2012-05-10 15:16:00
BY KATHLEEN DAMINGER
Music Goes 'Beyond' ... Saturday
The music that concert-goers enjoy at Neffsville Mennonite Church Saturday night will resound much farther than the walls of the venue. Beyond Ourselves and the Lancaster-based choral group Voices of Cecilia will join forces in a Reaching Out Through Music......
2012-05-02 23:33:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
They are, perhaps, the 24 most recognizable musical notes ever written. They've sounded over the graves of soldiers, from privates to generals, and have laid to rest many an American president.
This year, taps turns 150 years old, and on May 19, buglers from across the country will gather......
2012-03-19 21:59:00
JEFF HAWKES
After the unthinkable happened on Sept. 11, 2001, we reacted with outrage and dread.
We worried about what a terrorist cell or outlaw regime would try next and whether anything could be done to prevent another atrocity.
But as understandable as our fear and bewilderment were, did ......
2012-01-24 23:31:00
DAN NEPHIN
There is more that unites people of different color and creed than divides, and the true battle is against poverty, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said.
"The gap isn't so much black and white as surplus and deficit," Jackson said during a speech Tuesday at Millersville University.
"It's t......
2012-01-20 22:56:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward," Lancaster County Judge Jeffery Wright said in court Thursday, quoting Theodore Roosevelt.
And with those words began the very first session of Lancaster County Veterans Court, ......
2011-12-16 23:34:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Veterans of the Iraq war who returned home to Lancaster County find it comforting that other service members are on their way home.
But they say it might be years — decades even — until those veterans fully realize what they left behind.
"There absolutely was a lot acc......
2011-12-09 22:08:00
DAN NEPHIN
You can bet there's one gift that siblings Taylor and Gavin Frymyer won't return this Christmas.
At a school assembly Friday, Taylor, a Clay Elementary third-grader, was chosen from among her classmates to unwrap a prize — her reward for participating in a Toys for Tots drive.
......
2011-09-29 23:17:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The Kurdish people have an ancient saying: Their only friend is the mountains.
It is into the mountains of Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, where Kurds have fled when faced with persecution from a succession of regimes, most recently that of Saddam Hussein.
Dr. Robert Doe said he has ......
2011-09-11 00:01:00
Jon Rutter
Years before the first jetliner struck the New York World Trade Center and forever changed American life, 10-year-old Brandon Hardy avidly followed Operation Desert Storm. He knew he wanted to become a soldier. Brent Adams enlisted in the Army National Guard to earn money for college. D......
2011-09-08 23:59:00
JANE HOLAHAN
It was one of those gorgeous September days when the sky is hopelessly blue and the weather is still warm — a day in which to revel.
But 10 years ago, the skies turned dark, black smoke choked two of our great cities, close to 3,000 people were killed and we all looked on in horror ......
2011-09-06 22:38:00
P.J. REILLY
The U.S. Army estimates as many as 5,500 men and women currently serving in the Armed Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan eventually will return home to Pennsylvania with substance abuse problems, according to an Allentown treatment center.
Some of them, along with addicted veterans who served......
2011-08-18 22:43:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
More than 250 local veterans sit in the steel-and-concrete cells of Lancaster County Prison.
Many of them are accused of crimes that occurred as they tried to readjust to "civilian lives," as one veteran put it.
"It's a new normal back here," Ken Gardner, a local Marine veteran wh......
2011-06-14 23:04:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Marchers taking part in the third annual Pennsylvania Hero Walk to aid veterans wounded in America's recent wars stopped in Lancaster on Tuesday.
The walk raises money for the Wounded Warrior Project, which helps individuals severely injured in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq make the diff......
2011-06-09 21:06:00
TOM MURSE
With 515 days until the 2012 election, Democrat Patrick O'Keeffe has announced he will seek his party's nomination for the congressional seat held by Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts.
O'Keeffe, a Lititz resident who tried unsuccessfully to unseat Republican......
2011-06-02 19:39:00
TOM MURSE
When President George W. Bush became former President George W. Bush, he moved to a gated cul-de-sac in Dallas and tried to slip quietly into a more private life.
As he tells it, his wife Laura was in charge of finding a suitable house.
"I told her, 'Keep it reasonable. I......
2011-05-04 22:27:00
TOM MURSE
A Lancaster County native is stationed aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier on which Osama bin Laden's corpse was washed under traditional Islamic procedure and then lowered into the sea for burial.
Jason M. Arcudi, a 25-year-old Manheim Township High School graduate, serves as a machini......
2011-05-04 22:12:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
To this day, Army veteran Joabi Leflar can still picture the mural he found one day during a 2003 tour of duty in Iraq.
Emblazoned on a wall was a painting of the World Trade Center, its twin towers crumbling in smoke and flames.
The painting in Iraq was a celebration on the part ......
2011-03-09 21:50:00
BERNARD HARRIS
When the U.S. Supreme Court held last week that Westboro Baptist Church members' protests at military funerals are an exercise of public free speech, the justices failed to address the parts that weren't, according to a key player in the case.
The justices "completely dodged" an issue rai......
2010-12-25 06:02:00
LORI VAN INGEN
For many families of soldiers, pictures of their loved ones are all they have as Christmas Day draws near.
Alyssa Schriver, a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Eshleman Elementary School, used this idea for her winning entry in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era's annual holiday card c......
2010-12-23 11:10:00
P.J. REILLY
Gov. Ed Rendell on Thursday ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in recognition of the death of U.S. Marine Cpl. Eric Torbert Jr., who was killed Saturday in action in Afghanistan.
Flags at state facilities throughout Lancaster County and at the Capitol complex in Harrisburg will remai......
2010-12-03 20:51:00
STAFF REPORT
More than 300 Lancaster County school students in kindergarten through 12th grade entered the Intelligencer Journal's 54th annual Holiday Greeting Card Contest.
The students designed and made holiday cards that will be sent to local troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On Thursday, the......
2010-09-28 21:35:00
AD CRABLE
Iraq, known as Mesopotamia 10,000 years ago, was the birthplace of agriculture.
But farming in war-torn Iraq today is in shambles. The country imports most of its food, and the remaining farmers can't compete. Adding to the tragedy, the country's national seed collection was ransacked and......
2010-07-02 08:46:00
GIL SMART and CASEY KREIDER
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2010-06-22 22:19:00
TAYLOR BUNDY
World War II veteran Jack Pontz has a special project.After serving in the United States Army Air Forces, he is now commander in chief of Operation Care Package, a collection program he started for troops deployed overseas.A resident of United Zion Retirement Community, Pontz said h......
2010-06-14 21:49:00
DIANA MARTIN
Clarification June 15, 2010 — A ceremony held Monday at the Continental Inn as part of the PA Hero Walk honored the late Bob Girdano, who participated in the walk in 2009. A flag that had been presented to the late Captain Ed Davis, a prison......
