2012-05-15 20:09:28
Attorneys for John Edwards on Tuesday indicated that their defense in his criminal trial for alleged campaign finance violations is winding down, but they did not say whether the former presidential candidate or his one-time mistress will take the witness stand.
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2012-05-15 04:18:01
Former presidential hopeful John Edwards' attorneys are presenting his defense against charges that he masterminded a scheme to use nearly $1 million in secret payments to help hide his pregnant mistress as he ran for president.
He has pleaded not guilty to six c......
2012-05-14 20:04:36
The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of John Edwards will sharply curtail the testimony of a key defense witness who could have raised doubt about whether the former presidential candidate broke campaign finance laws.
Edwards' lawyers had intended to c......
2012-05-14 03:37:03
Lawyers for John Edwards will begin presenting his defense at the former presidential contender's campaign-finance trial.
The first witnesses to be called by the defense include former Federal Election Commission chairman Scott Thomas, political pollster Harrison......
2012-05-13 00:04:00
PAULA WOLF
Four years ago, when Siobhan "Sam" Bennett was running for Congress in Pennsylvania against Republican incumbent Charlie Dent, the chief of staff of a potential Democratic challenger made extremely offensive remarks about her in a blog post. "It was an absolutely heinous quote......
2012-05-12 09:44:02
A federal judge refused to throw out campaign corruption charges against John Edwards, so the former presidential hopeful will have to present his case to a jury.
Edwards is accused of masterminding a scheme to use nearly $1 million in secret payments to help hid......
2012-05-11 18:56:25
A federal judge refused to throw out campaign corruption charges against John Edwards on Friday, meaning the former presidential hopeful will have to present his case to a jury.
Lawyers for Edwards argued before U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Eagles that ......
2012-05-10 20:06:23
Prosecutors rested their campaign fraud case against John Edwards on Thursday after 14 days of dramatic and often unflattering testimony that focused on the once-promising politician's infidelity and the secret money they say he used to cover up the affair he feared would derail his......
2012-05-07 19:23:42
Shortly before his 2011 indictment on corruption charges, John Edwards called the elderly heiress whose money helped hide his pregnant mistress and asked for $3 million more, a witness testified Monday at the trial of the former presidential hopeful.
Librarian To......
2012-05-04 23:19:56
The lawyer for a wealthy heiress who provided secret payments intended to help John Edwards testified Friday that the former presidential candidate acknowledged the money had been given for his benefit.
Alex D. Forger said that Edwards' then-lawyer Wade Smith tol......
2012-05-02 18:58:49
One of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's potential recall opponents called Wednesday for Walker to clarify why he has been allowed to set up a legal defense fund to pay expenses related to an ongoing investigation that has so far led to criminal charges against five former close aides a......
2012-05-01 19:22:12
The wife of a former aide to John Edwards rebuffed questions Tuesday about whether she had any incentive to lie to hurt the former presidential candidate.
"Sir, I'm here to tell the truth about my experiences, about my life," Cheri Young said in respons......
2012-04-26 12:06:31
While much of New Mexico is west of the Rio Grande, this dusty enclave of 14,000 residents is the only U.S. city located on the Mexico side of the river, on the same side as -- and just across the border fence from -- Juarez.
But it's more than the anomalous loca......
2012-04-24 11:59:47
A once-mysterious $400,000 check written to a "super" political action committee supporting Mitt Romney's presidential campaign rekindled a nagging question this election season: Just how much disclosure is enough to satisfy transparency?
The Florida hu......
2012-04-23 20:19:23
Andrew Young was once much more than an aide to John Edwards.
The linchpin of the government's criminal case against the ex-presidential candidate spent long hours driving to and from political events with the rising Democratic star. They attended college basketb......
2012-04-23 18:12:45
JACK GILLUM,Associated PressSTEPHEN BRAUN,Associated Press
A mysterious firm that gave $400,000 to help elect Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has direct ties to a married couple who already are among Romney's top Florida fundraisers, The Associated Press has learned.
The $400,000 contribution from SeaSpray ......
2012-04-22 21:54:00
P.J. REILLY
Manheim Borough police on Sunday used an electronic tracking device to locate two stolen campaign signs belonging to Steve Black, Republican candidate for state representative in the 37th Legislative District.
Chief Joseph Stauffer said a 14-year-old boy, who lives at a house in the 200 b......
2012-04-21 10:27:18
Defense lawyers for John Edwards will argue at his trial that much of the nearly $1 million in secret payments at issue in the criminal case against their client were actually siphoned off by a trusted aide to build an expansive dream home.
The former aide, Andre......
2012-04-17 22:37:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Standing on Penn Square early Tuesday evening, about a dozen protesters held signs calling for "Healthcare not Warfare" and proclaiming "Support the troops. Bring them home."
Men in dark suits and women in evening dresses eyed the protesters as they passed on their way to Lancaster County......
2012-04-17 22:03:00
TOM MURSE
Pennsylvania's primary is next week.
But Mitt Romney already is looking toward November.
The likely Republican presidential nominee took on President Barack Obama Tuesday night in Lancaster County, not his two remaining opponents for the nomination.
"This man is out of ide......
2012-04-16 11:58:00
TOM MURSE
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has scheduled a second appearance in Lancaster County this week, on the campus of Millersville University.
The former House speaker, who is expected to appear at a Republican Party dinner in Lancaster City Tuesday night, will speak at Millersv......
2012-04-10 14:12:00
MARC LEVY, Associated Press
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Bowing to the inevitable, Rick Santorum quit the presidential campaign Tuesday, clearing the way for Mitt Romney to claim the Republican nomination.
Santorum, appearing with his wife and c......
2012-04-04 22:19:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
It was a small gathering to call attention to a huge problem.
About 26 people gathered in Binns Park in Lancaster Square on Wednesday to hold a candlelight vigil to honor victims of childhood sexual abuse.
Sponsored by the Lancaster County Campaign Against Sexual Exploitation of C......
2012-03-29 16:11:00
JANE HOLAHAN and KATHLEEN DAMINGER
Casting Crowns ... Friday
It's a long way from youth pastor to Grammy Award winner, but not for Mark Hall. Hall is the founder of Grammy and Dove Award-winning Christian rock band, Casting Crowns, performing Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Giant Center. What Hall began in 1999 as part of a you......
2012-02-13 14:55:00
LYNN COMMERO
Kim Stoltzfus will be using her classroom training to help victims of a very real-world problem — human trafficking. The 25-year-old Intercourse resident is preparing to get a real-life lesson when she departs Feb. 26 for a three-month trip to Thessaloniki, Greece where she will ......
2012-02-02 15:47:00
CHAD UMBLE
A $3.7 million capital campaign to improve athletic fields at Elizabethtown Area High School just got a boost from Susquehanna Bank. Bank officials presented a $50,000 donation at a special ceremony before a recent Bears basketball game. The gift will help to install turf at the footbal......
2011-12-07 22:36:00
STAFF REPORT
A crowd gathered in Penn Square on Wednesday night for a community candlelight vigil hosted by the Campaign Against Sexual Exploitation of Children.
