{"id":238803,"date":"2026-07-08T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238803\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:32:08","slug":"state-reps-look-to-name-portion-of-i-81-after-fallen-pennsylvania-state-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238803\/","title":{"rendered":"State reps look to name portion of I-81 after fallen Pennsylvania state trooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Two Schuylkill County lawmakers plan to dedicate a portion of I-81 to Pennsylvania State Police trooper Michael Pahira, who was killed in the line of duty while conducting a truck inspection on the side of the roadway. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/living-in-pa-housing-crisis\/fallen-pennsylvania-state-trooper-michael-pahira-to-be-laid-to-rest-wednesday-pa-pennsylvania-state-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;One of our very best:&#8217; State trooper Michael Pahira celebrated during funeral service<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If legislation passes, Exit 119 on I-81 would be named the &#8220;PSP Trooper Michael E. Pahira Jr. Memorial Interchange.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The dedication was proposed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/house\/co-sponsorship\/memo?memoID=49001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rep. Tim Twardzik<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/senate\/co-sponsorship\/memo?memoID=49000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sen. David Argall.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Pahira served as a state police trooper for nearly 20 years and was assigned to the Frackville Station in Schuylkill County.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/he-makes-you-feel-comfortable-fallen-trooper-remembered-in-schuylkill-county-michael-pahira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;He makes you feel comfortable:&#8217; fallen trooper remembered in Schuylkill County<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Two Schuylkill County lawmakers plan to dedicate a portion of I-81 to Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-238803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}