2010-04-21 21:28:00
P.J. REILLY
Ed Cunningham was a fresh-faced, 17-year-old Lancaster Catholic High School graduate in 1983 when he walked into Lancaster's Stahr Armory and enlisted in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.For 28 years, that was the Leola resident's home base as he worked his way up the ranks in ......
2010-04-19 11:24:00
LARA JAKES and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
BAGHDAD (AP) - The two top al-Qaida in Iraq figures have been killed in a joint operation by American and local forces, Iraq's prime minister and U.S. military officials said Monday. The deaths were touted by America's top general in Iraq as possibly the most significant blow to the terro......
2010-04-16 21:14:00
JANE HOLAHAN
"I don't see them as normal people. They're a cross between crazy and monsters."Attorney Sean Summers is talking about members of Westboro Baptist Church, the Kansas group that protests at soldiers' funerals, often carrying signs that say such things as "God hate......
2010-04-13 22:52:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Former hostage Terry Waite had one opportunity to escape from captivity, but didn't take it because doing so would have led to violence — what he most opposed, Waite told about 650 people at Elizabethtown College Tuesday evening.Waite, who now is a Quaker as well as an Anglican, ......
2010-04-08 09:34:00
GIL SMART and CASEY KREIDER
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2010-03-05 00:01:00
TOM MURSE
Gov. Ed Rendell's three-county traveling roadshow will make a stop in Lancaster at noon today.Pennsylvania's Salesman-in-Chief will be pitching his sales-tax expansion plan to a friendly crowd at Filling's in College Row, an upscale clothier across from Frankli......
2010-03-04 08:34:00
LAURA KNOWLES
The package consisted of a small rolled-up American flag and a letter.That letter was from four Lititz mothers, each of whom has a son serving in the U.S. Marines. Three of the Warwick High School graduates are stationed in Afghanistan, while one is in Japan.When Marcia Campbell dis......
2010-02-04 17:27:00
JON FERGUSON
Jason Hook expects a raucous reception when his band, Five Finger Death Punch, parachutes into Iraq later this month to play a handful of shows for U.S. troops."We have a pretty strong connection to the military," says Hook, who plays guitar for the Los Angeles-based metal band, ......
2010-01-31 00:18:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
Rebuilding Iraq was hard. Rebuilding Afghanistan … makes Iraq look easy. As Don Eberly is discovering. Eberly, who lives in East Hempfield Township, now calls a dusty military base near Kandahar home — for the next nine months. The Reagan and Bush White House aide......
2010-01-31 00:08:00
JON RUTTER
Neil Gussman is back from the Army, at 56. The Lancaster businessman has returned home after two years away from everyday midlife. "Boy," the nontraditional sergeant quipped earlier this month, "it seems like I've been gone forever." The military experience ......
2010-01-12 22:14:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
When the worst happens "and things go 'boom,' " Justin Taylor recalled, "that's when you go back to what you were trained to do."And that's just what Taylor, a Hempfield High School graduate, did in Iraq on Aug. 31.During a dangerous nighttime con......
2009-12-25 00:01:00
P.J. REILLY
Demetrius Whitsett's father, Jermaine, served in Iraq for a year in 2004.And Jermaine Whitsett's U.S. Army unit is back in the Middle East right now, but, due to an injury, he had to stay home.So Demetrius, 11, a fifth-grader at Adamstown Elementary School, already knew what......
2009-12-12 00:01:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Hempfield School District sixth-graders had welcomed some service people for a special Veterans Day program last month.So everyone thought it would be great "for the students to continue with that … and maybe do something nice for the troops," explained "room parent&q......
2009-12-01 10:17:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Lititz Elementary School sixth-grade teacher Bob White was more than happy to have his students send care packages to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.He was especially pleased when he learned that one of those soldiers, Sgt. Patrick Youngkin, lives across the street from him."......
2009-11-27 17:20:00
GIL SMART and CASEY KREIDER
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2009-11-14 09:26:00
CINDY STAUFFER
They don't like to drive down busy streets. Crowds make them jumpy. They sometimes drink to fall asleep. Grief makes them rage.In a week when President Barack Obama mulled his strategy for Afghanistan and the nation paused to remember veterans from numerous conflicts, another kind of w......
2009-11-11 00:01:00
TOM MURSE
Acadia's team of specialists helps neurologically impaired patients learn how to function again at home and in society after they've suffered traumatic brain injuries — whether due to car accidents, military combat or strokes.But the East Lampeter Township rehabilitation prog......
2009-10-21 20:12:00
TOM MURSE
Services will be held in Lancaster Friday and Saturday for Brandon Styer, the 19-year-old Conestoga Valley High School graduate killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan last week.Visitation will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at Fred F. Groff Inc., 234 W. Orange St., his family s......
2009-10-17 00:04:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The phone rang Wednesday night in the Styer house, as it did almost every night.Brandon Styer was making one of his regular calls home from half a world away.The 19-year-old U.S. Army combat engineer was checking in from Afghanistan, where it already was Thursday morning.&quo......
2009-09-27 00:12:00
MANDY STOLTZFUS
SPC Tim Wimer Jr., 21, was all smiles Saturday as he ate cake amid red, white and blue balloons. His girlfriend, Deidre Ulrich, was beaming, and family and friends were full of good wishes, hugs and thank-yous at his welcome-home party at Witmer Fire Company. Wimer recently returned ho......
2009-09-13 00:21:00
PAULA WOLF
It's been 56 years since U.S. troops ceased fighting in Korea and 36 years since the end of the Vietnam War. But the remains of almost 9,800 servicemen from the two conflicts are still unaccounted for. Fifteen of these men are from Lancaster County, and this project aims to tell the......
2009-09-13 00:15:00
PAULA WOLF
Following are the stories of the men lost in Korea:Cpl. Donald Irvin Dundore Army, MIA, July 6, 1953 US-52227040
As a child, Denise Barche knew little about her father. Born in late November 1953, she came into this world more than 4½ month......
2009-09-13 00:14:00
PAULA WOLF
Following are the stories on the men lost in Vietnam whose remains were not recovered:1st Lt. James Edward Hunsicker Army, KIA, April 24, 1972It was only well after the Vietnam War ended that John R. Barnes learned his fraternity brother, James Edward Hunsicker......
2009-09-13 00:10:00
ELISABETH BUMILLER, N. Y. Times News Service
At the start of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, an American bomber was shot down by German fighter planes and sent into a fiery, nose-first crash in a cow pasture here. The pilot's body was never found. Almost 65 years later, on a recent late summer day, a 10-member Defense Depart......
2009-08-27 17:27:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Artist Stephen March thinks of himself more as an observer of life, but in so doing, it is nearly impossible for him to not make a powerful statement. March is not one to paint flowers and trees and birds. His subjects are far more compelling. They are victims who died tragically in the atta......
2009-08-25 10:04:00
JOAN KERN
The Rev. Ed Brandt is far away from the rich, rolling farmland of his native Lancaster County.But thanks to some workers at the post office in Bainbridge, where he grew up, the National Guard chaplain serving in Iraq received a gift box filled with goodies in late July. And the box include......
