Mega Millions ticket worth $1 million sold in Cumberland County
Updated: 3:34 PM EST Feb 18, 2025
WHO WASN’T INVITED. GOOD AFTERNOON. I’M SUSAN SHAPIRO, THE LANCASTER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY HAS JUST RULED IN THE POLICE SHOOTING LAST MONTH OF A MAN WHO WAS ARMED WITH A MACHETE. NEWS EIGHT’S MEREDITH JORGENSEN JOINS US LIVE WITH THE LATEST. HI, SUSAN. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY ANNOUNCED IN A PRESS CONFERENCE JUST AN HOUR AGO THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 39 YEAR OLD LUIS FUENTES BY A LANCASTER CITY POLICE OFFICER WAS JUSTIFIED. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 24TH, STARTING AROUND 10:00 IN THE MORNING WHEN THE DA SAYS POLICE OFFICERS RESPONDED TO AN ARMED ROBBERY ON SOUTH DUKE STREET. WE DID LEARN SOME NEW INFORMATION FROM THE DA TODAY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE THE FULTON BANK ON SOUTH DUKE STREET. THE DA SAYS THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED INSIDE THE BANK WERE NOTHING SHORT OF HARROWING, HARROWING DURING WHAT SHE CALLED WAS A VIOLENT ROBBERY. WHEN FUENTES ALLEGEDLY MADE DEMANDS WHILE SWINGING THAT MACHETE AROUND WHILE THERE WERE FOUR EMPLOYEES THERE AND ONE CUSTOMER, WE WERE TOLD THAT FUENTES TOOK AN EMPLOYEE HOSTAGE AND WAS IN THE BANK FOR A TOTAL OF FIVE MINUTES BEFORE AN EMPLOYEE WAS ABLE TO CALL 911 AND LEFT THE LINE OPEN, AND THEN LEFT THE BANK ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATER. AND THAT’S WHEN POLICE CHASED THE FUENTES ABOUT 12 BLOCKS TO THE AREA OF SOUTH PLUM STREET. THAT’S WHEN POLICE ENGAGED FUENTES, AND HE HAD THAT MACHETE, WHICH WAS ABOUT 28IN LONG, AND WAS WAVING IT AT POLICE AND THEN TURNED TOWARDS SOME UTILITY WORKERS THAT WERE THERE. AND POLICE ENGAGED, SHOT ONE, FIRED, ONE SHOT AND SHOT FUENTES IN THE BACK AS HE WAS HEADING TOWARDS THESE UTILITY WORKERS. SHE DID SHARE VIDEO WITH US THAT NEWS 8 WILL BRING YOU LATER ON THIS AFTERNOON. JUST SHOWING MUCH OF THAT INTERACTION AND SAYING THAT THAT VIDEO, THOSE VIDEO CLIPS HELPED HER DETERMINE THAT THIS WAS, IN FACT, A JUSTIFIED POLICE SHOOTING. NEWS EIGHT WILL HAVE MORE ON THIS STORY COMING UP TONIGHT ON NEWS EIGHT, FOUR, FIVE AND SIX. STAY WITH NEWS EIGHT ON AIR AND ONLINE FOR MORE ON THIS STORY. FOR NOW IN LANCASTER, I’M MEREDITH JORGENSEN WGAL NEWS EIGHT. A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER IN LANCASTER COUNTY WAS IN DISTRICT COURT THIS MORNING ON CHARGES HE DELIBERATELY SET FIRES. 23 YEAR OLD JOSHUA LIGHTCAP IS CHARGED WITH ARSON, DANGEROUS BURNING AND RECKLESSLY ENDANGERING ANOTHER PERSON. THE CHARGES ARE IN CONNECTION WITH A SHED FIRE AND A BRUSH FIRE ON THANKSGIVING DAY IN EAST HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY. DURING TODAY’S PROCEEDINGS, A JUDGE AGREED TO ALLOW LIGHTCAP TO BE FREE ON BAIL. HE’S CURRENTLY SUSPENDED FROM THE HEMPFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT. HIS PRELIMINARY HEARING HAS NOT BEEN SCHEDULED. TWO FIREFIGHTERS FROM HARRISBURG WERE INJURED THIS MORNING WHILE FIGHTING A ROWHOME FIRE. FIRE WAS SHOOTING FROM THE THIRD FLOOR OF THE HOME ON THE 1300 BLOCK OF WALNUT STREET. WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED. THE HARRISBURG BUREAU OF FIRE SAYS FIREFIGHTERS RESCUED SEVERAL PEOPLE FROM PORCHES. THE FIRE DAMAGED FOUR HOMES, DISPLACING SEVEN ADULTS AND FOUR CHILDREN. ONE FIREFIGHTER WAS TAKEN TO PENN STATE HERSHEY TO BE TREATED FOR BURNS. ANOTHER FIREFIGHTER WAS INJURED SLIPPING ON THE ICE AT THE SCENE. THE WEATHER MADE IT A CHALLENGE. WE HAD ALL THE WATER THAT WENT ON TO THE ROADS IMMEDIATELY FROZE. THE FIRE WAS DRIVEN BY THE WINDY CONDITIONS THAT THAT HAMPERED THE FIREFIGHTING EFFORT AND JUST THE WEATHER JUST COMPLICATES EVERYTHING. MAKES IT, YOU KNOW, 50 TIMES HARDER. IT’S ALREADY A TOUGH JOB. NO OTHER INJURIES WERE REPORTED. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. FIREFIGHTERS NOTIFIED THE AMERICAN RED CROSS ABOUT THE RESIDENTS WHO WERE DISPLACED. SWATARA TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE SAYS ANOTHER FIRE AROUND 730 THIS MORNING IN SWATARA TOWNSHIP TOOK LONGER TO CONTAIN BECAUSE THE FIREFIGHTERS WERE STILL ON THE SCENE OF THAT FIRE IN HARRISBURG. THE FIRE AFFECTED THREE HOMES ON THE 600 BLOCK OF SECOND STREET IN THE TOWNSHIP THAT ARE NOW UNINHABITABLE, DISPLACING SIX ADULTS AND EIGHT CHILDREN. NEARBY RESIDENTS SAY THEY EVACUATED AFTER HEARING SCREAMS. IT TOOK FIREFIGHTERS ABOUT 90 MINUTES TO GET THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL. I WENT OUT, YOU KNOW, DOWN, OUT MY FRONT DOOR AND I SAW SMOKE BILLOWING OUT OF THE HOUSES THAT ARE RIGHT THERE, AND I QUICKLY RAN IN, GRABBED MY DOGS, GRABBED MY PURSE, AND BY THE TIME I CAME DOWN THE STAIRS, MY NEIGHBOR MARISSA WAS IN MY HOUSE HELPING ME TO GATHER UP MY DOGS AND MY THINGS AND GET OUT OF HERE. NO ONE WAS INJURED, BUT THE INCIDENT CAUSED A POWER OUTAGE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. THE AMERICAN RED CROSS HAS ALSO BEEN NOTIFIED ABOUT THIS FIRE AND IS HELPING THE DISPLACED FAMILIES. THE LEBANON COUNTY CORONER RESPONDED TO A ROLLOVER CRASH THIS MORNING. THE CRASH HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER FIVE ON THE 600 BLOCK OF STRICKLER’S TOWN ROAD, NEAR HACKMAN ROAD IN MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP. A PICKUP TRUCK ROLLED ONTO ITS ROOF. NO OTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RELEASED AT THIS TIME. A WOMAN IS NOW CHARGED AFTER POLICE SAY SHE FIRED SHOTS IN NOVEMBER INTO AN OCCUPIED HOME IN LANCASTER COUNTY. EAST LAMPETER TOWNSHIP POLICE SAY 39 YEAR OLD AISHA QUINONEZ FIRED THE SHOTS NOVEMBER 3RD. THAT HIT A HOME ON EAST MAIN STREET IN LEOLA. SHE IS CURRENTLY OUT ON BAIL. A POLICE DEPARTMENT IN BERKS COUNTY IS USING NEW AI TECHNOLOGY. NEWS EIGHT’S GABRIELLE THOMAS REPORTS FROM MUHLENBERG TOWNSHIP ON HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS. MANY POLICE DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE USING THIS NEW AI TECHNOLOGY, WITH THE CHIEF HERE AT MUHLENBERG TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS IT’S WORKING WELL FOR THEM. BUT OTHER SOURCES SAY THE SYSTEM COULD BE BIASED. NOW, THIS DECISION TO ADD THE NEW A.I. TECHNOLOGY COMES AFTER THE DEPARTMENT SAYS THEY WANTED AN EXTRA SET OF EYES AND EARS IN ADDITION TO BODY CAMS. IN THE PAST, IT WOULD TAKE SUPERVISORS HOURS TO GO THROUGH BODY CAM FOOTAGE. NOW, THE AI POLICE ASSISTANT SWIFTLY GOES THROUGH EACH VIDEO WITHIN MINUTES AND ORGANIZES THE AUDIO INTO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES. THE CHIEF SAYS THE SYSTEM IS UNBIASED, BUT IT DOES PICK UP ON KEY WORDS, INCLUDING PROFANITY. WHILE THE SYSTEM WORKS WELL FOR MUHLENBERG TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT, OTHER SOURCES LIKE THE NAACP SAY THE TECHNOLOGY ISN’T TRANSPARENT. WE SPOKE TO THE CHIEF AT MUHLENBERG TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND HE SAYS THE NEW SYSTEM HOLDS OFFICERS ACCOUNTABLE. IT WILL IDENTIFY BEHAVIOR THAT WE WOULDN’T NORMALLY SEE OR BE AWARE OF UNLESS A CITIZEN ACTUALLY COMPLAINED. WELL, THEN THAT’S REACTIONARY. WE’D LIKE TO BE PROACTIVE AND GET AHEAD OF IT BEFORE ANY OF THAT HAPPENS. WE SPOKE