Lititz News

Instead of trapping heat and helping plants grow, 200 greenhouselike shelters made in a garden center near here this week will reflect searing tropical sunlight and shelter Haitian earthquake victims.

Lancaster County braced to be buried on Friday. Heeding the weather forecast for a foot or more of snow, residents and officials prepared in various ways.

Ned Foltz still has some of the Pennsylvania German redware his grandmother used for pie plates when he was growing up in Lititz.

Haiti could become known as "the land of amputees," because many victims of the recent earthquake there lost an arm or leg due to crush injuries, says Del-Rae Rice, an Akron resident.

Albert Boscov is not the retiring type. He was 76 when he cashed out his share in his family's department store chain and stepped down as its leader.

Manheim Township police charged three Lititz men with seven thefts from vehicles, police said on Thursday.

A Manheim Township neonatologist has agreed to serve eight years in prison and pay more than $7 million restitution for fraud.

This small town in Pennsylvania Dutch country, in the midst of cornfields and dairy farms, would seem an unlikely home for a warehouse filled with the detritus of rock concerts past and future - a large section of the stage for the next Black Eyed Peas tour, the sets for an Elton John concert and gigantic lips from the Rolling Stones .

Connie Stauffer believes seniors are happiest when they are able to continue to learn, to keep active mentally and physically and to reach out to serve and benefit others.

A Lancaster County doctor will spend several years behind bars for insurance fraud.

In White, a bridal shop, opened Monday at 611 Harrisburg Ave., in College Row, the retail strip at Franklin & Marshall College.

It's now a big vacant field in the middle of suburban Lancaster County, just down the road from one of this area's busiest thruways.

To the average citizen, he's the state attorney general. To Warwick GOP Committee leaders, he's "The General." And they weren't referring to Tom Corbett's rank in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.

Given the economy, few people will look back fondly on 2009. But for Sean Kelleher and Ben Zink, it was a year to remember.

News Wednesday January 13, 2010 WVU student dies during Florida trip Pa. native received head injury when he fell backward during trip to watch Gator Bowl by Elaine McMillion Daily Mail staff MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--When Ben Swartz, a pharmacy student at West Virginia University, traveled to the Gator Bowl with three friends, he never expected to come ...

A West Virginia University student died this past weekend after being taken off of life support in Florida.

A Lititz woman stabbed her husband three times with knives, Warwick Township police reported Tuesday.

An intense early morning fire Monday destroyed what was once a Pottsville landmark business and forced closure of busy Route 61 for several hours.

It took him over 50 years, but Ken Espenshade finally made it to Africa. Espenshade had wanted to become a foreign missionary as he started his career, but that was not to be.

After 43 years, "it's really become a tradition" on the first day of each year for anyone who lives near Leola.