2009-08-13 18:06:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Generally, musician Josh Albright plays for the love of music. On Saturday, he'll be playing for the love of his brother. Albright is putting together a night of great music for a great cause, as he and three other local singers take to the stage of the Chameleon Club to present "Br......
2009-07-21 10:01:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
As Anne Hohenwarter helped her son prepare for his deployment to Iraq this month, she wanted to do everything possible to make sure he would be protected.While talking with other parents, Hohenwarter learned of a helmet-upgrade kit from Operation Helmet, a donation-based organization....
2009-07-16 00:01:00
JEFF HAWKES
Maybe you were at Field of Screams the night Matt Mulligan cut off his body hair and ate it in a hoagie roll.He did it to meet Beyoncé.Mulligan, then 23, was a Fiberglas technician and Marine Corps reservist, and he couldn't resist entering the gross-out contest FM 97 spo......
2009-07-10 20:27:00
STAFF REPORT
Turkey Hill Dairy and Turkey Hill Minit Markets are requesting donations for Pennsylvania National Guard troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.Donated items may be dropped off at any of the 250 Minit Markets, including 61 in Lancaster County, through July 31. The dairy and the convenience store c......
2009-06-28 00:12:00
JON RUTTER
Neil Gussman stepped out of his School Lane Hills house recently and was thrilled to meet yet another dreary day. Unlike his waterlogged neighbors, he wanted to get wet. He went for a walk in the rain. After all, he'd spent the past month and a half in parched Middle Eastern deserts....
2009-06-26 20:37:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Correction — Charlie Crystle, a speaker at the Lancaster Coalition for Peace and Justice rally today, not only spoke against the video-surveillance system to City Council last July, as it was reported in the article below, posted on Lancaste......
2009-06-24 00:39:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
As she raced to the house from the car Tuesday evening, Cheyenne Evans had no idea what was waiting for her.Even after reading through a letter handed to her by her mother, Kelly Victorino, Cheyenne still didn't understand what the big deal was — until Victorino explained what th......
2009-06-15 00:02:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
The sounds of bagpipes and drums ricocheted off the walls of the buildings along North Queen Street on Sunday evening, marking the recognition of Flag Day.After 100 years of faithfully observing the holiday founded by their society, the members of Elks Lodge 134 spiced up the annual festiv......
2009-06-11 00:27:00
LINDA ESPENSHADE
Two prominent agencies that resettle refugees in Lancaster are struggling to find sponsors even as they deal with a rising number of incoming clients.Church World Service's Lancaster County chapter expects to resettle 200 refugees this year, 50 more than last year, and Lutheran Refugee......
2009-06-10 21:57:00
P.J. REILLY
Correction — A teacher at Lancaster County Career & Technology Center's Willow Street campus was misidentified in the story below, posted on LancasterOnline Wednesday, about Robert D. Ulmer, a Marine who was recently killed in Iraq. ......
2009-06-10 18:36:00
LINDA ESPENSHADE
The Iraqi refugees who are moving into Lancaster County are all wounded.Some, like Mohammed Mohsen, come with physical scars from American bullets and pain from gunshot wounds inflicted by an Iraqi militia group as Mohsen escaped from them.Kusay Owaid has permanent eye damage from a......
2009-06-08 10:44:00
TOM MURSE
The 2006 Hempfield graduate killed in Iraq on Friday was on his second tour of duty there since enlisting with the Marines after high school, a spokesman for his unit said today. Lance Cpl. Robert D. Ulmer, 22, died as a result of a "non-hostile incident" in Anbar province, the U.S. D......
2009-06-08 00:01:00
A close reading of President Obama's speech Thursday to the Muslim world from Cairo shows he chose his words with a watchmaker's precision."The speech itself will make no difference, as Obama acknowledged. Only changed realities will do that. But the speech will be parsed and ......
2009-06-04 00:46:00
TOM KNAPP
Two-year-old Margaret Cuthie, wearing a purple shirt and bright floral skirt, gently patted the pink blanket wrapped around her new baby sister."She's soft," Margaret, feeling shy, said quietly. "She's pretty."On the other side of the bed, twin sister Nor......
2009-05-25 00:01:00
In Lititz, two obelisks mark a small memorial park where the remains of soldiers from the battles of Germantown and Brandywine are interred. The names have been lost to history, but a state plaque marks the final resting place of some the first Americans who gave their last full measure to aid th......
2009-05-23 00:49:00
DIANA MARTIN
The crowd at Clipper Magazine Stadium on Friday wore the typical Barnstormers red and white, but also blue, as more than 500 veterans and their families attended to kick off Memorial Day weekend.The veterans were there as part of the second annual Salute to Veterans Weekend, put on by stat......
2009-05-22 00:01:00
The Berlin Wall fell, but for years thereafter American Cold Warriors were mocked for not giving up on the old fight they seemed to have grown to love.Well, Obama's in the White House, but some Democrats appear to be stuck on the past like a fading "01-20-09" label on a Prius......
2009-05-17 00:21:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
Baghdad, 2003. Don Eberly was standing in front of the 11-story Ministry of Youth and Sport building — first bombed, then burned and finally "looted down to its concrete shell." "Every single item from each floor had been carried off, even the lighting fixtures, plumbing an......
2009-05-16 01:16:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
After reading Christian author Rick Warren's best-seller "The Purpose Driven Life," Lawrence Wilson said he and his wife felt an urgency to act."We came away from it wanting to express our faith more in our community and to use the gifts that we believe God has given to ......
2009-05-01 00:01:00
Former members of the Bush administration, most prominently Vice President Dick Cheney, are putting their own spin on memos spelling out enhanced prisoner interrogation policies.Cheney contends the memos show that the enhanced interrogation techniques "worked"; that they saved th......
2009-04-24 00:27:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Runners and spectators for Saturday's Race Against Racism should pack sunscreen instead of layers this year.AccuWeather meteorologist Brian Edwards is predicting a balmy day with temperatures reaching the mid-80s for the 11th annual race, festival and parade in downtown Lancaster, spon......
2009-04-11 00:36:00
ENELLY BETANCOURT
When Linda Morrow's son Mark told her he was being deployed to Iraq, she felt confused and helpless, she said."I never thought either one of my kids would serve in the war," Morrow said. "My husband tried to comfort me. He is emotionally strong, but he had his moments, t......
2009-04-09 00:01:00
Of all the pronouncements President Barack Obama has made since assuming the presidency, none may have been more important than his address Monday in Turkey when he told representatives of the secular Islamic democracy that the United States "is not and will never be at war with Islam."......
2009-04-07 01:11:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Last year, Hope Ross came up with the idea of distributing leftover post-prom food to U.S. soldiers in Iraq."I became aware of how much stuff was thrown away after post-proms and felt that was a shame," Ross, a Manheim Township mother of three, said.Ross' idea was to g......
2009-04-07 00:49:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
New York Times reporter John F. Burns was there when Saddam Hussein's palaces were bombed. He watched as China's open-door policy hatched massive economic growth. He was in South Africa when Soweto rioted and when Nelson Mandela was released from prison and in the Soviet Union when it was......
