Published November 20, 2009, 2:33 PM EST

by CINDY STAUFFER

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - A woman jumped from the Route 30 bridge into the Susquehanna River at mid-day — and survived. The woman jumped at about 1:45 p.m., after parking her car on the westbound side of the bridge. The woman was described as having light-colored hair and wearing a red coat and jeans. After she jumped,...

Published November 20, 2009, 1:46 PM EST

by GIL SMART and CASEY KREIDER

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Published November 20, 2009, 1:23 PM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - An Elizabethtown couple has been charged with insurance fraud, police reported today.William B. Warren III, 29, and Tabitha Warren, 26, both of the 200 block of South Market Street, told police their vehicle was stolen from a street near their home overnight Aug. 10, Elizabethtown police said. The c...

Published November 20, 2009, 10:42 AM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - An Elizabethtown man sexually assaulted a child when the child was between 5 and 9 years old, police reported today.Ricky K. Goodin, 45, of 1465 Turnpike Road,  was charged with sexually assaulting the child at three separate addresses where Goodin resided in Elizabethtown, borough police said. The ...

Published November 20, 2009, 10:31 AM EST

by DAVID O’CONNOR

LANCASTER, Pa. - Two or three times a week, Mary Ellen Schaeffer of East Lampeter Township would see her fellow "regulars … we sort of were like one big family."She was a regular at the swimming pool at the YWCA of Lancaster for its water-exercise classes, which kept her in shape and also "aren...

Published November 20, 2009, 9:30 AM EST

by STAFF

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Eight counterfeit bills were passed during vehicle sale transactions at the Manheim Auto Auction, police reported today.Six $100 bills, a $20 bill and a $10 bill, all bogus, were passed during three separate transactions on Wednesday, Penn Township police said.The counterfeit cash was seized and the...

Published November 20, 2009, 9:23 AM EST

by BERNARD HARRIS

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - The question has never been whether the Lancaster County Convention Center would lose money. The question has always been how much.The answer Thursday night: $973,084 next year.That number is the bottom line of the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority's operating budget for the center fo...

Published November 20, 2009, 8:22 AM EST

by TOM MURSE

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - The union representing corrections officers at Lancaster County Prison said Thursday it is "prepared to fight back" against the county commissioners' decision to reject 7-percent raises awarded to the officers by an arbitration panel.Republican commissioners Dennis Stuckey and Scott Ma...

Published November 20, 2009, 8:10 AM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - A Gap woman was killed when her car struck a tractor-trailer head-on Thursday afternoon on Route 30 in Gap, police reported.Anna Mary Stoltzfus was driving a Buick sedan westbound at 5837 Lincoln Highway, near the county's border with Chester County, state police said. Shortly before 4 p.m., she...

Published November 20, 2009, 8:08 AM EST

by CINDY STAUFFER

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - The Lancaster County Prison Board heard a proposal Thursday for a $24.5 million work-release facility that would house almost 400 prisoners.The purpose of the facility, it was told, would be to house and train eligible prisoners who would work in community jobs.Those jobs would provide inmates with ...