2008-05-16 01:46:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Lancaster County jury will begin deliberating today on the fate of a Manheim man accused of severely beating his girlfriend, then forcing her into a closet so police wouldn't find her.Bruce E. McLaughlin, 43, is charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and unlawful rest......
2008-05-16 01:43:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
During a routine speed check, Manheim Township police arrested a fugitive from North Carolina who was living in Lancaster County.Robert J. Hughes, 28, of 138 S. Wolf St., Manheim, was charged Wednesday with receiving stolen property, police said.Officers conducted a morning speed ch......
2008-05-15 01:49:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Robert Wilson allegedly had been conning people and passing bad checks in Lancaster County for years, and getting away with it, according to authorities.Early Wednesday morning, however, the 38-year-old landscaper and contractor, wanted as a fugitive in Connecticut and facing five outstand......
2008-05-15 01:39:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Lancaster County jury deliberated for two hours Wednesday before convicting a man of trying to kill two city police officers last year, then holding a family hostage while evading arrest. The jury found city resident Jose Antonio Rivera-Quinones, 29, guilty of 12 charges, including two counts o......
2008-05-15 01:35:00
STAFF REPORT
Two men fired shots at a West Hempfield Township woman after she discovered them trying to break into her car, police said.Rosa Diaz, of the 2100 block of Oak Hollow Drive, observed two males attempting to break into her Ford minivan around 1 a.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of her apartmen......
2008-05-15 00:58:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Chester County resident Danielle Lee was starting to believe she'd never see her beloved dog, Jackie-O, again.It was nearly two months ago that she was taking a ride with a friend along Newport Road in Penn Township and her dog suddenly became spooked."She jumped in the fro......
2008-05-15 00:49:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
A Lancaster County jury deliberated for less than two hours Wednesday before convicting Misael Torres Colon of eight counts of animal cruelty for keeping roosters for fighting.The conviction marks the first successful animal-fighting prosecution in Lancaster County.For each count, C......
2008-05-14 01:52:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Testimony continued Tuesday in the trial of a man charged with the attempted murder of two Lancaster city police officers last year outside Garden Court Apartments.Jose Antonio Rivera-Quinones, 29, also is accused of holding a family of four hostage inside the apartment complex while hidin......
2008-05-14 01:43:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
A Lancaster County jury began deliberations Tuesday in the animal-cruelty trial of Misael Torres Colon after one day of testimony.Torres Colon, 29, is charged with eight counts of animal cruelty for allegedly keeping roosters for the purpose of cockfighting. He did not testify at his trial......
2008-05-13 01:08:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Three people were seriously injured when their buggy and a sport utility vehicle collided Monday.The 6:50 p.m. crash occurred in front of Conestoga Valley Middle School at Mount Sidney and Stumptown roads in East Lampeter Township.East Lampeter Township Police said a male and two fe......
2008-05-13 01:07:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
More than two years after police discovered eight caged roosters and a bevy of cockfighting equipment in a city basement, the case is finally headed to trial.Monday afternoon, Judge Margaret Miller ruled against suppressing evidence that might have sunk eight animal cruelty charges against......
2008-05-13 00:58:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Police said a Wyomissing woman falsely identified herself during a traffic stop Sunday in New Holland, then assaulted an officer at the borough police station.Kimberly A. Malesinski, 45, of 1904 Van Reed Road, Apt. C1, was stopped for an alleged traffic violation about 1:30 a.m. in the 300......
2008-05-13 00:56:00
STAFF REPORT
Three Garden Spot Middle School students are facing charges after two separate incidents at the school last week.New Holland police said a 15-year-old male and a 13-year-old male became unruly and used obscene language while they were being disciplined by the school principal May 8.......
2008-05-11 00:08:00
STAFF
A man who broke into two vehicles in a Fruitville Pike shopping center was detained by citizens until he was arrested Saturday by city police. Police said Carlos Egardo Vasquez, 21, of the 200 block of West Mifflin Street, was arrested after county dispatchers received several 911 calls at 4:39......
2008-05-10 00:54:00
MADELYN PENNINO, Staff
A horse-drawn carriage driven by an 11-year-old boy collided with a minivan Thursday afternoon in Salisbury Township, state police said.No one was injured in the crash.Russell Wallace, 75, of New Holland was driving a 1996 Plymouth Voyager south on Route 897 when his minivan struck ......
2008-05-10 00:48:00
MADELYN PENNINO, Staff
Police have identified the body found floating in the Susquehanna River near Three Mile Island Thursday.An autopsy Friday determined that Gregory Stone, 49, drowned sometime this week in the river, Susquehanna Regional Police Lt. Stephen Englert said.Englert did not release an addre......
2008-05-10 00:45:00
MADELYN PENNINO, Staff
A woman was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash Friday morning in East Lampeter Township, police said.Carole Ator of Lancaster was driving a silver 2003 Pontiac Grand Am north on Greenfield Road when her car was struck by a white 1999 international box truck operated by Richard Biskin......
2008-05-10 00:00:00
TOM MURSE, Staff
A day or two after Keith Sadler took the oath of office as Lancaster's chief of police, the lifelong Philadelphian took his family out to eat at Good 'n Plenty, the popular tourist attraction on Route 896."So, where's everybody from?" the waitress asked.The fol......
2008-05-09 02:29:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Two fishermen found a man's body floating in the Susquehanna River near Three Mile Island on Thursday night.Police had not identified the man as of late Thursday. They also had not determined how he died."We found some information on him to give us an idea who he might be,&......
2008-05-09 02:11:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
Donald and Pat Reed had hoped to help finance some of their grandchildren's college tuition. Now it looks like that money will be spent repairing their Manheim Township home.The house at 76 Glen Moore Circle has large cracks along interior and exterior walls. The basement floor slants,......
2008-05-09 02:06:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Police on Thursday cited a Lancaster city woman for her involvement in an April 28 accident involving a police cruiser.Iris N. Morrison, 21, of North Reservoir Street, was cited with failing to stop for a red light and driving with a suspended license. A passenger in the minivan Morrison w......
2008-05-09 02:00:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
An East Petersburg man will be in federal court May 22 for a pretrial hearing on charges that he transported child pornography in his luggage on a flight from England to Philadelphia more than 27 months ago.Patrick Joseph Bunty, 55, was arrested Jan. 27, 2006, by Bureau of Immigration and ......