2009-03-26 00:57:00
P.J. REILLY
When Lancaster County Deputy Sheriff Chris Riggs opened his locker in the county courthouse Tuesday morning, he found his uniform, boots and other gear inside, exactly as he'd left them.That might not seem out of the ordinary for most people, but Riggs last closed his locker in May 200......
2009-03-22 00:15:00
SUZANNE CASSIDY
The prospect of being forgotten terrified Bill Kohler when he was serving in Iraq. Kohler, who was a combat medic, remembers telling his platoon sergeant: "If anything happens to me, don't forget me." On Saturday, when he looked around Binns Park in downtown Lancaster, and......
2009-03-20 00:49:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
For some, the wars are over simply because George W. Bush is out of office.But those who plan to march Saturday in downtown Lancaster remember war is about war, not about who's president."Sure, people came out before just to protest President Bush. But we're about peace......
2009-03-18 00:45:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Courtland Hoose said he wouldn't be attending Lebanon Valley College if it wasn't for Army ROTC.The 18-year-old freshman said his family simply couldn't afford the private school.As the cost of higher education continues to rise, many students have taken advantage of the......
2009-03-15 00:20:00
PAUL FRANZ
It's a war that is fading from the memory of some. But nearly 4,300 Americans have died. And nearly a trillion dollars has been spent. Untold civilian casualties and destruction scarred a country. "With the focus on the economy, people are forgetting about the Iraq Wa......
2009-03-05 00:01:00
For the past 18 years, the U.S. military has banned photographs of flag-draped coffins of America's war dead when they are returned to this country.No more. Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates repealed the ban. Gates said the decision should be left to families on a case-by-case ......
2009-02-26 00:34:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Inspired by a famous World War II photograph, Andrew Spreadbury decided to thank 22 veterans and their spouses with a special Valentine's Day gift.A full-time tour bus driver for Executive Coach for the past eight years, Spreadbury, 60, not only paid for but drove the veterans to Phila......
2009-02-09 00:48:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Adventurers follow a wanderlust that's more seductive than most people understand.The family of the late Joshua C. Powers, the 27-year-old Conestoga Valley High School graduate who died in Iraq last month, says it's coming to terms with how Powers' fate grew out of that kind of......
2009-01-28 11:22:00
CHAD UMBLE
Joshua Powers didn't even wait to officially graduate from Conestoga Valley High School before going off to see the world. While he eventually got a high school equivalency degree, the 27-year-old son of Church and Cathy Powers remained largely self-taught, learning about the world through ......
2009-01-27 00:18:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Mennonite Central Committee is loading a truck this morning to send humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip now that restrictions have started to ease.MCC will send 3,910 blankets and 1,260 relief kits to the war-torn area, Rolando Santiago, executive director of MCC U.S., said in a telephone i......
2009-01-06 00:22:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The story of 9-year-old Fayra Molina's journey from a crowded living room on East Lemon Street to expansive Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day is the stuff of dreams.The towering monuments, the patriotic crowds — and President-elect Barack Obama taking the oath of office with......
2009-01-02 21:19:00
TOM KNAPP
Correction — United Way of Lancaster County saw a 30 percent increase in the number of volunteers and a 23 percent increase in the number of people donating items for holiday programs. A story posted on LancasterOnline Thursday didn't no......
2008-12-28 00:20:00
JON RUTTER
A soldier accorded great military honors almost automatically eulogizes fallen comrades. But Jason D. Harrington's brown eyes were misty Saturday when he spoke of Lt. Mark Dooley, of Vermont. Sgt. Mike Egan, Philadelphia. Spc. Will Fernandez, from Berks County. All three m......
2008-12-27 01:08:00
JENNIFER TODD
A Manheim Township man will be awarded the prestigious Silver Star in recognition of heroic actions displayed while serving as a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard.Spec. Jason D. Harrington will receive the honor during a ceremony this morning at Harrisburg Military Post, 28th Infan......
2008-12-26 13:27:00
The Associated Press
A former Pennsylvania guardsman is being honored with an award for heroism in Iraq more than three years ago. Jason Harrington of Lancaster will receive the Silver Star during a ceremony Saturday in Harrisburg. It's the third-highest decoration for members of the U.S. armed forces....
2008-12-25 00:04:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Morgan Rose's great-uncle died in Europe while fighting in World War II.Her grandfather and six other great-uncles also served in the military, as did her stepfather and an uncle.So when Morgan had a chance to create a card to send to American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, s......
2008-12-24 00:23:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Helen Abernethy believes the citizens of Elizabethtown have forgotten that some of their sons and daughters are defending America overseas, and she hopes to remind them."All of the other towns around are supporting our troops and I thought about what I could do," said Abernethy, ......
2008-12-12 01:09:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Former Manheim Township High School student Kyle Hershey is trying to rebuild the infrastructure of Iraq's war-ravaged Diyala Province — one school at a time.And he's doing it with help from his former classmates back home.Hershey is a specialist with the U.S. Army'......
2008-12-07 00:13:00
JEANNETTE SCOTT
An armor-piercing, rocket-propelled grenade exploded through the side door of a five-ton truck in Ramadi, Iraq. Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Brent Adams, 40, was killed almost instantly. His passenger was critically wounded. Two soldiers knocked on the door of Adams' wife door in Pitt......
2008-12-06 00:49:00
LORI VAN INGEN
What do you do when you've accidentally put your cell phone through the wash or you've dropped it and it no longer works? Or maybe you just want to upgrade your cell phone?Don't just throw it away or stuff it in a drawer. Willow Street United Church of Christ hopes you will don......
2008-12-01 00:01:00
Little about the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has gone smoothly, so pardon us if we keep our enthusiasm in check now that an outline for our disengagement has been approved by the Iraqi parliament.The security pact calls for all American troops to be out of the country by the e......
2008-11-29 01:06:00
CARLA DI FONZO
What happens when you throw a party and no one shows up?Well, you certainly don't give up and pack it in, said the organizers behind Black Friday (Weekend) Bazaar at Stahr Performing Arts Center.Gary Smith and Michael Hoober intended the bazaar to be a three-day event featuring ......
2008-11-23 00:15:00
JON RUTTER
Every 4½ minutes the horror movie soundtrack let out a scream. Neil Gussman recalled timing the outbursts on his watch not long ago as he relaxed in a military barracks with 39 roommates. More noise blared from other entertainment systems. Rap music. Country tunes. The hoopl......
2008-11-21 01:12:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
As America prepares for the shifting of political power from George W. Bush to Barack Obama, a veritable minefield of international dangers awaits the new president. What they are and what President-elect Obama will face after Jan. 20 was outlined Thursday in a talk by retired four-star Gen. Jo......
2008-11-15 00:28:00
LORI VAN INGEN
When Mark Wills walked down the hall toward a second-grade classroom at St. Leo the Great Catholic School on Friday, he became teary-eyed.The 30 children were singing the multiplatinum-selling country music star's hit, "Don't Laugh at Me," which was nominated for Country ......
