2012-02-10 02:16:48
The New York City police commissioner's TV host son is resuming his morning show duties at "Good Day New York" after being cleared of the prospect of criminal charges of raping a woman he met for a drink.
Friday is Greg Kelly's first day back on the job......
2012-02-09 23:03:00
STAFF REPORT
One person was dead after a vehicle crash Thursday in Salisbury Township, according to state police.
Trooper Nicholas Long said that Gregory P. Kearns, 48, of Harrisburg, apparently suffered a heart attack just after 5:30 p.m. as he was driving in the 5100 block of Lincoln Highway East, n......
2012-02-09 21:30:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A man who fled to New York after killing a man here in 1999 was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in state prison Thursday after accepting a plea deal.
James Malave won't have to begin serving his sentence for at least the next six years because he's already serving a 10-year minimum sentence i......
2012-02-09 13:06:00
STAFF REPORT
Two people were injured in a two-vehicle collision in Lancaster city on Thursday, according to police.
The driver of a Ford Mustang traveling south on North Charlotte Street ran a red light at noon, city police Officer Michael Brault said.
The car collided with a Dodge that was tr......
2012-02-09 13:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster city woman was charged with aggravated harassment after she spit on a police officer Thursday morning, police said.
Officers responded to the 500 block of Howard Avenue around 1:30 a.m. for a report of a woman outside who was possibly trying to fight occupants of a home, polic......
2012-02-09 22:10:00
The family of one of four people killed in a New York pharmacy holdup filed a $20 million lawsuit Thursday, alleging that a drug company that manufactures painkillers, a physician accused of improperly distributing the drugs, police officials and others were responsible for the vict......
2012-02-09 21:58:21
The mother of a man fatally shot by Philadelphia police in a hail of bullets has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against six officers.
Carolyn Moses' 24-year-old son was killed at the end of a stolen-car chase in February 2011.
At that time, po......
2012-02-09 14:39:03
In a story Feb. 7 about a lack of progress by a commission established to right the wrongs of Chicago's police torture scandal, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the commission hasn't met since August and cancelled an October meeting. The commission postponed, but didn'......
2012-02-09 13:04:54
A man shown on video being kicked and punched by four New York City police officers says he's suffered from constant headaches and nightmares since then.
Nineteen-year-old Jatiek Reed spoke Thursday at a news conference where his attorney announced he was request......
2012-02-09 11:07:00
DEBBIE WYGENT
Will a sidewalk requirement become a stumbling block for a street reconstruction project? Quarryville Borough Council has set a special meeting for 7 p.m. Monday, March 12, to award contracts for the South Summit Avenue reconstruction project. However, the project, scheduled to begin t......
2012-02-09 10:02:18
Officials say a police shooting in Nigeria's southeast caused Muslims living in the Christian area to flee in panic amid concerns about retaliatory violence.
The shooting happened Thursday in Anambra state. Local police spokesman Emeka Chukwuemeka said an officer......
2012-02-09 02:15:35
The celebrity top cop relieved of his duties in a major Chinese city met officials at a U.S. consulate amid unconfirmed reports of an asylum bid, but then left the building, the U.S. State Department said. His whereabouts were unclear Thursday.
A Chinese official......
2012-02-08 23:19:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Pending legislation in the state House of Representatives would allow the National Rifle Association to sue Lancaster and 29 other Pennsylvania cities.
The bill, co-sponsored by six of Lancaster County's eight House members, would allow judges to impose triple damages against a city if a ......
2012-02-08 23:16:00
JENNIFER TODD
Manor Township police are warning residents to be vigilant after recent incidents involving telephone scams.
In the past week, two women were victimized by callers who asked them to send money for lottery winnings or loan fees.
The week before, a man was spared a financial loss af......
2012-02-08 21:37:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Clarification Feb. 9, 2011 — Jay Brubaker, an inmate charged with bringing drugs into Lancaster County Prison, was committed to jail after Ephrata police filed charges last month. However, Ephrata police officers did not transport Br......
2012-02-08 21:32:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A mother accused of stabbing her husband, then dropping her two young daughters as she rushed them out of the family's house, will stand trial.
District Judge Jayne Duncan ordered 38-year-old Kelly Peretzman to trial on multiple charges, including felony aggravated assault and endangering......
2012-02-08 21:21:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police on Wednesday accused four off-roaders with damaging an area near a wildflower preserve in Conestoga Township.
Jordan T. Stauffer, 21, of Bowman Road, Joshua Pallas, 24, of Jasmine Place, Mount Joy, Samantha Murphy, 29, of South 12th Street, Columbia, and Jay Joseph, 21, of Havertow......
2012-02-08 20:15:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Willow Street man threatened his girlfriend with a knife at his home Wednesday morning, police said.
She called 911 to report the incident at 3:18 a.m., West Lampeter Township police Chief James Walsh said.
The woman told police her boyfriend, Brett W. Martin, 50, of 10 Donnelly......
2012-02-08 18:42:18
The police commissioner's son, cleared of the prospect of criminal charges of raping a woman he met for a drink, will return to his job as host of a popular local morning TV talk show this week, his station said.
Greg Kelly took a leave of absence from his job at......
2012-02-08 17:25:00
KIMBERLY MARSELAS
Ephrata Township continues to invest in its community park, with plans for a new walking trail and a tot park in the works. At a supervisors meeting Tuesday, officials approved a $5,249 contract to excavate a 280-foot stretch of trail that will complete a loop around the park's lake. Though ......
2012-02-08 15:55:35
A diabetic motorist and his wife have agreed to accept $292,500 from Henderson police and the state of Nevada to settle a federal civil rights, battery and negligence lawsuit stemming from his videotaped beating during a 2010 traffic stop.
"The video is dist......
2012-02-08 15:37:02
USC Aiken will honor the lives of two local law enforcement officers at halftime of its upcoming men's basketball game with UNC Pembroke.
Ceremonies are scheduled for Saturday.
Aiken Master Public Safety Officer Scotty Richardson was killed De......
2012-02-08 13:41:34
The former top cop of a major Chinese city has dropped from sight amid unconfirmed reports he is seeking U.S. asylum following a quarrel with one of China's most powerful local politicians.
Wang Lijun, a crusading lawman who made his name busting crime gangs and ......
2012-02-08 13:28:06
Supporters of the Maldives former president rioted through the streets of the capital and seized some remote police stations Wednesday to demand his reinstatement, as the country's new leader appealed for an end to the political turmoil roiling this Indian Ocean island nation. ......
2012-02-08 09:56:50
Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group obtained more than 150 police officers' personal information from an old website for the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted it online.
William Roper, the association's president, told the Char......
2012-02-08 02:50:27
Disgruntled police across Brazil are taking aim at the country's iconic Carnival celebration, raising threats to the annual street parties that draw hordes of foreigners as a way to press their demands for pay raises.