2008-05-08 01:16:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A vat of sunflower oil fell off a truck traveling on South Queen Street Wednesday afternoon, forcing motorists following in its wake to navigate a slick, sticky roadway.A city official said the vat was not secured when it broke through the door of the truck and crashed onto the street, spi......
2008-05-08 01:13:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 12-year-old girl testified Wednesday that she was feeding her cat in the basement of her father's home three years ago when she heard her mother start crying upstairs.Amy Lynn Matz, the girl's mother, was separated from Warren Trent but was at his house that morning in December 2......
2008-05-07 10:34:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
The actions of an alert citizen enabled Lancaster police to catch an alleged purse thief Tuesday night in the city's west end. The citizen, a Hershey Avenue woman, became suspicious when she saw a man walk out of Weis Markets at Manor Shopping Center with a woman's purse slung over his shoulder......
2008-05-07 01:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 41-year-old Lancaster city man pleaded guilty Tuesday to causing a high-speed collision on Route 222 that killed a woman and severely injured her passenger.Miguel Rivera admitted to causing the May 13, 2006, crash that killed 46-year-old Tina Whetsel. He pleaded guilty to homicide by veh......
2008-05-07 01:07:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A Quarryville man has been identified as the person found electrocuted Monday in Eden Township along the abandoned Enola Low-Grade Line.A local resident found the burned body of Brandon Klein, 22, on the railroad bed about 300 yards south of Valley Road.State police investigators be......
2008-05-06 01:07:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Police charged a Mount Joy woman Monday with stealing $472 in fundraiser money meant for an Elizabethtown elementary school.Jennifer M. Sheaffer, 36, allegedly sold hundreds of tickets for barbecue chicken dinners but failed to turn in all the proceeds, police said.Members of a pare......
2008-05-06 01:01:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
A man apparently was electrocuted in Eden Township Monday afternoon while trying to cut copper wires from an active high-voltage line.State police from Lancaster's Troop J late Monday night still were trying to identify the man, who was found around 2 p.m. on the abandoned Enola Low-Gr......
2008-05-06 00:54:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A Lancaster teen severely injured in an altercation on a basketball court Sunday evening was released from the hospital Monday.The 14-year-old from the 500 block of Juniata Street had been listed in critical but stable condition at Hershey Medical Center but was released Monday afternoon....
2008-05-06 00:51:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A former employee of a Landisville developing company was sentenced Monday to 2 years' probation and ordered to pay back the $7,230 he stole from the company in 2006.Gary L. Wilson of Lebanon worked as a manager of Tobacco Road Associates until he resigned in July 2005, according to in......
2008-05-06 00:44:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Manheim Township Police Department recently became only the fourth police force in Lancaster County to receive full accreditation from Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission.The department is the 54th police agency in the state to receive the honor, which is given to less th......
2008-05-05 14:34:00
STAFF
A 33-year-old suspect in the killing of a Philadelphia police sergeant on Saturday apparently did not return to Lancaster County, where he has relatives, the city police chief said this afternoon. Philadelphia detectives searched a home in the 700 block of Emerald Drive in the city early Sunday......
2008-05-05 01:06:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A nationwide manhunt for an alleged cop killer brought FBI agents and a team of Philadelphia detectives to Lancaster city Sunday.The search for 33-year-old Eric Floyd — one of three suspects in the Saturday shooting death of a Philadelphia police sergeant — came up empty....
2008-05-05 00:29:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 35-year-old Terre Hill man was sentenced recently to 5 years of probation for inappropriately touching two preteen girls at his home.Reid E. Wingert, formerly of the 400 block of Maple Street, must register as a Megan's Law sex offender and his name will be listed in a police database fo......
2008-05-04 00:14:00
STAFF
Motorcyclist Daniel B. Cronin, 19, of Conestoga, was arrested for multiple traffic offenses and for fleeing and eluding Southern Regional police Saturday at 6:40 p.m., in the 2000 block of New Danville Pike, Pequea Township, police said.
GARAGE FIRE: A two-story frame ga......
2008-05-03 01:35:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
A New Holland Borough man accused of biting his pregnant girlfriend and beating her with a drill was arrested and jailed Thursday night. New Holland police allege 23-year-old David Lee Beiler also punched his girlfriend during a domestic dispute just before 9 p.m. Thursday at the residence they......
2008-05-02 01:19:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Three Lancaster County residents accused of kidnapping, robbing and severely beating a local man are bound for trial after each defendant waived a preliminary hearing Thursday.Attorneys for the defendants met with prosecutors at District Judge David Miller's office and decided there wa......
2008-05-01 00:53:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A wheelchair-bound woman was struck by a school bus Wednesday afternoon along North Duke Street in Lancaster.Witnesses said the woman, who was identified by friends as Terry, was headed north on Duke Street, crossing in the crosswalk at the intersection of New Street, near Lancaster Genera......
2008-04-30 01:18:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
An 18-year-old Lancaster city man wanted for allegedly shooting a city teenager last week surrendered Tuesday night.Joseph William Gantt III is accused of shooting 18-year-old Dwain London in the chest and leg Thursday in the 500 block of Pershing Avenue.Gantt, a former amateur boxe......
2008-04-30 01:11:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 42-year-old Columbia man is facing a state prison sentence after he was caught Monday night trying to steal Klondike bars from a West Hempfield Township grocery store.Richard Kenny was caught with two packs of the frosty treats inside a duffel bag. He had carried the duffel bag into the ......
2008-04-30 01:04:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 28-year-old Lancaster County man was charged Tuesday with breaking in to a Bart Township home in 2005 and assaulting an Amish woman and her father, police said.Christopher Roy Welk, who has been incarcerated for about a year for other home-invasion crimes, was charged with two counts of ......
2008-04-29 00:54:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
An Elizabethtown man was sentenced Monday to 10 to 20 years in state prison for the attempted murder of a Lancaster city man who was dating his ex-girlfriend.Kevin Kaylor, 30, emptied the clip of his handgun, shooting Lisandro Crisostomo multiple times on Feb. 11, 2007, during a dispute ou......
2008-04-29 00:35:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Lancaster city police are investigating a Monday afternoon crash involving a police cruiser that left four people injured, including a police officer and a pregnant woman.The collision occurred at 1:23 p.m. at West King and Water streets when a Chrysler minivan traveling east on King Stree......
