Published November 6, 2009, 9:52 PM EST

by CINDY STAUFFER

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - A man who was critically injured after his vehicle hit a house has been charged with drunken driving.New Holland Police said Friday they charged Robert Innes, 41, of 708 Rancks Church Road, New Holland.Police said Innes' blood-alcohol content at the time of the accident was .27 perc......

Published November 5, 2009, 12:02 AM EST

by JENNIFER TODD

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - An equipment malfunction is being blamed for a blaze Wednesday morning at a Rapho Township grain plant, fire officials said.The 5:20 a.m. fire at M&R Grain at 1106 Newcomer Road started in a metal bin used for drying corn, Mount Joy Third Assistant Chief Barry Leber said.Leber s......

Published November 4, 2009, 9:48 AM EST

by DAVID O’CONNOR

LANCASTER, Pa. - Lancaster Township — in the news in recent months for a major change in its police coverage — is about to hold a community meeting on another public safety issue: fire coverage.The meeting is planned for 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, in Maple Grove Community Building, 1420 Columbi......

Published November 4, 2009, 12:07 AM EST

by AD CRABLE

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - A West Hempfield Township mother and her 2-year-old son were plucked from a rooftop before police arrested her husband in a domestic dispute Tuesday morning, according to authorities.West Hempfield Township police arrested Richard T. Bitner, 34, of 4005 Parkside Court, and charged him with......

Published November 4, 2009, 12:06 AM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - A two-alarm fire caused $150,000 to $200,000 in damage to a Strasburg Township chicken house Tuesday morning. ...

Published November 3, 2009, 12:07 AM EST

by STAFF REPORT

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Police said three people were injured Monday in a head-on crash in East Cocalico Township.Officer Gail Sizer said a sedan driven by Amanda Miller, 22, of Elverson, was traveling north in the 1200 block of North Reading Road when it collided with a southbound sport utility vehicle driven by......

Published November 2, 2009, 8:30 AM EST

by DAVID O'CONNOR

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Three months after rejecting an offer for the former Sylvan View dairy property along Harrisburg Pike, East Hempfield Township supervisors approved a higher bid for the prime commercial site.The supervisors voted Oct. 21 to sell the 2-plus-acre property for $359,000 to Dr. Ernest Witbeck, ......

Published October 30, 2009, 9:56 PM EST

by DAVID O’CONNOR

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - State police have identified the victim in a fatal two-vehicle crash in Paradise Township on Thursday night.Mary C. Zaccaria, 52, of Strasburg, was traveling eastbound on Route 741 near Black Horse Road when, for unknown reasons, her gold Oldsmobile Alero crossed the center line and struck......

Published October 30, 2009, 12:09 AM EST

by JENNIFER TODD

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Fire and rescue units were on the scene of a one-vehicle crash late Thursday in New Holland Borough.Crews were dispatched shortly before 10 p.m. to the area of East Main Street and South Kinzer Road for a report of a vehicle overturned and on fire.One person had to be extricated fro......

Published October 29, 2009, 9:32 AM EST

by CINDY STAUFFER

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Casey Coble is annoyed.That's not a word you might associate with a 27-year-old who recently found out he has leukemia.Again.Who discovered that two years of chemotherapy did not tame the cancer beast. Who learned that his best chance of survival is a bone marrow transpla......