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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

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

Police & Fire

Child Luring: 4 Men Tried To Get Girl Into Car In Franklin Co., PSP Says A 9-year-old Brownsville girl is safe after four men tried to lure her into their car, Pennsylvania State Police announced in a release on Saturday, May 6, 2023. The police are looking for the men who approached the girl while driving in a black Nissan sedan with a PA license on Mower Road in Guilford Township around 2 p.m. on April 23, 2023. Which was traveling in an unknown direction. The car had a cracked passenger window and the men are described by the police as Hispanic and one was wearing a hoodie, the police detailed in the release. Additional information was unavailab…

by Jillian Pikora

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

$4K Reward: Police Assaulted, Car Vandalized By Dirt Biker Riders Near I-83 In PA UPDATE: A $4,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of the three dirt biker riders who are wanted in connection to the below assault and vandalism, Lower Paxton Township police announced on Thursday, May 11, 2023. ORIGINAL: An officer was assaulted, their vehicle was vandalized, and three of the suspects remain at-large, Lower Paxton Township Bureau of Police announced on Monday, May 8, 2023. But, the officer was able to detain one of the riders, identified as 25-year-old Curtis Jayron-Malik Sims of Harrisburg. Curtis Jayron-Malik Sims.Lower Paxton Towns…

by Jillian Pikora

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

Woman Missing From Lebanon Found Safe, Police Say UPDATE: Bernice Amenu has been found safe and is being "reconnected with family," the Lebanon City Police announced on Monday, May 8, 2023. ORIGINAL: A 71-year-old woman with "diminished mental capacity" has gone missing from her Lebanon City home, police say. Lebanon City Police are looking for Bernice Amenu of Lebanon City, she was last seen in the 700 block of North 8th Street on Sunday, May 7, 2023, at approximately 4:30 p.m. She is approximately 5'5" tall, weighing, approximately 170 lbs., and has brown and gray hair, according to the police release on Monday, May 8, 202…

by Jillian Pikora

05/08/2023

Police & Fire

Penn State Dropout Faked Own Abduction To Avoid Letting Loved Ones Down, Police Believe A 23-year-old Penn State Greater Allegheny dropout is believed to have faked her own abduction because she was embarrassed she hadn't been attending classes and didn't want to disappoint loved ones come graduation, authorities said. Chloe Elizabeth Stein of Jeannette, PA, left her car on the side of Radebaugh Road under Route 66 in Jeannette and walked three miles to a friend's house on the evening of Monday, May 1, 2023, PSP Trooper Steve Limani said. Sometime around then, she sent a text to her boyfriend saying she'd been pulled over, prompting authorities to issue a Missing Endange…

by Cecilia Levine & Jillian Pikora

05/05/2023

Police & Fire

13-Year-Old Charged With Murder For Shooting 12-Year-Old At Sleepover In PA: DA A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the third degree a month after shooting a 12-year-old boy over a "yo' mama" joke at a sleepover in Red Lion. Nolan Donald Grove was charged as an adult, and has also been charged with a felony of having a firearm without a license and multiple misdemeanor counts of possession of a firearm by a minor, and recklessly endangering another person. He surrendered Friday, May 5, 2023, according to York County District Attorney Dave Sunday. If he is convicted he would face a maximum sentence of 40 years. Kain Heiland was pronounced dead at 9:48 p.m…

by Jillian Pikora

05/05/2023

Lifestyle

$150K Lottery Won By Pennsylvania Player A winning lottery ticket for Powerball for the drawing on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, sold in Dauphin County according to lottery officials. The ticket matched four of the five white balls drawn, 21-26-30-45-47, and the red Powerball 23, to win $150,000, less applicable withholding. It sold at Speedway at 6821 Paxton Street, Harrisburg, which will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. Thousands of other PA Lottery Mega Millions tickets won prizes of various amounts in the drawing. Players find out if they've won any prizes by scanning the tickets at a Lottery retai…

by Jillian Pikora

05/04/2023

Police & Fire

Dad, Daughter Killed, Son In ICU Following Box Truck Crash On PA Route 230 A dad and his teenage daughter have died and a 9-year-old is in the intensive care unit following a crash with a box truck, authorities announced Thursday, May 4, 2023. The driver was alone in the box truck and 40-year-old Joshua "JJ" Moore was with his 15-year-old daughter Aviona "Avi," and his son were in his car, when the vehicles collided at the intersection of South Front Street/PA Route 230 and T Street in Steelton at approximately 3:54 p.m., according to the police. JJ died at the scene, and his children were taken to a local hospital– where Avi died, police said and their family …

by Jillian Pikora

05/04/2023

Police & Fire

Trio ID'd After Chase Turned Deadly Crash Near I-81 In PA: State Police The three people who were found dead after crashing into a tree overnight while fleeing from state troopers have been identified, Pennsylvania State Police announced in an updated release on Friday, May 5, 2023. Eric Carl, 37, of New Cumberland, was driving the vehicle, Carly Renee Taylor-Robinson, 26, of Harrisburg, was in the front seat and Darun Marquis Alexander was in the back seat, 33, of Harrisburg, according to the police. The trio had failed to stop their vehicle when troopers Corbin Walburn and Matthew Condard attempted a traffic stop around 1:35 a.m. on Thursday, as detailed in t…

by Jillian Pikora

05/04/2023

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