WITH BOTH LANCASTER AND YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND THEY SAY THEY ARE NOT USING THE NEW AI TECHNOLOGY. REPORTING IN MUHLENBERG TOWNSHIP, I’M GABRIELLE THOMAS, WGAL NEWS EIGHT. THE CHIEF SAYS TAXPAYER DOLLARS WILL PAY FOR THE NEW SYSTEM. THE ANNUAL COST IS MORE THAN $16,000. CARLISLE POLICE IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY ARE NOW LOOKING FOR A MAN WHO WAS REPORTED MISSING ON SUNDAY. OFFICERS SAY 55 YEAR OLD NICHOLAS GEKAS LEFT HIS HOME ON NORTH BEDFORD STREET AND WAS LAST SEEN AROUND 4:00 SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN BIDDLE MISSION PARK ON EAST NORTH STREET. POLICE SAY THERE IS CONCERN FOR GEKAS WELFARE. HE WAS LAST SEEN WEARING A BLACK JACKET AND A BLACK TRACK PANTS. THE CHAMBERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT IN FRANKLIN COUNTY HAS ITS FIRST FEMALE POLICE CHIEF. CHAMBERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT. I AM HUMBLED TO BE THE NEXT CHIEF OF POLICE AND TO WORK WITH AND LEAD THESE WONDERFUL, DEDICATED MEN AND WOMEN OF THE CPD. THEY ARE A GROUP OF ETHICAL AND HARD WORKING INDIVIDUALS WHO WORK 24 SEVEN FOR THIS GREAT COMMUNITY. THE CHAMBERSBURG BOROUGH COUNCIL VOTED 7 TO 2 IN FAVOR OF DOMINIC. SHE HAS ABOUT 30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT. NEW AT NOON. DAUPHIN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FRAN CHARDO HAS ANNOUNCED HE’S RUNNING FOR ONE OF THE TWO OPEN SEATS ON THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS IN THE COUNTY. CHARDO HAS BEEN THE DA SINCE 2018. HE’S TRIED MORE THAN 140 JURY TRIALS, INCLUDING 24 MURDER CASES. NEW AT NOON, A WATER MAIN BREAK IN AKRON, LANCASTER COUNTY IS EXPECTED TO TAKE MOST OF THE DAY TO REPAIR. IT HAPPENED ON EIGHTH STREET BETWEEN OAK AND NEW STREETS. LOOKING LIVE FROM OUR SKYCAM NETWORK, IT LOOKS OKAY, BUT IT’S PRETTY CHILLY OUT THERE TODAY. METEOROLOGIST MIKE SUSKO JOINS ME NOW WITH MORE ON THE FORECAST. MIKE. WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON, SUSAN, AND GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. LOWS THIS MORNING WERE DEFINITELY CHILLY. WE WERE IN THE TEENS ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. WE GOT DOWN TO 16 IN HARRISBURG AS WELL AS LANCASTER. YOU’RE LOOKING OUTSIDE LEBANON RIGHT NOW, AND IT IS DEFINITELY A CHILLY DAY. 21 FEELS LIKE SEVEN, THOUGH, BECAUSE OF THOSE WINDS OUT OF THE WEST AT 17MPH. WE’RE STILL SEEING THOSE GUSTY WINDS. SO THE AIR TEMPERATURE, WHICH IS WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW, IS IN THE UPPER TEENS AND LOW 20S. BUT WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THIS, THE WIND GUSTS STILL BETWEEN 20 TO 30 MILES PER HOUR. WELL THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE. STILL FEELS LIKE THE SINGLE DIGITS IN LEBANON, LANCASTER AND HARRISBURG, AS WELL AS LEWISTOWN AND THE LOW TEENS IN CARLISLE, YORK, GETTYSBURG AND CHAMBERSBURG. WE’RE GOING TO KEEP THE BLUSTERY CONDITIONS AROUND TODAY, TODAY, BUT IT WILL BE DRY. AND YOUR NEXT 12 HOURS TEMPERATURES THEMSELVES GET UP TO AROUND 26 DEGREES. DROPPING DOWN TO THE TEENS TONIGHT, AND WE’LL HAVE ANOTHER MORNING WITH WIND CHILLS NEAR ZERO FOR YOUR WEDNESDAY. THANK YOU MIKE. A FIRE HEAVILY DAMAGED A HISTORIC CHURCH IN PHILADELPHIA. THE FIRE STARTED LAST NIGHT AT THE UNITED MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH ON 25TH STREET IN THE CITY. FIREFIGHTERS GOT THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL AROUND 930. NO ONE WAS IN THE CHURCH AT THE TIME OF THE FIRE, AND NO INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. THE