A woman has been charged with committing an armed robbery early Tuesday morning at a Turkey Hill convenience store in East Hempfield Township.Meanwhile, police in Lancaster city are investigating a separate strong-arm robbery — also at a Turkey Hill store — that occurred late T......

A woman was in jail today, one day after said she allegedly displayed a gun and robbed a Centerville Road convenience store clerk, East Hempfield Township police said. Tara Leigh Dorsey, 35, of 3026 Todd Lane, was arrested by township police Detective Tammy Marsh and charged with robbing the......

Last summer, Lifestyle featured the story of Simon Mayen, a Lost Boy of Sudan, and his quest to visit the village he last saw when he fled in 1987.Civil war forced 8- or 9-year-old Mayen away from his family and into a long journey, crossing deserts and the dangerous Gilo River, until he r......

Jean Edwards went from anonymous retiree to millionaire celebrity this week.But as far as she's concerned, not much in her life has changed.Edwards plans to stay in her Willow Street home and maybe take a vacation to Jackson Hole, Wyo., but that's about it."I jus......

One lucky person took home more than a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread from the Turkey Hill store in Willow Street. A lot more. On Saturday, someone bought a winning Powerball ticket at that store. The ticket is worth $86.3 million in an annuity or $42.5 million in a lump sum payment....

By most accounts, a trip to a convenience store is about as exciting as watching grass grow.You may find yourself there to purchase gas, a pack of cigarettes or maybe a pint of iced tea.No doubt thousands of such trips have taken place at the Turkey Hill in Willow Street. On Saturda......

A search for an armed robber shut down Lancaster General Hospital's parking garage for about an hour Tuesday night. The incident began when a white man, about 18 to 20 years old, entered the Turkey Hill at North Queen and East Clay streets at 10 p.m. He displayed what appeared to be a large......

Lancaster city police scoured a construction site along North Queen Street late Tuesday night searching for a man who reportedly robbed a nearby Turkey Hill.The suspect hadn't been apprehended as of the Intelligencer Journal's press time, and some police remained on the scene &mdas......

A convenience store clerk wrestled with a man who tried to rob him as he emptied trash early Wednesday morning in East Petersburg, police said. Manheim Township police Sgt. Robert Baldwin said the robber used an unorthodox technique in an attempt to obtain cash from the Turkey Hill Minit Market......

A lawsuit filed against state Sen. Michael Brubaker, which stemmed from an incident at a Turkey Hill store last year, has been tossed out of court for the second time.Barbara Showalter, a Denver resident who advocates for tighter regulations on Pennsylvania's commercial dog kennels, fi......

A man accused of robbing a Lancaster city convenience store at gunpoint then fleeing in a stolen pickup truck was ordered this week to stand trail.Henry Medina-Cedeno and defense attorney Barrie Wellener waived a preliminary hearing at District Judge Mary Sponaugle's office Wednesday. ......

Two years ago, Turkey Hill Dairy began shipping its refrigerated iced tea to the Cincinnati headquarters of its owner, The Kroger Co. The dairy wanted Kroger's top executives — who decide what products to put in which stores — to taste it for themselves. "You have to get yourse......

The 10-year-old boy struck Wednesday by an unmarked police cruiser spent Thursday in stable condition at Hershey Medical Center, Lancaster city police said.The boy, whose identity has not been released, was riding a bicycle at East New and North Cherry streets when he and an unmarked cruis......

Police have arrested a man suspected of robbing five convenience stores in northeastern Lancaster County and Berks County during a recent five-day period. Three of the robberies allegedly committed by 41-year-old Edward Raynell Salter happened at Turkey Hill Minit Markets in Denver Borough, Eas......

There used to be only two things in life that were inescapable — death and taxes. But now there's another — higher gas prices. The price of regular gas continues to climb, spiking at $4.099 a gallon at one local station, as new record highs keep being set in the county a......

Two Turkey Hill convenience stores in northeastern Lancaster County and one in neighboring Berks County were held up by a lone gunman Monday night and early today, police report. A fourth Turkey Hill store robbery that happened early Saturday morning in northern Lancaster County also could......

With summer approaching, friends and families will be looking to fill their leisure time with inexpensive, fun activities.Turkey Hill Minit Markets and its sister company, Turkey Hill Dairy, have partnered to provide just that to people in south-central Pennsylvania.The companies re......

A 21-year-old East Lampeter Township man was sentenced Monday to 8 to 16 years in state prison for a pair of knifepoint robberies at Lancaster city convenience stores.Dustin Vedder robbed a Turkey Hill on Columbia Avenue and Sun Grocery on High Street Jan. 14, 2007, according to court test......

Skyrocketing gas prices have inflicted pain at the pump for providers as well as drivers.A domino effect initiated by higher gas prices has prompted more people to charge fuel to credit cards, which ultimately sucks more money out of a retailer's pocket, reducing profit margins.......

