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Campbell’s 50-year career in animation includes works featuring Scooby Doo, Smurfs, Rugrats and more.

By Merideth Bucher/WITF

‘Have they locked the doors?’ Judge presses for details on Hershey charity spat with board member

With claims of millions of dollars unaccounted for at the Milton Hershey School, a judge considered Tuesday whether a board member’s lawsuit for access to financial records should go forward.

By Charlotte Keith/Spotlight PA

Sold on the promise of a college education, some former Milton Hershey School students ended up with debt, hardships

Hershey profits benefit a boarding school that spends lavishly on its low-income students. But that investment comes with strings attached — leaving some students behind and others mired in debt.
By Staff

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America’s richest school serves low-income kids. But much of its Hershey-funded fortune isn’t being spent.

The nonprofit Milton Hershey School says its founding deed prevents it from spending more money on its core mission, even though that hasn’t stopped the school from making significant changes before.

By Charlotte Keith/Spotlight PA

Board member sues powerful Milton Hershey School, claims he’s being denied financial records

The dispute is the latest in a series of legal entanglements involving the nonprofit Milton Hershey School and the members of its governing board.

By Staff

Milton Hershey 4th-grader’s art patch sent to the stars on SpaceX rocket

Joshua Ferguson’s art contains Jupiter, Saturn, the SpaceX rocket, the International Space Station, Earth and elements meant to celebrate Milton Hershey.

By Craig Rhodes/WITF and The Associated Press

Court green lights Hershey’s $350 million plan for six free childhood centers around Pennsylvania

The centers will be the first time in more than 100 years that the charity that controls the chocolate giant, with assets of about $14 billion, will help poor children outside of its rural campus.
By Staff

Milton Hershey School proposes $350 million network of six early childhood centers in Pa.

The Early Childhood Resource Centers — if approved by a Dauphin County court — would be the first time the privately funded charitable school, with assets around $15 billion and 2,100 students, has offered to help impoverished children outside of its sprawling residential campus in rural Hershey.

By NPR


Pa. Attorney General wants to exorcise ‘ghost guns’

80 percent assembled, 100 percent deadly?
By Joseph Darius Jaafari/PA Post
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