Police officers already on strike in Salvador......
2012-02-08 02:21:10
The police commissioner's TV host son won't face criminal charges of sexually assaulting a woman who said he attacked her after a date last fall, prosecutors said Tuesday.
"After reviewing all of the evidence, we have determined that the facts established du......
2012-02-07 22:02:00
DAN NEPHIN
Dennis Richard Silvius recently told his landlord and neighbors that he'd be undergoing a heart procedure Tuesday, they said.
Instead, around 9:30 a.m., the 54-year-old robbed the Sovereign Bank around the corner from the boardinghouse where he'd been living, Manheim police said, briefly ......
2012-02-07 13:15:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A bank in Manheim was robbed this morning, according to a county dispatcher.
The Sovereign Bank at 33 Market Square was struck shortly before 9:30 a.m.
The robber was described as a white male wearing a green hooded sweatshirt and a black scarf.
Manheim Borough police did ......
2012-02-07 15:49:00
MELISSA EBY
Mount Joy Borough Council voted unanimously Monday to rescind a motion passed in December offering an early retirement option to eligible Mount Joy police officers.
The borough is not allowed to offer early retirement, according to Act 600 of 1956, The Municipal Police Pension Law.
...
2012-02-07 15:06:29
They're all so very sorry.
British police, an editor and a press regulator took turns to express regret over their role in the phone hacking scandal Tuesday, each acknowledging that they could have done more to get a grips with illegal practices whose exposure ha......
2012-02-07 13:03:56
Venezuelan authorities say the mayor of a small town in eastern Venezuela has been wounded in a shooting along with the local police chief.
Prosecutors say Pariaguan Mayor Tomas Bello was driving through the nearby town of El Tigre along with police chief Jose Or......
2012-02-07 08:18:13
The lawyer for a Pennsylvania man accused of fatally shooting a police officer responding to a call at his home last summer wants weapons seized from the defendant's home barred from trial.
Public defender Michael Corriere says police conducted an illegal search ......
2012-02-07 10:38:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Lititz Borough will introduce a new special events staff that will replace the former Lititz Fire Police. Operating under the auspices of the Lititz Borough Police, the special events staff will provide traffic control for events such as parades, fairs, bike races and runs. At the Jan. ......
2012-02-06 18:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two horse-drawn buggies were struck from behind by hit-and-run drivers in the past two days, police said.
• A young woman was injured early Monday when a vehicle struck the back of a horse-drawn buggy in Paradise Township, state police at Lancaster said.
Amos......
2012-02-06 15:14:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lebanon man was critically injured in a one-car crash in Manheim Township on Sunday night, police said.
Juan L. Almodovar, 42, was driving north on Fruitville Pike just before 10 p.m. when his car left the road and rolled into a yard on Nottingham Avenue, Manheim Township police said....
2012-02-06 10:07:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lebanon man accused of burglaries and thefts in Lebanon County was arrested in Lititz, police reported.
Eric Pabon Jr., 19, had been charged with several home burglaries, attempted burglaries and thefts from vehicles along with Brandon Sylvano Rivera, 18, and Aaron Carr, 19, both also o......
2012-02-06 21:17:00
BETH ANNE HEESEN
Unless he carries a shaving permit, a Marietta Borough man does not have the right to bare face.
Anyone caught unlawfully clean-shaven will be arrested.
"Sheriff" Bob Flanagan, owner of Bob's Barber Shop on East Market Street, has his "deputies" on patrol.
The jail is righ......
2012-02-06 11:00:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Police responded to 2,120 calls in Upper Leacock Township last year and made 193 arrests. The numbers were contained in a reported presented to the supervisors Thursday by Chief John Bowman of the East Lampeter Township Police Department, which patrols Upper Leacock. Bowman said 470 of ......
2012-02-06 06:41:40
Prosecutors say a Pennsylvania state trooper issued a minor traffic citation in a fatal crash on his last day on the job, possibly preventing authorities from filing far more serious charges.
Perry County District Attorney Charles Chenot says Trooper Kevin Frey a......
2012-02-06 14:17:00
Staff
BURGLARY
MANOR TWP.: Items valued at $700 were taken between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday from a home in the 2700 block of Weston Road.
BURGLARY CHARGES
LITITZ: A Lebanon man accused of burglaries and thefts in Lebanon County was arrested in Lititz, police said.
Er......
2012-02-05 16:05:08
Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said Sunday, although they added that the situation in Brazil's third most populous city appears to be improving.
Salvador's A Tarde daily r......
2012-02-04 23:26:00
STAFF
A man wanted for shooting his wife at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg fled halfway across the country before being caught. Police captured Beau Gaylord Robinson on Saturday in Missouri, a day after he allegedly shot his wife in a parking lot at the complex, of......
2012-02-04 19:12:02
A man accused of fatally shooting a police officer and wounding five others during an Ogden drug raid last month says he feared for his life because he thought people were breaking into his home to rob and kill him.
Matthew Stewart told The Salt Lake Tribune (htt......
2012-02-04 10:28:00
Staff
A pickup truck was knocked off the road and onto its side when another vehicle failed to see the truck was stopped for animals crossing Strasburg Road, at about 10 a.m. Saturday, according to state police. A Honda Civic collided with the Toyota Tundra truck on Strasburg Road near McIlvane Ro......
2012-02-03 22:17:00
STAFF REPORT
The investigation is continuing into the four-vehicle wreck along Route 222 Thursday afternoon, East Cocalico Township police said.
Five people were injured in the crash.
Gregory Rymer, 33, of Red Lion, was in fair condition on Friday, a spokeswoman at Reading Hospital said. Linds......
2012-02-03 22:09:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The shooting death of a Lancaster County man at his grandparents' Allentown home last March has been ruled accidental.
According to information released Friday by Lehigh County District Attorney James B. Martin and Lehigh County Coroner Scott M. Grim, Cody C. Scheetz, 20, of 312 S. 34th S......
2012-02-03 21:42:00
JENNIFER TODD
Seven alleged drug dealers are out of business as the result of a two-day detail carried out by Lancaster police.
The sweep, which targeted street-level drug activity, was conducted Wednesday and Thursday by the city police Selective Enforcement Unit.
During the "Buy/Bust" operati......
2012-02-03 20:32:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man shot in Lancaster city late Thursday night was not seriously injured, police said.
The 66-year-old victim told police he was sitting in his vehicle at North Broad and Chestnut streets shortly after 11 p.m. when he was shot at by strangers in another car, city police said.
On......
2012-02-03 20:16:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have charged two teenagers with stealing from flood-damaged homes in Conoy Township, police said.