When you're the top refrigerated iced tea producer in the nation, and expect to grow, you need more water. Turkey Hill Dairy has completed a new 4,250-foot water line to draw groundwater from four wells at the base of Turkey Hill to its dairy facilities atop the hill. The newly buried ......

The third Saturday in May is approaching, and in Lancaster County that means just one thing: the 55th annual Sertoma Club of Lancaster chicken barbecue.The barbecue, hailed as the world's largest by "The Guinness Book of World Records," will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May......

Ryan Weitzel fought cancer in the same way that he performed on and off the lacrosse field.With integrity, passion, courage and with no surrender.And though Ryan lost his four-year battle with the disease last Saturday, his legacy will survive and will be honored by the entire lacro......

The Brubaker family never thought they would be in the energy business, but today their dairy farm is creating enough electricity to light a small town.Hundreds of people, ranging from politicians to local farmers, were at Brubaker Farms in Mount Joy Wednesday afternoon to help unveil a ne......

For some local farmers and food makers, a trip to the hospital is a good thing. Lancaster General Hospital has set the goal of spending $800,000 to $1 million more a year on food from within Pennsylvania. Patients and customers of LGH cafes will be able to chow down on more of their favori......

One of three men responsible for the "random" and severe beating of a Quarryville man at a Buck convenience store in 2006 was sentenced to county prison Monday.Anthony N. McElroy, 20, of Peach Bottom, was part of a trio that repeatedly punched and kicked Matthew McFalls Dec. 20, ......

The fight started when three men fired rubber pellets at a car outside the Turkey Hill at the Buck in southern Lancaster County five days before Christmas 2006. It ended when the three men beat the car's owner, after he confronted them about the pellets. The victim, Matthew J. McFalls, ......

The bad news about gas prices is that there is no good news: Pump prices continue to spiral upward with no end in sight.On Thursday, the price for regular gas hit another record nationwide, averaging $3.27 a gallon. According to AAA's Web site, that's 2 cents higher than Wednesday&......

A brazen convenience store robber, labeled last year the "Turkey Hill bandit" for a string of violent holdups, was sentenced Tuesday to 40 to 80 years in state prison.Eugene Thye Bonner, 29, pleaded guilty in November to robbing Turkey Hill stores in Lancaster County eight times, from July......

A city man who prosecutors said was responsible for a rash of brazen, violent convenience store robberies last year, was sentenced to 40 to 80 years in prison today in Lancaster County Court. Eugene Bonner, 29, whose last known address was the 900 block of Columbia Avenue, was charged with r......

Hundreds of lids for chocolate ice cream churn in a metal bin as they're scooped up by a conveyor belt at Turkey Hill Dairy near Conestoga. About 50 per minute are pressed down on cartons of ice cream along each of the five lines in the plant, enough cartons and lids to empty two to three s......

Police say a man charged in a 2006 armed robbery of an East Petersburg convenience store had an accomplice: the store clerk, who handed the gunman more than $600.Manheim Township police Monday filed charges of theft and false reports against Gregory L. Shorter, 26, a former clerk at the Tu......

After spending a few decades in the corporate world, Lynn DeBlois is now "The Pretzel Lady." And for good reason. DeBlois, 65, of Strasburg, started Pretzelphoria in 2002. The company's offerings are a mix of her own recipes and products from the county's other family-run......

For the second time in five months, a manager at a fast-food restaurant on Lititz Pike faces a harassment charge from an incident involving an employee, Manheim Township police report. Jay W. Rutter, 22, of Nanticoke Road, who is a manager at the Burger King, 1408 Lititz Pike,  allege......

Police allege a 19-year-old woman stole cash and merchandise while working at an Ephrata Township convenience store.Tiffany Ann Homsher, of Ephrata, is accused of stealing about $200 in cash from registers while employed as a clerk at Turkey Hill Minit Market, 4 Hahnstown Road.Homsh......

It's a pesky little article shared by only The Hague in the Netherlands, The Bronx in New York and, of course, the Buck, which straddles the border between Drumore and East Drumore townships in southern Lancaster County.The answer to how the Buck got its "the" seems to raise ......

The spirit of giving during the Christmas season could be seen Monday morning stretching along the sidewalk of North Price Street.A record number of recipients and volunteers turned out for the 21st annual Lancaster County Project for the Needy holiday dinner distribution. More than 1,000 ......

Scott Dierwechter would love to be awakened Christmas morning by his two boys, Aiden, 3, and Gabriel, 4, before they excitedly run downstairs to see what presents Santa Claus brought them. He'd love to linger over breakfast with his wife, Kerry, and spend all day watching his boys play w......