2008-04-29 00:25:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Felina Billetdeaux again pleaded guilty on Monday to third-degree murder for beating her former boyfriend to death with an aluminum softball bat in 2003.Billetdeaux, 23, of Brownstown, faces a maximum sentence of 44 years in prison for killing 17-year-old Jonathan "Jonnie" Moyer ......
2008-04-26 17:05:00
STAFF
Betty Archer, 81, of Reading, died at Reading Hospital at 8:30 a.m., Saturday from injuries suffered in a car crash in Brecknock Township Friday, State Police at Ephrata said. She was a passenger in a car driven by Alexander Archer, 83, of Reading. Traveling south in the 1000 block of Reading R......
2008-04-26 02:29:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 39-year-old man was charged on Friday with having sexual relations with a teenage girl over a seven-month period at his Manheim Township home.Police said they arrested Steven G. Teague Thursday night at his home at 442 Revere Road.Teague is accused of having sexual relations with ......
2008-04-26 02:15:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
An investigation showed that police Sgt. Brian Nice was "absolutely justified" in shooting Jerry Grant Thursday evening, District Attorney Craig Stedman ruled Friday.•••East Hempfield Township police Sgt. Brian Nice was out of......
2008-04-26 02:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Felina Billetdeaux's telephone conversations and police interviews containing confessions to the slaying of Jonathan Moyer will be permitted as evidence at the woman's trial, a Lancaster County judge ruled Friday.Judge David L. Ashworth, in a 23-page written ruling on a suppression......
2008-04-26 02:00:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Maryland teenager was sentenced Friday to 1½ to 5 years in state prison for his part in two armed robberies of horse-drawn buggies last year in southern Lancaster County.Christopher J. Lewis, 19, of Rising Sun, wielded a baseball bat while he and his cousin, Joseph Garvey, threate......
2008-04-26 01:56:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
The state Attorney General's Office on Friday charged two Harrisburg men with a string of burglaries in six counties, including Lancaster.Arrested were Martinel Hill, 27, and Robert Stewart, 40, whose heist of choice was high-end electronics, police said.The men were charged wit......
2008-04-25 01:30:00
JENNIFER TODD and MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A police officer shot and killed a man during a confrontation outside a home in East Hempfield Township shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday.Investigators said the man was pointing a handgun at a township officer when the officer fired once, hitting the man in the torso.Police were withhol......
2008-04-25 01:20:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
City police are seeking a Lancaster man who they say shot another man Thursday in a bold afternoon attack in the 500 block of Pershing Avenue.Police said Joseph Gantt, of 528 Pershing Ave., Apt. 2, shot an 18-year-old man as he walked near the intersection of Pershing and Green streets at ......
2008-04-25 01:17:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
A medical practice in East Hempfield Township is contacting nearly 12,000 of its patients to notify them that a computer was stolen from the office April 17.The computer contained the names, addresses, telephone numbers and Social Security numbers of many of the patients who visited the of......
2008-04-24 01:01:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
The collision of a car and a motorcycle in West Lampeter Township Wednesday evening left one victim in critical condition.Officer Matthew Neidinger of West Lampeter Township police said the department was withholding details of the incident and victims' identities until relatives could......
2008-04-24 00:36:00
TOM KNAPP, Staff
An inevitable occurrence on the roads in Lancaster County each summer is an increase in the number of slow-moving farm vehicles that can bog down traffic — and cause impatient motorists to attempt reckless maneuvers while trying to pass them.Pennsylvania, with its side-by-side blend ......
2008-04-24 00:26:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Keith Sadler joked that he could only imagine how many times his name has been "Googled" in the last four weeks.In fact, Lancaster city's new police chief seemed a little disappointed to learn that he was not among the 10 most-searched topics on Yahoo! Wednesday."......
2008-04-23 02:12:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Investigators from two local jurisdictions are looking for a man who has been breaking into vehicles and stealing credit cards he immediately uses to make purchases.The most recent heist, believed to be the suspect's most profitable, happened Friday in East Hempfield Township, police s......
2008-04-22 01:21:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
A Chester County woman is expected to be charged with homicide by vehicle for her role in a traffic accident that killed a state trooper from Lancaster last month, her attorney said Monday.Lionville attorney Thomas H. Ramsay said Kristina M. Quercetti, 40, of Landenberg, would turn herself......
2008-04-22 01:18:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Manheim Township police said a recent car-vandalism spree could signal the start of a spike in nuisance crimes, which occur more frequently when temperatures rise.At least five cars parked in the School Valley Farms area were damaged overnight Saturday, according to police.Vandals u......
2008-04-22 01:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A New Holland man was hospitalized Monday after he was severely beaten by an intruder who broke into his apartment, police said.Elwood Snyder was sleeping on his couch inside a unit of 321 W. Main St. and awoke to the beating just after midnight Monday, New Holland police said.The u......
2008-04-22 01:11:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 48-year-old West Hempfield Township woman was seriously injured Sunday morning when she plummeted about 100 feet off Chickies Rock, investigators said.The woman, whose name wasn't released, was on a hike when she fell into a ravine at the base of the rock, police said.West Hem......
2008-04-21 00:30:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
No one is believed to have been injured late Saturday night in what witnesses called a shootout between two groups of people in eastern Lancaster city, investigators said.The groups exchanged gunfire about 10:15 p.m. in the 600 block of East End Avenue, near Thaddeus Stevens College of Tec......
2008-04-21 00:26:00
STAFF REPORTS
A woman was injured Sunday morning when she fell in Chickies Rock County Park, according to investigators.The woman's name and condition were not available Sunday.West Hempfield Township police said they're investigating the fall, which happened about 11:25 a.m.It wasn't clea......
2008-04-19 01:17:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
A Reinholds man has died from injuries sustained in a one-car accident Thursday night on Route 222 in Manheim Township.Shawn D. Keller, 22, was badly injured in the crash and taken to Lancaster General Hospital, where he died Friday afternoon, according to a nursing supervisor.Manhe......
2008-04-19 00:48:00
STAFF REPORT
Pennsylvania state police issued a citizen advisory Friday, saying an e-mail circulating on the Internet warning of "a speeding ticket frenzy" involving state police is a hoax.Versions of the e-mail forwarded to state police claim that massive speed-enforcement details targeting ......
2008-04-18 02:00:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A new warrant-search service now available to the public should make it harder for scofflaws from Lancaster County to hide, officials said this week.The system, Public RMS Warrant Search, is a database that holds information on the tens of thousands of outstanding warrants in the county....
