2012-05-16 17:10:33
A well-known Mississippi oncologist accused of orchestrating a plot to kill his ex-wife's divorce lawyer said he wanted a picture of the slain attorney with a "bullet between his eyes," according to testimony Wednesday.
The lawyer was never hurt, though......
2012-05-16 16:43:54
The city of Seattle has presented its police-reform counter-proposal to the Department of Justice.
The plan was hand-delivered to the U.S. Attorney's Office on Wednesday morning, a little more than five weeks after the DOJ gave the city a proposed settlement call......
2012-05-16 16:23:41
No charges will be filed against three white Pittsburgh police officers who were accused of using excessive force in beating a black teenager, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said at a news conference there i......
2012-05-16 16:18:48
A northeastern Pennsylvania police chief said he will fight charges that he sexually molested a teenage girl on multiple occasions between 2004 and 2007.
Suspended Old Forge Police Chief Larry Semenza told The Times-Tribune of Scranton (http://bit.ly/KlGaFH) that......
2012-05-16 14:43:24
A former Houston police officer was found not guilty Wednesday of official oppression in the videotaped beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect, prompting an outraged response from black community leaders who called the verdict an injustice.
Andrew Blomberg, 29......
2012-05-16 13:26:34
Finding the city's attitude "deeply troubling," a judge granted class action status Wednesday to a 2008 lawsuit accusing the New York Police Department of discriminating against blacks and Hispanics with its stop-and-frisk policies aimed at reducing crime.
......
2012-05-16 10:51:00
STAFF
A vandal damaged six vehicles on a city street Tuesday evening, police said.
The vehicles in the 700 block of East Orange Street were scratched with an unknown object between 5 and 6 o'clock.
No estimate of damage was available on Wednesday.......
2012-05-16 06:32:06
A northeastern Pennsylvania police chief accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl says he'll fight the charges against him.
Old Forge police Chief Larry Semenza tells The Times-Tribune of Scranton (http://bit.ly/KlGaFG ) he's looking forward to......
2012-05-16 14:13:00
STAFF
ATTEMPTED THEFT
LEACOCK TWP.: State police said a thief or thieves loaded several metal plates into a vehicle around 3:20 p.m. Sunday at Hoobers Inc., 3452 Old Philadelphia Pike.
DEFIANT TRESPASS
EPHRATA TWP.: Howard Devlin IV, 24, of Reading, will receive a summons after ......
2012-05-15 23:08:00
TOM MURSE
The county's top law enforcement official wasn't notified.
Neither was the chairman of the county commissioners.
State lawmakers here?
They, too, were kept in the dark.
The brass of the Pennsylvania state police kept their plan to shutter the Ephrata barracks and s......
2012-05-15 20:58:00
RYAN ROBINSON and JENNIFER TODD
Several people were injured in three separate crashes Tuesday.
• In Earl Township, a New Holland man was hospitalized after a three-vehicle crash.
Arthur Steinmetz, 68, was driving west on Route 322 (Division Highway) around 2:45 p.m. when he slowed his vehic......
2012-05-15 10:53:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Three police officers will receive awards for their bravery, investigative work and dedication to their jobs.
The awards will be presented Sunday at the annual Police Memorial Awards service at Grace Church at Willow Valley. The Lancaster County Chiefs of Police Association sponsors the a......
2012-05-15 09:43:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police on Tuesday provided updates on two children who were shot in separate incidents earlier this month.
• A 5-year-old girl shot in her home in the first block of Dauphin Street on May 9 was "still in very serious condition," city police Lt. Todd Umstead said.......
2012-05-15 19:14:15
The Seattle Police Department is objecting to reforms proposed by the Justice Department as wildly unrealistic and expensive, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
The DOJ presented its confidential settlement proposal to the city at the end of......
2012-05-15 18:33:08
A Houston police officer betrayed his oath when he stomped on the neck or head of a 15-year-old burglary suspect while trying to subdue the teen, prosecutors said Tuesday before turning the case over to jurors.
"Every witness got up there and said no police ......
2012-05-15 17:04:12
The Philadelphia Police Department is sending 75 officers and supervisors to assist with the NATO summit in Chicago.
The summit is being held Sunday and Monday and is expected to draw protesters. The Chicago Police Department is getting out-of-state help from dep......
2012-05-15 16:00:00
KIMBERLY MARSELAS
After nearly 20 years on the job, Ephrata Township Manager Steve Sawyer has won statewide recognition for his work. The Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, or PSATS, awarded Sawyer one of two President's Leadership awards May 9 during its annual educational conference and......
2012-05-15 10:10:18
Officials have identified two people killed when they were shot multiple times outside a Philadelphia home.
Authorities say Rodney Ramseur and Latia Jones, both 21, were the victims of the shooting Monday night on the porch of a home in the city's Olney neighborh......
2012-05-15 10:09:00
STAFF
Police are asking for the public's help to identify a suspected thief.
The female was seen leaving Giant, 1605 Lititz Pike, without paying for $207 worth of merchandise on April 26, Manheim Township police said.
When confronted, she fled in a blue Acura. She had a small child with......
2012-05-15 10:09:00
STAFF
Kitchen cabinets valued at $2,300 were stolen in Manheim Township over the weekend, police reported.
Swartz Kitchens & Baths of Lancaster reported that they were taken from a residential construction site in the 600 block of Warminster Lane, township police said.......
2012-05-15 09:15:27
A federal judge has dismissed a man's claim that Pittsburgh police used excessive force by wounding him when he tried to flee.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/IVCxF4 ) reports Monday that Judge Lisa Pupo Lenihan says the evidence blatantly contradict......
2012-05-15 08:54:00
A Kenyan official says a policeman has died after the car he was traveling in was hit by a suspected improvised bomb at the world's largest refugee camp, near the border with Somalia.
George Kingi, police chief in Daadab refugee camp, said Tuesday that three othe......
2012-05-15 13:47:00
STAFF
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
DENVER: Jaime McComsey, 28, of 315 S. Fourth St., shot a BB gun from a third-floor window in his block on May 7, police said. Police confiscated the gun and cited him.
DRUGS
NEW JERSEY: Carlos Rosario, 36, formerly of Lancaster, was one of two men in a c......
2012-05-14 21:58:00
TOM MURSE
Top state police officials said for the first time Monday they intend to keep all special investigative units in Lancaster as part of a massive troop realignment that would strip Troop J of its headquarters status.
The reversal, announced at a joint state House and Senate hearing in Gap, ......
2012-05-14 21:37:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Armed robbers struck three stores in Lancaster city and East Lampeter Township in eight days, police reported.
