The weather is no worse in Lancaster County's northern tip, but lately East Cocalico Township police have felt that a stubborn storm has settled in. Devastating fires, drownings and death investigations have become the norm there in recent months — even years, some officers say.......

  Susan Van Zant now knows all too well the havoc that violence can wreak in the lives of children. She knows what it's like to have to explain DNA evidence to little children, to role-play the acts of a judge and jury to help a youngster comprehend what a parent is going throug......

America's latest "trial of the century" ended this week with a verdict for the ages — a Florida jury acquitted Casey Anthony of killing her young daughter. Found guilty only of lesser charges of lying to police, Anthony likely will be a free woman after Thursday's sentencing. ...

  "Yeah, I did it," Michael Roseboro tells a fellow prisoner in the new true-crime novel "Love Her to Death." Roseboro was talking about the murder of his wife, Jan, says the author of the book, M. William Phelps, and Roseboro wasn't being sarcastic. Roseboro has publicly d......

At 5 p.m. Friday, Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Bergman will walk out of the courthouse on Duke Street for the last time as a county employee. After 36 years working for the county — all but three of those with the Sheriff's Office — Bergman is heading for retirement exactly ......

Michael Roseboro's murder conviction was not influenced or prejudiced by jurors communicating on Facebook, prosecutors maintain.In making their argument to the Pennsylvania Superior Court recently, prosecutors used the jurors' own words on the social networking site to support thei......

Authorities on Sunday would not call the death of a man discovered Saturday inside a West Cocalico Township apartment a homicide.In a news release, East Cocalico Township police, who cover West Cocalico, said they were called to 200 Creamery Road Saturday to investigate the "unexplain......

Convicted killer Michael Roseboro has asked a state appeals court for a new trial, or at least a hearing, because two jurors communicated with friends on Facebook during the trial."Considering all of the postings and communications as cumulative evidence of bias, unfairness and prejud......

The appeal of former funeral director — now convicted killer — Michael Roseboro has moved to the state Superior Court.But along with the transcripts and other documents sent to Harrisburg recently, the Lancaster County Court judge who presided over Roseboro's trial had one ......

Michael Roseboro is the focus of a "48 Hours Mystery" special about his conviction for the 2008 murder of his wife, Jan. But it is the other woman who plays the most compelling role in the CBS program, which was broadcast Saturday night. During the one-hour segment, viewers......

Convicted killer Michael Roseboro's attorneys have two questions:Should a Lancaster County Court judge have held a hearing after learning two jurors communicated with friends on Facebook?Was too much weight given by the jury to the forensic pathologist's description of Jan R......

Denver funeral director and convicted killer Michael Roseboro will be the subject of a nationally-broadcast television news show on March 6.CBS News' "48 Hours Mystery" will broadcast the hour-long program about the Lancaster County murder at 10 p.m. on Saturday, March 6.......

Convicted killer Michael Roseboro, whose request for a new trial and claims of juror misconduct were dismissed last month by a Lancaster County judge, is taking his case to the state appellate courts.The former funeral director, found guilty of killing his 45-year-old wife, Jan, in the swi......

A television crew for a national network will return to Lancaster County this week, preparing for its upcoming feature on the murder of Jan Roseboro.Members of the CBS show "48 Hours" covered the trial of Roseboro's husband, Michael, and his subsequent conviction for first-de......

A judge has denied convicted killer Michael Roseboro's request for a new trial, declaring that comments posted on Facebook by two jurors in the case were "woefully insufficient to taint the unanimous verdict of the jury."Lancaster County Judge James P. Cullen, in a 21-page op......

The Denver funeral home owned by convicted murderer Michael Roseboro and his family is being sold to Stradling Funeral Homes Inc.Stradling has funeral homes in Ephrata and Akron. The sale, for an undisclosed price, should be finalized in the next several weeks, said Stradling owner G. Toml......

The aughties started with all the promise of the a millennium. We had survived the Y2K scare, the economy was rolling right along and everyone thought things could only get better.We were wrong.This decade in Lancaster County has been marked by perhaps the worst tragedy in its histo......

The lawyer for convicted killer Michael Roseboro has responded to a prosecutor's claims that comments posted by a juror on Facebook were "innocuous."The posts, defense attorney Allan Sodomsky contends in a new court filing, "show a juror inclined to convict, bored and an......

Prosecutors maintained Tuesday that convicted killer Michael Roseboro should neither be acquitted nor get a new trial, saying comments posted on Facebook by two jurors were merely "innocuous."" … It is certainly permissible and expected that jurors tell others that th......