2008-04-18 01:44:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 28-year-old Lancaster city man was sentenced Thursday to 2½ to 5 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a woman sleeping next to her child at a New Year's Eve party.Keith A. Reed, of the 800 block of East Chestnut Street, was originally charged with rape for the Jan. 1,......
2008-04-17 00:18:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 39-year-old Lancaster man was sentenced Wednesday to three years' probation for injuring two employees at a West Hempfield Township market during a botched retail theft.Samuel L. Warren was confronted by a security guard and several employees of Redner's Market after they saw him......
2008-04-16 01:24:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Thirteen days have passed since James "Jeff" Kerek was found slain on the living-room sofa of his Lancaster city home.With the city's first homicide of the year still unsolved and the killer or killers at large, investigators are looking into Kerek's final days for leads.......
2008-04-15 01:11:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Four elementary school students were hospitalized Monday when the school bus in which they were riding collided with a sport utility vehicle in East Lampeter Township, officials said.The injured children were among a group of about 30 Smoketown Elementary School students who were riding th......
2008-04-14 11:41:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A New Jersey man who was driving a car carrier gave two false identities after Manheim Township police stopped his rig for an equipment violation Friday morning on Route 72 in East Petersburg, investigators said. A check of the man's fingerprints revealed the driver's true identity....
2008-04-14 00:40:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A local restaurateur died early Sunday when the motorcycle he was riding struck a turning vehicle in Manor Township, investigators said.Calogero "Lee" Failla, 37, died at the scene of the three-vehicle crash on Route 999 (Blue Rock Road), near Failla's home in Washington Boro......
2008-04-13 00:00:00
Patrick Burns, special to the Sunday News
A new chapter has unfolded in the bizarre exploits of the East Earl Township policeman who was shot with his own gun outside his home last summer.Officer M. Gregory Yarbrough, 40, of the 1400 block of East Main Street, East Earl, was charged Friday with filing false reports to law enforcem......
2008-04-12 00:56:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
A 23-year-old Lancaster man was charged Thursday with possession of 13 ounces of crack cocaine, weapon offenses and other felonies after an undercover investigation by the county's Drug Task Force.Tamir Karim Hodges, of 3 Caroline St., Apt. 1, was charged with three counts of delivery ......
2008-04-11 00:55:00
MADELYN PENNINO, Staff
Felina Billetdeaux repeatedly told police that she didn't want her friend Steva Hagelgans to take the rap for murder.That's what Billetdeaux told West Earl police Detective Dawn Ray, who during a suppression hearing Thursday testified that Billetdeaux was worried that Hagelgans wou......
2008-04-10 01:32:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
Two men, one walking and one driving, were killed in separate accidents Wednesday.A Lancaster County motorist was killed early Wednesday morning in a head-on collision in Brecknock Township.According to state police, a 2000 International dump truck driven by 31-year-old Shane Michae......
2008-04-10 01:12:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
At first, during her interview with police in 2005, accused killer Felina Billetdeaux stuck to the story she had told her friends about the disappearance of 17-year-old Jonathan Moyer.Billetdeaux claimed she hadn't seen her former boyfriend since he left for Florida soon after the pair......
2008-04-09 01:32:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
The family of a 10-year-old boy struck in a crosswalk by a hit-and-run driver asked that the charges against the driver be dropped.However, according to court testimony Tuesday, that wasn't possible because 20-year-old Dayton Cassel had already filed a guilty plea for misdemeanor charg......
2008-04-09 01:23:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 26-year-old Ephrata man pleaded guilty Tuesday to pointing a handgun at a police officer last year, prompting the officer to fire three shots at him.Michael J. Anderson, of Duke Street, admitted to arguing with family members and then having a confrontation with an Ephrata police officer......
2008-04-09 01:21:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
A West Hempfield Township police officer was injured Tuesday morning during an altercation with a man wanted on an outstanding bench warrant.Officer Karl Hartranft injured his foot when he and other officers attempted to arrest Devin Brandt Leibley, 3840 Locust Grove Road, Columbia, accord......
2008-04-09 01:15:00
BRIAN WALLACE, Staff
Police have charged a Columbia Junior/Senior High School music teacher and band director with sexual assault for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student in 2007 when she was 15 and 16 years old.Police from Columbia Borough and West Hempfield Township filed charges Monday agai......
2008-04-08 00:17:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT and JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Investigators are looking for a killer who last week stabbed to death a "well-liked" 57-year-old man inside his Lancaster city home.James "Jeff" Kerek was found dead Thursday inside his home at 662 Hershey Ave. after neighbors contacted the man's family with concern......
2008-04-08 00:05:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A New Holland man who says his identity was stolen is engaged in a legal battle to keep his driver's license and clear his driving record, his attorney said Monday.Steven Fox of Brimmer Avenue hired attorney Mike Winters last month after being informed by his auto insurance group about "di......
2008-04-08 00:02:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A homeless man was charged Monday with several offenses — including aggravated assault on a police officer — and his companion was charged with theft after a series of incidents that started Sunday at a Manheim Township hotel.Hotel officials at Travelodge on Lititz Pike called ......
2008-04-06 00:22:00
STAFF
Sees officer, takes off; hits cars, pushings one up street A driver going the wrong direction on one-way streets through the west end of Lancaster ended up in a collision on West King Street near Pine Street Saturday night. The names and conditions of the drivers were not available at pres......
2008-04-05 00:26:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Police Friday continued to investigate why a Clay Township man allegedly decided to torch his farm house and two other buildings Thursday, causing more than $500,000 in damages.Clay Township police Friday charged Ray Eugene Hummer, 74, of 165 N. Clay Road, Lititz, with seven counts relatin......
2008-04-04 00:59:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
About 800 Millersville University students signed up for the school's emergency-alert system in the wake of Tuesday's lockdown prompted by a student's alleged threat to kill his classmates.MU officials said more than 3,600 students and faculty are now signed up for MU Alert....
2008-04-03 01:17:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 24-year-old Millersville University student accused of threatening to kill his classmates has been banned from the campus, officials said Wednesday.Joel A. Yodis, a Phoenixville native, was freed on bail after he was charged Tuesday night with disorderly conduct and making terroristic th......
2008-04-02 02:26:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
It's time again to draw your attention to recent news items, which are much funnier than anything I can come up with.I see where Armstrong World Industries is eliminating 100 more jobs.I find this story amazing. I didn't think Armstrong, once a major source of employment in Lancaste......
