A federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a Lancaster woman last year against the county, one of its former communications technicians and his boss is headed toward trial.Margaret A. Conner is accusing the county of sex and employment discrimination, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Cou...

The companies that once wanted to build a "lifestyle" shopping center in Manheim Township are now duking it out in court.Granite Properties, owner of the Granite Run Corporate Center, between Fruitville and Manheim pikes, filed a lawsuit Aug. 31 against Massachusetts-based developer Oscar H. Plotkin...

A judge has decided that a local man was not under an "insane delusion" when he left his estate, valued at more than $1 million, to the Lancaster Public Library instead of his family.Yet the battle over Thomas Bucher's will is not over, and could flare up again in the Lancaster County ...

More than four years after a lawsuit was filed against Lancaster city for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, progress is being made in adding curb ramps for accessibility.Charlotte Katzenmoyer, Lancaster's public works director, said in an e-mail that the city has installed 506 ADA-c...

A lawsuit filed by relatives of a man hit and killed by a drunken driver two years ago has been settled.Darlene D. Brunner and Sharon Anthony, sisters of Michael Blankenbiller and administrators of his estate, filed the lawsuit two years ago against Denise R. Hall and Larry W. Hall, of Maytown, and ...

Equipment Finance LLC, the company whose "massive fraud" led to the fall of Sterling Financial, has filed nearly two dozen lawsuits in both local and federal courts against customers who borrowed money to buy heavy logging equipment — and didn't pay it back.The lawsuits, most fil...

Luis David Villafane killed himself in Lancaster County Prison last November as a result of "intentional, deliberate and reckless actions" by prison personnel, according to the complaint of a lawsuit filed in federal district court this week.But Prison Warden Vincent Guarini contests that allegation...

Less than two weeks before a racial discrimination lawsuit against School District of Lancaster is scheduled to go to trial, most of the allegations against the district and its former employees have been dismissed.U.S. District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick Friday dismissed three allegations again...

Three widows are trying to forgive Sarah Timblin, the drunken driver who killed their husbands last year. But they aren't letting her, or those who they charge enabled her, off the hook for restitution.Marlin Banks Sr. and brothers Inocente Sanchez and Luis Sanchez were killed when Timblin's...

Lancaster County Prison Warden Vincent Guarini does not deny that one of his guards repeatedly struck an inmate who was chained to a hospital bed.But claims that the prison has a "culture of ongoing unconstitutional abuse," as cited in a civil lawsuit, are "attorney embellishment,&quo...

The Lancaster County Commissioners are not pleased that they first read details of inflammatory criminal and civil complaints against a former Lancaster County Prison guard in Thursday's newspaper.And they are unhappy that a small group of correctional officers are giving the majority of guards ...

A former inmate at Lancaster County Prison claims he was beaten by a prison guard while shackled to a hospital bed last summer.According to a lawsuit filed May 20 by Vance Laughman, 36, of 44 W. Liberty St., Silvestre Villarreal, a guard at the prison at the time of the alleged beating, "got on...

West Donegal Township supervisor Roger Snyder is turning to the courts once again to seek damages for what he says are violations of his civil rights.This time, he is taking on the Pennsylvania's State Ethics Commission.Filed last week by Harrisburg attorney Andrew Ostrowski, Snyder's lawsui...

A civil rights trial involving four former top city school officials has been postponed to June 29.The accused and the accuser — another former school official — no longer work in the School District of Lancaster.U.S. District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick of the Eastern District of Pen...

A Lancaster County man has been indicted by federal authorities for allegedly making false statements in air-quality reports while working at an alcohol beverage manufacturing plant in Lehigh County.Maurice Lynch, 36, was charged Friday for an offense which allegedly occurred in 2005, according to i...

Workers place chicken on the pits Saturday for Lancaster Sertoma Club's 56th chicken barbecue at Long's Park. Barbecue chairman Ron Spezialetti said 30,000 chickens were cooked for what is billed as the World's Largest Chicken Barbecue."We were blessed with no rain," Spezialett...

Sharon Tell was 16 when her family moved to Lancaster, living in a nice, brick home in School Lane Hills.She enrolled at Lancaster Catholic High School, where she worked on the yearbook staff and sang in the choir.The dark-haired girl with the shy smile seemed like a regular teen in 1968. But she sa...

The number of medical malpractice lawsuits filed against Lancaster County physicians plummeted last year toward a level not seen here since 2003.And no malpractice lawsuits went before Lancaster County juries in 2008.The abrupt drop in malpractice filings and trials brings the county in line with st...

Former patients have settled nine of 27 medical malpractice cases brought against Dr. Anthony Mauriello, a Lancaster orthopedist.The patients ended their cases in exchange for an unspecified amount paid by the physician's insurance company and an agreement not to reveal details of the settlement...

Everyone agrees on one thing: Roger Snyder used a West Donegal Township copying machine to reproduce his campaign literature.After that, all bets are off.That one act has generated a contentious lawsuit, pitted neighbor against neighbor, and brought notoriety to an otherwise quiet community in north...