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Several YWCAs across Central Pennsylvania marked Red Sand Day on Thursday by filling sidewalk cracks with red sand to raise awareness about human trafficking and the victims who often fall through the cracks.

As Pennsylvania gets closer to requiring schools statewide to prohibit students from using cell phones, Central Pa. schools and advocacy groups see the benefits in a statewide school cell phone ban.

A three-student team from Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology captured first place at the Project MFG Advanced Manufacturing National Championship, earning a $100,000 grand prize after defeating top technical colleges from across the country. 

A new Lancaster museum dedicated to statesman Thaddeus Stevens and his housekeeper, Lydia Hamilton Smith, focuses on their roles in 19th-century abolitionist movements and the fight for freedom. The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy opened in May on the site where Stevens lived and practiced law. Sixteen exhibition galleries cover a range of topics, from what Lancaster was like in the 1840s to the Civil War and Reconstruction era, focusing on Stevens’ role.

Lancaster’s sheriff is facing public pressure to end his office’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the city widely known as America’s refugee capital, residents want ICE out.