2008-04-02 01:57:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
A male motorcyclist and two female bicyclists were in critical condition Tuesday night after the motorcycle crossed the center line and struck the women on a back road in Brecknock Township, police said.Ephrata state police said the motorcycle was traveling west on Pleasant Valley Road whe......
2008-04-02 01:45:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Police are looking for two men who allegedly used stolen credit cards to purchase $3,000 in gift cards this week from a Manheim Township grocery store.The men tried twice to use stolen credit cards at Giant, 1605 Lititz Pike, police say.On Sunday night, they tried to purchase gift c......
2008-04-02 01:23:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Millersville University officials locked down the campus for about two hours Tuesday after several students witnessed a classmate's "erratic behavior" — including an alleged threat to bring a gun to class.Officials said they issued the first alert to students at 10:30 a......
2008-04-02 01:07:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Philadelphia's top detective is expected to be named Lancaster city's police chief this morning at a City Hall press conference.Chief Inspector Keith Sadler told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he has accepted the position, according to a story posted on the newspaper's Web site......
2008-04-01 13:29:00
Sunday News Staff
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that the city of Lancaster has a new top cop.In an article posted on the newspaper's ......
2008-04-01 01:53:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 48-year-old Columbia man nabbed in 2006 by Pennsylvania's Child Predator Unit pleaded guilty Monday to hundreds of felony sex offenses.Brian K. Nolt, formerly of 1401 Cloverton Drive, is accused of having explicit online conversations with an undercover agent he thought was a 12-year......
2008-03-31 18:46:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Lancaster city man was found passed out early Saturday in his car in a travel lane of Harrisburg Avenue due to drinking, police said.Manheim Township police charged Lance Heverly, 22, with driving under the influence. It was the second time in three months Heverly had passed out at the w......
2008-03-31 18:41:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
An Akron motorist was driving erratically on a busy road Sunday afternoon, intoxicated and armed with a loaded illegal revolver, police said.Charles E. Murray III, 40, of 32 Hilltop Ave., was swerving into oncoming traffic on Oregon Pike in Manheim Township, causing several motorists to dr......
2008-03-31 18:37:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Investigators said Sunday they were looking for a 33-year-old man who stole his grandfather's ATM card and used it to withdraw more than $2,600.New Holland police Detective Jonathan Heisse said he filed an arrest warrant this weekend for Matthew Todd Ovensen.Ovensen is accused o......
2008-03-29 00:48:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
A 24-year-old Pennsylvania state trooper, on the job for only three months, was killed Thursday night when his car was struck by an oncoming sport utility vehicle on Route 41 in Chester County.Kenton E. Iwaniec, who recently had moved to Lancaster, was on his way home from his shift in the......
2008-03-29 00:33:00
BRIAN WALLACE, Staff
Theft charges against a Clay Township man who paid a utility bill last fall with privately made coins were dropped Friday after the man paid the bill in U.S. currency.Fritz Schrom, a 47-year-old Constitution Party activist, was charged Jan. 31 with theft by deception for using silver and c......
2008-03-29 00:32:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
East Earl Township police Thursday arrested a 16-year-old male from Terre Hill who they allege was involved in a string of burglaries in Terre Hill and East Earl that began last summer.In a statement released Friday, East Earl police Chief Kevin C. McCarthy said the suspect was recognized ......
2008-03-29 00:28:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Lancaster police have charged four people in connection with a bizarre incident in which a man was allegedly bound and beaten for hours inside a Manor Street home.Police said a 40-year-old man arrived at police headquarters before 7 p.m. Thursday claiming he was beaten by six or seven male......
2008-03-29 00:22:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Despite a prolonged advertising campaign warning that seat-belt use is mandatory in Pennsylvania, some people still ignore the law.But not many.West Hempfield Township police officers stopped 613 vehicles at a safety checkpoint Friday afternoon and found that only a dozen failed to ......
2008-03-28 01:14:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
A Lancaster County woman was killed when the vehicle she was driving collided with a tractor-trailer on Lancaster Pike (Route 272) in Fulton Township Thursday afternoon, police said.The 4 p.m. wreck occurred just north of the Route 222 junction near the village of Penn Hill, north of Wakef......
2008-03-28 01:09:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Pennsylvania state police Thursday were investigating the theft of two large metal drainage grates from a rural Salisbury Township intersection.The grates, each weighing 150 pounds, were removed from the corner of Wanner and King roads between midnight at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said. ......
2008-03-27 10:59:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
About a dozen police officers spent an hour searching for a missing 8-year-old boy Wednesday night before learning the child was safe and sound in his East Hempfield Township apartment. The boy told police he had been sleeping behind a sofa in his Meadow Green Estates apartment on Swarr Run Roa......
2008-03-27 01:02:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Thousands of dollars worth of firearms were stolen from a Drumore Township home, state police said.One or more burglars smashed a window and cut three window screens to gain entrance to the home at 1134 Silver Spring Road, Holtwood, sometime between March 17 and Monday, police said. Five f......
2008-03-26 02:01:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Lancaster city police Tuesday night investigated a report of multiple gunshots in the 100 block of Howard Avenue.Police said four homes were hit and several car windows were shattered about 9 p.m., but no gunshot victims were found.Johanny Hernandez, who was working at La Rena Groce......
2008-03-26 01:53:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A New York trucker accused of causing a head-on collision that killed a woman and her mother last year in Lancaster County was ordered Tuesday to stand trial.Thomas Lamonda, 51, had traces of cocaine in his system, police said, when he failed to notice traffic stopped at a Manheim Township......
2008-03-25 01:38:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A Lancaster County man faces numerous charges of sexual assault and indecent contact with children dating back to 1998.Frederick Thomas Shambaugh, 52, of Elizabethtown Road, was arraigned Monday afternoon before District Judge Jayne Duncan on charges that include 13 counts of indecent assa......
2008-03-25 01:31:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Several Solanco students were injured in a Monday morning accident when their bus ran a red light and collided with a minivan, police said.West Lampeter Township Police officer Craig Parduski said emergency crews were dispatched to the intersection of Penn Grant Road and Beaver Valley Pike......
2008-03-25 01:27:00
STAFF REPORT
A Toyota Prius was on its side, its roof removed, after colliding with another car on New Holland Pike at Route 30 Monday.Two people were injured in the wreck, and a portion of New Holland Pike was shut down for more than an hour.According to Manheim Township police Officer Thomas M......
