Lancaster News

LANCASTER -- The area's newly opened Waffle House has been serving more customers each day than any other location in the country.

LANCASTER - City officials are optimistic service and personnel cuts earlier this year will prevent the need for further expense reductions in the proposed 2010 budget.

The damaged grave marker of Connie Brown. Detectives say Steven C. Locke became upset when a 17-year-old girl refused to date him.

CIRCLEVILLE: Adam Webster 'Webb' Haynes, 95, of Circleville, died Monday November 2, 2009 at Pickaway Manor.

The first winter skill development academy for boys in grades five through eight will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Jan.

LANCASTER -- One local family is finding out how difficult it is to start over when there's nowhere to begin.

LANCASTER - When Kathy Kittredge first decided to run for the Lancaster Board of Education, she never imagined she would secure the most votes on election night.

LANCASTER - Fairfield County Sheriff Dave Phalen said he has no idea why a Lancaster teen accused of making 95 false 911 calls from his personal cell phone over a two-month period would do so.

LANCASTER - The Republican Party will hold the majority on the next City Council, following two years of an even political split.

A car turns left from Election House Road to County Road 33A in Fairfield County.

LANCASTER -- A Lancaster man convicted of gross sexual imposition and the attempted rape of a minor will spend the next four years in prison and forever be classified as a Tier 3 sex offender.

ZANESVILLE -- A Lancaster man has been indicted on two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and four counts of vehicular assault and faces up to 16 years in prison, according to Perry County Prosecutor Joseph Flautt.

LANCASTER - Two more local eateries have added their name to the list of restaurants that have closed this year.

A new managing editor for the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette was named today. James W. Sabin, of Hebron, was introduced as the new editor to the staff and community Monday by General Manager Rick Szabrak and Newspaper Network of Central Ohio Executive Editor Michael Shearer today.

SOMERSET: Dale Edwin Garey, 87, of Somerset, Ohio, died at 7:08 p.m. Saturday, October 31, 2009 at Autumn Health-care of Somerset.

SOMERSET - The Ohio State Highway Patrol is currently investigating a fatal crash on Ohio 13 near Tatman's Road in Perry County.

The war in Vietnam often made it into the newspaper in the late 1960s -- often on the front page.

LANCASTER - Lancaster resident Danielle Passek was just a child when she first heard the story of Harvey the Hyena and his lost "giggle box." The storyteller was Passek's mother and the plot was a simple one: A lovable hyena loses his giggle box and teams up with a friendly elephant to find it.

LANCASTER - Two drivers were injured in a Friday morning crash at East Main Street and Goslin Drive, according to a report from the Lancaster Police Department.

LANCASTER -- There were ghosts, goblins, pirates, princesses, ninjas and even a Michael Jackson sighting during Beggars Night in Lancaster.