Lancaster County News

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The widow of an inmate who committed suicide at Lancaster County Prison in 2011 is suing the prison and its medical services provider.

FINAL FRONT: A weak front wiggled across the Lower Susquehanna Valley yesterday, bringing pretty much a lone, but potent storm for Lancaster County.

Officers with Lancaster City Police, Pennsylvania State Troopers and local police departments will wait on tables 5-9 p.m. June 19 at the Roseville Tavern, 1860 Oregon Pike, Lancaster, to raise money for Lancaster County Special Olympics.

A line of thunderstorms late Monday afternoon left behind a trail of damage in eastern Lancaster County.

The York County Probation Department introduced its newest member to the team: Buster, a 24-month-old black Labrador Retriever.

"Poison hemlock is a non-native, invasive we call it species that just seems to have exploded across the county and South Central PA," said Jeff Graybill, with Penn State Agriculture Extension.

Seventeen Pennsylvania residents pleaded guilty to welfare fraud and/or were sentenced for their crimes during May, the Office of Inspector General announced Monday.

The Blair County sheriff is working with the state Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation to get a bomb-sniffing dog.

The event is a rain or shine event that benefits Susquehanna Foundation for the blind along with other fundraising associations.

Reading Eagle Quentin L. Miller, president of Coldwell Banker Select Professionals, which has an office in Wyomissing, was one of the speakers at Select Property & Association Management's Annual Legal Symposium and Vendor Expo May 23 at Eden Resort, Manheim Township, Lancaster County.

Cicadas, like this one found outside the Keystone Conference Center at Fort Indiantown Gap last week, are rising from their 17-year hibernation in fewer places than expected.

Rescue crews are on the scene of a houseboat fire on the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County.

Stranded at the train station in Lancaster, close to 100 people were waiting for another train, after the one they were on hit debris in the tracks and was damaged.

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U.S. Marshals arrested a Dallastown man who is suspected in an armed carjacking that began in Berks County and ended with a crash in Lancaster County.

Police on Friday said the man accused of a fatal hit and run in Lancaster County was driving with a suspended license.

The golf world focuses on Pennsylvania this week at one of the sport's four major tournaments, the U.S. Open near Philadelphia at Merion Golf Club.

Officials have charged a 47-year-old man in a hit-and-run crash that left a man dead along Route 283 in Lancaster County earlier this month.

RETTEW's expert staff has helped two local municipal water authorities to achieve outstanding results at their wastewater treatment plants.