A steady downpour couldn't keep away those who came to show support for victims of child sexual abuse.
The group's mission is to eng......
2011-12-04 22:06:00
STAFF
A community candlelight vigil in downtown Lancaster on Wednesday will show support for victims of child sexual abuse.
The vigil will be hosted by the Lancaster County Campaign Against Sexual Exploitation of Children. It will start at 7 p.m. in Penn Square.
Speakers will include La......
2011-11-06 22:54:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Correction Nov. 7, 2011 — An earlier version of the story below incorrectly referred to Mark Reese. Reese was appointed Lancaster County sheriff last month by Gov. Tom Corbett and confirmed by a vote of the state Senate. Prior to tha......
2011-08-23 14:38:00
CHAD UMBLE
A $3.7 million capital campaign to improve athletic fields at Elizabethtown Area High School got a $50,000 boost. The recent donation came from the Elizabethtown Boys Club and was presented at a ceremony to help kick off the campaign. The project includes the installation of turf at the foo......
2011-07-20 22:07:00
TOM MURSE
U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts received campaign contributions from two men at the heart of an alleged covert plot by Pakistan's military and spy agency to influence American policy on Kashmir, federal elections records show.
The Republican lawmaker also had praised the work of a Kashmiri activist g......
2011-06-17 22:28:00
NICOLE HERMAN
The winners of the Lancaster County Campaign Against Sexual Exploitation (CASE) of Children poster contest were announced Friday night during a gallery reception held at the Millersville University Lancaster campus. The theme for the contest was "I Only Get One Childhood."
In total, 55 po......
2011-04-15 07:59:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Campaign signs are being stolen in Ephrata a month before the primary election, police said.
District Judge candidate Paul Rauch said four of his campaign signs were stolen from along the road in the 500 block of North Reading Road in the past week, Ephrata police said.
One sign w......
2010-07-31 19:33:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Nearly a year ago, Samuel Stretton lost a case he had argued before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. But the West Chester attorney didn't learn until recently that the two law firms opposing him had contributed a total of $36,000 (ranging from $1,000 to $16,000 per individual judge) to judici......
2010-05-12 21:06:00
JEFF HAWKES
A sign of these tough times is a leaner Lancaster Alliance, the CEO-driven civic group behind many initiatives to revitalize the city.A strategic planning process has led the 14-member Alliance to sharpen its focus and downsize its operations.The biggest casualty is the Lancaster Ca......
2010-04-05 01:20:00
TOM MURSE
The Democratic candidate trying to unseat Republican state Rep. John Bear said the legislator is pandering to GOP extremists by backing a legal challenge of the new federal health insurance mandate."John Bear, wanting to stay with the party line, is hooking onto this sleigh ride so he......
2010-01-24 00:00:00
STAFF
Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at Lancaster Public Library, 125 N. Duke St....
2010-01-11 09:15:00
TOM MURSE
There's now a race for retiring state Rep. Katie True's House seat.Republican Brett Miller, a Warwick Middle School guidance counselor and East Hempfield Township supervisor, said Sunday night that he will seek GOP endorsement for the seat.Miller will face fellow Republican ......
2009-12-30 17:35:00
LAURA KNOWLES
This First Friday, the first of 2010, will mark a tradition of nearly 100 First Fridays since 2001. That's one First Friday a month over eight years. And the enthusiasm for Lancaster's biggest arts, dining and social gathering hasn't dwindled. In fact, according to Lancaster......
2009-12-28 00:02:00
TOM MURSE
Now here's something that doesn't come along very often in Lancaster County: a congressional primary battle ... among Democrats.A 35-year-old Lancaster City businessman said Sunday he intends to seek the Democratic nomination for the 16th Congressional District seat in 2010.......
2009-12-13 00:15:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
The campaign's over. The crusade continues. Last month, former Lancaster Mayor Charlie Smithgall lost his bid to unseat incumbent Mayor Rick Gray. But unlike other unsuccessful candidates, Smithgall hasn't spent the weeks since then reflecting on his loss. Just the opposite......
2009-11-20 00:01:00
TOM MURSE
Perhaps the worst-kept secret in Harrisburg in the early years of the decade was that John Barley didn't have what you and I would call a warm and fuzzy relationship with his Republican colleague John Perzel."While both leaders worked closely toge......
2009-11-12 23:11:00
TOM MURSE
A Lancaster County native who once worked as a top aide to Rep. John Perzel is among 10 people charged in the wide-ranging probe of corruption in the state Legislature.John R. Zimmerman, a 1965 Garden Spot High School graduate, is accused of obstructing agents from the Attorney General'......
2009-11-12 20:56:00
MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press
A former House speaker, an ex-lawmaker and eight aides Thursday became the latest — and the first Republicans — to be charged in a 3-year-old investigation into the diversion of public resources and employees to Pennsylvania legislative campaigns.Attorney General Tom Corbett sa......
2009-11-02 00:03:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The two candidates for Lancaster mayor held dueling campaign rallies Sunday evening, just 36 hours before the opening of the polls.Mayor Rick Gray, a Democrat, and former Mayor Charlie Smithgall, a Republican, each stood before supporters and blasted the other, but Smithgall came with more......
2009-11-02 00:01:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
When he looks at growing East Hempfield Township, Scott Russell sees a need for traffic impact fees to "take the burden off existing residents and onto developers."And he's the one who can bring the experience in local municipal government to benefit township residents, East ......
2009-10-26 09:00:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Rick Casselbury says it's important to have people in office "who are used to managing companies and budgets … and people."That is an important consideration in making key decisions about farmland preservation, land-development plans or police or fire protection, he says.For ......
2009-10-19 00:03:00
TOM MURSE
This time it was Charlie Smithgall who went on the offensive.The Republican mayoral hopeful portrayed the loss of the city's police contract with Lancaster Township as a major blunder, accusing Democratic Mayor Rick Gray of severing the agreement in July in a failed attempt to pressure......
2009-09-22 08:50:00
BERNARD HARRIS
It happened again last week.Ron Moser looked out of his Beaver Street home and saw a young man with a handgun in his hand. Moser called police."Yea, it's always about drugs," said Moser, a neighborhood watch block captain.City Mayor Rick Gray on Monday chose Mos......
2009-09-13 00:16:00
JO-ANN GREENE
Lancaster's Democratic Mayor Rick Gray began his campaign four years ago promising "Leadership for Change." He delivered on that promise and is still delivering on it, he said Saturday as he opened his re-election bid at campaign headquarters, 24 E. King St. "Lancaste......
2009-09-10 17:29:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A Revolutionary War hospital was a dreadful place. For a soldier with an arm or leg bone shattered by a .69 or .75-caliber musket ball, amputation was the best way to save his life. Strapped to a table or held down by hospital orderlies, biting down on a stick — there were no anestheti......
2009-08-29 23:55:00
JO-ANN GREENE, Books Editor
A seven-county area, including Lancaster County, is being encouraged to form one big book club in September and October. The book to read is Geraldine Brooks' "People of the Book," guaranteed to "take readers on an exciting and mysterious journey through centuries of world......