Jamie J. Foulkrod, 18, and a 17-year-old boy, both of Middletown, struck two homes and a storage building along Prescott Road in November, Susquehanna Regional police Lt. Stephen Engle......
2012-02-03 12:58:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police said they are still trying to track down the driver who led them on a high-speed car chase and then crashed the stolen vehicle Thursday night in Lancaster city.
The car was stolen during a home invasion robbery early Jan. 26 in the 300 block of East King Street, according to city p......
2012-02-03 18:04:35
The mayor of a town embroiled by allegations of Latino bias by police said Friday he won't fire the police chief and will instead allow him to retire with severance pay.
East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. said that firing his friend Chief Leonard Gallo would invi......
2012-02-03 16:15:00
PATRICK BURNS
The East Cocalico Board of Supervisors on Wednesday authorized a $300,000 loan-transfer from its capital reserve fund to the general fund to pay for short-term expenses. The loan, which is required to offset budget shortfalls for about six months, will pay for police and staff payroll and o......
2012-02-03 09:48:00
CHAD UMBLE
The Elizabethtown Police Department had a busy 2011, but nothing out of the ordinary. At Thursday's council work session meeting, Chief Jack Mentzer discussed a detailed statistical report on the department's activities during the year, which included highlighting the type and number of cal......
2012-02-03 04:17:55
The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document....
2012-02-02 21:55:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
So, what do child pornography users charged here look like?
Thinking tattered T's and torn jeans? Try neck ties and college degrees.
As the number of charged child porn collectors climbs, investigators are learning more about their profiles — and how dangerous they are.
......
2012-02-02 21:37:00
JENNIFER TODD
The driver of a stolen vehicle escaped the grasp of police Thursday night after crashing the car in Lancaster city, investigators said.
East Lampeter Township police Sgt. Brian Cloonan first spotted the vehicle near Bridgeport shortly after 5 p.m. Cloonan said he checked the sedan's plate......
2012-02-02 20:57:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A four-vehicle crash closed the northbound lanes of Route 222 on Thursday and sent five people to local hospitals.
According to Cpl. Darrick Keppley of the East Cocalico police, a Chevrolet sport utility vehicle driven by Lindsay Bricker, 23, of West Reading, was traveling south on Route ......
2012-02-02 06:30:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two people robbed a convenience store in Willow Street early Thursday, police said.
The pair entered the Turkey Hill at 2921 Willow Street Pike at 12:15 a.m. wearing black hooded sweatshirts, West Lampeter Township police said.
One robber ordered the clerk at gunpoint to empty the......
2012-02-02 23:47:00
The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document....
2012-02-02 21:35:29
A federal judge has recommended that the city of Birmingham, its police chief and four police supervisors be dismissed from an excessive force lawsuit by a man whose beating by authorities was caught on a dashboard video.
The Birmingham News (http://bit.ly/r7t2Uz......
2012-02-02 18:41:40
An Illinois Supreme Court ruling that gave one inmate new hope for freedom Thursday also could revive appeals by more than a dozen others who claim they confessed to crimes under torture by Chicago police officers, defense attorneys said.
Justices ruled Stanley W......
2012-02-02 18:19:16
Lawyers in Arizona for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department plan Monday to meet for the first time to resolve federal accusations of civil rights violations against the department run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The meeti......
2012-02-02 17:29:59
A prominent national advocacy group for Latinos has joined a call for the self-proclaimed "America's toughest sheriff" to resign from office amid a wide range of civil rights violations, botched sex crimes investigations and other alleged abuses.
In a n......
2012-02-02 16:26:02
ADAM GOLDMAN,Associated PressCHRIS HAWLEY,Associated PressEILEEN SULLIVAN,Associated PressMATT APUZZO,Associated Press
In the spring of 2006, as relations worsened between the United States and Iran, the New York Police Department worried about what might happen if the two countries went to war. Would Iranian proxies attack inside the U.S.?
Police analysts reviewed department fil......
2012-02-02 15:53:36
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says a federal judge in Pittsburgh was right to dismiss a retired Pennsylvania State Police lieutenant's whistleblower lawsuit that claimed his superiors retaliated against him for cooperating in a sex harassment investigation of another trooper......
2012-02-02 11:40:00
STAFF
A minivan was stolen from a car sales lot in Manheim Township, police reported.
A Chrysler Town and Country valued at $9,995 was taken at Brubaker Motors, 1020 Lititz Ave., sometime between Jan. 24 and Tuesday, township police said.......
2012-02-02 09:39:45
Police are investigating alleged email interception by Rupert Murdoch's Times of London, a British lawmaker said Thursday -- dragging Britain's oldest national newspaper into the broadening scandal over press wrongdoing.
The country's media ethics inquiry has sum......
2012-02-02 07:50:31
A narrow stadium exit turned into a death trap. Crowds of Egyptian soccer fans fleeing supporters of the opposing team armed with knives, clubs and stones rushed into the corridor, only to be crushed against a locked gate, their rivals attacking from behind, survivors and witnesses ......
2012-02-02 15:00:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Manheim Borough crime statistics for 2011 reveal some good news and some bad news, Manheim Borough police Chief Joe Stauffer said Tuesday when he presented the year-end report to borough council. The report showed an increase in more serious crimes, but a decrease in those less serious. ...
2012-02-01 22:24:00
JENNIFER TODD
A 19-year-old East Earl man has been charged after allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl last month.
Arnold L. Miller, of 1883 Turkey Hill Road, turned himself in to authorities Wednesday to face charges of statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact and corruption of minors, accord......
2012-02-01 21:39:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Elizabethtown police said they raided a borough business on Wednesday, arresting the store owner and an employee and charging them with sales of designer drugs, in some cases in exchange for "food stamps."
Police said that CR's Friendly Market, 550 E. High St., was selling synthetic marij......
2012-02-01 20:41:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Strasburg police are looking for a man they say raped a 4-year-old girl.
"Buddy" Greene, 29, has a last-known address in the borough, but his whereabouts are unknown since June, Strasburg Borough police Chief Steve Echternach said.
Greene was charged Nov. 16 with rape of a child, ......
2012-02-01 19:16:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Five guns and other items were stolen from a Drumore Township home over the weekend, state police said Wednesday.
The theft happened in the 1100 block of Holtwood Road between 10 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Sunday.
A gun safe containing five guns was stolen. Also taken were two childre......
2012-02-01 22:06:05
Every one of the 2,500 police officers in this Mexican border city has been ordered to leave home and stay in a hotel after the killing of five officers by a local drug cartel.
The gang threatened a week ago to kill one policeman a day unless Police Chief Julian ......
2012-02-01 17:09:40
A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a new hearing to a 40-year-old man who claimed the Atlanta Police Department rejected his job application because he has HIV.
The ruling was a victory for gay rights advocates and the health groups who had closely watc......
