Lancaster News

A study commissioned by Perdue AgriBusiness has found that the company's proposed grain elevator and soybean crushing plant would pose no adverse health risks to residents living in either Lancaster or York counties.

There it is. One would think that many, if not most, liberals would already understand this.

Lancaster police said they have made two more arrests in connection with the armed robberies of two grocery stores last month.

Lancaster City Police have charged two men for a shooting that happened on May 26. Officers responded to a shooting at a home in the 800 block of Prangley Avenue around 11 p.m. and found the victim with a single gunshot wound to the base of his neck.

Jorge Jason Font of Salunga is a suspect in a robbery and assault investigation that occurred on Sunday May 26 of this year.

American Theresa Alden talks with her adopted foreign-born sons, Gavin , 6, and Graem, 4, at their home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania .

When Marie Nongangang arrived in Erie with her eight children and one grandchild, she also carried the burden of leaving without her oldest daughter, who had died of malaria shortly before Nongangang left Cameroon in central Africa.

Pennsylvania's Agricultural Land Preservation Board recently safeguarded 1,906 additional acres on 23 farms in 11 counties, including Berks, through the state's farmland preservation program.

From the left, Tom Ray, of Lancaster, and Jono Droege, of West Hempfield Township, walk on Tuesday along the Susquehanna River in Lower Windsor Township as part of a 64-mile trek from Long Level to Havre de Grace, Md.

The sign on the Maryland line today says "Welcome to Pennsylvania," but in June of 1863, many Pennsylvanians didn't stick around to greet the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

Charles Jeffery Smith, 21, is accused of stabbing another 21-year-old man during a fight outside their apartment building in the 500 block of W. James Street, according to Lancaster police.

The widow of an inmate who committed suicide at Lancaster County Prison in 2011 is suing the prison and its medical services provider.

Dr. Lori Gray, doctor of optometry at Complete Eye Care, 1806 Swamp Pike, Gilbertsville, was awarded the George Gottschalk Jr. Memorial Award by the Pennsylvania Optometric Association during its annual Spring Congress held recently in Lancaster.

It is with some sadness and excitement that I share some important news with the Lancaster Jewish community.

Officers with Lancaster City Police, Pennsylvania State Troopers and local police departments will wait on tables 5-9 p.m. June 19 at the Roseville Tavern, 1860 Oregon Pike, Lancaster, to raise money for Lancaster County Special Olympics.

The Amish also make a distinction between technology they have at work and technology they have at home.

Cicadas, like this one found outside the Keystone Conference Center at Fort Indiantown Gap last week, are rising from their 17-year hibernation in fewer places than expected.

Some may say it was a warm-up to the battle at Gettysburg just a few days later, or that it foreshadowed the torching of Chambersburg a year later.

Stranded at the train station in Lancaster, close to 100 people were waiting for another train, after the one they were on hit debris in the tracks and was damaged.

On Friday morning around 245, suspects stole a van from Cumberland Truck Equipment in Middlesex Township.