Prosecutors maintained Tuesday that convicted killer Michael Roseboro should neither be acquitted nor get a new trial, saying comments posted on Facebook by two jurors were "innocuous."" … It is certainly permissible and expected that jurors tell others that they have......

Michael Roseboro wants a new trial.Or, his attorneys asked a Lancaster County judge on Monday, acquit him of murder.At the very least, Roseboro's attorneys want two members of the jury brought back into court to see if they were influenced by others, specifically their "Fac......

Michael Roseboro's attorneys filed a request in Lancaster County Court today, asking for a new trial.At the very least, Roseboro's attorneys want two members of the jury brought back into court to see if they were influenced by others — specifically their "Facebook Frien......

Michael Roseboro had opportunities most people "can only dream of." He had a good career with his family's successful funeral home business. His wife, Jan, was loved by friends and family, and they had four healthy children. He had a nice home in Reinholds and could affo......

Michael Roseboro was sentenced to life in prison without parole today in Lancaster County Court for murdering his wife, Jan. Roseboro, 42, who had been director of his family's funeral home in Denver, was convicted of first-degree murder for killing his wife in the swimming pool behind thei......

Michael Roseboro is scheduled to be sentenced today for the murder of his wife, Jan. The former funeral director, convicted in July of first-degree murder for killing his wife at the couple's Reinhold's home, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. Prosecuto......

Judges in Lancaster County have dealt with their fair share of jurors — and even potential jurors — who didn't follow their instructions to the "T."And their handling of those cases could shed light on how — or even whether — Judge James P. Cullen deal......

The attorney for convicted killer Michael Roseboro said Tuesday that it could be weeks before he decides what to do about two jurors who posted comments about the trial on Facebook."We intend to gather all of the information necessary to make a competent decision about what rights, if......

Nick Keene and Michael Hecker clearly didn't enjoy their time as jurors in the Michael Roseboro murder trial.The two young men complained to friends on Facebook about being picked for the jury and the length of the trial — despite instructions from the judge not to talk to anyone......

Michael Roseboro is on suicide watch at Lancaster County Prison. According to an online database provided by the prison, Roseboro is in the facility's "medical housing unit" for observation. Warden Vincent Guarini confirmed that Roseboro was moved to the unit Friday, but c......

Listen to the recordings of Michael Roseboro's 911 call on the night his wife, Jan Roseboro, was killed and the phone calls he made to Angela Funk from prison on April 14 and April 16, 2009.......

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Michael Roseboro closed his eyes, swallowed hard and dropped his head slightly.His mother, Ann, cradled in her husband's arms, broke into sobs in the back of the courtroom.Jurors, dry-eyed and grim-faced, glanced around at the people packed into the Lancaster County courtroom on......

Inside the jury room, the eight women and four men sat down and, before anything else, wrote on a small piece of paper their judgment of Michael Roseboro after his nearly three-week trial.They had three choices: Guilty, not guilty or uncertain.They did not write down their names....

To many of Michael Roseboro's neighbors in the Denver area — some of whom know him and his family — his conviction for murder in the first degree Thursday came as no surprise.Roseboro, who owns a generations-old funeral home in Denver, was found guilty Thursday in the July ......

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After deliberating for four and one-half hours, a Lancaster County Court jury has convicted Denver funeral home director Michael Roseboro of murdering his wife last July.Roseboro, 42, was found guilty by a jury of eight women and four men of first-degree murder in the strangling, beating a......

Today it goes to the jurors.For more than two weeks, they've looked at pictures and clothing and listened to witnesses and recordings.On Wednesday, they listened to the two opposing attorneys give dramatic, emotional closing arguments. ...

The jury in the Michael Roseboro case returned to the courtroom around 2:20 p.m. this afternoon. Lancaster Newspapers will post information on the verdict as soon as it is available.......

"Michael Roseboro lied. And he cheated. But he only lied about cheating," his attorney told a Lancaster County jury today. Roseboro, 42, is guilty of adultery, but he is not guilty of killing his wife, defense attorney Allan Sodomsky said. In a two-hour closing argument this morn......

"I know my dad would not do that," Samuel Roseboro told a Lancaster County jury Tuesday. "He couldn't kill my mother."Jan and Michael Roseboro's 19-year-old son struggled to control his emotions as he remembered arriving home the night his mother died on July 22......

"I know my Dad would not do that," Samuel Roseboro testified today. "He couldn't kill my mother." Jan and Michael Roseboro's 19-year-old son testified that when he last saw his mother alive, she and his father were together by the pool. Hours later, Samuel Roseb......