2008-03-25 00:31:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Lancaster man pleaded guilty Monday to drunken driving last year when he caused a wreck on Route 30 that killed a Lebanon man and seriously injured the man's wife.Michael J. Tovo, 24, of Swarr Run Road, was driving his sport utility vehicle at nearly 100 mph when it struck the back o......
2008-03-23 00:19:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
A student found dead of a gunshot wound in a Millersville University residence hall Thursday sparked a campuswide alert and had police and university officials worried about a "possible Virginia Tech situation." But while the incident ended in tragedy, police now believe the student s......
2008-03-22 00:47:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Illness sapped his strength and hospital visits stole his time, but Old Order Amish Church Deacon Emanuel B. Zook never forgot about the children."All the children loved him," said a neighbor outside Zook's Leacock Township home near Intercourse. "Every time after church......
2008-03-22 00:43:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Charges are pending against a man who allegedly caused a disturbance at a Manheim Township Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant Thursday night, police said.Police arrested David M. Ecenrode, 45, of Ephrata when they were called to the restaurant at 2020 Fruitville Pike shortly after the incide......
2008-03-21 01:18:00
BRIAN WALLACE, Staff
A Lancaster County judge has ordered Lampeter-Strasburg School District to reinstate a student it expelled last fall, ruling the district wrongly based its decision on hearsay evidence and exceeded its authority in expelling the pupil.The Martin Meylin Middle School eighth-grader was expel......
2008-03-21 01:11:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
State police and school officials have released the names of two teenagers killed Wednesday night when the car in which they were riding collided with a minivan in Rapho Township.State police said Garrett Gammel, 18, of Robesonia, was killed in the crash on Mount Joy Road (Route 772). Gamm......
2008-03-21 01:07:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Thieves who stole more than $10,000 worth of cell phones earlier this month from a Manheim Township store are pulling similar jobs in two surrounding counties, police said Thursday.The same men who on March 9 broke into the AT&T store, 1931 Fruitville Pike, are believed to be the same ......
2008-03-21 00:55:00
MADELYN PENNINO, Staff
U.S. Navy veteran Ryan Barrick is tired of the war in Iraq, and he wants people to know it.Barrick joined about 100 students at Millersville University Thursday for an anti-Iraq War rally/walkout, where he spoke of his disgust over the conflict."It's over; it's done,&qu......
2008-03-21 00:20:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Lancaster County judge sentenced an 18-year-old man Thursday to at least 11½ years in state prison for entering a Manheim Township home through a doggie door and then using duct tape to bind the family of three inside.Manuel "Manny" Fisher, formerly of 615 Eagles View, w......
2008-03-20 01:46:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Two Berks County teenagers were killed and three seriously injured in a violent two-vehicle crash in Rapho Township Wednesday.The accident occurred shortly before 5 p.m. on Mount Joy Road (Route 772) between Erisman and Weaver roads and involved a minivan and a small sedan.The ident......
2008-03-20 01:29:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 40-year-old man with a prior driving-under-the-influence conviction was charged Wednesday with causing a fatal crash while driving drunk last year in Strasburg Township.Richard A. Prokay, of New Providence, was driving with a suspended license when he lost control of a Chevrolet Blazer D......
2008-03-20 01:21:00
STAFF REPORT
Manheim Township police are seeking two men suspected of stealing a cell phone, valued at $317, from the Radio Shack at Lancaster Shopping Center Tuesday evening.The men entered the store about 8:45 p.m. and asked a clerk to show them a phone, but then said they didn't want the phone a......
2008-03-20 01:19:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Lancaster County judge sentenced a "career criminal" Wednesday to 12 to 24 years in state prison for a pair of armed robberies he committed with a former girlfriend.Matthew R. Martin, 34, formerly of Lititz, was sentenced for robberies in 2005 at an East Earl Township convenien......
2008-03-20 01:13:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
The female York County high school teacher whose body was found Tuesday on the shore of the Susquehanna River died of multiple injuries and hypothermia, Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni said Wednesday.An autopsy showed that 30-year-old Sara Yorty, of Springettsbury Township,......
2008-03-19 02:55:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
The big news right now is the approaching primary election pitting Hillary Clinton against Barack Obama. The election will be the first time in history that the Pennsylvania primary means a rat's tush in the overall scheme of American life.Election officials are expecting a good turnou......
2008-03-19 02:50:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 51-year-old Mountville man was charged Tuesday with stealing the identity of his son — who is on active military duty in England — and racking up nearly $5,000 in credit card purchases in his son's name.Manheim Township police said Raymond A. Wall of Timber Drive ope......
2008-03-19 02:48:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
The body of a York County high school teacher was found Tuesday on the shore of the Susquehanna River in northwest Lancaster County, investigators said.The woman, missing since Sunday, was found dead on the eastern shore of the river in Conoy Township, just south of Three Mile Island, inve......
2008-03-19 01:22:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 17-year-old girl was able to fight off a man who tried to drag her into a car Monday night outside a Manheim Township restaurant, police said.The Warwick teenager was walking to her car in the parking lot of Chuck E. Cheese, 2020 Fruitville Pike, when an unknown black man grabbed her fro......
2008-03-18 01:19:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Lancaster city police Monday released the identities of two men who were shot early Sunday on West King Street.Juan Marquez, 42, of Lancaster, was killed, and Osvaldo Marquez, 29, of Lancaster, was injured in the 2:30 a.m. shootings near the Rendezvous Steak Shop, 239 W. King St.Pol......
2008-03-18 01:08:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
A freak accident Monday afternoon killed a Columbia man who was impaled by a flying piece of wood that crashed through his windshield while he was driving in Manor Township.Barry L. Myers, 60, of 842 Blunston St., was pronounced dead at Lancaster General Hospital shortly after the 1:40 p.m......
2008-03-18 01:03:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
West Hempfield Township police continued searching Monday for an unidentified female seen falling into the Susquehanna River near Columbia late Sunday.Sgt. Russell Geier said police received a few calls Monday from people reporting missing family members, but gained no solid leads as to th......
2008-03-18 00:08:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
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, ......
2008-03-17 00:08:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, staff writer
One man was killed and another critically injured when gunfire erupted early Sunday morning outside a Lancaster city sandwich shop, officials said.The men were shot about 2:30 a.m. near Rendezvous Steak Shop, 239 W. King St., according to a release from Lancaster police Lt. Stephen Skiles.......
