Published November 22, 2009, 4:45 PM EST

by The Associated Press

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending investigators to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after a small amount of radiation was detected there.About 150 employees were sent home Saturday afternoon after the radiation was detected at the central Pennsylvania plant.Officials say the...

Published November 22, 2009, 12:10 PM EST

by Jeannette Scott and Steve Kopfinger

LANCASTER - Five area teens were injured early Saturday morning in a violent one-vehicle crash in the 900 block of Schoeneck Road, West Cocalico Township.East Cocalico Township police were sent to the scene at 3:53 a.m., where they found a heavily damaged Mitsubishi sedan overturned in a field. All five occupan...

Published November 22, 2009, 12:15 AM EST

by Suzanne Cassidy

WEST CHESTER - The National Organization for Women held a rally Saturday morning just down the street from where the first women's rights convention in Pennsylvania was held in 1852.The rally was held at the Chester County Courthouse, where a bronze plaque displaying the Ten Commandments hangs on an outside wa...

Published November 22, 2009, 12:14 AM EST

by STAFF

LANCASTER - A city woman said she was hanging Christmas decorations outside her home Saturday when a teenage boy allegedly stabbed her neighbor on the sidewalk nearby. The alleged incident happened just before 1 p.m. in front of a home in the 800 block of North Duke Street.The woman - who did not want to be ide...

Published November 22, 2009, 12:13 AM EST

by Gil Smart

Lancaster - For the past two months, Phil Shober's commute has been a nightmare.Traveling Route 222 between his home in Reinholds and his job in Lancaster, he's endured backups that lasted as long as an hour and a half, with traffic down to one lane in each direction.But what really angered him wasn'...

Published November 22, 2009, 12:12 AM EST

by Stephen Kopfinger and Jon Rutter

Lancaster - A city resident was shot at Pershing and Dauphin streets Saturday afternoon and later died from multiple gunshot wounds.Sandy Reyes-Mateo, 20, was rushed by private vehicle to a local hospital, where he underwent surgery and later died, Lancaster police Detective Lt. Clark Bearinger said in a statem...

Published November 22, 2009, 12:11 AM EST

by Gil Smart

Lancaster - In a decision that could impact cities such as Lancaster that use surveillance cameras to fight crime, an official with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board has ruled that monitoring similar cameras in Reading is police work - and should be done by $48-an-hour police officers, rather than $10-an-h...

Published November 22, 2009, 12:09 AM EST

by Jeannette Scott

Lancaster - Whenever Michelle Crist parked her car in the driveway of her West Hempfield Township home, she didn't lock it. She reasoned, there's no crime on her cul-de-sac, tucked away in a peaceful subdivision. There is even a street light.Now she's out $200. That's the value of the iPod, its ...

Published November 22, 2009, 12:07 AM EST

by Jeannette Scott

Lancaster - Another thin lead has brought hope to those searching for missing Lancaster General Hospital nurse Toni Sharpless, 29, of West Brandywine Township, Chester County.The mother of a 12-year-old daughter was last seen Aug. 23 when she left a party in Gladwyne following a night of clubbing.Private invest...

Published November 22, 2009, 12:05 AM EST

by Paula Wolf

Lancaster - The CEO of Community Action Program of Lancaster County pledged to conduct a vigorous investigation after a 4-year-old girl was left on a bus Friday morning."I'm extremely upset about it," Mark Esterbrook said Saturday. "It's an unacceptable standard of care for children."...