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Police and fire log: today, May 19
FIRESTRASBURG TWP: Strasburg Fire Co. No. 1 responded to a vehicle fire in the 100 block of Lantz Road at 5:45 p.m. Friday. Firefighters arrived to find a Chevrolet Suburban burning between two barns. The fire started in the engine compartment and spread to the rest of the vehicle. Firefighte...
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Lancaster woman discovers kittens on engine during drive to York
Well-tuned car engines have been known to purr, but under no circumstance should they ever meow.
But that's what Courtney Riegen's Mazda was doing when she pulled up to a traffic light on Route 30 in York on her way to work Friday morning.
"I heard a high-pitched cry," the East Lampeter Township wom...
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Nursing grads urged to adapt
Change was the unofficial theme for the 366 students who graduated from the Lancaster General College of Nursing and Health Sciences Friday evening.
"Change is certain," college President Mary Grace Simcox assured the students, who gathered in the John Barley Multipurpose Center of Thaddeus Stevens ...
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Library program helps children buy books at sale
As schools come to a close for the year, some city children will find themselves with an armful of books to curl up with over the summer.
The children will receive these books at no cost, courtesy of a new fundraising project by the Friends of the Lancaster Public Library.
The purpose of this projec...
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Truck spills cooking oil across three townships
Firefighters worked to clean up an oil spill that stretched across three townships on Friday.
According to Fivepointville Fire Company Chief Nelson Shirk, a truck owned by Valley Proteins Inc., "sloshed" cooking oil onto the surface of several roads as it traveled from the Pennsylvania Turnpike in E...
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Girl, 11, was restrained, raped in Lancaster city home
The 11-year-old girl had disappeared after school this week and had been locked in a city home overnight and throughout the next day, where a man was restraining and raping her, investigators say.
Remarkably, the girl's stepfather ended up finding the child's captor, and the nightmarish ordeal ended...
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Crab legs assailant sentenced
A college student will spend at least three months on house arrest for beating a man who took the last crab legs from a buffet line last year.
Omar Shabazz Thomas, 21, also will serve a year on probation for attacking Michael Lopatic on Aug. 14 inside Star Buffet in East Lampeter Township, a judge o...
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Firefighters battle oil spill in three townships
Firefighters are trying to clean up a major oil spill that stretches across three townships.
The spill, which has been described as "heavy" by crews on the scene, has closed Pleasant Valley Road from Route 897 in Fivepointville to Long Lane.
Crews also have been dispatched to the areas of Stone Hill...
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Firefighters work to clean up Brecknock Township oil spill
Firefighters are trying to clean up a major oil spill in Brecknock Township.
The spill, which has been described as "heavy" by crews on the scene, has closed Pleasant Valley Road from Route 897 in Fivepointville to Long Lane.
A supervisor at Lancaster County-Wide Communications said she does not kno...
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Troop J commander announced
Pennsylvania's State Police agency has appointed a veteran law enforcer from Warwick Township to serve as commander of Troop J in Lancaster, which could lose its headquarters status under a planner realignment.
Capt. William P. White, 42, now serves as director of the Aviation and Special Services D...
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William P. White to serve as commander of Lancaster State Police troop
Pennsylvania's State Police agency has appointed a veteran law enforcer from Warwick Township to serve as commander of Troop J in Lancaster, which could lose its headquarters status under a planner realignment.
Capt. William P. White, 42, now serves as director of the Aviation and Special Services D...
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POLICE LOG: Friday, May 18
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
LANCASTER TWP.: The window of a vehicle was smashed while it was parked in the 1300 block of South Duke Street Thursday afternoon. Loss $300.
EAST PETERSBURG: A storm window of a home was smashed in the 2700 block of Northfield Drive Thursday. Loss $250.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
MANHEIM T...
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City man charged with rape of 11-year-old girl
Police have charged a Lancaster man with raping an 11-year-old girl earlier this week, they reported today.
Armando Hernandez, 21, of the 100 block of South Prince Street, had sexual intercourse with the girl in his apartment, city police said in a criminal complaint.
Hernandez kept the girl at his ...
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Man gets 3-12 months of house arrest, probation for inciting buffet brawl
A local college student will spend at least three months on house arrest for beating a man who took the last crab legs from a buffet line last year.
Omar Shabazz Thomas, 21, will also serve a year on probation for attacking Michael Lopatic last summer inside Star Buffet in East Lampeter Township, a ...
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Local post office still in peril
The beleaguered U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it is moving forward with plans to end mail processing at nearly 250 plants, including its Harrisburg Pike facility, after January.
The cost-saving moves will begin this summer, when 48 mail-processing plants will be shut down. The closures will...
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Police: Alcohol, cocaine fueled driver
A Honey Brook man was under the influence of alcohol and cocaine when he crashed his vehicle, then broke into a Conestoga Township home earlier this month, according to investigators.
Police released Thomas H. Lewis IV, 20, of 580 Morgantown Road, after the May 6 incident, with charges pending the r...
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State police push back at claims the agency kept realignment proposal hush-hush
The state police either kept word of a planned troop realignment quiet or else the agency didn't really have a concrete plan to share the information.
We now know the answer, and it appears to be the latter.
The Pennsylvania State Police on Thursday pushed back at critics who claim the agency kept i...
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Lancaster police unveil Gainor memorial
Law-enforcement officials from across Lancaster County were on hand Thursday evening for the unveiling of the Lt. Elwood Gainor memorial at Lancaster city's Art Park at Chestnut and Prince streets.
Gainor, whose 1927 murder remains unsolved, is the only Lancaster city police officer to be killed in ...
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Lancaster city man convicted of assault at buffet
A jury convicted a Lancaster city man of assault for beating a patron at an all-you-can-eat buffet over crab legs
The jury convicted 21-year-old Omar Shabazz Thomas of simple assault and disorderly conduct — both third-degree misdemeanors — for the Aug. 14 incident at Star Buffet in East...
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Report: Convention center doing OK
Researchers preparing a report on the operations and finances of the Lancaster County Convention Center spent four months interviewing county residents and visiting tourist sites here.
The report, however, focuses more on facilities elsewhere than it does on ones in Lancaster County.
The report, rel...
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