West Lampeter Township police are looking for two men who assaulted a clerk while robbing a convenience store, then fled on bicycles.One of the robbers wielded a gun and the other carried a knife as they robbed Turkey Hill Minit Market, 1561 Millport Road, about 4 a.m. Wednesday, police sa......

A pair of armed men wearing ski masks held up the Turkey Hill Minit Market at 1561 Millport Road, roughed up a clerk, and fled on bicycles shortly before 4 a.m. today, West Lampeter Township police said. The bandits were pedaling north on Millport Road toward Lancaster when they saw police cars......

With more families looking for assistance during the holiday season, local food banks are hoping to collect enough supplies to last the winter."Sometimes donations thin out after Thanksgiving," said Dee Thomas, who runs a food bank from Real Hope Fellowship Church's basement ......

When Caroline Novak started consulting for the Lancaster Farmland Trust in 2004, she made some bold statements. The nonprofit farmland preservation group and the county's Agricultural Preserve Board could double the number of acres they save from development each year, she predicted. M......

The rain is over. Now brace for wind and cold. Nearly seven-tenths of an inch of rain soaked Lancaster County over a 19-hour period Monday. The rain, heavy fog at times and a stiff wind amounted to the worst-case scenario for deer hunters on the opening day of rifle season. "I......

Here's a scoop: Ice cream is helping to save a 63-acre Amish farm in Fulton Township. Turkey Hill Dairy in 2005 began giving a portion of the proceeds from sales of its All Natural Recipe ice cream to the nonprofit farmland preserver, Lancaster Farmland Trust. Through the end of 2006, that......

A jailed Berks County man suspected in at least six holdups in a weekend crime spree spanning three counties earlier this month has been charged with robbing a Caernarvon Township convenience store.State Police in Ephrata reported Michael A. DeLossantos, 27, of Leesport was charged with th......

Three Lancaster city teenagers were cleared of all charges Thursday after being jailed and accused of robbing a Manheim Township convenience store.Police say another city teen, 15-year-old Terralonce Miller Jr., falsely incriminated the boys after he was arrested at the Sept. 22 holdup of ......

In an effort to bring businesses back downtown and make streets safer for pedestrians, officials in Columbia Borough are working on a way to help large trucks bypass the center of town.One of the options, however, has at least one resident furious.At Columbia Borough's most recent c......

Police are searching for a man who robbed at least two convenience stores over the weekend.State Trooper James Algeo said the suspect entered a Turkey Hill Minit Market at 2848 Main St. in Caernarvon Township about 6:50 p.m. Saturday night and asked a clerk for two cartons of cigarettes....

One thing about Sunday's 18th Annual Tailwagger's Trot — it's all about the dogs.The big event that benefits Humane League of Lancaster County has the same fun events as previous years, but is concentrated in one location rather than two this time to boost the festivities......

Some would argue conservative southern Lancaster County has always resisted change, but when it comes to the realigned intersection of Routes 272 and 372 at the Buck, residents' refusal to adapt could wind up costing lives.A Drumore Township official pleaded Friday for residents to fol......

A young woman attacked a 70-year-old Lancaster woman with a baseball bat, apparently because the older woman took too long to get out of her vehicle at a suburban convenience store, East Hempfield Township police  said. The incident, which happened Sunday morning at the Turkey Hill Minit M......

Police are searching for an unidentified female accused of attacking a 70-year-old woman with a baseball bat inside a convenience store Sunday.The assault followed a verbal altercation that began in the parking lot of Turkey Hill Minit Market, 1503 Columbia Ave., according to East Hempfiel......

The uncle of two of the teens charged with robbing a Manheim Township convenience store Saturday night said his nephews are innocent.Odell Ashford of 625 First St. said his nephews, Otis Ashford and Kendell Foster Jr., both 15, were at home with him at midnight Saturday.That's w......

Police have arrested four teenage boys who allegedly robbed a New Holland Avenue convenience store at gunpoint late Saturday night. The four boys, all of Lancaster City, are being charged as adults with robbery. They are: Evincii C. Dixon, 16, Otis Ashford, 15, Kendall C. Foster Jr., 15, and Te......

Four teenage boys were sitting in Lancaster County Prison Sunday night after they allegedly robbed a Manheim Township convenience store at gunpoint late Saturday.The boys, three 15-year-olds and one 16-year-old, all were charged as adults with robbery and criminal conspiracy, and each is b......

Penn Manor School District's new athletic field might soon be named Turkey Hill Field at Comet Field.But first, corporate executives at Turkey Hill Minit Markets must sign an agreement that would give $50,000 to the school district over 10 years in exchange for naming rights.The agr......

Columbia may have the "shifter" sandwich and Washington Boro may be famous for its Native American past, but when it comes to Marietta, the buzz these days is focused on only one thing: the borough's pioneering efforts to go green."Cleaning up the environment is never a bad thing and doing......

