How many bears have Pa. hunters tagged thus far in 2024?: Top 5 most-read stories Nov. 11 - 17 [ICYMI]

Each Monday, our digital team takes a look at last week's top stories on LancasterOnline.

We look at news, sports, business, life, culture and local history.

Here are the most-read stories between Monday, Nov. 11, and Sunday, Nov. 17.

Pennsylvania bear hunters have been having an excellent season so far, and the biggest bear hunt of the year is still on deck.

According to the state Game Commission last week, Pennsylvania bear hunters already have tagged 1,350 bears through the early seasons so far, and there's still more early time left.

So they've already tagged more bears than the 1,243 they shot in the all of the early seasons last year.

Several years ago, Gabriella Morgan was living with her family in Mount Joy Borough when she met Ricky Shannon playing esports and Fortnite video games online.

About a year ago, she decided to move in with Shannon at the Altoona home he shared with his mother.

That's the account provided by Mitchell Eshleman, 55, of Ephrata, who identified himself Tuesday as Morgan's uncle. He is engaged to Morgan's mother's sister.

Shannon, 19, and Morgan, 22, are dead now, after Shannon went on a violent rampage Friday that ended in a police shootout on a roadway north of Harrisburg .

Bob Derr was hired to coach field hockey before he knew anything about it.

This was in 1979. Derr was a phys ed teacher at Warwick Middle School and coached wrestling in the winter and track in the spring. Warwick's junior high field hockey coach had stepped down with three games left in the season and Sandy Moyer, the Warriors' varsity coach, asked Derr to take over and get through the year.

His first response was on the order of, "Are you kidding me?''

After some cajoling, he came around.

''Do I get paid?,'' Derr recalled asking in a 2022 interview with LNP correspondent Steve Navaroli. "What the heck, I'll do it.''

At a school board meeting on Nov. 11, R-rated films proposed to be used in an elective course drew the ire of a board member. Among the new courses presented to the board during its work session was one titled Gothic Fiction and Literature, which includes screenings of classic and modern horror films, including some that are rated R for violence and "bloody" violence.

An Elizabeth R. Martin School student was shot near their home last Wednesday, according to the School District of Lancaster.

Principal Tom Mumma sent an email to staff and families on Thursday afternoon saying the unidentified student was shot and taken to the hospital and is expected to recover.

The school did not share any identifying details about the student, including their gender or where the student lives.

The investigation is being conducted by Manheim Township police who declined to comment on the shooting.