A masked gunman robbed a convenience store in the city Sunday night.
It happened at 11:45 at the Turkey Hill at 501 Park Ave., city police Lt. Todd Umstead said.
......
2012-05-14 21:01:24
Seattle's mayor may soon have something in common with tough-talking Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The U.S. Justice Department has threatened to sue Mayor Mike McGinn over allegations that Seattle police officers regularly use excessive force.
M......
2012-05-14 13:26:35
Eddie Vega has been homeless for a year. He was waiting for a bus one day last week when a police officer rolled up to ask what he was doing and where he was headed. Vega said it's the kind of subtle harassment that happens all the time.
"I get the looks,&qu......
2012-05-14 10:43:00
STAFF
An armed robber struck a store at Tanger Outlets on Sunday, police reported.
A heavy-set black male, 30 to 40 years old, entered the Totes/Sunglass World Outlet store shortly after 10 a.m., East Lampeter Township police said.
The robber displayed a handgun and demanded money from ......
2012-05-14 09:30:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A masked gunman robbed a city convenience store late Sunday night, police reported.
It happened at 11:45 at the Turkey Hill at 501 Park Ave., city police Lt. Todd Umstead said.
The robber ran into the store, struck a customer in the head with a black handgun and demanded money fro......
2012-05-14 13:32:00
STAFF
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
MANHEIM TWP.: A vehicle was "keyed" in a parking lot in the 200 block of Eden Road Sunday. Loss is $300.
MANHEIM TWP.: Two tires were punctured on a vehicle in the 2600 block of Sutton Place Saturday. Loss is $200.
LANCASTER TWP.: A bucket was set on fire......
2012-05-12 21:27:41
The careers of most politicians would crumble under the heavy scrutiny that the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America now faces.
But despite a mountain of legal troubles, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio remains popular with voters and has more than $3.4 ......
2012-05-12 21:27:06
Among the specific allegations of racial profiling and discrimination listed in a lawsuit that the Justice Department filed against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio are:
-- In one instance, a sheriff's deputy stopped a five-months pregnant Latina woman, a U.S. ......
2012-05-12 05:17:08
Vladimir Putin appeared to shed tears of joy the night he won back the presidency in March. After less than a week in office, he may be tempted to shed some in frustration.
Since his inauguration on Monday, the man whose 2000-2008 presidency was characterized by ......
2012-05-11 23:15:00
BETH ANNE HEESEN
A former Southern Regional Police Commission member has defended her decision to delete more than three pages of public comments from a draft of minutes of the panel's March meeting.
Diane Janney Schall, who resigned last month from the commission, previously declined to comment on ...
2012-05-11 12:26:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police arrested a man in Lititz on Wednesday who they say is suspected of cashing fraudulent checks throughout three states.
Pelvin Dennis Darrien, 52, of Baltimore, tried to cash a fraudulent $1,800 check at 4:30 p.m. at the Northwest Savings Bank, 744 S. Broad St., Lititz Borough police......
2012-05-11 18:54:18
A former Houston police officer accused of taking part in a videotaped beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect told jurors Friday that he didn't mistreat the teen, insisting he never kicked or stomped on his head or neck as prosecutors have alleged.
Andrew Blom......
2012-05-11 15:42:18
A conservative Arizona sheriff whose congressional campaign took a hit when he disclosed that he was gay amid allegations that he threatened a former Mexican boyfriend with deportation dropped out Friday, opting to run for re-election.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul B......
2012-05-11 15:30:45
In a story May 10 about a federal civil rights lawsuit against an Arizona sheriff, The Associated Press, relying on information from the US Department of Justice, erroneously reported the outcome of a Justice Department civil rights lawsuit against the Columbus Division of Police. T......
2012-05-11 14:41:11
A former Los Angeles police detective was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in prison for murdering the wife of her former lover 26 years ago.
Stephanie Lazarus, 52, was found guilty in March of killing Sherri Rasmussen, a nurse who was bludgeoned and shot to ......
2012-05-11 08:05:34
The brother of a man who killed a western Pennsylvania police officer has been ordered to stand trial on charges including hindering apprehension for allegedly helping him elude capture for an earlier shooting.
Investigators say Chad Post helped his brother durin......
2012-05-11 15:10:00
Staff
ACCESS DEVICE FRAUD
MANHEIM TWP.: Tabatha T. Coley, 38, of Tampa, Fla., was charged for allegedly using a township resident's credit card three times without his permission in February or before.
BURGLARY
LANCASTER TWP.: A $100 mountain bike was taken from an open garage i......
2012-05-10 22:29:00
STAFF
Correction May 11, 2012 — Due to incorrect information from state police, an earlier version of the story below misidentified the driver of a concrete truck involved in a three-vehicle crash in Lebanon County. The driver was Brad Lee......
2012-05-10 22:19:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A group of Warwick High School students escaped injury Thursday when their school bus was struck by an armored vehicle, police said.
The 3:50 p.m. crash took place as the bus was stopping in the westbound lane of Route 772, near Opal Drive, to discharge students.
According to Nort......
2012-05-10 21:34:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A 5-year-old city girl underwent emergency surgery Thursday at Hershey Medical Center after her 7-year-old brother shot her in the forehead with a BB gun on Wednesday, according to police.
Family members took the girl to the emergency department of Lancaster General Hospital after she was......
2012-05-10 13:16:00
RYAN ROBINSON and LARRY ALEXANDER
Beware, Lancaster County businesses: Counterfeit bills are being passed here, police warn.
Pizza shops, a gaming store and a smoking shop were among the sites targeted in recent weeks, according to police.
• In Manor Township on May 3, a man passed counterfei......
2012-05-10 11:59:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Blame the GPS.
That's what a tractor-trailer driver did after he wedged his too-tall, too-heavy truck in a local covered bridge Wednesday night.
Rubin Zhu, 54, of Monterey Park, Calif., was heading east through the Hunsecker Road covered bridge that connects Manheim and Upper Leac......
2012-05-10 11:21:00
TOM MURSE
The 7-year-old boy who sustained serious injuries in a pit bull attack last month is recovering from his fifth surgery and hasn't been back to school.
Bryce Houser, a second-grader at Doe Run Elementary School near Manheim, remembers most of the attack outside a neighbor's home on Parksid......
2012-05-10 07:39:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A New Holland man was charged with assaulting a police officer Thursday morning.
Adam Timothy Grove was stopped at 2:30 a.m. in the Sheetz parking lot at 698 W. Main St., Earl Township, for suspicion of drunken driving, New Holland police said.
The 25-year-old, who lives at 117 E.......