There was a strange sort of symmetry to it. The three young men walked into the convenience store, pulling their shirts over their faces to hide them from the clerk they allegedly robbed and shot at early Monday. Nine hours later, one of the suspects walked into a courtroom the same way......

A 20-year-old Lancaster man was charged with attempted murder Monday for shooting at a Manheim Township convenience store clerk while robbing the store with two friends, police said.Junior F. Santana fired at least six shots from a .22-caliber rifle — two at the male clerk — as......

Twenty minutes after the crime, police nabbed three men suspected of robbing and firing shots into a Manheim Township convenience store early today, charging one with attempted murder. And police are investigating whether the men could be connected to another recent robbery, during which a c......

Lancaster County-based Turkey Hill Dairy continued its westward expansion Thursday as the company's ice cream and iced tea marked their first months of sales in more than 600 stores in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.The move comes less than two years after Turkey Hill products fi......

Simon Mayen went to the convenience store and bought four $5 phone cards.He knew each card would allow him to talk to his mother for one hour.Even though he was excited, he said nothing to his roommate, JokAyom JokAyom. Mayen has learned how to be patient — to wait a long time......

West Earl Township police are seeking a man who robbed a Turkey Hill convenience store early Wednesday.According to police, the suspect entered the store on North State Street in Brownstown about 1:10 a.m. and robbed the clerk at gunpoint. Police said the suspect appeared to have a ha......

A disgruntled boyfriend shot his girlfriend, three of her relatives and another man Sunday morning at a Lancaster city home, police said.The shooting happened about 6:22 a.m. outside 516 Hand Ave., according to city police.Mark Q. Galloway, 39, of Philadelphia allegedly shot his gir......

Police are looking for suspects in connection with a spree of Lancaster city robberies Tuesday and early Wednesday.Three convenience stores, a pawn shop and a restaurant were targeted during a 13-hour span, city police said.After each heist, the bandits fled with a small amount of c......

It's not every day a chicken barbecue requires 200 gallons of "special sauce."But then again, Sertoma Club of Lancaster's annual chicken barbecue is not just an everyday picnic in the park. It's the "World's Largest Chicken Barbecue" — just check t......

A judge Tuesday dismissed two of the charges against a man accused of robbing 10 convenience stores to support his drug habit.Eugene Thye Bonner has been in Lancaster County Prison since city police arrested him Jan. 9.Overall, Bonner has been charged with seven robberies in the cit......

A Coatesville man robbed the Turkey Hill Minit Market at Smoketown during a Monday night crime spree in eastern Lancaster County, police report. State police captured Norman Jay Seese Jr., 33, of 17 Maplewood Drive, Coatesville, at about 11:40 p.m. Monday along Route 30 near Paradise. He ju......

Police have arrested a man who allegedly robbed three small Lancaster-area stores on the same day in January. Dustin Adam Vedder, 20, of 1665 Susan Ave., East Lampeter Township, committed the knifepoint robberies over approximately eight hours on Jan. 14, police said. At 2:12 p.m., Vedder ......

Lancaster city police arrested an East Lampeter Township man Wednesday morning in connection with a one-day robbery spree earlier this year.Dustin Adam Vedder, 20, of 1665 Susan Ave., allegedly robbed two Lancaster city grocery stores and a Lancaster Township convenience store, all on Jan.......

How would you like to change pennies into dimes? A man tried that feat twice at a convenience store in Manheim on Sunday, and for awhile he got away with it. But eventually, Manheim police went looking for 37-year-old David Robert Waltman of New Providence, who is being charged with two mi......

A county agency has made history through its market approach to battling global warming.The Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority announced Thursday it had recorded the first-ever trans-Atlantic exchange of project-based greenhouse-gas reduction credits, also called "carbon cre......

No one was injured Thursday morning, state police said, when a Lincoln Town Car crashed through the front of the Turkey Hill Minit Market on Route 41 in Salisbury Township.State Trooper Samuel Laureto said 80-year-old Barbara Myers of Rehobeth, Del., accidentally pushed the gas pedal while......

Gasoline prices have jumped nearly 40 cents a gallon in the last month, returning to levels not seen since late last summer. And, they could go higher. Prices for regular unleaded are expected to rise through June, peaking around $2.67 per gallon, according to a federal report rele......

Police said they are looking for a man who robbed a West Hempfield Township convenience store at gunpoint late Wednesday night, then fled on foot.A white male entered Turkey Hill Minit Market, 1490 Stony Battery Road, about 11 p.m. and demanded money while displaying a semi-automatic handg......

A young gunman held up a Turkey Hill Minit Market in West Hempfield Township late Wednesday night, police said. The suspect entered the store at 1490 Stony Battery Road, north of Marietta Avenue, shortly before 11 p.m. He pulled out a semi-automatic handgun and fled on foot after stealing an un......