2009-08-20 00:13:00
LORI VAN INGEN
For his first official campaign event since formally accepting the Republican nomination for Lancaster city mayor, Charlie Smithgall spoke with about 20 city residents Wednesday night at John's Gulf on Union Street. "I wanted to talk to people in the area to answer any questions and se......
2009-04-26 00:20:00
MANDY STOLTZFUS
"I don't just fly anywhere in turkey season," said Ted Nugent, greeting an enthusiastic crowd at Elstonville Sportsmen's Association, Saturday. "I'm here today to teach you how to crush bureaucrats."...
2009-04-26 00:15:00
PAUL FRANZ
"Hey, Obama, you might want to suck on these, you punk!" Ted Nugent screamed onstage, waving two assault rifles during a 2007 concert. Nugent, a well-known gun rights advocate, had his audience screaming in wild adulation. Bryan Miller wasn't impressed. "Nugent is a......
2009-04-14 11:22:00
TOM MURSE
Charlie Smithgall might be headed for a political comeback. He just doesn't know it. And he might not even want it. Supporters are orchestrating a write-in campaign for the affable former mayor in next month's mayoral primary — and haven't bothered to tell their own candidate....
2009-04-03 00:41:00
MADELYN PENNINO
The largest misconception people have of Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams is that she changed the world single-handedly, but she admits that she had a little help.Williams spoke at Elizabethtown College on Thursday night about being an activist and advocate for global human rights an......
2008-11-11 01:03:00
MADELYN PENNINO
In the week since Barack Obama won the presidential election, Lancaster County gun dealers have seen a spike in business.Gun shop owners and managers here attribute the surge in gun purchases to the election of Obama, who has said while he respects Americans' Second Amendment right to ......
2008-11-09 00:20:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Savor it: The first weekend in months without a single political commercial. Call it the calm after the storm, and it was a hurricane indeed. In the final month before the Nov. 4 election, the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain combined to spend more than $3 million on adver......
2008-11-06 11:30:00
CINDY STAUFFER
No more "I am (fill in the blank) and I approved this message." No more debates, town hall meetings and maps covered with red states and blue states. No more Sarah Palin sketches likely on "Saturday Night Live." After two looooong years, the campaign is finally ove......
2008-11-03 01:29:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Bruce Beardsley, chairman of the Lancaster County Democratic Committee, stood at a podium in the party's campaign headquarters Sunday beneath a banner reading "CHANGE VS. MORE OF THE SAME.""Forty-eight hours," Beardsley said as about three dozen fellow Democrats che......
2008-11-03 01:03:00
MICHAEL YODER
Bill Neff said he never realized the "hornet's nest" he would stir up when he decided to run as an independent candidate for Pennsylvania's 13th District Senate seat.Now he suspects that someone is taking dislike of his campaign to a new level, attempting to intimidate his campaign just da......
2008-11-03 00:56:00
TOM KNAPP
The message of "change" resonates with a lot of voters as this pivotal presidential election draws near. And, as in any high-profile election, its effects spill over into state and local campaigns as well.Dan Stephenson, the 26-year-old Democratic contender for the 98th state Hou......
2008-11-03 00:49:00
DAVE PIDGEON
America votes Tuesday, and locally polls open at 7 a.m. The only question left is whether Republican Sen. John McCain can pull off an epic upset and take Pennsylvania's 21 electoral votes from Democratic Sen. Barack Obama.McCain and surrogates say their internal numbers have the race f......
2008-10-31 00:34:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Gov. Ed Rendell told an audience at Millersville University on Thursday that he wants fellow Democrat Barack Obama to "crush" his Republican opponents, saying the GOP has run a "despicable" presidential campaign.Rendell told a cheering crowd of about 200, mostly student......
2008-10-20 00:02:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The largest personality during the annual Candidates Night at AMVETS Post 19 wasn't on the dais with the other politicos, wasn't the master of ceremonies and wasn't one of the veterans sipping beer at the club's bar.What actually dominated the tone of the Sunday forum was t......
2008-10-20 00:00:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The Phillies are finally in the World Series — 15 years since their last visit — but that wasn't the most important development in the Philadelphia sports world last week.No, after 30 years of baseball antics, the Phillie Phanatic appears to have endorsed a candidate for pr......
2008-09-29 00:51:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Local businessman Chet Beiler called on some political star power Sunday night, enlisting former Gov. Tom Ridge to help raise tens of thousands of dollars for the Manheim Republican's auditor general campaign.However, Ridge told the Intelligencer Journal in a one-on-one interview that ......
2008-09-29 00:27:00
DAVE PIDGEON
A republic with democratic principles like the United States depends on public discussions — even if they grow heated — on consequential issues shaping our day and age.What then to make of U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts' absence during what was supposed to be a comprehensive debate on......
2008-09-22 00:00:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Shhhhhhhh. Aside from the presidential campaign, all's quiet in Lancaster County. At a time when a local reporter's e-mail box is usually jammed with messages from various campaigns, there's hardly been anything from the candidates running for state Senate and U.S. Congress.It&......
2008-09-21 00:16:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
The state Democratic chairman has asked Pennsylvania's elections bureau to investigate alleged errors in campaign finance reports filed by Republican Chet Beiler since 2003. T.J. Rooney, the Democrats' head, wrote in an Aug. 14 letter that 11 of 14 reports filed by Beiler, running for s......
2008-09-12 07:01:00
SAMANTHA CRITCHELL
(AP)John and Cindy McCain, and Barack and Michelle Obama are doing their best to put their best foot forward every day on the campaign trail. But are they doing it in the right shoes? The shoe may not make the man, but it is an important part of his appearance, which is an important part of his......
2008-09-09 01:06:00
JENNIFER TODD
Eighteen months ago, the last thing on Dan Wagner's mind was the millions of people suffering from extreme poverty and disease in Africa.But after watching a simulcast in which U2 front man Bono spoke on behalf of the ONE Campaign, which seeks to promote international aid, the Franklin......
2008-08-31 00:20:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
The young man who answered the door at a North Duke Street apartment on Saturday shook his head regretfully when a Barack Obama worker asked if he had registered to vote. He was just 17. But his mother registered, the teenager said. Is she voting for Obama? "You know that!&q......
2008-08-26 01:15:00
MICHAEL YODER
Five Lancaster County residents took their place Monday among the Democratic Party delegates who have converged on the "Mile High City" of Denver.On the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, in which Michelle Obama gave the keynote address, talking about her first me......
2008-08-25 00:38:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Keep the scrub pads and soap nearby. The race for president is about to get muddy, if it hasn't already.We're on the precipice now of the real dogfight between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama with Libertarian Bob Barr and independent Ralph Nader also scraping for v......
2008-08-04 00:55:00
DAVE PIDGEON
They are two fallacious arguments aimed at the same source.First is a John McCain television commercial about the high price of oil, and in it blame is squarely put on the shoulders of a single junior senator from Illinois who hasn't yet finished his first term and does not serve on th......
2008-08-01 01:10:00
PATRICK BURNS
Muhammad Yunus of Pakistan pioneered a microfinance system that has provided small loans to more than 100 million people living in poverty.Chuck Waterfield of Lancaster is an internationally known microfinance expert who is determined to foster Yunus' dream in growing nonprofit, humani......
