A Buckingham socialite known for her lavish lifestyle could spend the rest of her life in state prison after she was convicted Tuesday of filing nearly $13 million in false insurance claims following a 2013 fire at her family’s 10-acre estate.

As if the polar vortex isn’t enough, sudden whiteouts called snow squalls are causing problems for the Northeast. A snow squall is an intense, short-lived burst of heavy snowfall accompanied by gusty wind, according to the National Weather Service. Squalls can happen when there is no winter storm.

First, they came to replace the supermarket checkout person. Now they’ve come for the risk managers. Technology and automation, that is.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the case of a politically connected Buckingham woman accused nearly four years ago of a $20 million insurance fraud scheme involving a fire that heavily damaged her family’s million-dollar Stony Hill Road mansion.

A woman convicted of setting fire to her Kane home in 2014 has been sentenced to state prison. Holly Lynn Gausman, 44, of Grampian in Clearfield County was sentenced to serve between 27 months and 84 months in state prison.

A homeless man is facing charges after he damaged about 80 cars on the second and third floor of a parking garage for Lancaster General Hospital/Penn Medicine. Jere Lyons, 55, is facing criminal mischief, defiant trespass, and possessing instruments of a crime.

Two people died in a chain reaction crash involving several big rigs on Interstate 78 westbound in Windsor Township, Berks County, Wednesday afternoon.

A Milton woman is charged with fraud/making a false insurance claim and theft by deception for trying to collect insurance by lying about a vehicle fire.

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in a 2017 gas explosion that destroyed a Lancaster County home, killed one utility worker and injured two others.

A 9,000 square foot home exploded Sunday in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. "Our whole house shook, we’re about a mile or two up the road. We didn’t know what it was, some kind of explosion," said one neighbor who heard the blast.

An investigation by the state attorney general’s office has netted 60 arrests for insurance fraud, including 25 people from Western Pennsylvania.

A two-alarm fire caused damage to a car dealership in Montgomery County early Wednesday morning.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday signed into law a bill that reinstates controversial impairment ratings in the state after the state’s Supreme Court deemed them unconstitutional in 2017, a change that experts say raised workers compensation loss cost rates by 6.06% mid-year.

Officials with the National Weather Service in Cleveland said an EF-2 tornado, packing winds of 115 mph, tore through an area near Conneautville on Tuesday afternoon, striking an elder care facility, bringing down trees and severing power to some residents of Crawford County.

People evacuated during the gas line explosion in Beaver County, except for those who live on Ivy Lane and Pine Street, have been allowed to return to their homes, Beaver County Emergency Services tweeted.