"Drowning," a forensic pathologist told a Lancaster County jury on Monday, "is a good way to hide a murder."Jan Roseboro, 45, did drown in the swimming pool of her Reinholds home last summer, experts said, but before she died she was beaten and strangled.Two fore......

"Drowning," a forensic pathologist told a Lancaster jury today, "is a good way to hide a murder." Jan Roseboro, 45, did drown, Dr. Wayne K. Ross testified this morning, but she was also beaten and strangled in a subtle way that left few marks. Ross testified for the en......

Jurors have heard his voice.Michael Roseboro, calmly and politely, telling 911 dispatchers in a flat, unemotional voice, his wife just drowned.And they've heard Michael Roseboro — cheerfully, lovingly, almost giddily — chatting with his girlfriend about their baby in pho......

When Angela Funk testified last week about her extramarital affair with Michael Roseboro, every detail of her court appearance — her testimony, her reported demeanor, even the outfit she wore on the stand — was dissected by Lancaster County residents. Her paramour, Denver funeral di......

There's a lot Angela Funk says she can't remember about her affair with Michael Roseboro. That's despite more than 1,400 phone calls, 1,000 text messages and 200 e-mails, which were sent during the course of an extramarital affair that lasted less than two months with Denver funeral......

"This was a very up-close and personal attack," a county detective told a Lancaster County jury Friday.No knife, no gun, the detective noted.But there was a victim, Jan Roseboro, who was strangled, beaten and drowned in the backyard swimming pool of her home in Reinholds....

"This was a very up close and personal attack," a county detective told a Lancaster County jury this morning in the trial of Michael Roseboro. The fact that Jan Roseboro, 45, was strangled, beaten and drown while sitting by her backyard pool in rural Reinholds, Detective Jan Walters s......

Jan and Michael Roseboro had lots of lights outside their newly remodeled home.There was a spotlight shining on the backyard area, an automatic dusk-to-dawn light on the garage, lights along the roof line of the house and lights inside the pool.And all of them, a Lancaster County ju......

Jan and Michael Roseboro had several lights outside their newly remodeled home. There was a spotlight shining on the backyard area, an automatic dusk-to-dawn light on the garage, lights along the roof line and lights inside the pool. And all of them, a Lancaster County jury was told tod......

Michael Roseboro's DNA was found underneath the fingernails of his dead wife's left hand, an expert said.His face, a family friend noticed, was "oozing blood" the night Jan Roseboro was killed.And that same night, a neighbor testified, the backyard of the Roseboro ......

A Reinholds woman told a Lancaster County jury today that she had almost a clear view of Jan and Michael Roseboro's backyard at 10 p.m. on July 22, 2008.And she saw nothing."There were no lights on," September Malamon, of Creek Road, testified. "It was pitch black......

Angela Funk has had "a change of heart" about Michael Roseboro."If he's guilty, he's guilty," she matter-of-factly told a Lancaster County jury. "If he's not, he's not."Prosecutors have charged Roseboro with killing his wife, Jan, exactl......

Angela Funk, who the prosecution contends was Michael Roseboro's motive for murder, took the witness stand in Lancaster County Court today. Between questions about her activities the day Roseboro's wife, Jan, was murdered, Funk glanced across the courtroom where her former lover sat ......

As of three months ago, Michael Roseboro was still telling his girlfriend he loved her.And, Roseboro told Angela Funk in a phone call from jail, "I totally plan on being out of here in August."Monday, a Lancaster County jury listened to two recorded telephone calls Rosebor......

Bank surveillance photos aren't usually evidence in a homicide trial. But today in the Lancaster County Court trial of Michael Roseboro, a series of surveillance photographs were shown to the jury. The color photographs were taken of Jan Roseboro, when she went to the bank on the af......

Jan and Michael Roseboro's four children had no set bedtime and often stayed up late at night. Their youngest, Stella, 7, bites her fingernails. Their two large dogs greet guests to the backyard area and bark at strangers. Jan Roseboro did not wear much jewelry and rarely checked ......

Chas Kurtz graduated from Colgate University this past spring with a bachelor's in history and, like a lot graduates, he's not sure exactly what to do next. "I've thought about law school," said the 22-year-old Lancaster resident who has taken an internship with Magisteria......

Angela Funk, Michael Roseboro's mistress and the mother of his youngest child, is expected to be the star witness this week in his murder trial, according to her attorney, Amy Rothermel, of Reading. "It'll probably be Tuesday," Rothermel said, but cautioned that the current pa......

For nearly two months, up until the very day Jan Roseboro was murdered, her husband, Michael, was professing his love to someone else. He wrote to his girlfriend about marriage, shopped for her wedding gown, selected a honeymoon spot and dreamed of a life together — with her. All tha......

