Jan 21, 2012
RYAN ROBINSON
The Lancaster city woman who died after a two-vehicle crash Thursday in Manor Township has been identified.Mirna Guzman, 52, died of multiple traumatic injuries suffered in the wreck, Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni said Saturday.The accident happened just before 2:20 p.m. in the 230...
Jan 15, 2012
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
For such a tiny piece of metal, the single bullet that twisted and tore its way through Brian Fantom's abdomen made a brutal impact.The bullet left four gaping holes in Fantom's stomach. Doctors had to take out his spleen to reach and repair his pancreas, which was split in half.When F...
Jan 15, 2012
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
When a gun goes off, lives change forever.Shooting victims whose recovery begins at Lancaster General Hospital's trauma center often end up traveling very different roads.Whether a patient survives or suffers permanent injury ultimately depends on the bullet's path, the trauma team's s...
Jan 15, 2012
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
Lancaster General Hospital treats 2,000 trauma patients every year, including victims of shootings, stabbings, vehicle and farm accidents, falls, assaults and burns.Trauma care begins with emergency responders in the field and continues with trauma surgeons, as well as doctors, nurses and staff from...
Jan 14, 2012
TOM MURSE
Ephrata police said two men were wounded inside a home on the 500 block of West Trout Run Road when a handgun they were "admiring" discharged Friday night.The occupants of the home said the shooting was accidental, police said. Neither of the wounds were believed to be life-threatening.Ephrata polic...
Dec 31, 2011
BRITTANY HORN
Not many women dream of having 19 children, but Jill Long doesn't get much of a say.Each year, her first-grade classroom at Salisbury Elementary School fills with new students and it's Long's job to make them feel at home. The 33-year-old teacher might not have any children of her own,...
Nov 26, 2011
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The Lancaster County coroner has identified the motorist killed Thursday morning in a fiery one-car crash in Ephrata Township.Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni said Jeremiah "Jeremy" Bowman, 32, perished in the 2:40 a.m. crash in the first block of Hahnstown Road.Bowman, of Denise Lane, E...
Sep 24, 2011
STAFF
A motorcyclist was killed in a 6:21 p.m. crash in the 1400 block of Manheim Pike, Saturday.Police said the motorcycle collided with a passenger car. The motorcycle rider was pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver of the car was treated for minor injuries at the scene. Police did not identify...
Sep 11, 2011
Staff
Mitch Ball ran for three touchdowns and quarterback Chad Tyson connected with Tyler Schmitt for three more as Pequea Valley cruised past host Kutztown 44-28 in a non-league football game Saturday night.
The Braves (2-0) churned out 321 yards on the ground, led by Chris Schmid's 123 y...
Aug 27, 2011
TOM MURSE
The man found dead Friday underneath a riding mower has been identified as David W. Mohler of Akron Road in Ephrata.
Mohler, who was in his mid-60s, was using a riding mower to cut grass behind Hocking Printing and the Shopping News, 615 E. Main St., Ephrata, when he was apparently crushed by...
Aug 07, 2011
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
They've been working on the railroad.And the new rail yard tucked behind the Lancaster Post Office on Harrisburg Pike is just about done.Part of a contentious $46 million plan to consolidate Norfolk Southern's rail operations west of the Dillerville Road bridge — and redevelop the rail yard ea...
Aug 07, 2011
STAFF
More than 2,000 luminaries lit up the night in New Holland Saturday in a memorial to MariaLyn Martin, a 12-year-old New Holland girl killed in a traffic accident in Guatemala July 30.MariaLyn spent summers in the Central American country visiting family. She would have entered 7th grade this year at...
Jul 31, 2011
PAULA WOLF
Alice M. Yoder worked on the front lines in the 1990s to combat what was called "the silent epidemic."At the time, the local KidSafe program advocated widespread testing of youngsters in an effort to tackle lead poisoning among children, which can harm the brain and nervous system and lead to premat...
Jul 24, 2011
CHIP SMEDLEY
Supersized curbs at two intersections made a city resident wonder if they would impede emergency vehicles responding to calls on Juniata and Terrace streets.The curbs are located where those two streets intersect East Strawberry Street, just north of Chesapeake Street.And the curbs, particularly on ...
Jul 17, 2011
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
The expansive parks, manicured athletic fields and crowded commercial corridors suggest a thriving community.But frankly, Manheim Township could use a few bucks.And now, after raising property taxes last year for the first time in two decades, officials are looking at another way to ge...
Jul 17, 2011
STAFF
Correction July 18, 2011 — Michael Allen Bates, 44, of Petersburg Road, Lancaster, died in a motorcycle wreck in the 300 block of Valley Road in Manheim Township Friday night. Due to incorrect information given to a reporter, he was misidentified in the story below.
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Jun 26, 2011
CHIP SMEDLEY and MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
A civil lawsuit has been filed in the case of a salesman behind the wheel of a sports car in a harrowing high-speed test drive that killed a father and injured his teenage son.
Jon Christian "Chris" Jensen, of Leola, died in the December crash in East Hempfield Township. Car sal...
Jun 26, 2011
BERNARD HARRIS
Two people riding a motorcycle on Lincoln Highway East were injured Saturday afternoon when the motorcycle was struck by a turning car.The motorcycle riders were traveling on the shoulder of westbound Lincoln Highway when an eastbound sedan attempted to turn left into the parking lot o...
Jun 05, 2011
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
The ads are hard to miss.One Penn State Hershey Medical Center billboard looms over Route 30, near Red Rose Commons shopping center. Another towers above Dillerville Road, less than a mile away. On the far side of Lancaster city, a third stands along New Holland Avenue. And a mailer se...
Jun 04, 2011
STAFF
A Lancaster motorcyclist was fatally injured in a crash Friday night on Route 324 in Pequea Township.Robert J. Norris III, 28, was northbound in the area of Kay Drive at about 9:51 p.m. when he lost control of his 2002 Suzuki and was thrown from the bike, state police Trooper Derek A. Koch said in a...