2008-06-27 00:10:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is not running away with the presidential election against Republican rival Sen. John McCain, according to a Franklin & Marshall College poll of 1,501 registered voters nationwide.Obama leads McCain by just 6 percentage points, according to the F&M poll......
2008-06-23 00:06:00
DAVE PIDGEON
All those dire predictions a few weeks ago about a divided Democratic Party seem soooo outdated.This week, a Quinnipiac University poll of more than 1,500 likely Pennsylvania voters showed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama not only has a 52 percent to 40 percent edge......
2008-04-22 01:29:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
State Rep. Mike Sturla's campaign finance records have been subpoenaed as part of a grand jury investigation into a Scranton millionaire casino owner's alleged mob connections.In 2005, nearly one-quarter of Sturla's campaign contributions came from Mount Airy Casino Resort owne......
2008-04-21 00:53:00
P.J. REILLY
Bill Neff, candidate for the state Senate seat in the 13th Legislative District, on Sunday did what any Republican would do two days before Pennsylvania's primary election.He and his wife, Barbara, left on a 10-day "religious pilgrimage" to Europe with about 50 other members ......
2008-04-21 00:32:00
TOM KNAPP
The hullabaloo of Pennsylvania's primary elections doesn't extend to the third-party faithful of the Lancaster Greens.The primary is set up by the state to pick delegates for the Republicans and Democrats only. That leaves the Green Party to choose its delegates on its own time and......
2008-04-21 00:22:00
DAVE PIDGEON
One aspect of this primary's narrative is the disenchanted Republicans who have reconfigured the "R" on their voter registration cards into a "D."Such a decision comes with its pitfalls, as 33-year-old Nate Bomberger, who's volunteering full time for Sen. Barack......
2008-04-11 12:13:00
TOM MURSE
Republican Lloyd Smucker's highly anticipated campaign finance report sparked a new round of accusations and rebuttals in the hotly contested state Senate race today. The West Lampeter Township supervisor reported raising $125,724 in cash from others over the first three months of the year ......
2008-04-10 11:29:00
TOM MURSE
State Senate candidate Bill Neff is the first candidate in the four-way 13th district race to make public his latest campaign finance report. He did so this morning. His take? Zip. "I'm not raising anything," Neff said. "I'm very earnest about that. I don&#......
2008-04-10 09:07:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
It's hard not to notice the scaly, black tongue. As the Ephrata Middle School students troop by the Lancaster Council of Drug & Alcohol Abuse Tobacco-Free Coalition table, topped with educational materials about the dire consequences of smoking cigarettes, the "Hairy, Scary Tong......
2008-04-08 00:14:00
DAVE PIDGEON
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. on Monday challenged rhetoric streaming from Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign that her chief Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, can't beat presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in the general election.Casey, meeting with the Intelligencer Journal's......
2008-03-31 12:09:00
TOM MURSE, BERNARD HARRIS and CHAD UMBLE
Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama, saying voters are "ready to write a new chapter in American history," said here today he would fight the status quo in Washington if elected. "I'm running because of what Dr. (Martin Luther) King called the fierce urgency o......
2008-03-30 00:18:00
PAUL FRANZ
Indifferent. Apathetic. Lazy Those words are often used to describe young people's political attitudes. Not this year. "We're more vocal now," said Randy Jackson, 21, a junior broadcasting major at Millersville University. The baby boomers are fading, and a new ......
2008-03-27 11:08:00
TOM MURSE
Prepare yourself for Obama-mania, Lancaster County. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, whose rock star-like status and popularity among young voters vaulted him ahead in the bruising Democratic primary race, will campaign here on Monday. The Illinois Democrat is expected to appear here, likely after ......
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 ......
2008-03-03 00:00:00
DAVE PIDGEON
While our weather here remains cold, the 13th state Senate District GOP primary is certainly heating up.Last week reminded me of an old Warren Zevon song: "Lawyers, Guns and Money."The "lawyer" comes to us in the form of local attorney Jim Clymer calling out cand......
2008-02-29 01:35:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Republican Lloyd Smucker came under fire Thursday from the national chairman of the Constitution Party for not releasing a donor list detailing who contributed to Smucker's state Senate campaign.Smucker earlier this month told the Sunday News he had raised $185,000 in just two weeks, a......
2008-02-18 00:48:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The lull in the 13th state Senate District primary is ending as candidates are starting to tout campaign finance totals and roll out their platforms.It's hard to fathom that, come Friday, it's still two months before the April 22 primary.I'm starting to get a sense, thro......
2008-01-29 00:46:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Despite being one of the two frontrunners in a county Republican endorsement convention last week, Gregory Sahd dropped out of the primary for the 13th state Senate District on Monday.Sahd said in a telephone interview Monday that the inconclusive Jan. 22 convention, in which no candidate ......
2008-01-21 00:19:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The next consequential event in the local 2008 election cycle happens Tuesday when the Lancaster County Republican Committee convenes to dole out endorsements.All eyes will be watching to see if someone in the race to succeed Gibson E. Armstrong as state senator will garner an endorsement.......
2008-01-09 01:50:00
DAVE PIDGEON
With just three days until they come face to face with local Republican Committee members for the first time as candidates, money is on the minds of most GOP hopefuls for the state Senate.Polled by the Intelligencer Journal Tuesday about what they see as the most important legislative issu......
2008-01-08 01:22:00
JEFF HAWKES
"Is this a campaign calling?" asked 10-year-old Leah Dunbar of Hillsboro, N.H., answering her parents' phone one evening last week.No, I assured Leah. I said I knew her parents, Peter and Carol, when they lived in Lancaster before she was born.Evidently I passed the te......
2008-01-07 00:31:00
DAVE PIDGEON
If Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is still running by the time Pennsylvania's primary comes around, he'll have a familiar face at his side.Former U.S. Rep. Bob Walker, an East Petersburg resident, agreed to chair Thompson's campaign in Pennsylvania, Walker conf......
2008-01-03 01:46:00
DAVE PIDGEON
A local businessman has entered the Republican race to replace retiring state Sen. Gibson Armstrong, making it a three-way contest.Bill Neff, 54, owner of Neff's Safe, Lock & Security Inc. in Lancaster city, cited campaign finance reform, school vouchers and the defense of traditio......
2007-12-17 00:52:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Paul Thibault, who finished his second term as county commissioner in 2004, is now the second declared candidate for the 13th District seat that will be vacated next year by state Sen. Gibson E. Armstrong.The Lancaster Township Republican committee chairman joins county Recorder of Deeds S......
2007-12-03 00:16:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Politics can be a nasty affair, and I don't blame anyone who feels nauseated and turns away in disgust.Consider this statement:"If I'm going to get punched in the stomach, I'm going to take a knife out and get you right back ... I'm going to use every single wea......
2007-11-05 00:10:00
DAVE PIDGEON
There's nothing left but the votes.The 2007 campaign ends Tuesday, when voters will choose three Lancaster County commissioners and decide who controls municipal offices and school boards.Across the county there are 234 polling locations, which open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.......
