Feb 04, 2012
STAFF
A man wanted for shooting his wife at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg fled halfway across the country before being caught.Police captured Beau Gaylord Robinson on Saturday in Missouri, a day after he allegedly shot his wife in a parking lot at the complex, officials sa...
Feb 04, 2012
Staff
A pickup truck was knocked off the road and onto its side when another vehicle failed to see the truck was stopped for animals crossing Strasburg Road, at about 10 a.m. Saturday, according to state police.A Honda Civic collided with the Toyota Tundra truck on Strasburg Road near McIlvane Road, adjac...
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
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 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 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 17, 2011
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
The nadir came earlier this year, when several of the high-tech surveillance cameras deployed around the City of Lancaster were in need of repair — and the Lancaster Community Safety Coalition didn't have the money to get them fixed.
And so for weeks, said CSC managing director Wes Farm...
Dec 17, 2011
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
Retired Lancaster City police horse Tom went on the auction block Saturday morning.
No one showed up to bid.
But Tom's story has a happy ending.
Terri Patterson, who has boarded the 16-year-old quarter horse on her Reinholds property since Sept. 2010, is now his legal owner.
Dec 17, 2011
STAFF REPORT
A Lancaster County man was arrested Friday afternoon after a resident of South Londonderry Township, Lebanon County, found him burglarizing his home, police said. Among the items taken: wrapped Christmas presents.
Donald Lee Welsh Jr., 37, of the 600 block of Gault Road, Gap, was charged with...
Dec 11, 2011
STAFF
A Willow Street man has been charged with fleeing from police after leading them on a 20-minute chase through the southern end of Lancaster County on Thursday night.Lancaster state police said John Vincent Zook, 41, of Maplewood Circle, fled after they attempted to pull him over for allegedly litter...
Dec 11, 2011
JON RUTTER
"Tom," a retired city police horse, will go on the auction block at 11 a.m. Saturday at 331 Brunners Grove Road, Reinholds.He is being sold to recoup unpaid stable boarding fees, according to a Dec. 4 legal notice published in the Sunday News.And also to find him a "good home to go to,...
Nov 26, 2011
TOM MURSE
An 18-year-old Denver man was killed Friday night when the bicycle he was riding was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene without stopping, police said.Leon H. Hoover was riding his bike westbound in the 500 block of Saw Mill Road in East Earl Township when he was hit by an oncoming...
Nov 08, 2011
MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
Amid reports that his coaching career could be in its final days, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno attended practice at the Lasch Football Complex Tuesday.
Paterno has faced a storm of controversy over the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who has been charged with 40 coun...
Nov 05, 2011
WIRE SERVICES
Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, once viewed as a favorite to succeed Joe Paterno as head coach, has been charged with sexually abusing eight boys, and the university's athletic director and another university official have been charged with perjury related to the investigat...
Nov 05, 2011
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Pennsylvania Attorney General issued the follow press release Saturday morning:
Attorney General Linda Kelly and Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan today announced that criminal charges have been filed against three Centre County men as the result of an extensive and w...
Oct 29, 2011
Cindy Stauffer
A woman recently noticed something unusual about horses she keeps on her Salisbury Township farm.Someone apparently has been shooting at them with a BB gun.The resident of the 5000 block of Glen Oaks Drive reported the animal cruelty incident to state police, who are investigating.She said someone h...
Oct 22, 2011
STAFF
Following are the verdicts delivered for deaths in April that were under the jurisdiction of Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni:•Cynthia Duffin, 54, of Drumore, died April 1, 2011 at her residence. Manner: accidental.•Barbara Laukhuff, 60, of Leola, died April 2, 2011 at her r...
Sep 24, 2011
TOM MURSE
A 24-year-old motorcyclist from Lancaster County led cops on a 100-mph chase across York County early Friday morning before he crashed into a police cruiser near Wrightsville, authorities said.Chad E. Cardella suffered minor injuries and was treated at York Hospital.He was charged with recklessly en...
Sep 17, 2011
STAFF
A K9 dog, "Train," helped police take a man into custody inside a home in the 1800 block of Conestoga Avenue in West Lampeter Township early Saturday.Police were called at 4:50 a.m. after the residents of the house heard a loud bang and talking in their basement.After officers discovered a smashed b...
Sep 17, 2011
STAFF
A Lancaster man wanted in connection with an April homicide here was apprehended by Reading police following a foot chase Friday.Police said Luis F. Pagan, 34, of the 200 block of East Filbert Street in Lancaster, was apprehended after police saw him walking with a group of people on 11th Street in ...