2008-11-11 00:29:00
MADELYN PENNINO
It didn't take long for donations to pile up at Mountville Elementary School.Items to fill care packages for soldiers serving overseas have steadily poured into the school over the past few months.On Monday, with Veterans Day drawing near, students rummaged through donations and......
2008-11-05 03:13:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Nelson Polite suddenly stood, leaned forward and tried to peer through the crowd huddled in front of the television.NBC News at 10:58 p.m. declared Democrat Sen. Barack Obama the nation's first black president-elect.Polite, the venerable 85-year-old civil rights leader and Lanca......
2008-10-24 01:41:00
MICHAEL YODER
Claudia Sciarretta supports Sen. Barack Obama in his run for president, and she's sick of receiving e-mails saying the Illinois Democrat is a Muslim and a socialist who hangs out with terrorists.So when she opened up a copy of a local advertising newspaper this week with a voters' ......
2008-10-22 01:18:00
CARLA DI FONZO
When you've lived a long, interesting life and watch the news avidly, you notice that though the world has changed, people have stayed the same.Just ask 89-year-old Quarryville resident the Rev. C. Russell Doherty.He said he's been enjoying recent news reports about American......
2008-10-20 00:00:00
MADELYN PENNINO
U.S. soldiers from Pennsylvania who have died in the war in Iraq will be memorialized today at Millersville University.More than 189 pairs of combat boots wil be on display during the "Eyes Wide Open Across Pennsylvania" exhibit from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the quad across from the Student Me......
2008-10-09 01:46:00
DAVE PIDGEON
As Democrat Sen. Barack Obama pulled away in Pennsylvania polls, Republican Sen. John McCain tried to outflank him Wednesday on the housing crisis during a boisterous rally at Lehigh University.However, comments by one of the rally's speakers about Obama's middle name threatened to......
2008-10-07 02:11:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Donald Woodward's tormented life ended on March 3, 2006.An Iraqi war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Woodward's body was found at one of his favorite hiking spots along the Enola Low-Grade Line.The anguished young man had died of a self-inflicted gunsh......
2008-10-07 01:58:00
DAVE PIDGEON
A comment Sen. Barack Obama made more than a year ago has emboldened America's enemies more than Osama bin Laden eluding capture for seven years, U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts said Monday.Republicans Pitts and Ryan Aument, Lancaster County Clerk of Courts and an Iraq war veteran, seized on somet......
2008-10-04 00:43:00
BRIAN WALLACE
A federal judge ruled this week that Penn Manor School District acted properly when it prohibited a student from wearing a T-shirt with images of guns on it.But the judge ordered the district to strike from its policies restrictions on student expression and dress he deemed "unconstit......
2008-10-03 01:10:00
DAVE PIDGEON
U.S. Sen. Joe Biden accomplished his goals of taking Republican Sen. John McCain to task and defending Democrat Sen. Barack Obama, but Thursday night's debate belonged to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, according to two Elizabethtown College pundits. ...
2008-09-26 00:10:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Bruce Beardsley stood with a massive grin on his face Thursday as he reminisced about a time when local Democrats had a harder time feeling fervent about, well, being Democrats."I remember in the New Holland parade a few years ago," Beardsley said, referring to a time when local ......
2008-09-24 01:10:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum told a radio show in January that a Sen. John McCain presidency would be "very, very dangerous for Republicans" because McCain often sided with Democrats on domestic issues.Santorum's perspective, however, has changed.During an interview ......
2008-09-18 01:57:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Bill Glauber calls himself an accidental war correspondent.A longtime sports reporter for The Baltimore Sun, Glauber became the paper's London correspondent in 1995. That's when he began reporting on conflicts from the fringes of regions such as the Balkans.On Wednesday, Gla......
2008-09-17 00:58:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Although Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden has been campaigning in the media shadow cast by Sarah Palin, he asks Lancaster County residents to consider the Alaskan governor's accessibility to interviewers."The truth of the matter is we don't know what her r......
2008-09-08 00:04:00
P.J. REILLY
Every day during the school year, about 60 high school students attend class at Lancaster County Public Safety Training Center.They're learning the basics of serving as firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians through Lancaster County Career & Techn......
2008-09-05 02:15:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama fought back Thursday against Republican attacks during a rally under the shade of oak trees in Lancaster's Buchanan Park.As a crowd estimated at 15,000 and a horde of local, state and national media watched from the parched lawn of the cit......
2008-08-24 00:19:00
JON RUTTER
Neill and Kelly Coulbourn got married in a red-white-and-blue-themed ceremony in the backyard of their Mount Joy home this past spring. By summer's end, they'll be leaving to go to war in Iraq. The couple expects to deploy overseas after three months of training in New Jersey, Miss......
2008-08-15 00:52:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Iraqi refugees are heading to Lancaster.Refugees like Baghdad civil engineer Omar Farooq Rushdi, his wife, Rajaa, and 4-year-old daughter, Safa, who were the first to arrive in Lancaster in late April as part of Church World Service's resettlement program.Rushdi said he was happ......
2008-08-13 01:35:00
KIM O’BRIEN and MICHAEL YODER
In what has become a tradition when prominent Republican politicians make appearances in Lancaster County, local protesters took to the streets Tuesday to challenge the visit of Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP presidential candidate.McCain spoke in Manheim after holding a town-hall-s......
2008-08-06 00:51:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Sen. John McCain predicted Tuesday night that Pennsylvania will play the kind of decisive role Florida and Ohio did in the last two presidential elections."We're going to have to campaign hard here, and I realize I'm the underdog," the Arizona senator said during a 45-min......
2008-07-30 01:27:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Like many people, Nathan Hoover likes to travel, though he usually chooses his destinations without rest and relaxation in mind.On Thursday, the 22-year-old East Lampeter Township resident will leave for Iraq, where he plans to spend his time as a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams, or C......
2008-07-03 01:15:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
When 14-year-old Evelyn Fisher of New Holland disappeared in 1981, law-enforcement officials were baffled.They were certain Gerald Zimmerman, 29, had murdered the girl, but they had not found a body.Then Lancaster County District Attorney Michael H. Ranck had an inspiration. He call......
2008-06-07 01:32:00
LAURA FREEMAN
Amber Nitchman, co-founder of the Students for a Democratic Society at McCaskey High School, wants the U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan to end.Until it does, however, she and the rest of SDS plan to do whatever they can to aid soldiers and civilians in the two nations.......
2008-06-07 00:35:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Problems with a sound system that at times rendered speakers unintelligible didn't stop more than 100 seniors at Columbia Junior/Senior High School from accepting their diplomas Friday as part of the school's 136th annual commencement ceremony."This is a day of celebration and......
2008-06-04 11:17:00
STEPHEN ZOOK
There were two parts to Chris Johnson's life, according to his pastor. There was the side that needed solace, and the side that "had a sparkle," was outgoing and charming. The second side of Johnson, a Penn Manor High School graduate and Iraq War veteran, was abundantly evident at......