2012-05-10 22:19:29
As defiant as ever, get-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a federal court showdown over charges that deputies on his trademark immigration patrols racially profiled Latinos in violation of civil rights law.
After months of negotiations failed to reach a sett......
2012-05-10 19:25:44
As defiant as ever, get-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a federal court showdown over charges that deputies on his trademark immigration patrols racially profiled Latinos in violation of civil rights law.
After months of negotiations failed to reach a sett......
2012-05-10 19:04:10
Sheriff's officials ended their two-year investigation into two men's report that their collection of works by Jackson Pollock, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt and others was stolen from their Pebble Beach home.
The probe led to no arrests in the mysterious heist, no......
2012-05-10 18:22:06
When Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, the 84-year-old former leader of the New England Mafia, is led away to prison on Friday, he'll be taking with him the vestiges of the mob's heyday, when businesses bent to the will of crime bosses, mobsters took the code of silence to th......
2012-05-10 14:14:00
CAROLE DECK
Terre Hill Borough Council joined other municipalities statewide on Tuesday by asking legislators to adopt commonsense reforms to the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act. At Tuesday's meeting, council unanimously adopted the Prevailing Wage Reform Resolution 2012-7 to urge the Pennsylvan......
2012-05-10 11:27:04
A Maryland man who killed the off-duty state trooper who kicked him out of a restaurant has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Cyril Cornelius Williams maintains his innocence in the June 2010 murder of Trooper Wesley Brown. He made no apologies to ......
2012-05-10 14:09:00
STAFF
BURGLARY
LEACOCK TWP.: Cash was taken from Ken's Gardens, 3552 W. Newport Road, overnight Wednesday, state police said. Police ask anyone with information to call them at 299-7650.
Tipsters also may call Lancaster City/County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-322-1913 or anonymously text LA......
2012-05-09 21:01:00
TOM KNAPP and RYAN ROBINSON
An elderly Providence Township man was bilked out of thousands of dollars in a lottery scam that has possibly affected thousands of U.S. citizens, according to state police.
State police said the man received a fraudulent letter in April, followed by a phone call, saying he had won a Publ......
2012-05-09 13:41:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A convicted sex offender who fled without telling police where he lived now lives behind bars, police said.
After police got a tip regarding his whereabouts, Joseph Charles Bangs, 39, was taken into custody Monday in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, according to Trooper Richard Drum of the ......
2012-05-09 22:00:22
Federal authorities said Wednesday that they plan to sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office over allegations of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latinos.
The U.S. Justice Department has been seeking an agreement requiring Arpaio's......
2012-05-09 20:48:40
Two Southern California police officers were ordered Wednesday to stand trial in the death of a mentally ill homeless man following a violent arrest last summer.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Walter Schwarm made the ruling after a hearing that included surve......
2012-05-09 14:10:57
Prime Minister David Cameron's friendships with two suspects at the heart of Britain's phone hacking scandal will come under spotlight this week in what may be some uncomfortable hours for the country's conservative leader.
Two former editors of the scandal-tarre......
2012-05-09 13:30:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Authorities don't know yet what caused the death of a 49-year-old woman found dead Tuesday in her Quarryville area home.
But a state trooper and the Lancaster County coroner said the death does not appear to be suspicious.
Marianne McMichael was found dead about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday ......
2012-05-09 07:34:43
Local British police suspected more than 10 years ago that a missing schoolgirl's phone had been hacked by people associated with Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid, an attorney said Wednesday.
Police lawyer Neil Garnham said at least one offi......
2012-05-09 19:44:00
STAFF
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
EPHRATA: A window of a door at Sheldon's Gallery and Frame Shop, 20 W. Main St., was shattered around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday. Loss is $250.
WARWICK TWP.: Derek Goodman, 22, of 841 Rothsville Road, was charged with felony criminal mischief after he allegedly damaged fo......
2012-05-08 22:39:00
JENNIFER TODD
A Maytown woman is facing allegations that she left her two children unattended in a running vehicle while she went to a tanning salon.
Krista Mann, 28, left her 6-year-old daughter and her 10-month-old son alone in the car Saturday in the first block of East Park Street, according to Eli......
2012-05-08 10:40:00
CINDY STAUFFER
State and city police leaders, county government officials and state troopers are expected to testify next week before state lawmakers about proposed changes to Pennsylvania state police operations in Lancaster County.
A location and speakers have been chosen for the hearing, to be hosted......
2012-05-08 08:12:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster woman faces charges of aggravated assault and terroristic threats after she allegedly fought with city police officers and threatened them during an incident Saturday at a city nail salon.
City police were called to the Pretty Nails Salon at 220 N. Reservoir St. for an unknown......
2012-05-08 18:53:20
Houston's police chief testified Tuesday he believes an ex-officer accused of taking part in the videotaped beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect kicked and stomped on the teen.
Police Chief Charles McClelland Jr. said the actions of fired officer Andrew Blom......
2012-05-08 13:59:53
Afghanistan's president has warned that civilian casualties caused by NATO airstrikes could undermine the cooperation agreement he just signed with the U.S. He talked to families of the latest victims Tuesday.
Also Tuesday, Taliban attacks in three provinces kill......
2012-05-08 01:32:22
A police official says gunmen killed a senior anti-terrorism police officer in southwest Pakistan.
Hamid Shakil says two men on a motorcycle opened fire on Shah Nawaz Khan on Tuesday outside his house in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.
......
2012-05-08 22:43:00
ADAM HOY
Caernarvon Township supervisors and residents expressed concern Monday as Sgt. Erin Magee of the Pennsylvania State Police spoke to them about the possible closure of the Ephrata barracks. "The plan would be part of a realignment, due to state budget cuts as well as trooper shortages," Magee......
2012-05-08 14:04:00
STAFF
ARMED ROBBERY
EAST LAMPETER TWP.: A suspect described as a black male, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds, wearing a puffy jacket, robbed the Socks Galore store at Rockvale Outlets Sunday. He displayed a handgun, demanded money and fled on foot with cash. No one was hurt. Polic......
2012-05-07 23:27:00
STAFF REPORT
Ephrata police responded to the scene of an industrial accident Monday in a storage parking lot at Leeland Business Complex in the 1000 block of Pointview Avenue.
According to police Chief William Harvey, a worker was loading a boom lift onto a flatbed truck around noon when the lift topp......
2012-05-07 22:13:00
P.J. REILLY
A Chester County man led Southern Regional police on a wild chase early Sunday, police said.
Thomas H. Lewis IV, 20, of Honey Brook, has not yet been charged with any crimes. Police are awaiting the results of toxicology tests.
According to police, Lewis was speeding south on Steh......
2012-05-07 13:33:00
STAFF
FLEEING POLICE
ELIZABETH TWP.: Alexander Kassebaum, 21, of York, was charged with fleeing police, reckless driving and other summary offenses Sunday around noon, according to state police.
Police said a trooper tried to stop Kassebaum for speeding on his motorcycle while traveling......
2012-05-07 11:28:00
Staff
A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a suspected smash-and-grab burglar, police said.
Christian Duart Woodson, 42, also known as "Unique," is wanted for several burglaries in Lancaster city and neighboring municipalities in the past several we......
2012-05-07 05:24:29
A Pennsylvania man who fatally shot a police officer on his property last summer is set to go on trial and could get the death penalty if convicted.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the murder trial of George Hitcho Jr. in Northampton County.
......
2012-05-07 03:33:29
Afghan police have killed four gunmen who took over a tall building in eastern Afghanistan and started shooting down into surrounding government compounds. One civilian was wounded.
A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province says the attack began late Sunda......
2012-05-06 22:53:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A big, blue Nash sedan. A rouge-stained handkerchief. A chinchilla lap robe. A gangster found in a torched car at a New Jersey dump.
One honest, dead cop.
The story of the unsolved murder of Lancaster city police Lt. Elwood Gainor, the only city police officer ever killed in the l......
2012-05-06 00:12:00
STAFF
ACCIDENTSEPHRATA TWP.: A driver hit a utility pole in the 100 block of Ridge Avenue early Saturday, breaking the pole and causing a power outage. The driver hit the pole after failing to negotiate a......
2012-05-05 06:27:11
Police say gunmen wearing military uniforms arrested and shot dead five people in northeast Nigeria as violence escalates in the region.
Taraba state police spokesman Ibiang Mbaseki said Saturday that the attack happened Friday night in a remote village in his st......
2012-05-04 22:36:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Correction May 7, 2012 — An earlier version of the story below about Troy Schlack, a Denver man who has been charged with aggravated assault, contained inaccurate information. Schlack does not work at Steffy's Concrete.
...
2012-05-04 22:31:00
ENELLY BETANCOURT
Some 150 middle school students had the opportunity Friday to dialogue with law enforcement officials.
They observed a panel discussion involving local police officers, watched a presentation by McCaskey High School's Mock Trial Team, and heard a motivational talk by Jordan Steffy, former......
2012-05-04 12:05:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A 12-year-old boy was struck by a vehicle in Ephrata on Thursday night.
Ruth Fackler, 28, of Ephrata, was driving south on Mentzer Alley at the rear of 55 N. Church St. shortly after 7 p.m., Ephrata police said.
The boy ran out from beside a vehicle into the alleyway.
He w......
2012-05-04 07:35:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two armed robbers wearing ski masks invaded a Conestoga apartment, threw a resident to the floor and stole his money Thursday night, police said.
The 52-year-old man was not injured in the 11 p.m. incident in the 3100 block of Main Street, but he was frightened, Southern Regional police C......
2012-05-04 22:54:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
When a potentially life-threatening criminal situation arises, Lancaster County's Special Emergency Response Team springs into action.
County Detective James Zahm has been a SERT member since its inception in 1983. Since 1995, he has been the unit's commander.
As such, Zahm, 57, o......
2012-05-04 12:06:36
The new interim chief of the Sanford Police Department says he'll conduct an "A to Z" review following fallout from the Trayvon Martin case.
Chief Rick Myers said Friday he wants to help heal the emotional wounds caused by the shooting death of Trayvon ......
2012-05-04 14:19:00
STAFF
BURGLARY
DRUMORE TWP.: Burglars entered Creative Hair Designs, 1011 Lancaster Pike, by force and stole $40 from a cash box overnight Wednesday.
State police ask anyone with information to call Trooper Daniel Clemente at 299-7660.
Tipsters also may call Lancaster City/Count......
2012-05-03 23:26:00
BETH ANNE HEESEN
Prior to announcing her resignation from the Southern Regional Police Commission last month, Diane Janney Schall of Pequea Township did something Conestoga Township supervisors say violated the Sunshine Act.
Schall, who was commission chairwoman and a citizen representative, allegedly del......
2012-05-03 21:59:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Denver man will stand trial on charges that he sexually abused three preteen girls, a district judge ordered Thursday.
Also Thursday, prosecutors filed 51 new felony counts against Thomas Earl Becker for a collection of child pornography that they say was found at his house.
Bec......
2012-05-03 16:39:00
STAFF REPORT
Lancaster police on Thursday released surveillance photos of a man who they say is a suspect in tire slashings that occurred early April 21 in the 700 block of Burrowes Avenue.
Tires on six vehicles were cut.
Investigators said they don't know if the incident is related to other r......
2012-05-03 10:21:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster man has been charged with having sexual contact with a 9-year-old boy, police said.
The child told a family member that Edward Joseph McKenzie, 62, of the 600 block of Marietta Avenue, inappropriately touched him April 15 at McKenzie's home, city police Detective Lt. Jarrad Be......
2012-05-03 15:05:22
A former police officer was sentenced Thursday to 10 months in prison for preparing bogus tax returns for scores of clients, including several county jail guards, and then keeping part of the inflated tax refunds on some returns for herself.
U.S. District Judge D......
2012-05-03 13:54:00
STAFF
ARSON
MARIETTA: Susquehanna Regional police are seeking information about a fire that was intentionally set in a camping trailer around 4:30 a.m. April 1 at 700 E. Prospect Ave. Police ask anyone with information to call Lt. Stephen Englert at 426-1164. Tipsters also may call Lancaster Ci......
2012-05-03 10:05:24
A man, now 21, has dropped his federal civil rights lawsuit against a police officer who used a stun gun to subdue the man during an incident at a Pittsburgh-area high school in 2007.
Adam Howell sued the Penn Township police claiming the officer used excessive f......
2012-05-02 23:39:00
DAN NEPHIN
Vandals have slashed tires on nearly 50 vehicles in two sections of Lancaster city lately, and police say the crimes could be related.
Besides the slashings in the area of Lemon to Frederick streets and from Lancaster Avenue to Mulberry Street, tires have been punctured on vehicles in the......
2012-05-02 23:38:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police have accused an East Earl woman of killing an 18-year-old bicyclist in a hit-and-run accident last fall.
Officials allege Svetlana Filipshina, 39, of 255 Good Road, struck Leon Hoover with her minivan on Nov. 25 in the 600 block of Saw Mill Road.
Filipshina initially left t......