2012-02-01 17:09:10
A federal appeals court has granted a new hearing to a 40-year-old man who claimed the Atlanta Police Department rejected his job application because he has HIV.
The ruling Wednesday was a victory for gay rights advocates and the health groups who had closely wat......
2012-02-01 15:55:48
Four New York City police officers have been stripped of their guns and badges after a video surfaced of them striking and kicking a suspect.
The internal affairs department is investigating, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday. The officers are on d......
2012-01-31 20:22:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An Ephrata Borough man has been charged with 98 counts of sexual abuse of children, police said.
James A. Brown, 35, of 158 Heatherwood Drive, had child pornography on his home computers, police said.
Brown was charged after he shared a photo online of a nude child with Ephrata po......
2012-01-31 17:38:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A state prison escapee might be headed to Lancaster, police said Tuesday.
Kenyatta Omar Blaylock, 31, of Philadelphia, left the Wernersville Community Corrections Center at 11:35 a.m. Monday with permission to go to Lancaster County Courthouse, state police at Reading said.
Accord......
2012-01-31 20:37:21
Police commissioners in East Haven, Conn., have voted to urge the mayor to fire the police chief instead of letting him retire amid allegations that officers abused Latinos.
By a 5-0 vote, the commissioners recommended Tuesday night that Leonard Gallo be fired. T......
2012-01-31 16:56:09
The continued imprisonment of an elderly man acquitted of murder charges filed after a police officer he shot in 1966 died in 2007 is a vindictive effort by authorities to have him die in prison and a violation of his constitutional right to due process, his lawyers argued Tuesday....
2012-01-31 15:06:07
Authorities in the Dominican Republic say a man locked himself in a room with his former girlfriend and set it on fire, killing them both.
Police say in a statement that 35-year-old Edwin Figueroa was upset that 24-year-old Miguelina Pacheco didn't want to get ba......
2012-01-31 11:08:59
The head of the Turkish Football Federation and two of his deputies have resigned following a controversy on how to deal with teams implicated in match fixing.
The federation said Mehmet Ali Aydinlar and two vice chairmen stepped down on Tuesday.
......
2012-01-31 10:44:41
The head of the Turkish Football Federation and two of his deputies have resigned following the controversy on how to deal with teams implicated in a match-fixing scandal.
The federation said Mehmet Ali Aydinlar and two vice chairmen stepped down on Tuesday. ......
2012-01-31 09:43:00
STAFF
Police are investigating a burglary and two thefts in Manheim Township in the last few days.
Forced entry was made to a home in the 1300 block of Hollywood Drive by breaking a window in a door on Monday, township police said. Jewelry, cash, and a laptop were taken.
All four wheels......
2012-01-31 09:28:55
An armed driver bailed out of a stolen car and fired at a police dog after a wild hours-long Southern California freeway chase.
Police say the dog wasn't hit and the 22-year-old driver was arrested. The suspect's name is being withheld.
Califo......
2012-01-31 03:43:57
A U.N. survey has found that more than half of Afghans polled see the national police as corrupt, though their overall reputation is improving.
The survey released Tuesday indicates only 20 percent of those surveyed think police are ready to keep order without in......
2012-01-30 23:31:00
STAFF REPORT
State police have charged a New Holland man with the armed robbery of a Gap sandwich shop in August.
Joshua Handel, 20, is charged with robbery, unlawful restraint, terroristic threats and theft for the Aug. 10 robbery at Subway, 5323 Lincoln Highway.
Police said Handel displayed ......
2012-01-30 23:19:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
They "have to make some decisions on where to cut costs," one Manheim Township commissioner said Monday night.
And by the end of a marathon brainstorming session, the township, facing a $3.2 million deficit, had tentatively found enough cuts to trim by about a third that deficit.
......
2012-01-30 22:20:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A tractor-trailer overturned in Strasburg on Monday, injuring the driver.
According to Strasburg police Chief F. Steven Echternach, the truck was turning from Route 896 South onto Historic Drive when the accident occurred.
"We believe the load shifted," Echternach said. "It was to......
2012-01-30 22:05:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lititz mother will stand trial on charges that she repeatedly beat her pre-teenage son over the past year.
Karen Jenkins, 39, is charged with simple assault and reckless endangerment regarding the abuse of her 8-year-old son.
Police launched an investigation in November when the......
2012-01-30 12:33:00
STAFF REPORT
Buildings and cars in Manheim and Lancaster townships and East Petersburg were spray-painted with graffiti in recent days, police said.
Much of it occurred overnight Friday, Manheim Township police said.
Offensive words and symbols were spray-painted on a vehicle in the 1500 block......
2012-01-30 17:26:58
The chief of a police department roiled by a Latino abuse scandal announced his retirement Monday, ending a 14-year tenure marked by several episodes of friction with minorities in this shoreline Connecticut suburb.
Leonard Gallo, chief of the East Haven Police D......
2012-01-30 17:00:17
A New York City councilman is calling for the creation of an inspector general's office to oversee the police department.
Two lawyers with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University called Monday for such an office in a New York Times opinion piece. De......
2012-01-30 14:30:00
Staff
DRUGS
LANCASTER: Officers saw two males sleeping in a sport utility vehicle in the 500 block of West Grant Street at 4:30 a.m. Jan. 12, police said in a criminal complaint. One of them, Darwin Lopez-Padilla, 24, who is homeless, was arrested on a bench warrant through Chester County.
......
2012-01-30 14:27:00
STAFF REPORT
West Lampeter Township police are asking for the public's help in identifying two alleged shoplifters.
Police say the two females stole more than $200 worth of items from Kmart at Kendig Square in Willow Street on Saturday.
Anyone with informatioin can call 464-0461.
Tipst......
2012-01-30 10:42:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police nabbed an alleged drug dealer found sleeping in a vehicle in the city, they reported today.
Officers saw two males sleeping in a sport utility vehicle in the 500 block of West Grant Street at 4:30 a.m. Jan. 12, police said in a criminal complaint.
One of them, Darwin Lopez-......
2012-01-30 06:42:41
Police say suspected members of a radical sect have attacked two more police stations, leaving two people dead in a north Nigerian city where 185 people were killed just over a week ago.
Kano State police chief Ibrahim Idris said two civilians died in crossfire b......
2012-01-29 20:20:00
STAFF
Police said Trung La, 25, of New Holland, suffered minor injuries in a one-vehicle crash early Sunday in New Holland.
La was driving east on West Main Street at 6:30 a.m. when his car veered off the left side of the road and slammed into a utility pole, according to New Holland ......
2012-01-28 12:55:25
When the police commissioner's TV host son found himself facing a rape allegation, he turned to a lawyer with a reputation for handling high-profile cases with low-key know-how.
Andrew M. Lankler has represented people ranging from Bernard Madoff's auditor to the......