2008-06-04 01:16:00
JENNIFER TODD
But when tomorrow starts without me, please try to understand, that an angel came and called my name, and took me by the hand;
She said my place was ready, in heaven far above, and that I'd have to leave behind all those I dearly love.
— Erica Shea Liupae......
2008-05-29 01:08:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two boaters found Chris Johnson's body Wednesday on the York County shore of the Susquehanna River a week after the Iraq War veteran apparently fell out of his boat.The 24-year-old's clothed body, still partially submerged in the river, was found on the shore in Chanceford Township......
2008-05-29 01:02:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A plan to expand veterans' benefits under the GI Bill has many former soldiers at odds with their commander-in-chief and the Republicans' front-running presidential candidate.The bill, part of a 10-year, $250 billion spending package, includes a $52 billion expansion of the GI Bill......
2008-05-27 01:18:00
P.J. REILLY
The Lake Clarke section of the Susquehanna River was full of boats Monday afternoon.It was just what York resident Jason Matthews said he'd expect on a holiday with temperatures in the 80s.Matthews spent several hours on his power boat on Lake Clarke Monday with six friends and ......
2008-05-27 00:40:00
KIM O’BRIEN
The familiar tune of "Taps" echoed throughout Churchtown Monday evening as band members, veterans and children holding flowers joined in the town's 142-year-old Memorial Day ceremony.When it comes to tradition, Churchtown's Memorial Day celebration can't be rivaled. T......
2008-05-25 00:20:00
PAUL FRANZ and JON RUTTER
The search for Chris Johnson, a former Marine Corps lance corporal and Iraq war veteran, continued Saturday along the banks of the Susquehanna River. Searchers found no trace of the West Hempfield Township fisherman by the time the operation wrapped up at dusk, said Brian Morrin, the public inf......
2008-05-24 01:15:00
MICHAEL YODER
The staging area of Lock No. 2 at Long Level in York County took on a quiet and calm appearance Friday evening as waves from motorboats lapped on the shoreline of the Susquehanna River.Emergency crews awaited the arrival of a diving team in the search for Chris Johnson, the West Hempfield ......
2008-05-24 00:54:00
JOHN WALK
Army Command Sgt. Maj. Jeffrey Vance gripped a baseball in his right hand as he stepped to the mound at Clipper Magazine Stadium Friday evening.Vance, a 21-year Army veteran, threw out the ceremonial first pitch to mark the beginning of the Barnstormers' Salute to Veterans, an event co......
2008-05-23 11:45:00
TOM MURSE and STEPHEN ZOOK
As teens, Greg Blackburn and Chris Johnson were inseparable. So when Blackburn graduated from Penn Manor in 2001, a year ahead of his pal, he stuck around his hometown and waited for Johnson to finish high school. Then they joined the Marines. Together. "He was my little bro......
2008-05-23 02:25:00
JENNIFER TODD and LAURA FREEMAN
Deteriorating weather conditions forced rescue crews Thursday evening to suspend the search on the Susquehanna River for a missing West Hempfield Township fisherman.Chris Johnson, a 2002 Penn Manor High School graduate and Iraq War veteran, has been missing since Wednesday, when his boat w......
2008-05-23 02:02:00
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
The "Smoketown Six," a group of protesters who were arrested after posing as thong-wearing Abu-Ghraib prisoners during a 2004 campaign stop in Lancaster County by President George W. Bush, have lost their appeal of a lawsuit lodged against state police.A panel of three federal ju......
2008-05-22 02:21:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County fisherman was still missing late Wednesday night after he apparently fell off his boat and disappeared into the Susquehanna River, rescue officials said.The search is expected to resume this morning.The missing boater — whom officials said is an Iraq War vet......
2008-05-18 00:20:00
JON RUTTER
Fifty-five-year-old Neil Gussman was back in the Army Monday. In deep. Fort Indiantown Gap gumbo clutched at his boot soles. Raindrops clung to his M-16 like watery blisters. The Lancaster business executive crept along the wall of a makeshift hut with a squad of other soldiers. One b......
2008-05-15 11:01:00
MAJ. STEVE CARPENTER
The story of Tal Al Khaym, a village southeast of Mosul, is heart-wrenching, but inspiring. Over the last four months, this once-repressed community has grown, not only in population, but in spirit. The story begins in a traditional military fashion. Together with our Iraqi Army battalion, we w......
2008-04-24 00:31:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Though Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have moved their clash out of Pennsylvania, there is still a battle brewing in the Keystone State.Republicans are busy plotting strategies to recapture the thousands of voters who switched their party registration so they could vote in the Democratic......
2008-04-23 01:49:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Dee Kaminsky clutched voting receipt No. 86206."It will be framed," she vowed Tuesday night.In 40-plus years, Kaminsky never registered to vote, let alone cast a ballot.Then, at 61, as she watched the Obama-Clinton battle for the Democratic presidential nom......
2008-04-22 01:38:00
DAVE PIDGEON
In her closing argument before today's primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton told a crowd of more than 1,000 people Monday to consider all the problems facing America when they go to the polls."We need to think carefully about this decision tomorrow, to ask ourselves, 'Who do we reall......
2008-04-17 01:15:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Sen. Hillary Clinton slammed Sen. Barack Obama during their much anticipated debate Tuesday for "fundamentally misunderstanding" rural and working-class Pennsylvanians when he described them last week as clinging to guns and religion out of bitterness over economic frustration.Ju......
2008-04-17 00:42:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton stumped for her mother Wednesday on Franklin & Marshall College's Hartman Green.The 28-year-old Clinton is trying to woo college students and reverse a perception that they're largely supporting her mother's opponent in the Democratic p......
2008-04-13 00:00:00
Cris Foehlinger
Lt. Col. Mark P. Phelan lost his life in a suicide bomber attack against his convoy in Mosul, Iraq Oct. 13, 2004.A former member of the 1185th Transportation Terminal Brigade, headquartered in Lancaster, Phelan died the day he started an extended tour of duty.Saturday, the Lan......
2008-04-12 00:35:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
It was uncomfortable being a reporter in Helen Thomas' audience Friday night.But it would have been a lot worse being President George W. Bush.After 57 years as White House Bureau Chief for United Press International, Thomas speaks with the concise, no-holds-barred frankness eve......
2008-04-11 01:26:00
JEFF HAWKES
Sen. Bob Casey Jr., visiting the newsroom this week, made light of the term "superdelegate," saying having people think politicians consider themselves super is the last thing politicians need."It didn't impress my wife at all when I informed her that I was one," Ca......
2008-04-11 01:09:00
DAVE PIDGEON
It is "possible but not probable" that Republican Mitt Romney would be Sen. John McCain's pick for vice president, the former Massachusetts governor told the Intelligencer Journal on Thursday.Romney, seen as the favorite to capture the GOP presidential nomination before his c......
