New Freedom News

Results from contested elections in four York County boroughs follow: Stewartstown: Republicans swept the three seats up for grabs on Stewartstown borough council.

It wasn't exactly like the food riot scene in the sci-fi classic "Soylent Green." But when police had to be summoned to a drive-through flu shot clinic at a church in New Freedom to calm some people who had grown impatient with the wait, the situation hinted at the scene in which large numbers of people run amok trying to obtain a vital commodity.

Sandy Deel's doctor called her three weeks ago and said she'd have to go somewhere else this year for her seasonal-flu vaccination.

Overwhelmed by long lines and some impatient people, Southern York County Regional Police were called to a mobile flu clinic in New Freedom this morning to calm some crowd members.

Municipal elections will be Tuesday, Nov. 3. In York County, voters will also elect two new judges to the Court of Common Pleas bench.

The New Freedom Lions and Lioness Club will hold a meat bingo fundraiser this Sunday.

Sapphire City, a pacing colt by Metropolitan and out of the Justin Passing mare Spectre Almahurst, brought a bid of $27,000 to top the inaugural Breeders Select Yearling Sale, conducted Monday at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs.

The Health Ministry of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in New Freedom is hosting a free cancer-awareness event 7 to 9:30 p.m. Oct.

A 35-year-old New Freedom man will avoid a mandatory three-year prison term for his part in a fatal vehicle crash thanks to a plea agreement to a lesser charge of homicide by vehicle.

A pistol-packing woman might be responsible for three armed robberies at Rutter's Farms Stores in New Freedom, Jacobus and North Codorus Township.

Southern Regional Police are looking for a female who has robbed three Rutter's stores in the past week.

Lear Jetta will stand at stud in 2010 at Dr. Hurtgen's Nandi Farm, New Freedom, Pa.

Sgt. Michael O'Connor laughs Friday as his 7-year-old daughter, Abbigail, describes her career plans, including owning a Starbucks.

We stood in the orchard gaping at all the apple trees like the city girls we were.

Police are looking for a car that hit a man on a bicycle and kept going in Manheim Township.

A New Freedom man who police said crashed his car while driving drunk ended up getting charged with felony assault and other charges for allegedly fighting and threatening officers in York City on Wednesday evening.

A 20-year-old New Freedom woman was speeding and had been drinking prior to an early morning fatal crash in November on Interstate 83, according to police.

Pennsylvania State Police announce charges in connection with the 2008 crash that killed a standout Dallastown wrestler.

The Stuttering Preacher. Actor/writer Levy Lee Simon's wickedly funny comedy about an African American preacher who stutters and interprets the Lord's word in his own womanizing way is raw and classy all at once.

A central Pennsylvania man about to go on trial in the "sleeper hold" death of a friend has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder.