Lancaster County News

A group that wants voters to decide whether to slash Allegheny County's drink tax has appealed an election board's decision to throw the question off the November ballot.

The 18-year-old man driving a minivan that caused a three-vehicle crash that killed a Lancaster County couple on their way home from their daughter's graduation from Muhlenberg College will not face any ...

Rebar reaches skyward yesterday from the concrete abutments for an overpass that will carry the Lebanon Valley Rail-Trail across Wilhelm Avenue in South Lebanon Township.

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering whether to impose a $100-per-resident tax on large municipalities that do not have their own police forces and instead rely entirely on state troopers.

It is a good day in the war against drugs in Lancaster County. Federal agencies made several arrests in a major drug ring.

A former superintendent of the Northwest Lancaster County Authority's waste water treatment plant faces charges he tampered with reports to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

A Pennsylvania dog breeders' group says the state's effort to crack down on the abuse and neglect of dogs is unfairly targeting Lancaster County commercial kennels.

Employees of Wilbur Chocolate Company in Lancaster County are threatening to strike if a contract agreement is not reached soon.

A Lancaster County man was wounded in an early-morning shooting in York. Darren Mason, of Columbia, was walking in the 500 block of Walnut Street when he heard gunfire, police said.

A woman found not guilty of killing her two young sons by reason of insanity, and now free to go on with her life four years after the deaths, said Wednesday that she is "not a monster" and expects to spend the ...

A woman who killed her two sons in south-central Pennsylvania four years ago is now free, with no requirement she be supervised or get any additional psychological treatment.

A motorcyclist was killed in a collision Tuesday night in Lancaster County. John Bruckhart, 55, was killed when his bike collided with a pickup truck at Route 72 and Mount Hope Road, Penn Township police said.

A rash of crashes and vehicle stops over the Labor Day holiday weekend resulted in arrests for suspected drunken driving, Lancaster County police report.

WYOMING A couple accused of running an eBay store scam in July were taken into custody in Lancaster County, borough officials say.

Scarcely a morning went by in July that state police in Ephrata didn't take a report of a burglary at a Brecknock Township business.

In Lancaster County, a man is dead after a car accident early Saturday in New Providence Township.

Police in Harrisburg are investigating a shooting early Saturday morning. The shooting happened on the first block of North 18th Street.

Three bus companies in the Susquehanna Valley are sending buses to Louisiana for a possible evacuation.

Elizabethtown police have filed charges against a woman who allegedly helped three men commit a robbery Aug.

Barack Obama is expected to announce his choice for vice president Friday. People from Obama's headquarters in Lancaster County spent the say walking around Millersville University's campus urging young voters ...