2012-05-02 23:07:00
JENNIFER TODD
A 15-year-old Lancaster boy has been charged with committing an armed robbery Saturday in Manheim, police said.
The teen was with a group of people at a home in the first block of West Ferdinand Street when he drew a gun on a woman around 9 p.m. and demanded her purse, according to Manhei......
2012-05-02 22:13:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man who said he had a toothache and needed money for a root canal is accused of stealing his friend's car and purse Tuesday morning, then robbing a woman and a Turkey Hill before calling 911 and turning himself in to police.
According to Northwest Regional police Officer Gregory Wahl, A......
2012-05-02 11:24:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster man bought more than $13,000 worth of jewelry and tires in the city in April, but police said there was one problem.
Brian Keith Davis, 34, paid for them using bad checks, city police said in a criminal complaint.
A manager at Lebzelters Goodyear Automotive, 300 N. Que......
2012-05-02 10:19:00
STAFF REPORT
A 5-year-old boy was struck by a sport utility vehicle near an elementary school in Lancaster city Wednesday morning, police said.
The accident happened at 9:54 a.m. near Carter & MacRae Elementary School, 251 S. Prince St., according to a county dispatcher.
The boy was not a ......
2012-05-02 13:04:54
A police captain, his wife and two daughters died from breathing smoke and carbon monoxide as their home was consumed by fire, a coroner said Wednesday.
The Putnam County coroner, William Stahl, said that "probably" means they died before being burned. ......
2012-05-02 05:39:26
A western Pennsylvania man allegedly among those who passed along a gun that killed a police officer is back behind bars after he was accused of threatening another suspect in the case.
Investigators say James Ameris threatened one of three other men charged with......
2012-05-01 20:46:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Vandals slashed tires on cars in Lancaster city Sunday night, making it the second weekend in a row vehicles have been damaged.
City police Lt. Todd Umstead said vandals struck at least nine cars in the 100 block of North Mulberry Street overnight Sunday.
Each car had one tire sla......
2012-05-01 22:45:44
Authorities are searching for a 55-year-old man they say killed his wife and the boyfriend of his pregnant daughter in Florida before threatening to attack officials at a Massachusetts-based company.
The Osceola County Sheriff's Office says Kevin Satterfield is w......
2012-05-01 18:49:58
A committee of British lawmakers called Rupert Murdoch unfit to run his global media empire -- a finding that reflects just how deeply the phone hacking scandal born of his defunct News of the World has shaken the relationship between the press and politics.
The ......
2012-05-01 18:19:33
A 17-year-old boy on Tuesday admitted his role in juvenile court in a theft that led to the fatal shooting of an unarmed college student by Pasadena police in March.
The minor made the admission -- the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty plea -- to two felony c......
2012-05-01 16:31:53
San Francisco's mayor has filed his opening brief with the city's Ethics Commission, as he seeks to have suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi removed from office following Mirkarimi's domestic violence conviction.
In the brief filed this week, Mayor Ed Lee disputed M......
2012-05-01 16:13:22
Two former police officers awaiting trial on charges they beat a man in a tavern bathroom after a wedding reception are being sued by an Altoona man who claims he was hurt trying to break up the fight.
Earl Eshelman, 62, sued former Altoona officers Duane Eichenl......
2012-05-01 13:46:00
STAFF
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
LANCASTER: Kerry Mobley, 25, of the first block of East Frederick Street, allegedly kicked a woman in the right side of her torso during a domestic fight at an apartment in the block at 2:15 a.m. Sunday, city police said. The woman suffered a punctured lung and was trea......
2012-05-01 13:41:49
The Florida city at the center of the Trayvon Martin case appointed a new interim police chief Tuesday while the current one remains on paid leave after city commissioners rejected his offer to resign last week.
Richard Myers was named interim police chief of the......
2012-05-01 10:11:37
A veteran police captain, his wife and two teenage daughters died in a house fire in New York City's northern suburbs Tuesday morning, authorities said. One son managed to escape the blaze and was hospitalized.
Larchmont police Sgt. Ronald Knudson identified the ......
2012-05-01 07:25:04
An Alabama police chief says he recently discovered that his department has two unmanned aerial vehicles.
Gadsden Police Chief John Crane tells The Gadsden Times (http://bit.ly/IOk4ha) he learned two weeks ago the department has had the unmanned aerial vehicles s......
2012-04-30 11:00:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An intruder stabbed a 24-year-old man Sunday night in Paradise Township.
The incident began, state police said, when a 24-year-old Paradise resident confronted a man on his property in the 4000 block of White Oak Road at 10:42 p.m.
The intruder fled on foot, but the resident pursu......
2012-04-30 09:49:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster woman was charged with simple assault, endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment after allegedly throwing a knife close to a 2-year-old boy's head Friday night in the city, police said.
Susan Frances Donatto, 45, of the 100 block of West Strawberry Street, t......
2012-04-30 15:55:37
Jose Martins de Oliveira has lived with plenty of weapons and violence during his 45 years in the sprawling hillside shantytown of Rocinha. For most of that time, it was drug traffickers who controlled the giant slum with brutal force.
Now, it's the police he's w......
2012-04-30 15:26:35
Four lawmakers sued the city Monday over its handling of the Occupy Wall Street protests, saying police conduct is so problematic that the force needs an outside monitor.
The city and police violated demonstrators' free speech rights, used excessive force, arrest......
2012-04-30 12:41:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Another man who allegedly invaded an Elizabethtown apartment last month has been arrested, police reported.
Ivan Fontanez Jr., 24, of Elizabethtown, allegedly beat and kicked a 26-year-old resident in the head and also struck the man's head with a hammer during a March 20 robbery at Maple......
2012-04-30 13:38:00
STAFF
BURGLARY
LANCASTER TWP.: Entry was made through a window to a home in the 200 block of Kentshire Drive during the day Friday. Jewelry was taken.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
LANCASTER TWP.: A window was smashed on a vehicle parked in the 200 block of South President Avenue between 3 ......
2012-04-29 00:10:00
STAFF
ACCIDENTSMOUNT JOY TWP.: A vehicle driven by Lindsey Showalter, 20, of Mount Joy, failed to negotiate a curve while traveling east in the 1600 block of Mount Pleasant Road on Thursday, police said. ......
2012-04-28 08:47:22
Officials say 10 Afghan local police have been killed by roadside bomb in country's east.......
2012-04-27 23:24:00
TIM MEKEEL
Kevin Kelly has a history of missing court appearances.
Not to mention a history of giving false addresses.
And a history of trying to flee authorities.
