Leola News

"It's quiet and peaceful here," said 12-year-old Shanikqua Broner, better known as "Precious," after stepping off a coach bus Friday afternoon.

Aaron E. Martin has handled plenty of farm auctions over the years, but even he was a little surprised at what happened Monday when he sold a 13.2-acre farmette at public auction.

It was 12:01 a.m. Saturday, and Ann Wood no longer had television. "I guess I'll have to adjust to living without TV," said the 72-year-old Leola resident, who has been struggling to understand the analog-to-digital switch.

A Maryland man has been charged with writing bad checks at more than 10 Lancaster County businesses in nine townships, including several Amish-owned stores.

A hand crafted Amish quilt will be raffled at the Eighth Annual Ministry and Mission Golf Tournament, to be held June 25 at Scotch Meadows Country Club in Laurinburg.

A 12-year-old boy was injured Saturday afternoon in a farming accident in Leola.

After rising for weeks, the jackpot in Pennsylvania's Super 7 game was hit Friday night - by a single ticket purchased in Lancaster County.

May is National Get Caught Reading Month. So, Tuesday, we visited some local libraries and caught some readers in the act.

A drunken driver with a blood-alcohol level about three times the legal limit hit two vehicles in Leola late Friday night, then drove off, police said.

Twelve Lancaster County residents will continue deliberating today over the fate of a Willow Street man accused of killing his mother-in-law. After discussing the case for about 3½ hours Wednesday afternoon, jurors asked Judge Jeffery Wright to be excused until 9 this morning.

Fifty readers, plus 24 of Diane Anderson's students at Landisville Middle School, submitted captions for last month's "Pass the Word" photo of a pelican on a pier.

Shannon Hess did not want a divorce, his wife told a Lancaster County jury today, but she did.

A "normal man living a normal life" turned into a killer in November 2007 when he found out his wife was having an affair, a prosecutor argued Monday in Lancaster County Court.

Wendell Minor's announcement that he wanted to be an artist landed like a thud on his high-school counselor's desk.

Two Lancaster County Court judges will be at the top of the primary ballot as they both seek retention to a second 10-year term in the courthouse.

Four masked men broke into a Lancaster city apartment early Thursday morning and assaulted three people in what police are calling a targeted attack.

Police allege a Leola man broke into a Lancaster city apartment Sunday and tried to set the building on fire.

Three local men were charged with fraud this week in New York federal court for allegedly bilking investors, including some who were elderly members of a New York church, out of more than $10 million.

A swingset maker in Leola wants to enter the home development business. Amos S. Glick wants to build 40 townhouses and one single-family home along the north side of Route 23 in Bareville.

Dart Container employee Susan Leftwich last visited Philadelphia two years ago, taking a bus trip to the zoo.