Photo by Curt Werner

Northern York County Fire Rescue firefighters Carla Snyder and Donald Dye attack a garage fire in the 700 block of Range End Road, Franklin Township, Sunday night at 11 p.m. Firefighters from York, Adams and Cumberland counties, including Upper Allen, Mechanicsburg, York Springs, Lake Meade, Dover, Monroe, Carlisle, Heidlersburg and Wellsville, were on the scene. No one was in the building at the time. Cause of the fire is undetermined, but it is not considered suspicious. According to the Assistant Chief Hector Morales a neighbor who lives across the street reported the fire to 911. Morales said they had to bring water in because there were no water supplies near the garage. The fire was under control within two hours.

Photo by Curt Werner

A son has been charged with shooting his father to death Monday night in their home at 15 Carroll St., Wellsville

Wellsville man kills father in "fit of rage"

Marie Chomicki

A recent Northern High School graduate shot his father to death Monday night in a "fit of rage," according to Pennsylvania State Police.

Police said Wyatt Nathaniel Dettinger, 21, was in his bedroom hitting the television with his hands and a rifle, as reported by a witness, when his father, Duane Dettinger, 48, entered the room and asked him to stop.

Wyatt told police when his father left the room, he shot through the wall with a .243 caliber rifle, striking his father. Police said Wyatt then walked into the hallway and shot his father again as he was lying on the floor.

A 17-year-old juvenile, who was in the bedroom at the time of the shooting, fled the crime scene with Wyatt, both taking off in her red Mazda sedan.

Marlee Starliper won second place at the U20 Track and Field Championships in Costa Rica

Pan Am U20 Championships: Starliper takes silver medal

Joe Guty

In Costa Rica last Friday evening, July 19, Marlee Starliper capped her 2019 season with a stellar second-place finish in the women’s 3000-meter run at the Pan American U20 Track and Field Championships. Wearing the U.S.A. uniform in her first international competition, the Northern senior to-be clocked 9:27.88 to take the silver medal and finish a few steps behind Canada’s Brogan MacDougall’s winning time of 9:23.23. Starliper’s mark lowered her own Pennsylvania state record of 9:29.39 that she set in the USATF U20 Championships (and Pan Am qualifier) in June. MacDougall and Starliper ran closely together for most of the race before the Canadian pulled away to victory toward the end ofthe race.

Several Pennsylvanians competed in the Pan Am U20 Championships including 3000-meter fourth place finisher Ariana Gardizy who ran for North Penn H.S. (class of 2018) and is currently a rising sophomore at Penn. She ran 10:09.32 and narrowly missed the bronze medal. State record holder in the 60 and 100-meter dashes, Thelma Davies of Girard College showed her sprint talent once more as she placed second in the 100-meter dash in 11.39. Briana Williams of Jamaica won the event, barely, with an 11.38. Skylar Ciccolini of Mifflin County H.S. – another Mid Penn Conference School – also took silver as she threw 175-9.5 in the women’s javelin. Milton Hershey grad Treyvon Ferguson, who now competes for the University of Kansas, placed fourth in the Triple Jump. Athletes representing the following 17 countries participated in the Pan Am U20 Track and Field Championships: The Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile,Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, St. Kittsand Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States.