2007-11-05 00:06:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
In Manheim Township, Tuesday's township commissioner race seems to be largely about money.Nelson Rohrer, 56, who sat on the township's board of commissioners from 1990 to 1998, is running as an independent against incumbents Carol S. Simpson and Larry Downing, both of whom are Repu......
2007-11-05 00:05:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Voters in six suburban school districts will decide Tuesday who will represent them on their local school boards.The Cocalico, Columbia, Donegal, Ephrata, Lampeter-Strasburg and Penn Manor school board races all are contested.•In Cocalico, three incumbents and ......
2007-11-05 00:04:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Questions to be answered after voters cast their ballots Tuesday:•Did Commissioner Molly Henderson do enough to gain votes in Lancaster city?Many insiders from the Democratic city committee have expressed their disappointment with Henderson's record during the last four yea......
2007-10-22 00:01:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Brace yourselves. I'm going to issue a challenge.Seven weeks have passed since Labor Day, the unofficial start of the fall campaign, and just two weeks remain before Election Day.And in those nine weeks, not one debate has been scheduled for the Democratic and Republican candida......
2007-09-26 10:59:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Public safety, city government efficiency and economic revitalization are the topics three Republican candidates for Lancaster City Council are expected to address at their formal campaign kickoff this evening. R.B. Campbell, Kathleen Harrison and Brian Reynolds are running for the three open s......
2007-09-07 11:10:00
CINDY STAUFFER
He's not giving up. Lancaster County Coroner Dr. G. Gary Kirchner said today he expects he will mount a write-in campaign in a bid for re-election in November. And if he runs, he says, he will win. "I think I have an incredible amount of support," he said today. "......
2007-09-04 00:03:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Susan Leinberger has wrangled with challenges before.As superintendent of Eastern York School District in York County, Leinberger had to improve student test scores, manage day-to-day operations at six schools and keep the district operating within its budget.Instead of relaxing at ......
2007-09-03 00:12:00
P.J. REILLY
The proposed Corridor One rail system would cost taxpayers too much money and is likely a dead project.Citing Capital Area Transit projections that the proposed Corridor One line would carry 444 daily one-way passengers between Lancaster and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Transportation Secretar......
2007-08-09 11:14:00
TOM MURSE
This Election Day, your phone's sure to ring off the hook with those pesky callers asking whether you've voted yet — and if you haven't, whether you'd be so kind as to support yours truly. But if you're put off by such calls, here's some news: A couple dozen sta......
2007-06-24 00:12:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
Money doesn't equal victory in politics. Unendorsed Republican Heidi Wheaton outperformed her endorsed opponents in finances throughout the primary campaign, $218,213 to $157,135. But on May 15, Wheaton — whose polls had been showing her second only to another unendorsed Republic......
2007-06-21 12:24:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Its big, annual public campaign doesn't officially get started until after the new school year begins. But even in these early days of summer, its top leaders are, and have been, "getting the pump primed" as they crank up the plans for the 2007 fundraising effort. The United ......
2007-05-30 01:32:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Heidi Eakin's decision to resign from the Lancaster County District Attorney's office had nothing to do with the recent scrutiny of a five-year-old case she handled, Eakin said Tuesday."The two are totally unrelated," the 24-year veteran prosecutor said during a telephone......
2007-05-30 00:44:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Justin Barbush said he always thought write-in campaigns were "uphill battles." Then he got involved in one.Now he's one of five school board candidates in Manheim Central School District to sweep the May 15 primary election in both ballot and write-in votes."I was intimidated at fi......
2007-05-15 01:53:00
DAVE PIDGEON
By the end of today, an estimated 60,000 voters will determine for a county of nearly half a million people who gets a chance at leading local governments and school boards, deciding how high or low taxes go.Today is Pennsylvania's primary election. Across Lancaster County, 233 polls o......
2007-05-05 02:04:00
Dave Pidgeon
Republican Heidi Wheaton raised $138,501 in donations for her bid to be a Lancaster County commissioner, far outpacing the other three GOP contenders in the primary campaign.According to campaign-finance reports that were due Friday to the county Board of Elections, Wheaton pumped $29,200 ......
2007-05-04 03:20:00
Dave Pidgeon
Republicans Dennis Stuckey and Scott Martin have received about $107,000 in campaign contributions this year, according to campaign finance reports the two Lancaster County commissioner candidates released Thursday.They have spent more than $31,000 on consultants, a radio advertisement, ca......
2007-04-30 00:02:00
Lisa Gockley
According to the National Safe Kids Campaign, 4.7 million children live in households with firearms that are sometimes kept loaded and in an unlocked location.A Lancaster-based company, Child Guard, has set out to reverse this trend, according to CEO James Burton.Child Guard develop......
2007-04-16 20:43:00
Patrick Burns
Isaac's Restaurant & Deli will host a benefit this week to support a special adult reading program organized by area public libraries.The company will hold a fundraiser in support of the 2007 One Book, One Community Campaign from 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at all Isaac's locatio......
2007-04-10 01:29:00
Dave Pidgeon
They are the behind-the-scenes people.You may not know their names, but they have a tremendous influence on name recognition.They design the campaign mailers, produce the television commercials and lay out the Web sites — and, as a result, they can set the tone for a candidate......
2007-03-25 00:01:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
How much does it cost to educate a child in Pennsylvania? By November, taxpayers should have a better handle on the numbers. But numbers alone won't fix the school financing system, a coalition of education advocates argue. The Pennsylvania Education Funding Reform Campaign wan......
2007-03-10 01:40:00
Dave Pidgeon
There may be no "I" in team, but there's one on Jere Swarr's voter registration card.Swarr, a Rapho Township supervisor running for Lancaster County commissioner, said he visited the county Board of Elections Wednesday to change his party affiliation from Republican to in......
2007-01-25 16:34:00
Staff
Published Jan. 25, 2007: Lowell Reidenbaugh, 87, passed away in St. Louis last Saturday, Jan. 20. Reidenbaugh was a Lititz native who went on to become one of the most significant sports journalists of his time. He was the managing editor of The Sporting News from 1958 to......
2006-12-28 12:24:30
David O'connor
That's according to this year's United Way of Lancaster County campaign chairman, and he's not talking about a college bowl game, or a pro football game for some team on the playoff bubble. He's speaking of the United Way's about-to-end campaign drive, which was on target for a great year until s......
2006-11-11 23:28:18
Helen Colwell Adams
And that’s no exaggeration.
With county Republicans setting a Nov. 24 deadline for candidates to file for screening for county commissioner, GOP hopefuls barely had time to take a breath, or a nap, between Tuesday’s election and the opening salvos of the 2007 cycle.
It ...
2006-11-06 20:43:45
Editor
For endless weeks, prospective voters have been besieged by all manner of political advertising — some positive, much negative. Some of the advertising is designed to draw distinctions between candidates. Some is designed to anger and disgust voters to the point that they will stay home rather...
2006-11-03 01:27:21
Susan E. Lindt
Whoever replaces the veteran politico — Democrat John Liss or Republican Mike Folmer — isn’t likely to be a name the public knows as well yet.
