Willow Street News

Four Lancaster County men have been charged in a $400,000 tax-evasion scheme that allegedly was carried out through aliases, offshore bank accounts and bogus paper transactions, officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced Tuesday.

Road projects Kutztown Road between Water Street and Euclid Avenue, Muhlenberg Township: lane restriction for bridge repair, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Frystown Road between Lebanon County line and Lancaster Avenue, Bethel Township: lane closure, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cross Keys Road between Pottsville Pike and Main Street, Centre Township: lane closure, 7 a.m.

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 -- Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg, report several cases of hit and run during the holiday: -- A vehicle struck a post identifying a gas utility line at the entrance to Maplewood Produce, 8564 Olde Scotland Road , in Southampton Township at 5 a.m. Thursday.

TRURO A pair of Truro businessmen want to breath new life into a century-old building in the downtown.

It's called "choose and cut." As in, choose your own Christmas tree from the many thousands of possibilities in the fields, and then get to cutting.

A tree sprouted in Penn Square on Wednesday, its branches shivering in the rain as workers wrestled the 35-foot-tall evergreen into place.

An 18-year-old Lebanon man has been charged with a Saturday night robbery on a city street, police said.

Glenn Weber knew it would be expensive to put solar panels on the roof. But in the long run, the entrepreneur figured, it would be more expensive not to.

CBS 21 News broke the story in October about a Child porn investigation spanning Cumberland County.

A Lebanon man was charged with pushing his wife down steps during an argument over the weekend.

Lebanon plans several holiday programs this weekend. The downtown Lebanon tree-lighting ceremony will be at 6 p.m. Friday in front of the Harrisburg Area Community College campus, 735 Cumberland St.

A good Samaritan helped police arrest a man shortly after a woman was robbed in the city Thursday.

A Willow Street man has been charged with drunken driving in connection with a one-car wreck that seriously hurt a Lancaster man, Southern Regional police reported today.

A 23-year-old Lebanon man was charged with multiple crimes, accused of assaulting and robbing another man Sunday night.

A 28-year-old former Reading resident has been charged with rape, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault in connection with an attack on a 16-year-old girl in a city alley last month.

Police reported the following arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs: Doylestown Twp.

A ribbon cutting and open house will be held Thursday for a rent-to-own townhouse development at the site of a former textile factory in Lebanon.

A 16-year-old girl told police she was sexually assaulted as she walked alone on a city street Sunday night.

Nineteen-year-old Brandon Styer died alongside his Army buddies in the hard countryside of Afghanistan.

Lebanon City Council on Monday night unanimously approved the way the city will spend $870,000 in federal entitlement money next year.