Now that the former Lititz man has been accused of a $719,000 real estate fraud and faces a long prison term, is history......
2012-04-27 18:29:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
On Thursday, police arrested Dominique Aquil Smith, 20, in connection with the shooting a man Thursday afternoon in the area of Locust and Christian streets.
The victim, a 20-year-old city man, was found near Howard and Christian streets. He had been shot in the torso and was admitted to ......
2012-04-27 18:26:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Lancaster police have arrested a man they say shot another man Tuesday night in the city.
Raleigh Nathan Grant, 24, also known as "Money" or "Swat," is accused of shooting Frederick Burgos, 37, of Lancaster, Tuesday in the 100 block of Old Dorwart Street, according to city police Detectiv......
2012-04-27 11:09:00
STAFF REPORT
Two males wearing ski masks over their faces robbed a convenience store in Manheim Township Friday, police reported.
The two entered the Turkey Hill store at 806 New Holland Ave. at 2:21 a.m. and demanded cash from the clerks, township police Sgt. Thomas Rudzinski reported in a press rele......
2012-04-27 18:01:23
Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.:
November 2005: News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman writes story saying Prince William has a knee injury. Buckingham Palace complaint prompts poli......
2012-04-27 16:56:04
The thousands of protesters expected at the Democratic and Republican national conventions can come armed with a lot more than signs and slogans: State law in Florida and North Carolina allows concealed weapons, including guns.
In Tampa, where the Republicans wil......
2012-04-27 13:45:00
Staff
BURGLARY CHARGE
LITTLE BRITAIN TWP.: Danielle M. Novosel, 20, of Nottingham, has been charged with burglary, theft and criminal mischief after she allegedly forced her way into a detached garage in the 100 block of Kirks Mill Road and stole a chainsaw between Jan. 8 and 29.
DUI...
2012-04-27 08:38:04
A black Pittsburgh man says his race prompted officers to use deadly force against him during a traffic stop in December 2010.
Thirty-eight-year-old Anthony Kenney contends he didn't know his brother was carrying drugs when an unmarked car stopped him for failing......
2012-04-26 23:39:00
JENNIFER TODD
Lancaster police were investigating a shooting Thursday night in the area of Christian Street and Howard Avenue.
Police were called to the area at 4:45 p.m. for a report of a man who had been shot in the torso.
The victim, who is age 20, was taken to Lancaster General Hospital. Th......
2012-04-26 20:18:00
JENNIFER TODD
A 4-year-old boy was seriously injured Wednesday when he was struck by a sport utility vehicle while riding his bike in Leola, according to East Lampeter Township police.
The accident happened just before 6 p.m. in the 100 block of Bradford Drive in the Chelsea Village development.
...
2012-04-26 08:45:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police say a man walking in Lancaster city early Thursday was attacked and robbed by three men.
The 22-year-old was walking north in the 300 block of North Christian Street shortly before 2 a.m. when three men passed him walking south, city police Lt. Todd Umstead said.
The three ......
2012-04-26 16:54:44
Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.:
November 2005: News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman writes story saying Prince William has a knee injury. Buckingham Palace complaint prompts poli......
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......
2012-04-26 12:03:30
Egypt's presidential race is boiling down to a contest between Hosni Mubarak's former foreign minister and two Islamists with strong bases of support after the election commission released the final list of 13 candidates on Thursday.
In the past few weeks, the co......
2012-04-26 11:52:55
Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't allow him to forget it.
It was a day that marked the beginning of one of the deadliest, most destructive race riots in the nation's history, and one in which Watson's spu......
2012-04-26 04:50:28
DARYL GATES
Gates had been Los Angeles' chief of police for 14 years when the rioting erupted and was pressured to retire shortly afterward. Until then, he had been nationally respected for pioneering such innovations in policing as the special weapons and tactic......
2012-04-26 13:30:00
STAFF
ACCESS DEVICE FRAUD
EARL TWP.: Eilene Keener, 46, of 607 Sunflower St., New Holland, was charged with using another person's debit card to make a $128 purchase April 5 from Rent-A-Center, Lancaster. Police said Keener admitted she knew she was not authorized to use the card. She was arrai......
2012-04-25 22:43:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have charged an East Hempfield Township man with the alleged indecent assaults of two girls in Rapho Township.
Hamid A. Hamid, 57, of 1620 S. Colebrook Road, also was charged with two counts each of unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of minors, Manheim Borough police said......
2012-04-25 20:01:00
STAFF REPORT
City police are investigating a Tuesday night shooting that left a 37-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the jaw.
Officers called to the 100 block of Old Dorwart Street at 10:06 p.m. for a report of a person shot in the face found the wounded man, according to a press release issued Wed......
2012-04-25 17:04:00
STAFF REPORT
Lancaster police have released photos of two people who they say are suspects in a recent series of tire slashings in the northwest area of the city.
The images were captured by a surveillance camera in the area.
Tires on at least 31 vehicles were slashed between 11 p.m. Sunday an......
2012-04-25 12:39:00
STAFF REPORT
A domestic call led to the arrest of two suspected drug dealers in the city on Tuesday, police said.
Officers responded to a disturbance at 4:45 p.m. at a home in the 500 block of Poplar Street, city police said.
Officer Phillip Bernot saw two bags of cocaine, a digital scale, a b......
2012-04-25 06:43:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man armed with a knife attempted to rob a convenience store in Mount Joy Borough on Wednesday morning, police said.
The man entered the Turkey Hill at 703 E. Main St. at 1:26 a.m. and demanded money from the clerk, borough police said. He was armed with a chef's knife and wore a blue-an......
2012-04-25 23:16:27
AMY TAXIN,Associated PressJOHN ROGERS,Associated Press
Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't allow him to forget it.
It was a day that marked the beginning of one of the deadliest, most destructive race riots in the nation's history, and one in which Watson's spu......
2012-04-25 17:43:28
Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.:
November 2005: News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman writes story saying Prince William has a knee injury. Buckingham Palace complaint prompts poli......
2012-04-25 15:52:13
DARYL GATES
Gates had been Los Angeles' chief of police for 14 years when the rioting erupted and was pressured to retire shortly afterward. Until then, he had been nationally respected for pioneering such innovations in policing as the special weapons and tactic......
2012-04-25 15:01:55
Government corruption and deteriorating roads caused a fiery multiple car and truck crash in Nigeria that killed at least 18 people in 2010, a coroner said Wednesday, highlighting major challenges facing Africa's most populous nation.
Police set up an illegal che......
2012-04-25 12:36:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
The Manheim Borough Police Department is on the move. Borough council members on Tuesday approved an agreement that will relocate the police station from its current spot on South Wolf Street to 45 Market Square. The department's new 7,500-square-foot building was purchased by the ......