CHURCH WAS BUILT IN 1892. THE PHILADELPHIA FIRE MARSHAL IS INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE. INDIGENOUS ACTIVIST AND CONVICTED DOUBLE MURDERER LEONARD PELTIER HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM PRISON. PELTIER WAS FREED THIS MORNING FROM A HIGH SECURITY PRISON IN FLORIDA. THEN PRESIDENT BIDEN COMMUTED HIS LIFE SENTENCE A MONTH AGO IN THE 1975 KILLINGS OF TWO FBI AGENTS. WHEN BIDEN COMMUTED PELTIER’S SENTENCE, HE NOTED THAT PELTIER HAD SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON AND WAS NOW IN ILL HEALTH. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS, INCLUDING FORMER FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY, OPPOSED THE COMMUTATION. WE ARE FOLLOWING BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS FROM SAUDI ARABIA. THE FIRST SIT DOWN MEETING IN YEARS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND RUSSIA HAS JUST ENDED. NEWS EIGHT’S AMY LU HAS MORE FROM OUR WASHINGTON BUREAU. SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO SAYS THIS IS A FIRST STEP IN A VERY LONG JOURNEY, AS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS REVERSING LONG STANDING U.S. POLICY, ISOLATING RUSSIA FOLLOWING ITS INVASION OF UKRAINE. RUBIO AND OTHER TOP OFFICIALS MEETING WITH THEIR RUSSIAN COUNTERPARTS. THE GROUP AGREEING TO FIRST REESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC TIES IN WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW, THEN NEGOTIATE AN END TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE. SO THE TWO COUNTRIES CAN COOPERATE ON OTHER GEOPOLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PRIORITIES. THE U.S. TEAM SAYING THEY DIDN’T SET A DATE FOR A SUMMIT BETWEEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, SUGGESTING THAT THERE’S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO DO. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS COMMITTED TO BRINGING AN END TO THIS CONFLICT. AND AS HE SAID, WHEN HE CAMPAIGNED FOR PRESIDENT AND HE WANTS IT TO BE END IN A WAY THAT’S FAIR, HE WANTS IT TO END IN A WAY THAT’S SUSTAINABLE AND ENDURING. NOT THAT LEADS TO ANOTHER CONFLICT IN 2 TO 3 YEARS. RUBIO SAYS THAT UKRAINE AND EUROPE WILL BE INVOLVED IN TALKS FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD WHEN IT COMES TO ENDING THE WAR, WHICH WILL REQUIRE CONCESSIONS FROM ALL SIDES. THERE WERE NO UKRAINIAN OR EUROPEAN OFFICIA
Mega Millions ticket worth $1 million sold in Cumberland County
Updated: 3:34 PM EST Feb 18, 2025
A Mega Millions ticket worth $1 million was sold in Cumberland County, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery.Video above: Headlines from News 8Someone purchased the ticket at the A to Z Mart at 38 Erford Road in Camp Hill.The ticket matched all five white balls in the Valentine’s Day drawing: 11-19-31-49-56.Pennsylvania LotteryWINNERS: How to claim your prize.WHERE THE $$$ GOES: Lottery benefits by county.DOUBLECHECK: See recent winning numbers and jackpots.TICKET CHECKER: Learn more about the official app and download.GAMBLING PROBLEM: Call the helpline at 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537).Video below: 5 things to know about the Pennsylvania Lottery
A Mega Millions ticket worth $1 million was sold in Cumberland County, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Video above: Headlines from News 8
Someone purchased the ticket at the A to Z Mart at 38 Erford Road in Camp Hill.
The ticket matched all five white balls in the Valentine’s Day drawing: 11-19-31-49-56.
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