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Jason Dare, the New Jersey state trooper who was the focus of a missing person search in the Middletown area, has been located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey state police reported Friday morning on the department Twitter account. Police did not say where in Pennsylvania that Dare was located. Dare walked away from a hospital in Delaware County shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday and was last seen at

The remains of a third apparent victim of a chocolate factory explosion in Pennsylvania were discovered at the site on Saturday, authorities in the borough of West Reading said. The find brings to three the number of fatalities connected to Friday's blast at R.M. Palmer Company, with four others unaccounted for more than 24 hours after the incident, West Reading Fire Chief Chad Moyer. The

Federal safety officials are investigating the role of a natural gas pipeline in a fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday. Friday’s powerful explosion at R.M. Palmer Co. killed seven people, sent 10 to the hospital and damaged several other buildings in West Reading, a small town 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia, where the

WEST READING, Pa. — A fifth body has been recovered from the site of a powerful explosion at a chocolate factory in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania and two remained unaccounted for Sunday. West Reading Mayor Samantha Kaag said in an email to the Associated Press that the fifth body was found Sunday morning by first responders and confirmed dead by the Berks County Coroner’s Office. The