2012-01-28 09:34:05
Police say gunmen from a radical Islamist sect have attacked another police station, killing one officer in a north Nigeria city where they killed 185 people last week.
Kano state police spokesman Magaji Musa Majiya said the shooting happened Friday in the capita......
2012-01-28 09:16:46
A suspected Naga rebel opened fire at a police station packed with voters on a tense election day Saturday in northeast India, killing four people before he was shot dead, police said.
The gunman lined up with other voters outside but pulled out a revolver once h......
2012-01-27 23:28:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A Lancaster Township man was struck by gunfire Friday night while getting out of his car in Lancaster city, police said.
Jose Pons, 40, was struck in the leg in the 400 block of South Duke Street around 7:45 p.m.
Pons told investigators that he heard at least four shots when he wa......
2012-01-27 22:48:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lititz man who raped a pre-teen girl and offered sex to another girl through a social-networking site will spend 15 to 30 years in state prison.
John Christopher Forehand, 41, gave a tearful apology while hearing his sentence Friday afternoon in Lancaster County Court.
A psychol......
2012-01-27 21:50:00
STAFF REPORT
An East Lampeter Township man is facing sex abuse charges relating to his conduct with three girls.
Erin Gregory Henderson, 43, of 143 Greenland Drive, has been charged with three counts of sexual abuse of children, one count of indecent assault and two counts of corruption of minors for ......
2012-01-27 21:43:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two drivers were taken to a local hospital after an accident in which one vehicle flipped over a guardrail and landed on its roof Friday morning.
A northbound minivan collided with a southbound vehicle at about 6:14 a.m. in the 2500 block of River Road in Manor Township, township police O......
2012-01-27 21:26:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Brandon Eakman kept the largest collection of child pornography ever prosecuted in Lancaster County Court, according to testimony Friday at his sentencing.
He possessed more than 13,000 photos and videos on personal computers and zip drives, according to testimony.
The collection ......
2012-01-27 11:35:00
RYAN ROBINSON and TOM KNAPP
A former starting McCaskey quarterback has been charged in the long standoff with police at a Lancaster city store Thursday afternoon.
Angel Santana III, 27, of Lancaster, was charged with aggravated assault, stalking and defiant trespass, city police said.
He was arraigned and co......
2012-01-27 18:44:36
Authorities in Tennessee say they've arrested a man who's suspected of threatening the self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" in America.
Knox County Sheriff's deputies in Knoxville served a search warrant and seized computer and other evidence Friday from ......
2012-01-27 18:09:38
While the city's powerful police commissioner faced questions Friday about a rape allegation against his TV-anchor son, the probe has also put the district attorney in a delicate position.
The Manhattan DA who brought and dropped sex charges against Dominique Str......
2012-01-27 17:19:49
The CIA officer working as a special assistant to the New York Police Department's top intelligence officer will leave his post in April after nine months, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Friday.
The department was notified of the planned departure in Nove......
2012-01-27 12:44:47
New York's police commissioner says a film that critics say paints Muslims in a bad light wasn't officially approved for NYPD training.
At a news conference Friday, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly called the movie "The Third Jihad" inflammatory. But h......
2012-01-27 09:41:25
Former New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir is getting his own radio show.
Sirius XM Radio announced Friday that Safir will host a limited-run six week series called "The Badge With Howard Safir," in which he'll offer "insights on the dra......
2012-01-26 22:47:00
STAFF REPORT
Police have charged a Lititz man who they say used a knife to hold up an East Hempfield Township convenience store Sunday night.
Through an investigation, police were able to identify 20-year-old Jon K. Taylor as a suspect.
He was taken into custody with the assistance of Lancaste......
2012-01-26 22:32:00
JENNIFER TODD
A West Hempfield Township woman has been charged with giving a narcotic to a teenage acquaintance who then died after taking the drug, police said.
Investigators say Michelle L. Bachman, 44, provided the pain drug Fentanyl to 18-year-old Christina Albright prior to Albright's death in Jun......
2012-01-26 15:40:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A Manheim Township man was arrested for attacking his 75-year-old mother, dragging her into her house and then preventing her from answering the door when police arrived to help her, investigators said.
Gary W. Williams, 47, of the 100 block of Tanglewood Lane, was charged with simple ass......
2012-01-26 20:14:55
Prosecutors in southern Mexico say two state police officers have been charged in the killings of two student demonstrators during a protest last month.
Guerrero state prosecutors say the shots that killed the two students were fired from where the officers were ......
2012-01-26 18:53:51
COLLEEN LONG,Associated PressJENNIFER PELTZ,Associated Press
The son of New York City's police commissioner has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman who told authorities she got pregnant from the encounter and had an abortion, people familiar with the investigation said Thursday.
Greg Kelly, 43, was absent Thursday ......
2012-01-26 13:27:49
Unknown gunmen abducted a German working for a construction company in a north Nigeria city where a radical Islamist sect last week killed 185 people, police said Thursday, underscoring the continuing unrest in the region.
The kidnapping came as Nigeria's new top......
2012-01-26 11:04:28
The Pittsburgh Public Schools police chief is fighting efforts to fire him for allegedly abusing his authority, including stopping an ambulance he says was driving erratically last summer.
Chief Robert Fadzen was placed on leave as a result of that incident but h......
2012-01-26 12:43:00
KEN BRANDT
The Northwest Lancaster County Regional Police Commission on Tuesday presented a commendation to officer Charles A. Tobias for his assistance in an unusual fire situation Jan. 20. The blaze engulfed the home of Samuel and Carolyn Hoffman at 990 Schwanger Road in Mount Joy Township. Upon arr......
2012-01-25 22:52:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police say he slammed her head into the vehicle's dashboard numerous times.
He allegedly punched her in the face and leg and, at one point, tried to choke her — all as he maneuvered a vehicle through Lancaster city early on Oct. 5.
When the woman managed to escape the moving......
2012-01-25 22:44:00
JENNIFER TODD
A Gap man is facing charges that he committed 30 burglaries in two counties during a five-week span late last year, police said.
Authorities say Donald Welsh Jr., 37, of 672 Gault Road, struck homes and businesses in nine townships in Lancaster County and a home in South Londonderry Towns......
2012-01-25 22:35:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police allege an Elizabethtown man downloaded onto his home computer pornographic images of children.
Matthew Robert Glattacker, 31, of 3 Foxfield Lane, was charged with 50 counts of sexual abuse of children after images and movie files were recovered from his computer, according to state......
2012-01-25 20:38:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster city woman threatened to "beat up" a teenage girl's family if the girl didn't stop pursuing a case against a juvenile suspect in a sexual-assault investigation, police said.
Brenda Vazquez, 39, of 313 1/2 W. King St., approached the girl in the 400 block of West King Street ar......