2012-04-25 11:26:35
Attorneys for the city of Pittsburgh and a man who claims three police officers wrongly beat him when he was an 18-year-old student at the city's performing arts high school have filed a motion to dismiss his civil rights claim against the city.
City council last......
2012-04-25 04:12:55
We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles police officers who beat him after a traffic stop were acquitted, it touched off anger that affected an entire generation. Now, 20 years later, this is the face of Rodney King, and this is what has happened......
2012-04-25 00:09:05
The leader of New Jersey's police force lamented Tuesday that a veteran trooper's distinguished career will likely be defined by the probe into allegations that he escorted -- without official authorization -- a group of luxury sports cars at 100 mph down a state highway last month.......
2012-04-24 23:05:00
JENNIFER TODD
Three Lancaster city police officers are being credited with saving the life of a toddler who choked on a piece of candy Tuesday morning.
Arriving at the child's home before ambulance personnel, police decided to take the 22-month-old boy to the hospital themselves.
According to h......
2012-04-24 22:57:00
JENNIFER TODD
Correction April 26, 2012 — The address of a woman charged by New Holland police with stealing thousands of dollars from her employer was incorrect in an earlier version of the story below. Kimberly Buzzard lives at 250 E. Main St., ......
2012-04-24 22:39:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster city police recently inspected seven private trash trucks and found leaking fluids, brakes out of adjustment and tires with just 1/16 of an inch of tread.
Mayor Rick Gray said some of the trucks had minor problems and others were more serious, but all of those inspected had prob......
2012-04-24 21:51:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Crime victims might have to wait longer for help to arrive from the state police.
Drug dealers may get less scrutiny.
Volunteer emergency workers may have to cool their heels while they wait for a fire marshal or accident reconstruction team to travel from Berks County to an incid......
2012-04-24 12:33:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man with a ski mask covering his face robbed a convenience store in Manheim Township early Monday morning, police said.
He entered the Turkey Hill at 806 New Holland Ave. at 1:35 a.m. and handed the clerk a note demanding cash, township police said.
The robber fled on foot with ......
2012-04-24 10:45:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster man rammed his car into a pizza shop in Harrisburg after a dispute Friday night, police said.
Julio Colon, 32, had been talking on a cellphone in front of Mercado's Pizza Shop at South 17th and Derry streets, Harrisburg city police said. He apparently had a dispute with people......
2012-04-24 09:15:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An Eden Township man wanted to buy a vehicle using Craigslist, but ended up getting assaulted and robbed, state police said.
The 24-year-old man gave the "seller" the address of his home on Groff Road.
On Thursday, the "seller" assaulted the man and took $1,000 from him, police sa......
2012-04-24 18:56:57
We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles Police officers who beat him after a traffic stop were acquitted, it touched off anger that affected an entire generation. Now, 20 years later, this is the face of Rodney King, and this is what has happened......
2012-04-24 16:33:56
While George Zimmerman is free on bail, the police chief criticized for not charging him after Trayvon Martin's slaying remains under scrutiny, as city commissioners want to wait for the results of a federal investigation to decide if they will accept Chief Bill Lee's resignation....
2012-04-24 10:48:08
Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.:
November 2005: News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman writes story saying Prince William has a knee injury. Buckingham Palace complaint prompts poli......
2012-04-24 06:11:47
A robbery suspect led police on a chase through Los Angeles suburbs that included his apparent girlfriend climbing into his still-moving van and ended with a dog bite.
West Covina police tell City News Service the man jumped into a white van outside a just-robbed......
2012-04-24 01:38:48
A San Francisco ethics commission began setting ground rules Monday for the misconduct case against the sheriff who was suspended after being charged with domestic violence.
The five-member panel held its first meeting to consider the fate of Ross Mirkarimi, a fo......
2012-04-23 22:39:00
TIM MEKEEL
A former Lititz man is accused of cheating 21 real estate buyers out of $719,000 by enticing them to invest in bogus deals here and elsewhere.
William Kevin Kelly, 58, of Ocean City, N.J., has been indicted on 23 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
If convicted, he faces up......
2012-04-23 14:46:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Lancaster police reported a series of tire-slashings in the northwestern part of Lancaster over a seven-hour period Sunday night into Monday, with some 20 incidents under investigation.
All were in the city's northwest, specifically in the area from Lemon to Frederick streets and from Lan......
2012-04-23 23:36:40
George Zimmerman, who slipped out of jail on $150,000 bail in the early morning darkness, went back into hiding Monday and likely fled to another state to avoid threats as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Later Monday, t......
2012-04-23 14:41:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Manheim Borough police Chief Joe Stauffer presented the latest crime report to Rapho Township officials Thursday, causing some residents to question the cost and effectiveness of the department's services. Rapho Township entered into a contract with the Manheim Borough Police Department for ......
2012-04-23 10:56:50
Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.:
November 2005: News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman writes story saying Prince William has a knee injury. Buckingham Palace complaint prompts poli......
2012-04-23 10:49:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Earlier this month, a new state law went into effect that helps protect cyclists — and officials from the East Lampeter Township Police Department are taking it seriously. That was the message officer Chris Jones delivered Thursday to Upper Leacock supervisors. Jones explaine......
2012-04-23 09:45:03
A southwestern Pennsylvania man is suing the state police for false arrest in the death of his former sister-in-law's newborn baby in June 2000.
Warren Bircher Sr. was acquitted in August 2010 of charges he killed and helped conceal the death of Sara Sue Hawk's n......
2012-04-23 14:55:00
Staff
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
LANCASTER TWP.: About $200 damage was done to the hood of a vehicle in a parking lot in the 1300 block of Columbia Avenue between 5:30 and 5:55 p.m. Friday.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
LANCASTER TWP.: Raul Rodriguez, 34, of Meadowcreek Lane, was charged after offi......
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......
2012-04-22 21:17:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A man who eluded police for two weeks last summer before his capture, and whose flight included a high-speed chase through two townships, is facing additional charges.
Dwayne Armand Weir, 41, who is currently in Lancaster County Prison, was charged last August with burglary, flight to avo......
2012-04-22 20:19:14
An audio recording has surfaced of an Arizona sheriff playing his refusal to cooperate in a racial profiling investigation for laughs at a fundraiser for an anti-illegal immigration group in Texas. He ridicules politicians who sought the probe and displayed contempt toward federal a......
