Marietta News

The Susquehanna Valley has some connections to Michael Jackson. Two men from the region worked with Jackson during his career and got to meet him.

Woods Avenue is a tree-lined block of turn-of-the-20th-century homes just outside the city limits in Lancaster Township.

Pequea Township Supervisor Virginia Brady was concerned when she entered Columbia High School Monday night.

BENDAS, HELEN L., 91, of Bloomsburg. Visitation from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. today at Stephen A. Chowka Funeral Home, 114 N. Shamokin St., Shamokin, followed by Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m. at Transfiguration Ukrainian Catholic Church, Shamokin.

Five schools in York and Lancaster counties in southern Pennsylvania are now closed because of concerns over swine flu.

Who knew that a kid could make beautiful music from empty coffee cans, shoeboxes, plastic water bottles and cardboard tubes? The students at Donegal Springs Elementary School in Mount Joy have done just that, thanks to a local composer who recently spent time at the school as an artist-in-residence. Classical composer Tina Davidson of Marietta ...

Lancaster city police made three arrests Tuesday night after a "random street robbery" that netted a big haul for one alleged criminal - until officers arrived.

An East Manchester Township man -- convicted in Canada for dumping waste into a river -- is facing charges filed May 1 in connection with storing radioactive materials without permits in Lancaster County.

A Marietta man was found dead in his van early Saturday morning in Elizabethtown, investigators said.

Stuck in the inner ring By Gil Smart 5/6/09 10:20 AM Coming into town along Columbia Avenue or sometimes Marietta Pike, I'm struck by the number of big, stately homes for sale in the School Lane Hills area.

When the Columbia Ledger, Donegal Ledger and Elizabethtown Chronicle closed in February, the community outcry was great.

Last summer, Tom Armstrong's Marietta home was ground zero. Picketers regularly walked the sidewalk in front of the hillside house with the gray siding at 704 E. Market St., protesting Armstrong's decision to house three convicted sex offenders inside.

Bank action on house of ex-rep By Gil Smart, Associate Editor 2009-05-03 00:01:00 Sunday News Last summer, Tom Armstrong's Marietta home was ground zero.

State prosecutors say a York County man illegally stored radioactive items and hazardous waste at warehouses in Lancaster County.

One of the most popular country western bands of the early 1950s is reuniting and performing in concert here this weekend.

Four masked men broke into a Lancaster city apartment early Thursday morning and assaulted three people in what police are calling a targeted attack.

A pair of Pennsylvania men said they broke a world record by exchanging more than 217,000 text messages in a single month.

Columbia Borough is threatening to crack down on a former state representative operating a residence for convicted sex offenders.

Lancaster County commissioners in 1977 began acquiring the land that is now Chickies Rock County Park.

Police say they are looking for a couple who broke into a 93-year-old woman's home in rural southeastern Pennsylvania and made off with cash.