Folmer built his primary platform on fellow Republican Brightbill’s mistakes — namely the unpopular pay raise vote that brought down...
2006-11-01 14:38:17
Tom Murse
The two-term Republican has fallen farther behind Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in the race for U.S. Senate as voters grow more concerned about the war in Iraq and less comfortable with his often combative style. “There’s been a huge shift away from a fairly tight race to a demonstrable — if not insurmo......
2006-10-26 01:37:54
Dave Pidgeon
Hannity and the two-term senator are scheduled to speak during the public rally starting at 7 p.m. in the Farm & Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, Manheim Township.
“We are thrilled to have him,” Santorum spokeswoman Virginia Davis said. “Sean Hannity and Sen. Santorum share a very strong commi...
2006-10-19 01:01:34
Dave Pidgeon
During the third quarter that ended Sept. 30, Herr raised $86,000 from individual contributors, and U.S. Rep. Joseph Pitt raised $26,000.
“I really think individuals are so concerned about what’s going on in government that they are willing to invest personally in my campaign,” Herr said duri...
2006-08-09 13:37:50
By Tom Murse
The GOP, choosing from 16 people interested in serving on the panel if voters approve it in November, voted to back seven — with at least a two-thirds majority — in its first round of voting. They are:
James F. Bednar, a Lititz financial planner and former chairman of the county GOP. He wa......
2006-08-08 13:29:43
By Tom Murse
But they’ll also be forced to take up a thorny issue from the recent past — the support of unendorsed candidates by Republicans at the state level in May’s legislative elections. Specifically, some local committee people are still angry about the House Republican Campaign Committee’s support of R......
2006-08-01 13:13:08
Jack Brubaker
By hot-air balloon. On his first try, he failed spectacularly, crashing his balloon in New York and destroying all the mail. The second time he failed in more mundane fashion, floating the wrong direction in Indiana and causing the mail to be delivered extremely late. A brief article in the......
2006-07-22 08:36:37
Dave Pidgeon
While campaigning for the U.S. Senate, Casey picked up several food items -- including shoo-fly pie and cookies -- during a sweltering visit to Lancaster city's Central Market.
His words, though, took aim not at the county's culinary calling cards, but at Santorum's Senate record.
"We'...
2006-07-15 23:40:07
Helen Colwell Adams
“This is going to be a $17 million contract,” said county solicitor Don LeFever, “and so we don’t want to just hop into it.”
He said the county is aware of published stories in Florida and elsewhere raising questions about the political connections of Armor officials and about...
2006-06-03 23:36:50
Helen Colwell Adams
He joins Holly Lyristis, 28, and Elizabeth Leaman, 29, in the party’s RSC delegation.
In the May 16 primary, 31-year-old Bryan Cutler and 33-year-old John Bear each trounced an older incumbent to win the GOP nomination for a state House seat.
Youth is being served in Republican...
2006-05-13 23:40:26
Helen Colwell Adams
What made it unusual is that earlier in the campaign, Todd was listed on the Web site of Armstrong’s opponent, Bryan Cutler, as Cutler’s municipal coalition head.
“I like to be positive,” Todd said Saturday. “It seemed like Bryan was dwelling so much on everything Gib was doin...
2006-05-10 11:17:19
Susan Jurgelski
Trapped behind the ladder in the deep end of the pool at Lancaster County Park, they discovered a 2-year-old boy. “The lifeguards pull the patrons out every three hours to do a routine scan for objects, so this was at a time when they weren’t looking for potential problems with people,” says Tamm......
2006-05-04 13:15:59
Tom Murse
Rendell, a Democrat, would trounce Lynn Swann, his Republican challenger, by 14 points if the election were held now, the Franklin & Marshall College Keystone Poll found. Santorum, an embattled Republican whose polls have consistently shown him down by double-digits, has closed to within 6 points......
2006-05-04 15:36:56
Each license plate will cost $20 in addition to the normal annual registration fee to obtain. PennDOT is required to certify those veterans applying for such plates as serving in one of the above mentioned military campaigns or in the case of the general service veteran plate, any military service b...
2006-04-12 12:51:46
Tim Mekeel
That’s the logic behind Cimbrian’s acquisition of Kelly Michener for an undisclosed price. Cimbrian is a custom software and Internet applications firm, Kelly Michener a marketing agency. “You’re taking the left brain and the right brain and sort of putting them together,” said Cimbrian’s Kirk......
2006-04-12 12:19:33
Tom Murse
Lawmakers have been known to jam their electronic voting machines with wads of gum, paper clips or crumpled up paper so they can record an “aye” or “nay” when they’re nowhere near the floor. But when the House began granting its members “Capitol leave,” allowing them to register votes when they’r......
2006-04-09 00:05:43
Helen Colwell Adams
“Which one would you like?” Wenger unflappably replied. Brubaker suggested the left one.
“I thought you’d want to be on the right!” Wenger cracked. Brubaker took off his own shoe and held both up, side by side.
“I would like you to understand that they’re ......
2006-04-04 07:46:38
Carla Di Fonzo
The former Lancaster County resident and his 15-year-old sister, Josephine, both were diagnosed at birth with type IIA von Willebrand syndrome, an inherited blood-clotting disorder.
"Just having the disease means visiting doctors a lot," he said. "We don't remember anyone sitting us down ...
2006-04-01 14:30:43
Tom Murse
“I would ride my bike to school early to go through the newspapers,” recalls Reiff, now 38. His teacher, a Plain woman, greeted him enthusiastically every morning. “We would have a friendly debate about current events,” he said. “She was a big Democrat, and at the time I was a big fan of Ronal......
2006-03-31 08:20:58
Brett Hambright
Tom Hartman, Donegal's third-year head coach, became enlightened when he arrived in Mount Joy after 15 years as McCaskey's head baseball coach.
"Pitching," said Hartman, who watched his first scholastic softball game while coaching the Indians' 2004 season opener. "It's the name of the ga...
2006-03-30 13:33:29
Tom Murse And Cindy Stauffer
Three former staffers say the Republican lawmaker used his office for political work — allegations that could damage his campaign and, worse, lead to a criminal investigation. One of the former staffers, 25-year-old Heather Macmillan of Lititz, said today she intends to file an official complaint......
2006-03-22 14:21:57
Tom Murse And Cindy Stauffer
It was about the bird flu. “Her question was, ‘What do you see as a potential and what will the planning be?’ ” Stewart recalled today. At school board meetings and parent-teacher get-togethers, the deadly strain of avian flu expected to hit the shores of the United States has emerged as yet a......
2006-03-10 08:11:52
Dave Pidgeon
The site -- www.wherescasey.com -- has a Wild West motif and an animated cowboy suggesting Casey spends more time working to unseat Santorum than filling his duties as state treasurer.
Although hardly the first Web site slamming a major candidate, wherescasey.com illustrates how the campa...
2006-03-02 08:00:47
Susan E. Lindt
Though the U.S. government failed to see the wisdom in eliminating a weapon that can maim and kill civilians generations after a war's end, Williams still took home the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for galvanizing in five years international support for a ban on land mines.
Williams spoke Wednes...
