE AT THE CAPITAL CITY MALL. KEOSHA HARMON WAS IDENTIFIED AS AN EMPLOYEE AT THAT STORE, AND POLICE SAY SHE USED HER POSITION TO STEAL THE PHONES AND CASH CHARGES WERE FILED IN. A WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HER ARREST RIGHT NOW IN YORK COUNTY, POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO THEY SAY SMASHED A CAR THROUGH A DEALERSHIP IN ORDER TO STEAL ANOTHER CAR. NORTHERN YORK COUNTY REGIONAL POLICE SAY THIEVES CRASHED THAT CHEVY CAMARO INTO A CAR DEALERSHIP IN DOVER TOWNSHIP. THERE YOU SEE IT COMING THROUGH THERE TO TRY TO STEAL THAT DODGE HELLCAT. THIS WAS EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING, BUT THINGS DID NOT GO ACCORDING TO PLAN. FOR THOSE THIEVES. AN EMPLOYEE AT THORNTON AUTOMOTIVE ON CARLISLE ROAD SAYS THE THIEVES CAME ONTO THAT LOT AROUND 4:00 YESTERDAY MORNING. HE SAYS THEY BROKE A WINDOW IN THE CAMARO, THEN STARTED IT WITHOUT THE KEY. AND AS YOU SAW THERE, CRASHED IT. HERE COMES AGAIN INTO THAT SHOWROOM DOOR. THE CAMARO, THOUGH, GOT STUCK IN THE OPENING AND THE COLLISION YOU SEE THERE THAT GOLF CART IN THE MIDDLE. IT PUSHED THAT GOLF CART INTO THE CAR IN FRONT OF IT. SO THE HELLCAT WAS THEN PINNED. THE EMPLOYEE SAYS THE THIEVES THEN STOLE A KEY FOR A DODGE CHALLENGER ON THE LOT AND TOOK THAT CAR INSTEAD. ED, THE MANHEIM COMMUNITY IN LANCASTER COUNTY IS RALLYING AROUND A FAMILY WHO LOST THEIR SON EARLIER THIS MONTH IN A HIT AND RUN CRASH. 16 YEAR OLD CURTIS GROFF DIED WHILE WORKING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD ON HILL A SUN HILL ROAD IN PENN TOWNSHIP LAST NIGHT, HIS SOFTBALL TEAM PLAYED A GAME IN HIS HONOR TO RAISE MONEY TO HELP HIS FAMILY. THE EVENING STARTED WITH PRAYER AND A MOMENT OF SILENCE. WHILE ALL PLAYERS WORE GROFF’S NUMBER ON THEIR JERSEY BOYS AND YOUTH GROUP AS WELL. AND HE ALWAYS INCLUDED OUR BOYS AS WELL, AND TALKED WITH THEM AND HAD A GOOD TIME TOGETHER. HE WOULD ALWAYS INVITE ME TO STUFF AND JUST MAKE SURE I FELT INCLUDED AND JUST ALWAYS MAKE SURE I EVERYONE ON THE OUTSKIRTS WAS, YOU KNOW, INVITED. I WAS THE FIRST GAME BACK FOR THE TEAM SINCE GROFF’S DEATH. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE CONCESSION WILL BE DONATED TO THE FAMILY AN