A man convicted of raping two employees of a Penn Township spa during a robbery and was shot by police as he fled was sentenced to 60 to 120 years in prison — the maximum possible — on Friday. In handing down his sentence, Lancaster County Judge Jeffery C... See more
Jonathan Gerlach, the Ephrata Borough man accused of stealing — and possibly selling — human remains from a Philadelphia-area cemetery, has one less legal tangle to concern himself with. The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office withdrew a retail th... See more
The mother of an 11-year-old boy with autism who wandered away from Fulton Elementary School a week ago and was found walking several blocks away won’t be sending him back to the Lancaster city school. On Monday, Nelley Emory, of Lancaster city, said she ... See more
In one of his final acts as a Lancaster County judge, David L. Ashworth administered the lawyer’s oath of office to Elizabeth Georgelis. The brief ceremony Dec. 22 in Courtroom 12 was a full-circle moment in Ashworth’s career, and it would not have been p... See more
Lancaster City Council unanimously approved the appointment of Easton McDonald as police chief Tuesday night, with council members praising Mayor Jaime Arroyo’s selection. McDonald, 58, told council before its vote that he was “extremely humbled for this ... See more
