Lancaster County News

Police say it appears 33-year-old Maria Collazo drove herself to the park and locked herself in the trunk of her own car in Lancaster County Central Park.

The Silver Spring Township board of commissioners voted in favor of the plan at their Wednesday board meeting.

Dauphin County Crime Stoppers is seeking information on wanted criminals. Teri S. Nolt, 42, is wanted for failure to appear for formal arraignment for charges of robbery, theft and conspiracy.

An employee of the former Bad Boys Toys store in Palmyra was handed 12 months of probation Wednesday for drug paraphernalia offenses.

The cover art on the brochure for Shady Maple Smorgasbord - Lancaster County's largest - features a stainless-steel buffet trough reminiscent of an Army mess hall's and an aerial photograph that gives a taste of the dimensions of its Walmart-sized parking lot.

Lancaster Police Lt. Todd Umstead said investigators have no reason to believe the men were involved in the kidnapping that led to a search of Lancaster County Central Park, where the woman was found in a car trunk Tuesday morning.

A Lancaster County man is facing charges after he stole a wallet from a shopping cart at a Walmart store.

An actor on the "Amish Mafia" television show ran afoul of the law Tuesday morning in Lancaster city, according to police.

A 27-year-old Wrightsville woman was involved in a fatal crash on Route 30 in Lancaster County shortly after midnight Sunday when she was reportedly driving east in the highway's westbound lanes and crashed into a car, West Hempfield Township Police said.

Police are searching Lancaster County Central Park for two men who reportedly abducted a woman in the city this morning.

Police are looking for a man who pulled a knife on a store clerk in Lancaster County, but panicked and fled with no money when the employee refused his demand.

York City Police said Eric Richards, 30, was shot in the abdomen and chest around 11:30 p.m. on the first block of South Penn Street.

An accident involving an overturned car closed a stretch of Route 222 near the border between Berks and Lancaster counties on Monday.

The event, called a sprint triathlon, started with a 500-yard swim in the lake, followed by a 16-mile bike ride in Lebanon and Lancaster counties and a 5K run on the nearby Lebanon Valley Rail Trail.

The tassles waved in Lancaster County today, as hundreds graduated from Millersville University.

Brenton Petrillo of West Manchester Township, right, and Matt Samms of Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, left, paddle around the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge.

Police in Lancaster have arrested and charged 33-year-old Steven Verling with Aggravated Assault, Recklessly Endangering another person and Endangering the Welfare of Children for his role in a police standoff over night in Lancaster.

Authorities received reports of shots fired at around 2:50 a.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they determined that an armed man had barricaded himself inside a home The Lancaster County SERT Team responded to the situation, and several blocks around the home were shut down.

Brenda Heist, the Lancaster County woman who abandoned her family 11 years ago, has shared her story with Dr.

A synthetic drug used at clinics throughout the Susquehanna Valley to treat drug addictions killed a Lancaster County man, and now three years after his death, his parents are still seeking answers.