2008-04-10 00:52:00
DAVE PIDGEON
To lower tuition costs, college students need to be "better consumers of higher education" by focusing less on a university's amenities and more on academics, presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday during a swing through the Philadelphia suburbs.Obama, a Democr......
2008-04-07 00:01:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Five years ago, about 22,000 people probably wouldn't have spent hours waiting in the cold to hear Barack Obama talk about health care, education and the economy.Whether or not the senator from Illinois becomes the Democratic nominee for president, he's become a prominent voice in ......
2008-04-05 00:13:00
MADELYN PENNINO
A Conestoga Valley alumnus returned to his alma mater Friday to teach the next generation the importance of volunteering."The best and most noble thing you can do is give your talents away," Don Eberly told about 50 high school students at a talk organized by the social studies department.......
2008-04-05 00:10:00
TAYLOR BUNDY, 17
Cheers of "Ready to go, fired up!" resounded within John Barley Multipurpose Activity Center at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology Monday morning. A crowd of approximately 2,000 leapt to its feet in thunderous applause as Democratic Sen. Barack Obama entered the room and took his pl......
2008-04-05 00:05:00
CHAD UMBLE
John Getz Jr. didn't get a hero's welcome when he returned in 1968 from the Vietnam War.In fact, the Lancaster County native was told to try to avoid even being noticed.With anti-war protests reaching a fevered pitch and returning soldiers being called "baby killers,&qu......
2008-04-02 01:09:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama went after his potential Republican rival for the White House on Tuesday, saying it's not former POW Sen. John McCain's patriotism that should be questioned, but his policies.At a 2,000-person rally in Wilkes University's gymn......
2008-04-01 01:42:00
DAVE PIDGEON
He stood in a college named after Thaddeus Stevens. He conducted a press conference within a couple of football fields of Manheim Central High School. And he tasted a Wilbur Chocolate bud.About the only thing missing from Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's Lancaster County visit Monday was......
2008-04-01 01:13:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
When Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama spoke Monday at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, not only did he woo hundreds of members of his own party, he swayed some Republicans as well.Former Lancaster city Councilman Luis Mendoza had a front-row seat for Obama's t......
2008-04-01 01:06:00
TOM KNAPP
It didn't take long for Sen. Barack Obama to invoke the same "fierce urgency of now" that drove the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for change in his time.For Obama, the "urgency of now" refers to an immediate need for change in the way America does business....
2008-03-30 00:19:00
GIL SMART
In a week when violence in Iraq exploded, Pfc. Brian Souders wondered why anyone would make a big deal out of a simple T-shirt. Souders, of Holtwood, is serving with the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq. But before shipping out last year, he visited the post exchange at Fort Benning, Ga., and bou......
2008-03-27 01:15:00
CARLA DI FONZO
What could a film only a minute long possibly convey to an audience? Scott Conrad can show you.The Millersville University event coordinator and assistant professor said the Black Maria Film and Video Festival, scheduled for tonight in Myers Auditorium, will include films that are — ......
2008-03-26 01:17:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Some people wouldn't see the connection between a high school prom and the needs of a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq, but Manheim Township resident Hope Ross does."I think a soldier would love getting a care package filled with Tastykakes or Pepperidge Farm cheeses," said the......
2008-03-24 17:57:00
DAVE PIDGEON
I've been asked by readers about my interview with Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, who held a rally Tuesday at Millersville University.After the event, Clinton, along with her press team, met me in the Pucillo Gymnasium weight room, of all places. I jokingly asked......
2008-03-22 00:01:00
BETH ANNE KATZ, 16
On the campaign trail in her bid for the presidency, Sen. Hillary Clinton has appealed to women, minorities, union members, senior citizens and working families. But on Tuesday night at Millersville University, she turned her focus to the under-30 crowd.College students are typically missi......
2008-03-21 01:16:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Hillary Clinton has been dishonest about her support of the North American Free Trade Act during the early '90s, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign said during a conference call Thursday with reporters.David Axelrod, Obama's chief political strategist, said Clinton has engaged in the......
2008-03-21 00:55:00
MADELYN PENNINO
U.S. Navy veteran Ryan Barrick is tired of the war in Iraq, and he wants people to know it.Barrick joined about 100 students at Millersville University Thursday for an anti-Iraq War rally/walkout, where he spoke of his disgust over the conflict."It's over; it's done,&qu......
2008-03-20 01:33:00
DAVE PIDGEON
With Sen. Hillary Clinton trailing her Democratic rival nationwide, a victory in Pennsylvania next month would propel her to the party's presidential nomination, former President Clinton told an audience of several hundred here Wednesday."I have watched many experts dance on Hilla......
2008-03-20 01:07:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Local peace groups braved the rain Wednesday night and held a vigil to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War."I wasn't worried about the turnout at all," said 17-year-old Pamela Carnes, a Manheim Township High School student and member of the Lancaster chapt......
2008-03-19 10:48:00
TOM MURSE
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign stop in Lancaster County Tuesday was not all about hugs and cheers and photo ops with supporters. The New York Democrat took some heat for her vote in favor of the Iraq war, and faced tough questions about how well the government is treating its veterans......
2008-03-19 02:44:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Hillary Clinton stirred a crowd at Millersville University into a near-frenzy Tuesday night when she promised to scrap the federal No Child Left Behind Act if she's elected president this November."I know we can do better than that," she said. "I know we can have a bette......
2008-03-19 02:29:00
JENNIFER TODD
Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Westphal arrived bundled up, her furry hood drawn tight against the cold wind that whipped around outside Millersville University's Pucillo Gymnasium.As she spoke, her teeth sometimes chattered, but the Manheim Township Middle School student had more important......
2008-03-19 02:24:00
TOM KNAPP
Dozens of people stood for hours in a chilly rain on a Lancaster city sidewalk Tuesday, hoping for a glimpse of Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York as she walked a few feet from the side door of Lancaster Brewing Co. to her waiting car.They got a whole lot more. Clinton, seeing the crowd chan......
2008-03-18 01:14:00
DAVE PIDGEON
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton will speak this evening at Millersville University as the issues of race and the Iraq War hang over the Democratic campaign for president.Dana Edlestein, a Clinton spokeswoman, said the New York senator will focus her speech in the 3,000-seat Pucillo Gymnasium on ......
2008-03-17 00:01:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Pennsylvania means more to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama than just the 157 delegates up for grabs.For Clinton, a victory in the Keystone State would continue to build her momentum after victories in Ohio and Texas and further strengthen her claim that Obama cannot win big states.......
2008-03-16 00:17:00
PAUL FRANZ
Spc. Bill Kohler doesn't watch television anymore. "It's a joke," the 38-year-old Iraq War veteran and York native said. "Where I was, it was never just 'a car bomb went off in Ramadi,' it was always in Baghdad. Our base was getting mortared constantly. We were co......
2008-03-16 00:15:00
JON RUTTER
A proposed rally and class walkout Thursday by Millersville University students who oppose the war in Iraq has prompted plans for a counterrally by some of their classmates. "We're going to put our voice out there" to support U.S. troops, said Frank Peachey, a 21-year-old junior secondary educa......
