Willow Street News Archives

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.

Pancakes are their profession, but puppies are their passion. Beth Buchter and Kathy Styer, co-owners of The Pancake Farm restaurant in Ephrata, use their free time and their business in the fight to end the deplorable conditions in which some dogs are bred.

One man was injured in a three-vehicle accident Monday at Route 419 and Prescott Road in Heidelberg Township, police said.

After days of unceasing rain, the clouds parted Sunday and let the sun shine down on Lancaster County.

An urban legend, according to one dictionary, "is a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms." In the Lampeter-Strasburg area last week, two stories melded together and grew in the re-telling, creating "white van" myths that frightened residents.

The phone rang Wednesday night in the Styer house, as it did almost every night.

Lebanon City police report an armed robbery at the Lebanon Federal Credit Union on Schneider Drive at 9:21 a.m. Oct.

An old favorite is returning to downtown Lancaster in a new building to be constructed at East King and North Christian streets.

The Lebanon Planning Commission decided Monday to take another month before deciding whether to recommend to City Council a nearly $3.7 million proposal to redevelop a blighted area between the two planned railroad-overpass bridges.

Police on Monday arrested a Cumberland County woman accused of giving drugs to a man who overdosed and died more than two years ago.

You could say Jonathan A. Reveron was caught red-handed, but that might be an understatement.

Join the PACK Saturday, Oct. 17, for the inaugural "Hogs for Dogs" fundraiser, a benefit bike ride organized by the fledgling Providence Against Cruel Kennels organization to benefit A Tail to Tell Puppy Mill Rescue.

Four Honda motor vehicles were stolen in Lebanon overnight Monday and Tuesday, city police said.

A box of photographs is about all Norma Sims has left after fire wrecked her home in Plymouth.

A Willow Street man who volunteered as treasurer for a church group and his child's soccer team pleaded guilty Friday to stealing more than $300,000 from the organizations.

Two families are staying elsewhere after a devastating weekend fire in Plymouth.. A work crew was busy, Monday, cleaning up the boarded up, burned out double block home on Willow Street.

BETTLEYON, KENNETH G. "BEETLE," 78, of Westport. Visitation from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, and noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Joseph W. Epler Funeral Home, 210 King St., Northumberland, followed by funeral at 1. Burial with military honors in Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland.

A Lebanon man has been charged with raping an 11-year-old girl at various residences in the city during the past two to three years, city police said Thursday.