2012-01-25 10:18:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Alert neighbors helped police catch a Columbia woman trying to break into an East Donegal Township house for the second time, police reported.
Brittney Lee Sawyers, 26, of 1274 Kinderhook Road, Columbia, targeted a home in the 700 block of Union School Road on Dec. 5 and Jan. 8, Susquehan......
2012-01-25 23:20:28
Mexican authorities say five police officers fatally shot near Mexico City after stopping a car were trying to extort money when they were attacked.
Mexico State prosecutor Alfredo Castillo says the officers from the town of Ixtapaluca (Itz-tah-pah-lu-ca) asked t......
2012-01-25 23:13:12
New York's police commissioner apologized Wednesday for appearing in a documentary movie about terrorism that Muslim groups have criticized as inflammatory, and said his department acted wrongly when it later showed the film to counterterrorism trainees.
A spokes......
2012-01-25 22:03:12
The mayor of a working-class city roiled by allegations of police discrimination against Hispanics faced scathing criticism Wednesday from officials including the governor for saying he "might have tacos" as a way to do something for the community.
The ......
2012-01-25 19:06:23
Mayor Jean Quan vowed Wednesday to quickly reform the scandal-plagued Oakland Police Department after a frustrated judge threatened a federal takeover if it fails to quickly make good on changes agreed to nine years ago.
U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson said......
2012-01-25 16:22:56
British police say the mutilation and brutal death of a horse may have been the result of a pagan ritual.
The body of a 2-year-old stallion named Erik was found earlier this month near the village of Stithians in western England.
The horse had......
2012-01-25 15:56:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Two Warwick Township farms will add plantings along streams to protect water quality from proposed land uses. At the Jan. 18 meeting, supervisors allowed two brothers to subdivide a 23-acre farm with 10 acres transferred from Stephen and Sadie King to Reuben and Anna King. The Kin......
2012-01-25 12:40:42
The angry youths piled on top of the burned-out truck near a blood-spattered police station Wednesday in Nigeria's north, alternating praises for the radical Islamist sect that bombed the precinct and promising to kill any officer who returned.
The crowd overran ......
2012-01-25 11:35:49
Nigeria's president forces federal police chief to retire after Islamist sect attack kills 185.......
2012-01-25 11:07:44
A panel of federal judges seems skeptical of the Atlanta police department's decision to reject a job application from an HIV-infected man.
The 40-year-old man sued the city in 2010, claiming he was denied a police officer job solely because he has the virus. Atl......
2012-01-25 00:05:58
Five police officers were fatally shot after they stopped a vehicle in a town outside Mexico City, authorities said Tuesday.
Mexico State prosecutor Alfredo Castillo Cervantes said the municipal officers from the town of Ixtapaluca had stopped the vehicle when a ......
2012-01-24 21:18:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A man who beat a 2010 rape conviction on a technicality was sentenced after a retrial to 30 to 60 years in state prison on Friday.
Anthony James Johnson, 29, had been offered a plea deal prior to the retrial that would have resulted in a 6-to-12-year sentence, but he refused.
A ju......
2012-01-24 20:53:00
RYAN ROBINSON
State police have charged a West Chester man with several traffic violations after they said he crashed his car into a Brecknock Township home on Saturday, displacing four people.
Scott J. Gassenmeyer, 19, left the area after striking the house, but was located at the scene about two hour......
2012-01-24 17:52:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A New Holland man has been charged with stealing more than $8,000 from his employer over a five-month period.
Dion L. Ochs, 35, of 237 E. Jackson St., is accused of taking $8,461 from the McDonald's at 828 W. Main St. in Earl Township, where he was employed as a shift supervisor.
......
2012-01-24 12:48:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police allege a Lancaster city woman stabbed her husband with scissors Monday, an injury for which he was hospitalized.
Maria Elena Ortiz, 25, was charged with aggravated assault in the 5:30 p.m. incident at the couple's home in the 400 block of West Vine Street, city police said in a cri......
2012-01-24 22:40:00
STEPHANIE BRADFORD
Police Chief Brian Brandt found himself caught in the crosshairs at a West Earl Township supervisors meeting Monday.
At issue was a perceived lack of police presence at Routes 272 and 772 — also known as Schaum's Corner — where drivers frequently run red l......
2012-01-24 19:49:16
A former investigator with the city of Los Angeles claims Atlanta police rejected his job application solely because he has HIV, a decision he said breaks the law and perpetuates stereotypes about people with the virus.
Atlanta police argue hiring the man poses a......
2012-01-24 18:46:40
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that New York police used "terrible judgment" in showing counterterrorism trainees a documentary-style film that says Muslim extremists are masquerading as moderates to destroy America from within.
Bloomberg said pol......
2012-01-24 14:06:58
Fifteen Muslims on Tuesday won conditional dismissals of charges stemming from an amusement park disturbance that started when women were told they couldn't wear religious headscarves on some rides.
A Rye Town Court judge told the defendants their cases would be ......
2012-01-24 09:20:00
CAROLE DECK
New Holland police Chief Burnell Imhoff was just 39 years old when he died in the line of duty in 1939.
More than seven decades later, however, he has been honored with a special memorial shadow box and American Police Hall of Fame Medal of Honor Award in the New Holland Borou......
2012-01-24 07:27:18
Delaware State Police have identified a 52-year-old man who was hit by a car and killed while waiting for a bus over the weekend.
Police say Vincent Williams had been at a bus stop on Philadelphia Pike near Wilmington when he was hit by a car driven by 26-year-ol......
2012-01-23 22:57:00
BRIAN WALLACE
When Veronica Gladden came home from work Jan. 11, she was shocked to learn from her son what had happened at school that day.
Tarshon, a 12-year-old seventh-grader, was called to the office at Reynolds Middle School and interviewed by a detective investigating allegations that a teacher ......
2012-01-23 21:47:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A former local high school teacher accused of having sex with a pair of students is now charged with taking photos of the assaults.
Lancaster city police allege Christy L. Smith took several photos of sexual encounters with one of the victims, a 17-year-old boy. According to police, the b......
2012-01-23 21:29:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two county men have been charged with two more armed robberies, police said Monday.
They are Shaun Ronald Appler, 26, of 269 Loop Road, Quarryville, and Evan Charles Blank, 21, of 3154 Lincoln Highway East, Paradise, state police Trooper Gerard Sauers said.
The pair robbed the Tur......
2012-01-23 21:11:00
STAFF REPORT
A 2006 Jeep Rubicon found ablaze in an East Earl Township field Sunday night had been reported stolen Dec. 28 in Berks County, according to East Earl Township police Chief Kevin McCarthy.
The vehicle was discovered just before 10:40 p.m. in a field at 1735 Turkey Hill Road.
It had......