2008-03-16 00:12:00
MARYALICE BITTS
It's been nearly 70 years since Bertolt Brecht wrote "Mother Courage and Her Children," and the play hasn't lost any of its relevance. Considered one of the great dramatic works of the modern era, this black comedy, set against the sweeping backdrop of 17th-century Europe'......
2008-03-15 01:01:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain described the struggle against congressional earmarks as something biblical during a stop in suburban Philadelphia on Friday.McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, spoke the morning after a bill he supported that would have stopped ......
2008-03-13 10:29:00
JEREMY KEIM-SHENK, Manheim Township
In the midst of highly publicized presidential primaries and caucuses, perhaps the fifth-year anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War on March 20 will provide a cold blast of reality. The excitement surrounding the presidential race has to some extent distracted our country from the many s......
2008-03-13 02:08:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The record of former President Bill Clinton should not factor into whether voters choose U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton for the White House, the couple's only child told an audience at Lebanon Valley College Wednesday."You should vote for or against my mom as for or against my mom, not......
2008-03-13 01:47:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
After peace, what?Even as local groups ramp up for Saturday's peace rally marking the Iraq war's fifth anniversary, they're thinking about life after the war."What happens to us then?" asked John Schreck, administrator of Lancaster Coalition for Peace and ......
2008-03-12 01:54:00
MICHAEL YODER
Being a Hillary Clinton supporter in an area where the mere mention of her name raises the blood pressure of conservatives can be daunting.Yet Lancaster County was well represented by dozens of enthusiastic supporters who traveled to Harrisburg on a yellow school bus bedecked with Clinton ......
2008-03-11 01:17:00
Associated Press
Courtney Runyan, the wife of Army Spc. Luke Runyan, and her husband's parents received flags from Maj. Gen. Sean Byrne during a funeral service Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.Luke Runyan, 21, of Spring Grove, was killed by small arms fire Feb. 17 in the Diyala province of I......
2008-03-09 00:18:00
JON RUTTER
A group of Millersville University students has announced a Thursday, March 20, class walkout and rally to mark the five-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Notice of the demonstration was posted on Facebook and on fliers around campus. Faculty and administrators received an e-m......
2008-03-06 01:39:00
JEFF HAWKES
I think Barack Obama can win Pennsylvania.To do so he need only play to his strengths, and I'm not talking lofty oratory.The hours of couch time I've spent following the primaries have convinced me Mike Huckabee is the more dynamic speaker. Look where that got him.Oba......
2008-02-26 01:05:00
JEFF HAWKES
Sgt. Paul Abernathy, at the wheel of a 10-ton truck carrying parts of a temporary bridge, tried to settle his nerves.A 23-year-old Pittsburgh-area native who enlisted in the Army Reserves when he was 17, Abernathy found himself part of a convoy crossing into Iraq on Day 1 of the March 2003......
2008-02-25 11:13:00
JANE HOLAHAN
The last time Brandon Hardy was at the American Music Theatre, in February 2006, it was one of the happiest days of his life. He asked his girlfriend, Samantha DiGrazio, to marry him, courtesy of one of the big video screens in the theater, and she accepted. Jill and Warren Hardy's visi......
2008-02-25 00:10:00
MICHAEL YODER
Paul Abernathy has seen firsthand the horrors of the war in Iraq, and he's devoted his life to seeing the war come to an end."This war must end, and it must be ended at a local level," the 28-year-old Pittsburgh native and a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War told nearly......
2008-02-23 01:20:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Paul Abernathy believes America's war in Iraq is not in the best interests of either nation.A member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Abernathy, a combat veteran of the conflict, will bring his anti-war message to the auditorium of McCaskey East High School at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The ta......
2008-02-22 01:21:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Recruiting for the U.S. military has become a daunting task of late, and no one knows that better than Brig. Gen. David L. Mann.Mann, son of Harold and Patricia Mann of East Hempfield Township, was promoted to general Feb. 11 and has been the deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Recr......
2008-01-31 01:27:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Urges Elizabethtown College students to take action on several pressing global matters.•••Retired Marine Gen. John J. "Jack" Sheehan, a former NATO commander, implored Elizabethtown College students Wednesday to take a stand o......
2008-01-28 00:06:00
TOM KNAPP
Local peace advocates are turning to the movies to plead their case against the current war in Iraq.Proceeds from the Lancaster Peace Film Festival, running this Wednesday through Saturday, will support Iraq Veterans Against the War, a national organization that favors ending the war and b......
2008-01-15 12:16:00
TOM MURSE
When President Bush announced the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq last year, some Democrats — including U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who are now frontrunners for the party's presidential nomination — predicted it would fail. Now that there are signs the plan......
2008-01-15 01:37:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The United States made mistakes in the beginning, but nearly five years after invading Iraq, U.S. efforts to establish a democracy there are starting to pay off, U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts said Monday.During an interview in Lancaster a week after returning from the Middle East, Pitts said a long ......
2008-01-04 01:38:00
DAVE PIDGEON
U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts is spending the first week of the New Year in Baghdad meeting with American troops, a news release from Iraq said Thursday.Details of Pitts' visit are being kept secret for security reasons, but according to the Multi-National Security Transition Command, Pitts ate ......
2008-01-01 00:03:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Sen. Bob Casey Jr. has to leave. Immediately.On this late summer morning, the Pennsylvania Democrat is sitting on a small chair in the Smithsonian's Ripley Center, surrounded by more than a dozen children in paper hats listening as he reads aloud to them."He loves this,&quo......
2007-12-29 12:22:00
JENNA SPINELLE
Army Spc. J.R. Schaffner shared some much-needed time with friends and family this holiday season. But he spent the three weeks home from Iraq knowing he'd have to soon return for another year of service. Schaffner, 27, of Lancaster, leaves Sunday for Kirkuk, Iraq, to complete his seco......
2007-12-28 00:19:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
It's still Christmas at Linda Morrow's house. And it could be for months.Her plan to send Christmas care boxes to soldiers serving in Iraq has taken on unexpected dimensions, especially after an article about Morrow's effort appeared in the Intelligencer Journal in late Novembe......
2007-12-25 00:04:00
BRIAN WALLACE
When Alex Ringlein created a winning card in the Intelligencer Journal Holiday Greeting Card Contest last year, his sister "was very gracious about it," their mother, Sue Ringlein, said.Alex's younger sister, Grace, had entered her own card in the category in which he won....
2007-12-03 00:43:00
MICHAEL YODER
A year ago, as his parishioners gathered to celebrate the start of the Advent season, the Rev. William Worley of First Reformed Church United Church of Christ was in a military convoy headed for Fallujah in Iraq.This year the Marine chaplain and pastor of the downtown Lancaster church for ......
2007-12-01 12:09:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Suzette Mann stifled back her tears as she packed sugar cookies into plastic containers. This morning at Lancaster Catholic High School was the Washington Boro mother's first time creating care packages for men and women serving in the military. For 20 years, local members of United St......
