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Driving records don’t cross state lines

A Maryland father wants Inside, on 4A
Ed Kohls’ son, Connor,
was killed in front of his
a York County man involved c Driving record point values in Pa. home in 2008. The driver
in his son’s fatal crash taken c What transfers to a Pa. driving record
c Record of driver in fatal crash.
of the vehicle, David Auble,
was from York County.
off the road. The citations he received in
the crash never transferred
By REBECCA LeFEVER record of the crash never made it on his Penn- to his Pennsylvania license.
Daily Record/Sunday News sylvania driver’s license. About a year later, Auble
When 15-year-old Connor Kohls died in 2008 Ed Kohls called Gov. Ed Rendell’s office to would receive ARD for a
after being struck in Maryland by a York County see what could be done. The answer: Nothing. DUI charge in York County
man in a work van, Connor’s parents expected “My first reaction was one of disbelief,” said — something York
the driver to be severely punished — even Ed Kohls. “How could Pennsylvania and Mary- County’s district attorney
though police did not charge him in connection land not have a way of recording this?” said wouldn’t have
with the death. Ed Kohls, Connor’s father, said About a year later, Auble would receive Ac- happened had Auble’s
they thought the driver would at least lose his celerated Rehabilitative Disposition in a drunk- Pennsylvania driving record
Pennsylvania license. en driving case in York County — something included the fatal crash.
David Auble, 24, of Peach Bottom Township York County’s district attorney said wouldn’t Ed Kohls, pictured at left,
received traffic citations for violations such as • • • has filed a civil lawsuit.
speeding. He paid fines in Maryland, but the See RECORDS, page 4A DAILY RECORD / SUNDAY NEWS — BIL BOWDEN

THE CALL OF THE WILD Gov.

Castle Doctrine

vetoes
For the Eberly
family, the
tradition of
hunting has been
passed down.

bill
By TERESA ANN BOECKEL
Daily Record/Sunday News
Hunting is in the blood
of the Eberly family.
It started when Terry
Eberly was a kid. He
learned how to hunt and
fish from his father, the late Ed Rendell criticized the bill
Charles Eberly, and his
aunt and uncles.
as dangerous. It would have
“Hunting and fishing is expanded when deadly force
basically all we ever did,”
the 65-year-old York Town-
can be used in self-defense.
ship man said.
The family had a hunt- By MARC LEVY
Associated Press
ing camp in the South
Mountains near Laurel HARRISBURG — Gov. Ed Rendell on Sat-
Lake from the late 1950s to urday vetoed a bill that he feared would esca-
the early 1980s. late violent acts by expanding a person’s
The family would gather rights in Pennsylvania to use deadly force,
at the old Army trailer on even when safe retreat is possible, if feeling
the eve of the opening day threatened outside their home.
of deer hunting. They’d eat Rendell criticized the bill as a dangerous
a turkey or ham dinner on solution to a nonexistent problem that would
Sunday night and sit encourage a “shoot first, ask questions later”
around and talk, sharing mentality.
old hunting stories.
In the morning, they’d “I do not believe that in a
wake up to sizzling eggs and civilized society we should
bacon on the stove before encourage violent and deadly
heading into the mountains confrontation when the
to hunt for buck. victim can safely protect
“Nothing smells better themselves” through retreat,
than that on a cold morning Rendell wrote in his veto
up in the mountains,” Terry message released Saturday.
Eberly said. “As keepers of the public
Rendell
His sons, however, never trust, we have the solemn Vetoed the
got to be part of the family’s duty to protect our citizenry, self-defense bill
deer camp tradition. The not put them in harm’s way
family had to sell the camp and to protect the sanctity of human life.”
the year before Terry Eber- The veto was one of three bills that Ren-
ly’s oldest son could start dell vetoed Saturday.
hunting.
• • •
The measure broadening Pennsylvania’s
See WILD, page 6A so-called Castle Doctrine also would have of-
fered immunity against civil lawsuits to
people who could show that they acted within
the law’s guidelines.
Inside, on 6A Under current law in Pennsylvania, the
c Marcellus Shale use of deadly force in self-defense is not justif-
changes terrain of iable when safe retreat is possible, unless a
northern Pennsylvania. DAILY RECORD / SUNDAY NEWS — KATE PENN
person is attacked in his or her home or
c Hunters who bag a workplace, Rendell said.
deer this season will be Matt Eberly, from left, his 9-year-old son, Hunter, and his father, Terry Eberly, plan to hunt Monday on the
opening day of deer hunting season. The family’s hunting roots go back to Terry’s father, and now Hunter The vetoed bill said, in part, that “no
able to report online.
is being brought up in the same tradition. person should be required to surrender his or
• • •
See VETO, page 7A

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Ex-investigator defends actions
from fire dies
The 78-year-old Miriam Grothe of Index Money intended for crime victims was going Inside, on 5A
Chanceford Township died of smoke
inhalation after she was taken to York
AUTOMOTIVE 2G to people involved with crimes, he said. c What is the Office of Victims’
Hospital. 1C CROSSWORDS 5B, 2F Services?
By MIKE ARGENTO gutted. A former employee, Edward c A look at the charges against
FARM 5E Daily Record/Sunday News Dashnaw, was convicted April 2, the former state investigator and
HOME SOURCE Inside
It began with a brutal murder. 2007, after a three-month-long trial, former Dallastown police chief.
LOTTERIES 2A David and Lorraine Donivan according to news reports.
Year 83, No. 48; York, Pa.
C 2010 York Sunday News MOVIES 6F were killed in late December 2005 William Donivan attended the
OBITUARIES 4-5C in Plattsburgh, N.Y. — their bodies trial. David was his brother. linquency’s Office of Victims’
found in their business, a furniture After the trial, he signed up with Services. That, and his background
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warehouse. David Donivan had the state’s Survivors Speaker as a state police officer, former
VIEWPOINTS B been stabbed 32 times. His wife’s Bureau, established by the Pennsyl- • • •
YOUR NEWS Y body had 10 stab wounds and was vania Commission on Crime and De- See VICTIMS, page 5A

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