Washington Boro News

Washington Boro, Pa. - This year has been a challenge for Steve Funk. With 12,000 staked tomatoes growing at his Washington Boro farm, he is battling the late blight; the same disease which caused the 1845 Irish Potato Famine.

Tomatoes , Where are the good local ones? Report-in here: Options Talkback Addict Group: Senior Members x 2 Posts: 1,479 Joined: 17-January 05 From: Lancaster, PA center of the UNIVERSE Member No.: 2,343 It's a little bit early in the season, but I'm craving good old fashioned tomatoes... in a sandwich, salad, with a little mayo, etc.

The onstage question had tripped up Jill Wiley in previous years. Not this time.

"A room without books is like a body without a soul," read one sign. "Literacy is a way of life," said another.

Three widows are trying to forgive Sarah Timblin, the drunken driver who killed their husbands last year.

There's something about Ashley Smith's driving that keeps getting her in trouble with police.

A Washington Boro man has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder for the death of his infant daughter in July 2007.

There were no hecklers inside where Bill Ayers spoke. And the couple dozen students and people who supported or protested the former radical's appearance outside politely agreed to disagree.

A 9-year-old boy brought a loaded 9 mm handgun in his bookbag to Central Manor Elementary School on Monday morning, police and school officials said.

About 90 people submitted captions for last month's "Pass the Word" feature photo of a goat standing on a shelter, shot by Sunday News photographer Justin David Graybill in Washington Boro.

Almost 200 people submitted captions for last month's "Pass the Word" feature photo of a cat peeking into a birdhouse, shot by Sunday News photographer Vinny Tennis.

Nine-year-old Lauren Elledge can see and hear, but for the next 10 days, she will be portraying someone who couldn't. The Central Manor Elementary School third-grader will take on the challenging role of Helen ...

Amateur photographer Don Shank was at the Conowingo Dam to snap shots of magnificent bald eagles, not drab white gulls.

Nearly one year ago, Antwan Ressel and a friend went on a brief crime spree, police said, burglarizing homes and robbing people, including an elderly Washington Boro woman whose home they hit twice.

How come you have 3 people that apparently robbed and threatened people at gun point and took their money and belongings, but LNP you only have a picture of one of the robbers? What's going on here, did the ...

Sometimes, when it's brutally cold outside, a stranger will approach Steve D'Ercole, sympathetically look down at his bare legs, hand him a cup of hot coffee and say, "I thought you looked cold." One time, as ...