2012-01-23 08:34:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A robber with a knife held up a Turkey Hill store in East Hempfield Township Sunday night, police said.
He displayed a knife and asked a clerk at the 2171 Columbia Ave. store for cash and cigarettes at around 11:40 p.m., township police said.
The robber fled north toward the Lowe'......
2012-01-23 12:52:49
Police say a man is hospitalized after being shot in the face in a parking lot near a Philadelphia police precinct.
Authorities say gunfire broke out around 4 a.m. Monday in the parking lot just down the block from the 18th District station. Officers who ran outs......
2012-01-23 17:58:00
BETH ANNE HEESEN
During a surprise search and lockdown at Columbia Borough Junior/Senior High School Wednesday, four K-9 squad dogs found only one tobacco violation. Their cold noses had led them to 26 student lockers. School officials called those students from their classrooms, searching their lockers, bag......
2012-01-21 06:58:06
Suspected Maoist rebels triggered a powerful land mine Saturday that killed 13 policemen in eastern India, a top police official said.
At least two other policemen were injured in the explosion that blew up their minibus in Jharkhand state, police superintendent ......
2012-01-21 05:46:51
Police: Maoist rebels blow up vehicle, kill 13 policemen in eastern India.......
2012-01-20 22:09:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Three people were rescued from a burning home in Mount Joy Township early Friday, thanks in part to the call of nature.
The blaze broke out around 3:45 a.m. at 990 Schwanger Road, near Ridge Run Campground, according to Chuck Stanford, chief of Rheems Fire Department.
The home is ......
2012-01-20 21:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police arrested two men Thursday in connection with three armed robberies in East Lampeter Township earlier this week.
Charges against them also are pending for three other robberies in nearby municipalities.
Township and state police on Thursday arrested Shaun Ronald Appler, 26, ......
2012-01-20 11:01:00
JENNIFER TODD
Four people have been charged in connection with the assault and robbery of two men Wednesday in New Holland.
Police said the assailants targeted the victims because they were wearing a color associated with a certain gang.
Lt. Jonathan Heisse said the victims "just happened to be......
2012-01-20 10:22:00
CHAD UMBLE
Elizabethtown Borough's 2011 "Officer of the Year" helps train and guide new officers, but he isn't new to the department's highest honor. Borough council members and town officials on Thursday recognized Shane Deardorff as "Officer of the Year," an annual tradition that was begun in ......
2012-01-20 10:18:15
The California city of Bell says three former police chiefs and other employees received disability pensions worth millions of dollars that they didn't earn.
The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/xnfZxk ) reports an investigation has concluded that more than half ......
2012-01-20 00:00:57
San Francisco's new sheriff pleaded not guilty to domestic violence and other charges Thursday as a judge ordered him to stay away from his wife and toddler son despite her tearful pleas not to keep the family apart.
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's lawyer, Robert Waggen......
2012-01-20 11:46:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Manheim Borough police Chief Joe Stauffer presented a report Thursday reviewing the first two weeks of the department's coverage in Rapho Township. "It's nice to see planning, research and development for the service come to fruition. The average response time of eight minutes has bee......
2012-01-19 21:59:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
It's an old scam. Go up to a home, offer to pave the owner's driveway, then either collect the money and not do the work or complete the job and then charge the person much more than the original quote.
Sometimes the ploy works, and sometimes it doesn't.
For Frankie Lee Broadway, ......
2012-01-19 21:51:00
JENNIFER TODD
A 52-year-old Lancaster city woman died after a two-vehicle crash Thursday in Manor Township, according to police.
The accident happened just before 2:20 p.m. in the 2300 block of Columbia Avenue, near Running Pump Road.
The victim, whose name police did not release Thursday night......
2012-01-19 20:59:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have arrested an alleged drug dealer in Lancaster city, they said.
Officers responded at about 11 p.m. Tuesday to Mangat Mini Market, 629 W. Orange St., for a reported drug violation, city police said in a criminal complaint.
When officers asked Elizar Maldonado, 25, of the......
2012-01-19 20:48:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have identified the teenager killed in a single-car crash along Route 283 on Wednesday.
Zachary Scott Millhouse, 17, of Mount Joy Township, was pronounced dead at the scene by Lancaster County Deputy Coroner Carroll Rottmund, Northwest Regional police said.
The Donegal High......
2012-01-19 13:46:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are investigating a shooting in the Ephrata area Thursday morning.
A female was shot in the arm shortly before 4:15 a.m., Ephrata police said. She suffered a superficial wound.
The female and other witnesses are Lancaster city residents and are not cooperating with investig......
2012-01-19 12:30:00
ELIZABETH EVANS, The York Dispatch
A Chester County woman assured the owners of four retired Thoroughbred racehorses that she'd find the horses good homes, but instead sold them at the New Holland Horse Auction for slaughter, police allege.
Kelsey Elva LeFever, 24, of 288 Cupola Road in Honey Brook, is charged with ......
2012-01-19 09:46:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
"Blind drunkenness" caused Orlando Johnson to break into his neighbor's house last year and sexually assault her, his attorney said in court.
"This whole criminal episode was a direct result of that," attorney Christopher Tallarico said Wednesday at Johnson's sentencing.
Lancaster......
2012-01-19 08:55:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An Akron garbage collector who was struck by a car in Ephrata on Wednesday was in serious condition Thursday.
Bruce Allwein, 54, is an employee of Eagle Disposal of PA, of East Earl, Ephrata police Sgt. David Shupp said.
He was collecting trash in the 1000 block of Pleasant View R......
2012-01-19 17:30:02
The police chief of a north Georgia town resigned after a scathing report found he took a "laid back" approach to the search for a 7-year-old girl whose body was found days later in a trash compactor, the city's manager said Thursday.
Canton Police Chie......
2012-01-19 05:57:45
San Francisco's new sheriff is scheduled to appear in court on allegations he mistreated his wife in front of their toddler son and told her not to tell anybody about it.
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi (meer-kah-REEM'-ee) is expected to plead not guilty at his arraignmen......
2012-01-18 21:43:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A single-car crash killed one person in Mount Joy Township on Wednesday, an official said.
The crash occurred around 7:54 p.m. on Route 283 near Risser Mill Road. Police ordered both westbound lanes of Route 283 closed to traffic.
Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni co......
2012-01-18 21:36:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Manheim Township police are looking for a stolen submachine gun.
The weapon, a Cobray SWD M-11 9mm submachine gun, was taken Tuesday from a home in the 100 block of Spring House Road in Lancaster Township.
The thief broke a window to gain entry into the house, police said.
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2012-01-18 20:54:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are investigating six armed robberies in Lancaster County in the past week that could be related, they said.
A handgun was displayed in all of them, but police did not report any injuries in the robberies.
"We are certainly looking at the possibility that they may all be co......