2006-02-18 23:40:51
Helen Colwell Adams
The signs were the scar tissue from burns suffered when a suicide bomber rammed Leisey’s Humvee in Iraq, and the glove covering the left hand where fingers had to be amputated.
“I’m Staff Sgt. Jason Leisey,” he told the crowd of 50 friends and family members at the Mount Joy V...
2006-02-06 13:25:10
David O'connor
Now, on Tuesday, the Strasburg businesswoman will take an oath to become something else — the fifth U.S. ambassador ever from Lancaster County, and the first woman. Ware won’t officially become the U.S. ambassador to Finland until she arrives in Helsinki and the government there accepts her crede......
2006-02-02 12:07:09
Tom Murse
The front-runner in a four-way race for the Republican Party’s blessing is still a long way from capturing the two-thirds majority needed, with most of the informal straw polls taken. And the lack of an overwhelming consensus raises the possibility of an ugly, protracted battle at the county GOP ......
2006-02-02 09:38:08
Up for contention are all six state representative offices throughout the county and the state senate seat now held by Noah Wenger. Six State Democratic Committee positions, representing the entire county, will also be on the upcoming ballot. The Convention will also endorse a candidate for the 16th...
2006-01-27 10:25:12
Melissa Healy
(Los Angeles Times)
“Leave it,” his master tells him. “It’s just an old double chin. Someone probably lost it playing here in the park with their kids.”
“ “Oh my God, that is hysterical!” said the Sherman Oaks, Calif., mother of three. “Very clever.”
“ Schwartz-Getzug like......
2006-01-25 15:16:12
The festivities will begin with cocktail time at 6 p.m. followed by dinner and dancing. The Tim Heiniman’s Orchestra with Bonnie Boyer will provide the music for the evening. The charity chosen by the Woman’s Club this year is the Heritage Matters Campaign of the Historical Society of the Cocalic......
2006-01-21 12:33:01
Tom Murse
Chad Weaver, chief of staff for the retiring West Cocalico Township lawmaker, has accepted a position as director of Santorum’s central Pennsylvania operations. Wenger, in a prepared statement, said Weaver was among the most talented staffers he’s worked with over the last three decades. “Whil......
2006-01-10 13:41:35
Tom Murse
The West Cocalico Township farmer is the only member of Lancaster County’s Harrisburg delegation who has not yet revealed whether he will run for re-election this year. “I haven’t ruled anything out,” said Wenger, who has served in the Legislature for nearly three decades. “I will make a decision......
2006-01-10 13:21:14
Bernard Harris
It cost Smithgall more to lose than he had spent to win his two previous elections — combined. Smithgall, the Republican who left office last week after two terms as mayor, and his challenger, Democrat Rick Gray set a new spending record in the Lancaster City mayor’s race. Together, they spent......
2006-01-03 13:58:13
Rochelle A. Shenk
F&M will host The Pennsylvania Women’s Campaign School Thursday, Jan. 12, through Saturday, Jan. 14. The school is a unique training opportunity for women candidates, according to Martha Lester Harris, president of The Pennsylvania Women’s Campaign Fund, a sponsor of the event. Based on the si......
2005-12-13 08:56:49
Tom Knapp
In a flier sent to about 60,000 Pennsylvania residents from its Los Angeles headquarters, LCA attacks the picturesque image Lancaster works so hard to promote.
"In most of the picturesque barns, thousands and thousands of dogs and puppies suffer in the most squalid, deplorable conditions," th...
2005-12-02 12:46:32
Tom Murse
After crisscrossing the state for support in recent months, Sahd announced his decision at a meeting of the Lancaster County Republican Committee Thursday night. “I want to make it official right here, on my home turf: I intend to seek the nomination for lieutenant governor next year,” Sahd told ......
2005-11-08 13:32:37
Tom Murse
The informal survey of 125 voters at 23 polling places across the city found that 58 percent voted for Gray, a defense attorney, and 42 percent supported Smithgall, an incumbent seeking his third term as mayor. Voters who chose Gray said they did so because they wanted to see fresh faces in City ......
2005-11-05 12:44:07
Bernard Harris
They have been knocking on doors for months, in addition to attending public meetings and debates. Today, both men were criss-crossing the city, stuffing campaign literature in doorways in a last-minute blitz. “I think it’s a close election, and I need everybody out that I can get out,” said Smit......
2005-10-27 12:59:42
Tom Murse
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Ware would replace Ambassador Earle Mack and move to the Finlandian capital of Helsinki for an undetermined amount of time. “It’s the beginning of an exciting trip,” said the 61-year-old Ware this morning. “It’s just a wonderful surprise and great honor to be able......
2005-10-27 12:41:58
David O'connor
United Way has nearly 5,000 volunteers, a record, out and about in the community seeking contributions from the public — and all the work seems to be paying off for the social-service and human-needs agency. The United Way of Lancaster County gave a “halftime report” today at Willow Valley’s Palm......
2005-10-25 09:45:58
Jeff Young
For Brown, forcing Reche Caldwell into the fumble that clinched Sunday's 20-17 victory over the San Diego Chargers was just another day at the office. Hey, it's not his fault people are only just beginning to notice.
"To be honest, I think I had a more productive season last year,'' Brown sai...
2005-10-25 09:28:48
Paula Holzman
"It puzzles the daylights out of me why we can't accept a woman as a leader," Adams said.
Fresh attention has been focused on women politicians by ABC's new sitcom "Commander in Chief," which stars Geena Davis as the nation's first female president.
"We've had very strong, effective wo...
2005-10-21 14:21:03
John Spidaliere
Sponsored by the League of Women Voters, the forum included the city campaign’s most heated exchanges. With the Nov. 8 election rapidly approaching, the candidates even clashed over the economic state of downtown Lancaster. Gray, a Democrat, said Smithgall, a Republican, has not done enough to......
2005-10-05 08:45:48
Carla Di Fonzo
Representatives from local libraries said it's one of the largest reading campaigns in Pennsylvania to date and is expected to be a success, thanks to "The White," a historical novel written by Gettysburg author Deborah Larsen.
"We're very excited about the regional cooperation of this campai...
2005-09-14 09:01:19
Brett Lovelace
A Comcast investigation determined Smithgall wasn't stealing cable television service, and Messimer was charged in June with defiant trespass.
District Judge Bruce A. Roth found Messimer guilty Tuesday following an hourlong hearing. An appeal can be filed to common pleas court within 30 days....
2005-09-09 08:36:46
Brett Lovelace
Thousands of Web sites have been launched to solicit funds for hurricane victims in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Some fraudulent sites were established even before the hurricane reached the Gulf Coast.
Law enforcement officials from Philadelphia and Lancaster held a news conference her...
2005-08-31 12:37:36
Dave Pidgeon
Republican incumbent Mayor Charlie Smithgall and his Democratic challenger, Rick Gray, said Tuesday the results of a Keystone Poll, sponsored by Franklin & Marshall College's Floyd Institute Center for Public Research, accurately show a sunny disposition among most city residents about living in Lan...
