The Lancaster County commissioners on Wednesday voted 2-1 to disband the county's Human Relations Commission. Before a crowd of about 75 people —four of whom stood in front of the commissioners wearing black gags tied around their necks as the votes were cast — commissioners S......

The two friends hadn't seen each other for a time. It was a hot August day last summer, so they decided to go to their favorite swimming site from high school, a popular spot known as Suzy's Hole in Martic Township.But when Ann Whaley and Ben Vonderheide got out of the Pequea Creek......

Late last year the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records ruled that a local man who had sought copies of surveillance videos shot at the Lancaster County courthouse was entitled to the tapes. Now the county has appealed that ruling to Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas and the Pennsylvania......

Ben Vonderheide spends a lot of time at the Lancaster County Courthouse, pursuing fathers' rights and inconveniencing local officials in the process. As such, Vonderheide said, he's been tossed out of many a county office and courtroom. But his ejection from one courtroom this fall p......

News that a halfway house for sex offenders is leaving Conestoga Township later this week mollified a great many township residents Tuesday night — but they still want assurances such a home won't be established in the township again.Steve Appel, one of several outspoken resident......

Opponents of a halfway house for sex offenders hope Conestoga Township residents show up in "great numbers" at tonight's supervisors' meeting to urge that the facility be shut down. The residents may soon get what they want. Barnabas House, at 3113 Main St., Conestoga, is likely to move "w......

Barnabas House might be moving. Maybe. Tom Armstrong, the former state representative who set up the controversial halfway house for sex offenders in Conestoga, said Friday that he is looking for another location. Nothing has been finalized, said Armstrong, who seemed to back off comm......

More than 300 concerned Conestoga residents turned out for an unruly meeting Monday night about a halfway house that has put three sex offenders in their midst.Barnabas House was recently opened by former state Rep. Tom Armstrong at 3113 Main St., an apartment building owned by Ben Vonderh......

It was a Thursday afternoon and one of Robin Mullins' best customers and best friends was in the chair at the House of Style, the salon Mullins owns on Main Street in Conestoga. The customer's children were outside, playing on the deck, when a neighbor from across the street hurried ......

An imposing chandelier supplied the lights. Ron Harper Jr., of Stevens, brought the camera. And a number of fathers, angry at the county's judicial system, brought the action to the county's public presentation of the 2008 budget Tuesday night at the Duke Street courthouse. Th......

Local Republican judicial candidate Lucy Longo said Tuesday fellow Republicans did not endorse her candidacy in part because a judge in 1995 removed her from a divorce case, claiming a conflict of interest.In the case, Longo — then Lucy Seaman — was representing her future husb......