2012-01-18 19:57:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A jailhouse conversation about murder will cost a Lancaster city man up to 12 years in state prison, a judge ordered on Wednesday.
Steven Ingram will spend at least six years in state prison for offering his former cellmate $10,000 to kill his ex-boyfriend's new companion.
Ingram,......
2012-01-18 10:36:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Maryland man has been charged with burglarizing three homes in two hours in southern Lancaster County in December, police reported Wednesday.
Craig Aaron Hall, 27, of Darlington, Md., targeted homes in the 700 block of Dry Wells Road in Eden Township, the first block of Stewart Run Road......
2012-01-18 08:53:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An observant neighbor helped police nab two suspects in a home burglary in Ephrata, police said.
Electronics valued at $600 were taken from a home in the 100 block of West Sunset Avenue on Monday, Ephrata police said.
A neighbor who witnessed the burglary recognized one of t he su......
2012-01-18 10:36:27
A former auditor in the Philadelphia sheriff's department has pleaded guilty in a fraud case involving payments from office accounts and kickbacks from the sale of properties sold by the office.
Richard Bell admitted Tuesday he wrote $400,000 in fraudulent checks......
2012-01-17 23:44:00
DAN NEPHIN
The Southern Regional Police Commission will hire a labor attorney to review the past commission's discipline of an officer who failed to get recertified.
Peter "P.J." Ondeck wasn't fired, but officials declined to specify his punishment Tuesday, saying it was a personnel matter.
......
2012-01-17 21:58:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Motorists who start their cars to warm them up and defrost the windshields and then run back inside the house are on the wrong side of the law in Lancaster city.
Same goes for motorists who leave the car running when they pull up at a convenience store to buy a gallon of milk.
Cit......
2012-01-17 17:54:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A worker sustained a "severe" leg injury in an industrial accident in Quarryville on Tuesday, according to police.
It happened at Steel Systems Installation, 175 N. Lime St., shortly after 6 a.m., borough police Chief Ken Work said.
"It was an industrial accident," he said. The wo......
2012-01-17 11:19:18
Masked Hamas police beat and detained members of the Gaza Strip's tiny Shiite community during a religious commemoration last week, a follower and local rights groups said Tuesday, accusing their Islamist rulers of religious intolerance.
It was the first claim of......
2012-01-17 10:28:07
Police say a 9-year-old boy shot in the thigh at a Pittsburgh-area housing project was likely accidentally wounded by his sister, not two gunmen.
McKees Rocks police tell the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/AwLgKn ) Tuesday that the girl was told by adul......
2012-01-16 22:27:00
STAFF REPORT
An armed man wearing a motorcycle helmet held up a Gap convenience store Monday night.
According to police dispatch reports, the man entered the Turkey Hill on Route 41 just before 9:45 p.m and displayed a black handgun.
He fled the store with cash from the register. It was not im......
2012-01-16 21:30:00
MELISSA EBY
Northwest Regional Police Chief Samuel Gatchell remembers making a phone call to a father at work after his toddler son drowned in the bathtub.
"I handled it all wrong. There was a lot on my mind, (thinking) about the investigative side of things," Gatchell said during an interview last w......
2012-01-16 17:20:00
BETH ANNE HEESEN
One man's reported "reckless" shooting behavior could lead to a firearms ordinance in Penn Township.
Neighbors say he uses a high-powered gun for target shooting on his quarter-acre property. The houses are too close together for that, they complained, and there's no adequate backstop....
2012-01-16 15:40:33
An Arizona sheriff known for his anti-illegal immigration tactics is appealing a federal judge's ruling that prohibited his deputies from detaining people under the state's immigrant-smuggling law based solely on the suspicion that they're in the country illegally.
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2012-01-14 05:49:00
TOM MURSE
Ephrata police said two men were wounded inside a home on the 500 block of West Trout Run Road when a handgun they were "admiring" discharged Friday night. The occupants of the home said the shooting was accidental, police said. Neither of the wounds were believed to be life-threatening....
2012-01-14 14:30:27
BETH DUFF-BROWN,Associated PressTERRY COLLINS,Associated Press
Ross Mirkarimi, San Francisco's first new sheriff in more than three decades, called his swearing in last Sunday "one of the happiest days of my life."
Not a week later, the popular progressive politician undoubtedly had one of his worst, ending with a ......
2012-01-14 04:09:42
San Francisco's new sheriff is vowing to fight domestic violence and other misdemeanor charges that prosecutors allege are related to a New Year's Eve incident with his wife.
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi faces one count each of domestic violence battery, child endanger......
2012-01-14 03:48:36
Prosecutors on Friday charged San Francisco's newly sworn-in sheriff with three misdemeanors, including domestic violence, related to a New Year's Eve incident with his wife.
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi faces one count each of domestic violence battery, child endanger......
2012-01-13 22:49:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT and DAN NEPHIN
A Lancaster city woman has been charged with setting a blaze this week that killed her husband and seriously burned her.
City police charged Nancy Helen Clark on Friday with criminal homicide and arson related to the Monday morning blaze at 627 Olive St.
Robert Clark Jr., 86, died......
2012-01-13 22:43:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Rick Farnsler has roamed the halls of Elizabethtown Area High School as its resource officer since 2007, and he's never received a tip from a student via a telephone hotline or a tip box located in the school.
But in the four months since Elizabethtown implemented a system enabling studen......
2012-01-13 21:13:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster man was arrested after police say he fired a gun in the air numerous times in North York on Sunday.
Northern York County Regional Police on Wednesday obtained an arrest warrant for Andre Isiah Threatt, 22, of 2338 Fruitville Pike, they said in a press release.
On Wedne......
2012-01-13 19:42:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have caught another of the three men they say robbed, assaulted and kidnapped a Lancaster city man in December.
U.S. marshals arrested Aaron Walter Robinson, 36, of the 100 block of East New Street, on Thursday in Richmond, Va., they said.
Chapel Thompson, 27, of the 100 bl......
2012-01-13 12:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Conoy Township man was sent to prison after police say he severely assaulted his wife at their home on Thursday.
Scot Anthony Hipple, 41, of the 2500 block of River Road, was charged with three counts of aggravated assault, Susquehanna Regional police said.
An 18-year-old woman ......
2012-01-13 12:01:00
STAFF REPORT
Police are looking for a woman suspected of a robbing a pharmacy in Manheim Township on Thursday.
The woman entered the Walgreens store at 1262 Lititz Pike shortly before noon, township police said.
She handed the pharmacist a threatening note demanding drugs and money and fled wi......
2012-01-13 23:06:22
About 100 opponents of America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" rallied Friday in downtown Phoenix to protest the treatment of an inmate in one of the sheriff's jails and to call attention to racial profiling allegations against the sheriff's office.
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