They expressed their love for one another several times a day for months. They discussed their wedding, their honeymoon, her wedding dress and hairstyle. But Michael Roseboro and Angela Funk never discussed the fact that both of them were married to other people. This morning, for sev......

It just lasted a second or two. Coming from her next-door neighbor's backyard pool. Shortly before 10:30 p.m. on July 22, 2008. A woman's scream. Of that, Cassandra Pope told a Lancaster County jury Thursday, she was absolutely certain. Knowing that her neighbors,......

They described him as calm and emotionless.As Jan Roseboro's grieving relatives gathered at the family's Reinholds home after her death last summer, Michael Roseboro, they said, was "quiet," "calm" and "complacent."When they then learned the 45-......

Jan Roseboro's sister testified this morning she told Michael Roseboro, "I want justice for my sister." "There was no response," Susan Van Zant testified. In tearful testimony, Van Zant told a Lancaster County jury of several conversations she had with  her bro......

"My wife just drowned," Michael Roseboro told the 911 dispatcher."What happened?" the dispatcher asked.Michael Roseboro's voice, calm and flat, answered questions, telling the dispatcher he had gone outside and found his wife in the backyard pool.The r......

"My wife just drowned," Michael Roseboro told a 911 dispatcher. The recording of Roseboro's call to emergency dispatchers on July 22, 2008, was played to a jury this morning in Lancaster County Court. Roseboro, 42, on trial accused of killing his wife, Jan, tells the dispatch......

Jan Roseboro lay by the backyard swimming pool as medics, kneeling beside her, tried to resuscitate her.Her husband, Michael Roseboro, who had pulled her from the pool and called 911, stood nearby, police said, smoking cigarettes and making phone calls to family members."This c......

Michael Roseboro's mother held back tears as she watched her son through the narrow rectangular windows of the courtroom doors. As Roseboro was led to the defense table in handcuffs, Ann Roseboro waved at her son. Visibly distraught, she made eye contact with him and smiled. He nodded ......

The commonwealth has accused 42-year-old Michael Roseboro of murdering his wife, Jan Roseboro, at their Reinholds home last July. Recent newspaper accounts of the incident have often included Roseboro's mug shot, which shows a goateed man wearing a white T-shirt and a gold chain. The Roseb......

Attorneys finished final preparations Friday for Michael Roseboro's trial to get under way Monday morning in Lancaster County Court.The jury — eight women, four men, plus two female and two male alternate jurors — was selected by Friday morning.Defense and prosecutin......

Michael Roseboro's homicide trial is now scheduled to start Monday, as jury selection continues in Lancaster County Court.The last two alternate jurors were selected by mid-morning today. The jury consists of 8 women and four men plus two men and two women as alternates.Ros......

Jury selection is continuing in Lancaster County Court for the trial of Michael Roseboro, who is accused of killing his wife last summer.Roseboro, 42, a director of his family's funeral home in Denver, is charged with criminal homicide in the death of his 45-year-old wife, Jan.J......

Eleven jurors have been selected so far to hear the case of Michael Roseboro, the Denver funeral home director who is charged with killing his wife.This morning in Lancaster County Court, the 11th juror, a Manheim Township woman, was selected to join the six other women and four men on the pa......

Six jurors have been selected so far to hear the case of Michael Roseboro, who is on trial for allegedly killing his wife.Roseboro, 42, a director of his family's funeral home in Denver, is charged in the death of his wife, Jan.The 45-year-old woman was found dead next to the po......

Michael Roseboro, handcuffed and dressed in a black suit, walked into a Lancaster County courtroom Monday to face trial for his wife's death.Roseboro, 42, a director of his family's funeral home in Denver, is charged with killing his wife, Jan, one year ago, in July 2008.On ......

Michael Roseboro told police he found his wife's body in the backyard pool and tried to resuscitate her –— unsuccessfully.Intruders, his defense attorney suggested, must have encountered and killed 45-year-old Jan Roseboro that night in July 2008, as she sat reading outside......

At a Reinholds convenience store just six-tenths of a mile from where Jan Roseboro's body was found last July, her murder is still the occasional talk of the town. "This is a small town, everybody knew who he was," said clerk Harry Patel of Michael Roseboro, Jan's husband, who......

It was one year ago next month that Jan Roseboro was found dead next to the swimming pool behind her Reinholds home. Her husband, Michael, told police he found his wife, pulled her from the water and tried, unsuccessfully, to resuscitate her. But within weeks, investigators had charged Mic......

