Jun 24, 2009
Ken Hoffman
This week I reached out for a Vanilla Soft Serve cone at Baskin-Robbins, the world's biggest ice-cream chain, with 6,000 stores across America and around this crazy blue marble.Let's make sure we're on the same page. It's called "Soft Serve" — not "Soft Ice Cream...
Jun 10, 2009
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A "sexually violent predator" who had been out of contact with local authorities since last year was found Tuesday in Lancaster Township.Richard Scott Wannamaker, a convicted sex offender, was required to provide state police with his address after release from prison.Investigators allege ...
Jun 02, 2009
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A convicted sex offender on the lam since being released from prison in March is back in Lancaster County Prison after he was arrested late last week.Randy-Jay Jones, 31, served a 17-month sentence for a bizarre 2007 robbery in Lancaster city in which he sexually assaulted a woman, took her cell pho...
Jun 01, 2009
MICHAEL YODER
Unionized employees at Wilbur Chocolate in Lititz continued to work Sunday despite the company's plans to severely cut their pay. Wilbur and its parent company, Cargill Inc., told union representatives last week it would institute pay cuts of $4 to $8.47 an hour, beginning Sunday at 6 p.m., for ...
May 14, 2009
CINDY STAUFFER
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...
May 12, 2009
PATRICK BURNS
A New Holland man was arrested Saturday and charged with molesting a child in East Earl Township.Joseph Benjamin Hock, 34, of 140 E. Main St., was charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault and corruption of minors.East Earl police Chief Kevin McCarthy said Hock is alleged...
May 09, 2009
JEANNETTE SCOTT
A Manheim man was sent to Lebanon County Jail on charges he sexually assaulted two Lebanon girls, ages 6 and 9, a newspaper reported late last month.Daniel Earl Edwards, 40, of the 900 block of Hill Street, Manheim, was taken into custody April 23 by Lebanon County Detectives and Lebanon VA Medical ...
May 09, 2009
PATRICK BURNS
A 32-year-old Lancaster man was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl.Alfredo Juarez, 32, was charged by Lancaster city police with one count of indecent assault on a person less than 13 years of age.Juarez was arraigned Tuesday by District Judge Cheryl Hartman and committed to...
May 04, 2009
RYAN ROBINSON
Some Southern Lancaster County Republicans are crying foul over a Democrat filling a previously GOP-held township supervisor position.Little Britain Township Supervisors voted 3-1 at a special meeting Thursday night to appoint Democrat Curtis Jones to replace Dave Eller, who died suddenly April 13 a...
Apr 29, 2009
He voted for the death penalty, for permanent tax breaks, for a federal "flat tax," against gun-control measures including a ban on assault weapons and against the Employee Free Choice Act. He entered the 1996 presidential primary because, he said, President Bill Clinton was neglecting U.S...
Apr 20, 2009
JANET KELLEY
The sentencing of a former Lancaster County policeman, convicted of molesting or propositioning teenage girls, has been postponed after his lawyer complained about his client's sexual predator assessment becoming public.Robert Pavlovich, who was once a Manheim Township policeman, was convicted last ...
Apr 15, 2009
SUSAN E. LINDT
Columbia Borough is threatening to crack down on a former state representative operating a residence for convicted sex offenders.Tom Armstrong's group home for offenders already has been chased out of Marietta Borough and Conestoga Township.Now he's relocated his "program" for offe...
Apr 14, 2009
JEFF HAWKES
First-term County Commissioner Scott Martin railed against Somali pirates last night in an address to a joint session of Congress."Lawlessness on the high seas cannot stand," Martin said in a 96-minute prime-time address interrupted 17 times by applauding members of Congress and justices o...
Apr 09, 2009
P.J. REILLY
Democratic Lancaster County Commissioner Craig Lehman on Wednesday accused his Republican colleagues of "pandering and trying to score political points" and of attempting to "divide this board" through a resolution targeting the proposed Employee Free Choice Act of 2009.GOP commi...
Apr 08, 2009
CHAD UMBLE
Lancaster County Commissioners waded into a national debate over union organizing this morning, formally opposing congressional legislation that would make it easier for unions to form.The proposed Employee Free Choice Act of 2009, also known as card check, would bypass the traditional process of pu...
Apr 06, 2009
BRIAN WALLACE
Correction — The story below, posted on LancasterOnline Monday, about proposed staff changes in School District of Lancaster incorrectly attributed quotes from a principal. Camille Hopkins, principal of Ross Elementary School, said her school will likely lose a literacy coach position as a res...
Apr 03, 2009
P.J. REILLY
Republican Lancaster County commissioners Dennis Stuckey and Scott Martin see the proposed Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 as a threat to workers' "fundamental right" to vote on unionizing by secret ballot.Democratic Commissioner Craig Lehman disagrees."This act would remove the ...
Mar 22, 2009
PAULA WOLF
Approximately 77 people will lose their jobs in the next few months when a West Hempfield Township firm closes its doors.Carolina Logistics Services, a third-party logistics business that specializes in returned-goods management, informed the state Department of Labor & Industry on March 11 that...
Mar 18, 2009
PATRICK BURNS
An Adamstown man pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to taking sexually explicit photographs of four children.Daniel Earl Eyster, 49, faces up to 30 years in jail.Eyster pleaded guilty Tuesday in Allentown to one count of sexual exploitation of children, according to U.S. Attorney Laurie Magid, ...
Mar 16, 2009
STAFF and WIRE REPORTS
A former Manheim Township policeman, convicted of molesting teenage girls while working as a policeman in Perry County, meets the criteria of a sexual predator, according to state officials.Robert Pavlovich, 40, now living in Cumberland County, was convicted in October of molesting and propositionin...