2012-04-22 20:15:17
An audio recording has surfaced of an Arizona sheriff playing his refusal to cooperate in a racial profiling investigation for laughs at a fundraiser for an anti-illegal immigration group in Texas. He ridicules politicians who sought the probe and displayed contempt toward federal a......
2012-04-22 14:27:56
NYPD badges out, Kelvin Jones and the other armed men turned up out of nowhere at a New Jersey warehouse and began barking orders.
Jones told startled workers that the New York Police Department had sent the team there to inspect for counterfeit goods -- even tho......
2012-04-22 14:00:02
Police say a struggle between a naked man and a police officer on a north Philadelphia street ended with the officer shooting the suspect to death.
Lt. Raymond Evers says the naked man was reportedly running around screaming on a street in the Olney section of th......
2012-04-22 05:23:44
News reports say that Maoist rebels in eastern India have kidnapped a government official and killed two policemen.
Press Trust of India reported that the rebels kidnapped district official Alex Paul Menon from a village in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh state on......
2012-04-22 00:13:00
STAFF
STORM DAMAGEEAST LAMPETER TWP.: Frontal squalls and rain moving through the area shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday downed utility wires at North Eastland Drive and Lincoln Highway East and temporarily ......
2012-04-21 10:46:34
An eastern Pennsylvania judge has ruled that statements by a defendant following the shooting death of a police officer last summer can be used in his trial.
The (Allentown) Morning Call (http://bit.ly/HQLqAv ) says a Northampton County judge ruled that statement......
2012-04-20 21:38:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster city man who recently got out of prison after serving time for drug dealing is back behind bars, an official said, this time for his activity on a popular social-networking site. Eddie T. Richardson, 34, of 24 Chester St., posted on Facebook information about his drug case and th......
2012-04-20 16:02:53
President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser praised the New York Police Department's work Friday, saying the agency has struck an appropriate balance between keeping people safe and protecting their rights.
"It's not a trade-off between our securit......
2012-04-20 14:09:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A Lancaster City man has been arrested for possessing and sharing child pornography, as well as secretly filming an adult who was not dressed.
Craig Redding, 32, of the 300 block of New Street, was charged with seven counts of sexual abuse of children for disseminating child pornography, ......
2012-04-20 13:19:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A 6-year-old child was seriously injured Friday when he fell from a wall at a bus stop in East Donegal Township, police said. The 8:45 a.m. incident happened on Rock Point Road, between Colebrook Road and Anderson Ferry Road (Route 772), county dispatchers and emergency responders said....
2012-04-20 13:13:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have identified a motorcyclist who was critically injured in a wreck Wednesday in Conestoga Township.
Lester Frank Kuhns III, 41, of Den Mar Drive, Holtwood, is in critical condition today at Lancaster General Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Kuhns was speeding in th......
2012-04-20 11:54:42
Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.:
November 2005: News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman writes story saying Prince William has a knee injury. Buckingham Palace complaint prompts poli......
2012-04-20 11:26:20
Police say a man has been struck and killed by a mass transit bus in Philadelphia.
Authorities say the man was hit while apparently trying to board a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority bus on Friday morning. He was pronounced dead at a hospital....
2012-04-20 10:53:00
CINDY STAUFFER and RYAN ROBINSON
Two Lancaster men have been charged with a knifepoint robbery of a man, a liquor store robbery and two other attempted robberies over a five-day span. Police said the men targeted the same liquor store twice and two ATM machines. One of the men used a knife to threaten customers who were usi......
2012-04-20 14:23:00
STAFF
ACCESS DEVICE FRAUD
MANOR TWP.: A Lancaster woman lost her debit card Sunday in the 1500 block of Columbia Avenue and it was later used in a $100 purchase at Just Press Play on South Centerville Road.
ACCIDENT
CONESTOGA TWP.: Police have identified a motorcyclist who was c......
2012-04-19 21:21:04
Colombia's national police chief, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, has decided to step down because he is tired and feels it's time for a younger generation to take on the job, President Juan Manuel Santos announced Thursday.
Santos said Naranjo agreed to stay in the post unt......
2012-04-19 21:16:49
A San Francisco judge on Thursday indicated that he will not reinstate suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi or stop the city from pursuing its official misconduct case against him.
Mirkarimi pleaded guilty last month to one count of misdemeanor false im......
2012-04-19 16:12:00
ELAINE J. JONES
Pequea Township is seeking a replacement to serve on the Southern Regional Police Commission in the wake of the resignation of Diane Janney-Schall. Janney-Schall was appointed as the township's citizen representative in January but resigned at the monthly police commission meeting on April 1......
2012-04-19 14:48:47
The family of a college student who was fatally shot by police filed a claim against the city of Pasadena and five officers.
It alleges that poorly trained officers killed Kendrec McDade, who was unarmed when he was shot last month, the Pasadena Star-News (http:/......
2012-04-19 12:15:53
Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.:
November 2005: News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman writes story saying Prince William has a knee injury. Buckingham Palace complaint prompts poli......
2012-04-19 11:59:46
Britain's media ethics inquiry said Thursday it will hear testimony from News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son James next week, as officers arrested three people in the investigation of corrupt ties between the British police and the press.
The Murdochs ......
2012-04-19 10:57:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police nabbed a man who tried to rob a restaurant in Columbia on Tuesday, they said.
Frederick William Caswell, 59, who has no address, targeted the Columbia Family Restaurant at 960 Columbia Ave. at 10:05 a.m., borough police said in a criminal complaint.
Caswell demanded all the......
2012-04-19 02:10:17
Iraqi police: 15 killed in series of blasts across Baghdad and northern city of Kirkuk.......
2012-04-19 13:15:00
STAFF
ASSAULT
EPHRATA: A 16-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly assaulting his stepfather during a domestic dispute Tuesday in the 200 block of Washington Avenue.
DENVER: Douglas Lee Stoltzfus, 36, Denver, was charged with simple assault after a domestic violence incident at his hom......
2012-04-18 21:14:38
The police chief who oversaw the University of California, Davis, police department during its notorious pepper-spraying of Occupy protesters said Wednesday that she is stepping down.
UC Davis spokesman Barry Shiller said Annette Spicuzza told the school she is r......
2012-04-18 20:49:37
A fresh revelation about the mishandling of evidence in a fatal crash involving an Indianapolis police officer has renewed suspicions about a possible cover-up as well as concerns about a culture of corruption with the department.
The development prompted the cit......
2012-04-18 15:33:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Mountville man was jailed Wednesday for a series of abusive behavior against his girlfriend.
John Calixto will serve 6 to 23 months in prison for multiple assaults and stalking offenses against the woman.
Calixto, now 27, said he still loves the woman and asked a local judge if ......