After Michael Roseboro was charged with killing his wife, Jan, last summer, another woman told police she'd been having an extra-marital affair with the funeral director for weeks. In fact, Angela Funk told detectives, they had been together on the afternoon of July 22, just hours before th......

The killing of Jose A. Diaz on Dec. 13 raised the total slayings in Lancaster County this year to 12, equaling 2007's total.An unknown assailant shot Diaz just outside the Lancaster city border, making it the sixth killing investigated by city police in 2008.Police have made arr......

Prosecutors said Wednesday they will not seek the death penalty against Michael Roseboro, a 41-year-old funeral director accused of killing his wife in July.Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman said the circumstances of the case do not fit the criteria for a death-penalty case ......

Michael Roseboro was ordered Friday to stand trial for the death of his wife after prosecutors presented testimony from police, neighbors and Roseboro's alleged mistress.District Judge Nancy Hamill ruled that she heard sufficient evidence during a three-hour preliminary hearing to bind......

Michael Roseboro was ordered this afternoon to stand trial on charges that he killed his wife, Jan E. Roseboro, at the couple's Reinholds home in July. Magisterial District Judge Nancy Hamill ordered Roseboro to trial after a nearly four-hour hearing that included testimony from witnesse......

A preliminary hearing will be held this morning in Lancaster County Courthouse for Michael A. Roseboro, the Denver funeral home director accused of killing his wife. The hearing is not to determine guilt or innocence, but simply whether prosecutors have enough evidence to take 41-year-old Ro......

The East Cocalico Chief of Police has been extremely busy, and he recently made it a point to thank those who have helped with the workload.In one report to West Cocalico Township supervisors Thursday and another to Denver Borough Council on Monday, Chief George Beever said the investigati......

Michael A. Roseboro's defense attorney lashed out at Lancaster County investigators Wednesday, claiming they rushed to charge an innocent man with the slaying of his wife.Allan L. Sodomsky, who represents the Denver funeral director, said investigators, led by Lancaster County District......

The defense attorney for accused killer Michael A. Roseboro said today that his client did not kill his wife. Allan L. Sodomsky, appearing at a news conference in his Reading office, said this morning, "Contrary to published reports and widespread speculation, Michael Roseboro did not k......

The defense attorney for accused killer Michael A. Roseboro will break his silence on Wednesday. Allan L. Sodomsky has scheduled a news conference for 10 a.m. at his Reading office, 606 Court St., where he will make a brief statement and take questions, a spokeswoman said. Neither Sodom......

Michael Roseboro was willing to do anything to be rid of his wife so he could marry his mistress, including killing her, investigators said Monday.Roseboro — arrested Saturday and charged with criminal homicide — had the motive and opportunity to kill Jan Roseboro, the mother o......

Michael A. Roseboro wanted to end his marriage. He "couldn't live" anymore without his girlfriend, according to court documents. And end the marriage Roseboro did, police said, by beating and strangling his wife, Jan, and throwing her in their backyard swimming pool where ......

While the news that Michael Roseboro was arrested and charged Saturday with murdering his wife was not unexpected for some, the shock of the nearly two-week-old crime remains. "I can't believe it. I cannot believe it," Brenda Lutz, 67, said while going to the bank this morning in ......

A Denver funeral director has been charged with the brutal beating death of his wife, whose body was found last month in the family's swimming pool.Michael Alan Roseboro, 41, was arrested late Saturday and charged with criminal homicide for allegedly killing his wife, Jan Roseboro, Jul......

Judging by the activity at Springside Golf Club in Reinholds on Sunday, it was hard to tell that a 12-day-old murder investigation had taken a sharp turn just a third of a mile down the road.One of the golfers was 22-year-old Andy Horst, who squinted into the sun from under his white ball ......

It's been more than a week since Jan Roseboro was killed inside her Reinholds home July 22.As of Thursday evening, no arrests had been made in the slaying of the 45-year-old mother of four.Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman said that doesn't mean authorities ar......

LANCASTER, Pa.  —  The husband of murder victim Jan E. Roseboro of Reinholds was having an extramarital affair at the time of her death, according to court documents unsealed today. Now authorities are searching computers at the Roseboro Funeral Home in Denver for possible in......

The Rev. Larry Hummer said he understands police have a job to do investigating the slaying of Jan Roseboro, 45, at her Reinholds home Tuesday.But the pastor of Faith United Lutheran Church in Denver, which Hummer said Jan Roseboro and her family have attended for the past 20 years, also r......

 A 45-year-old mother of four, whose husband said he found her unconscious in their backyard swimming pool late Tuesday night, had been severely beaten and drowned, authorities said today. Jan E. Roseboro suffered multiple blunt force trauma and died of multiple traumatic injurie......