2008-03-16 00:21:00
STEVE KOPFINGER, Staff
It's not the sort of thing you expect to happen at a family resort. Or a family-run supermarket. West Lampeter Township police were dispatched to the Willow Valley Resort, and later Darrenkamp's Market, both on Willow Street Pike, at 10:52 p.m. Friday to reports of a naked male tearing ......
2008-03-15 01:26:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
An Elizabethtown man was arrested early Friday morning on suspicion of driving drunk after running his pickup truck through a field and spinning the vehicle.Jason B. Kennedy, 25, of Elizabethtown, has been charged with driving under the influence and trespass by motor vehicle by the Northw......
2008-03-14 02:04:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Dauphin County authorities Thursday arrested an East Lampeter Township man for allegedly stealing more than $1 million from hundreds of area churches.Lower Paxton Township police said Barry R. Herr, 61, of 2119 Creek Hill Road, allegedly stole the money over the past 17 years while working......
2008-03-14 01:49:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Manheim Township police on Thursday charged a third person in the kidnapping and beating of a Lancaster County man.Brett Michael Bair, 20, is accused of helping two teenagers kidnap Ben Jones from the parking lot of Overlook Roller Rink, Lititz Pike, early Feb. 24.The three beat Jon......
2008-03-14 01:43:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 17-year-old boy shot his teenage girlfriend in the head, then turned the .22-caliber rifle on himself after an argument late Wednesday night at a Little Britain Township mobile home, officials said.Michael Ryan Hollow was already dead from a single gunshot to the temple when police arriv......
2008-03-13 02:23:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
Police filed charges late Wednesday night against a 23-year-old Lancaster County woman accused of driving the wrong way on Route 30 and hitting a car head-on, killing three York men.Police said Sarah Lynn Timblin of Washington Boro was drunk when she entered Route 30 using an exit ramp nea......
2008-03-13 02:21:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Two Lancaster city men were convicted of second-degree murder charges Wednesday for the 2006 shooting of 31-year-old Shawn "Reds" Hutchinson.Ernest "Butch" Rykard and Jacquin "Mike" Carr each face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole after a j......
2008-03-13 02:01:00
Associated Press
A former Pennsylvania state trooper tipped off pimps who ran a child-prostitution ring in exchange for money and sex, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.Kevin Judas Coleman Sr., 42, of Harrisburg was charged with interfering with a nationwide investigation into a ring that used women and t......
2008-03-13 01:59:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
A year ago, Lancaster County officials said they expected to have a new radio system for local police, fire and ambulance crews up and running by now.It's not. And the realization of such a system took yet another step backward Tuesday.At their weekly work session Tuesday, the c......
2008-03-13 01:29:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
On Monday, a student at Reynolds Middle School found a gun clip and three bullets in a hall of the school, causing a lockdown and investigation by city police and school district officials.•••School District of Lancaster and city police......
2008-03-12 02:02:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Police have not charged the 23-year-old woman who drove her SUV the wrong way on Route 30 early Tuesday and crashed head-on into another vehicle, resulting in the deaths of three York County men.Sgt. Robert Baldwin of the Manheim Township Police Department said investigators are waiting fo......
2008-03-12 00:35:00
TOM KNAPP, Staff
Fingerprint files and photographs in the state police and FBI databases will soon be at the fingertips of several police departments in northwestern Lancaster County.Elizabethtown Borough has received two grants from the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crim......
2008-03-11 17:43:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Police are looking for a Lancaster city man who they say set up a drinking party for teenagers in the back of a parked van.Luke A. Osment, 22, of 535 W. Frederick St., charged teens $5 to $10 to sit in the van and drink beer that he bought, according to a news release from Manheim Township......
2008-03-11 01:35:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the homicide trial of two Lancaster city men accused in the 2006 shooting of 31-year-old Shawn "Reds" Hutchinson.Hutchinson died the day after he was shot during an alleged robbery.Defense attorneys for Ernest "Butch" Rykar......
2008-03-11 00:59:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Attorneys are debating this week whether the lone witness to a 2004 homicide near Morgantown will testify against her father in court or through closed-circuit television.Jacklyn Trent was 9 years old when she reportedly saw her father, Warren Trent, shoot her mother, Amy Lynn Matz, inside......
2008-03-10 00:38:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A burglar broke into a Manheim Township store overnight Saturday and stole nearly $11,000 worth of cell phones, investigators said.The front door of AT&T at 1931 Fruitville Pike was pried open, and the burglar swiped 42 phones late Saturday or early Sunday, police said.The stole......
2008-03-08 02:19:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Testimony began Friday in the homicide trial of a Morgantown man accused of shooting to death his girlfriend in 2004 while his 9-year-old daughter watched.Prosecutors are seeking a first-degree murder conviction against Warren Trent, 50, for the Dec. 20, 2004, killing of 34-year-old Amy Ly......
2008-03-08 01:52:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
East Cocalico Township police are investigating a crash on Route 272 near Adamstown Friday that resulted in injuries to two people, including a juvenile.Denver Fire Company extracted Adam Strunk of Reamstown and an unnamed juvenile who were trapped after their vehicle careened off the road......
2008-03-08 01:49:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Manheim Township police responded in record time to a call about a fight early Friday morning outside the Waffle House restaurant, 1021 Dillerville Road.Officer Calvin Steidler, who was on patrol in the restaurant parking lot at 2:50 a.m., witnessed a verbal dispute involving 10 to 15 peop......
2008-03-07 02:15:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Accused killer Ernest "Butch" Rykard spoke with several people about shooting Shawn Hutchinson and "cried like a baby" when he learned Hutchinson had died, according to testimony Thursday in Lancaster County Court.Three women testified that Rykard repeatedly admitted to......
2008-03-07 02:06:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
The mystery of the automatic teller machine pilfered last month by thieves in a Bowmansville mini-mart smash-and-grab heist became slightly clearer Thursday.Lancaster Bureau of Police Thursday informed Kevin R. Mauk, the owner of Bowmansville Sunoco, that it recovered the stolen ATM and th......
2008-03-06 01:25:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Suspects threw a large amount of white powder, suspected to be cocaine, out the window of their vehicle during a pursuit in the city and Manheim Township Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities.Much of the discarded powder was scooped up by police as evidence, and the rest reportedly......