2005-08-22 13:11:46
Tom Murse
“It certainly appears that there’s some sort of political pressure being put on the billboard companies,” said Chris Lilik, the founder of Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania. He declined to specify who he thinks is behind the effort. He also would not identify the billboard companies. But one......
2005-08-19 08:43:54
Charles Lardner
Chris Lilik, chairman of Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, said Harper, who works for the Senate Republican Caucus, has been threatening and harassing him because of his organization's campaign to unseat leaders in the General Assembly for the 16 to 37 percent pay raise lawmakers approved with no...
2005-08-16 13:53:55
Tom Murse
A conservative activist from suburban Harrisburg has launched a campaign to publicly shame the state’s most powerful politicians for their handling of the July pay raise. Chris Lilik, a 26-year-old law school grad and founder of the group Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, is raising money to p......
2005-07-30 12:02:54
Ryan Robinson
Pieter Van Delft, 45, of 81 Tennyson Drive, was chosen from roughly 10 people interested in the position, according to county Republican Chairman Dave Dumeyer. “We came up with four candidates,” Dumeyer said. “Pieter Van Delft was the consensus, probably overwhelming, and unanimous choice of ever......
2005-06-22 12:11:36
Carla Di Fonzo
“The families of 9/11 victims just want to be heard, and Monday was just the beginning of a nationwide awareness campaign,” Burlingame said during a telephone interview Tuesday. “Dozens of family members took part in the event and spoke to the public.
“Basically, we’d like the site to be a re...
2005-06-10 09:25:51
Charles Lardner
Trego, 30, a former Hempfield High School teacher who has served as the GOP committee director since January 2004, said he enjoys the job but wants to return to teaching high school and perhaps begin a family with his wife, Holly.
Earlier this week, Trego mailed out letters to each of the ....
2005-06-06 13:42:45
Daniel Burke
In the parlance of arborists, they have been “topped.” Branches that once reached 15 to 20 feet toward the sun have been hacked in half. Not a leaf of their once reddish-green crowns remains. Without the leaves that harvest the sun’s energy and the branches that store the harvest, the red oaks wi......
2005-05-24 10:18:59
Brandon Lausch
Rutter, 27, won the first of the show's three final "Ultimate Tournament of Champions" games Monday, beating out all-time winningest game show contestant Ken Jennings and former "Jeopardy!" champion Jerome Vered.
Today and Wednesday, he will use Monday's win as leverage in an a......
2005-05-11 09:54:06
Charles Lardner
The two Republicans vying for the nod in the primary are incumbent Mayor Charlie Smithgall and City Councilman Luis Mendoza.
Although the usual issues in a mayoral race - jobs, taxes and crime - are at play, the campaign's defining issue appears to be whether to build the proposed......
2005-04-30 23:47:02
Patricia Poist
As the May 17 primary nears, a lawsuit aimed at stopping a long-awaited high school renovation project, combined with intraparty and partisan bickering, have turned the school board races for five open seats in the county’s largest township into quite a battle.
A total of 11 c...
2005-04-14 09:14:00
Charles Lardner
A fight for control of East Hempfield Township has divided the traditionally unified Republican Party - and the battle is getting nasty.
Three seats on the township's five-person board of supervisors are up for grabs in the May 17 primary, and six GOP candidates...
2005-04-12 09:17:14
Brett Hambright
Warwick's Courtney Gingrich and Solanco's Jill Kushlan are a Lancaster-Lebanon League version of The Odd Couple.
The senior duo has battled one another on the diamond since they hit the varsity softball scene as freshman. Both have been dominate for much of their time on th......
2005-02-23 12:40:34
John M. Spidaliere
The mayor made his comments today after a leaflet raising questions about his health and his ability to serve another four years was placed anonymously on cars outside Tuesday’s City Council meeting. The leaflets, said the mayor, are a troubling sign this primary campaign will be filled with muds......
2005-01-10 12:31:29
Bernard Harris
That funding was restored, but that only brought the county’s public libraries a reprieve. Now, librarians want to make sure the budget crisis doesn’t become an annual ritual. Tuesday evening, they will begin a process that could result in a special designated tax for libraries. “Stable, su......
2005-01-05 14:17:36
Janet Kelley
Gov. Ed Rendell picked Wright last November to fill the vacancy left by now-federal Judge Lawrence F. Stengel, but the appointment wasn’t confirmed before time ran out in last year’s legislative session. “I’m very pleased,’’ Wright said this morning of the nomination, “and, hopefully, the whole p......
2004-12-25 20:30:10
Helen Colwell Adams
By the end of January, some municipalities were running out of road salt.
It should have served as a warning.
Because if 2004 had a theme song, it would have been the blues classic “Stormy Weather.”
Not just meteorologically; 2004 brought Lancaster County...
2004-11-16 12:09:16
Tom Murse
“My professors were outstanding. They helped to stoke my interest in politics and public service,” Mehlman, 38, said in an interview this morning. “I’m also a huge believer in the fraternity system at F&M. It offers young people an opportunity to lead and to manage.” Mehlman is a 1988 graduate......
2004-11-13 17:43:27
Teresa Bostwick, Lancaster
Has anyone noticed that Turkey Hill pulled all of the sexually explicit magazines off its shelves? I can now take my 9-year-old girl inside to pay for gas, knowing she will not be exposed to this type of thing.
We know that pornography is now epidemic, and I thank those at Turkey Hill who are...
2004-11-12 09:32:14
Lori Van Ingen
With six weeks left in the annual campaign, pledges and gifts to date total $5.7 million, or 4.1 percent ahead of last year's campaign, 2004 campaign chairman Stephen E. Stockwell said.
"We're in a great position to be in," Stockwell said. "We're comfortable where we're at,......
2004-11-06 16:13:37
Dave Hennigan
“Still can’t understand why we have such an archaic way of voting, Mr. Editor,’’ my jogging friend said the other day, sipping his coffee.
“Everything still is on paper. My name is on a sheet of paper, and somebody writes down that I voted on another sheet.
“This is a N...
2004-10-27 10:00:08
Paula Holzman
Rutt, 55, participated in the club while growing up in Manheim, met her husband, Ken, through its activities and they raised their three children as 4H members.
Today, Rutt will meet President Bush - in part because of 4H - when his plane touches down at Lancaster Airport.
......
2004-10-23 18:52:57
B.j. Gollatz, Millersville
Perhaps Mrs. Bush didn't make enough money for her teaching and librarian jobs to count. Being a mother certainly didn't count to Mrs. Kerry. Mrs. Kerry made a quick retraction of her remark, saying that she forgot Mrs. Bush was a teacher and librarian. Well, being a mother still isn't a job to Mrs....
2004-10-22 15:32:38
OCCUPATION: State senator
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree, Westminster College
QUALIFICATIONS: In addition to my experience representing the 13th Pennsylvania Senate District, I serve on the boards of the Lancaster General Hospital, Water Street Rescue Mission, Economic Development Corp.,...
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OCCUPATION: Professor, Millersville University
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree, Muhlenberg College; master’s and doctorate degrees, Syracuse University
QUALIFICATIONS: Former president of League of Women Voters of Lancaster County; volunteer at school, church, Girl Scouts, other community...