2008-03-06 01:22:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Shawn "Red" Hutchinson was unarmed and hardly struggled when he was ambushed by two men outside his Lancaster city home, forced onto his stomach and shot in the back of the head, an alleged co-conspirator testified Wednesday.The two men who allegedly jumped Hutchinson — Ern......
2008-03-06 01:07:00
BRIAN WALLACE, Staff
The case against Warwick High School music teacher Todd Sheerer, who is accused of having a two-year sexual relationship with one of his students, is headed to Lancaster County Court.Sheerer, 29, of 3471 Coronet Ave., Wednesday waived his right to a preliminary hearing before District Judg......
2008-03-05 22:51:00
STAFF REPORT
Manheim Township police are looking for a man in connection with the theft of credit cards Feb. 22.Police said a Lititz woman reported her car was broken into while it was parked in the employee area at Universal Athletic Club, 2323 Oregon Pike. The woman's purse, backpack and a c......
2008-03-05 01:40:00
STAFF REPORT
A Rapho Township man was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a juvenile female over a period of more than four years, state police said.From May 2003 through November 2007, Jay Henry Nohrenhold, 41, allegedly had improper contact with the girl, according to a news release issued Tuesda......
2008-03-05 01:31:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Police are still searching for a man wanted in connection with an undercover drug investigation and car crash Monday night.A Philadelphia man who, along with the missing suspect, was riding in the vehicle that crashed after being chased by police was arrested.Dominick M. Clark, 20, ......
2008-03-05 01:29:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Shots were fired Monday at a moving vehicle by someone in another moving vehicle at the intersection of East Ross and North Cherry streets.•••Lancaster police continue to search for the shooter involved in a Monday afternoon confrontati......
2008-03-05 01:20:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
Before it hires a new police chief, Ephrata Borough Council will conduct a study to see how the department in general is running.Council likely will vote March 10 to hire International City/County Management Association to perform "a comprehensive operations evaluation," accordin......
2008-03-04 01:48:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Three defendants tied to two different homicide cases in Lancaster County are expected to stand trial this week.Jury selection began in Lancaster County Court Monday in the trial of Jacquin Carr and Ernest Rykard, two Lancaster city men who are accused of the 2006 killing of 31-year-old Sh......
2008-03-04 01:44:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
A person inside a vehicle opened fire Monday afternoon on another vehicle in northern Lancaster city, police said.Police said the shooter and intended victim knew one another.City police said Lancaster County-Wide Communications received several reports about 12:30 p.m. of shots fir......
2008-03-04 01:31:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
State and local police were involved in a car chase Monday evening that resulted in a crash at Route 501 and York Road in Manheim Township.According to law-enforcement officials, the suspect fled on foot after the crash and was being sought by police late Monday night. Officials said there......
2008-03-04 01:15:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
A 59-year-old man was seriously injured Monday afternoon when his motorcycle left the roadway and crashed in a gravel lot in Fulton Township.The cyclist suffered a head injury and was unconscious when he was flown by helicopter to Lancaster General Hospital, Robert Fulton Fire Company Assi......
2008-03-04 01:05:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
A Mount Joy fire police officer was struck by a vehicle Sunday while directing traffic around a two-car crash in Rapho Township.Denise Heberling, an 11-year fire department veteran, escaped serious injury but was treated for scrapes and bruises to her lower back, said fire police Capt. Bar......
2008-03-04 00:54:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Shaunda Yarnell was driving without a valid license and later told police she was "really tired" from controlled-substance withdrawal and lack of sleep when she caused a two-car wreck that killed a Columbia man in 2006.Monday, the family of 57-year-old victim Mark Howard asked a ......
2008-03-03 00:22:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A local dog club is helping to make the lives of Pennsylvania K9 units a little safer.Lancaster Kennel Club has joined its Delaware County counterpart to supply all 23 state police dog teams with canine first aid kits.The specialized kits, designed by a border patrol agent who also ......
2008-03-03 00:02:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 59-year-old Lancaster city man in failing health was spared additional prison time Thursday when he was sentenced on charges that he filmed sexual acts with a teenage girl.Jeffrey Ray Rohrer was sentenced to 9 to 23 month in prison, but since he already served nine months, he will remain......
2008-03-02 00:17:00
JO-ANN GREENE, Staff
A shopping trip ended in tragedy as icy roads around the county Saturday morning caused numerous accidents, including one that killed a Marietta woman. A deputy coroner pronounced Mary Ann Geesey, 70, dead at a crash scene along the 1500 block of River Road in East Donegal Township, Su......
2008-03-01 01:43:00
MADELYN PENNINO, Staff
A local band director charged with corruption of a minor is behind bars for violating the terms of his bail, law-enforcement officials said Friday.Todd Sheerer, suspended from his duties at Warwick High School, was sent to prison Friday afternoon after he violated a condition of his bail t......
2008-03-01 01:39:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 20-year-old man will stand trial for the attempted homicide of a Lancaster city man who, police say, was greeted at his front door by a hail of gunfire.Khille Baylis, of 212 N. Reservoir St., waived his preliminary hearing Friday morning before District Judge Janice Jimenez.Baylis......
2008-03-01 01:38:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Lancaster County motorist was allegedly menaced late Thursday night by another driver who pointed a gun at him in what police are calling a road-rage incident.The county motorist, who West Hempfield Township police didn't identify for his protection, was confronted by a white man dri......
2008-03-01 01:27:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Some of Lancaster's worst nuisance "hot spots" are cooling, as evidenced at a Friday review meeting for the East King Improvement District."Right now, we have 14 neighborhoods involved," Suzy Hoover, EKID's chairwoman and coordinator of the effort for East King ......
2008-02-29 01:38:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
For the past year, city District Judge Bruce Roth has served as a guinea pig for the video age.From his office at 225 W. King St., Roth, with the help of video-conferencing equipment, has conducted hearings and arraignments for defendants blocks away from his office in Lancaster County Pri......
2008-02-29 01:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Two Manheim Township Middle School students were arrested Wednesday after they were accused of writing a note that expressed wishes to kill a teacher, according to police.A drawing seized from one of the students depicted people being shot, police said.The 14-year-old boy and 15-yea......
2008-02-28 01:25:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 22-year-old man involved in the "heinous" 2005 kidnapping of a Mount Joy family laughed at his victims Wednesday before he was removed from a Lancaster County courtroom and sentenced to at least
