Published November 20, 2009, 7:33 AM EST

by STAFF

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - A house fire in West Hempfield Township kept firefighters busy for hours this morning. The one-alarm fire occurred at 2:48 a.m. at 545 Pitney Road, a county dispatch supervisor reported.......

Published November 20, 2009, 12:02 AM EST

by JANET KELLEY

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - A Manor Township man — in jail, police said, for assaulting his girlfriend — has been charged with setting fire to the same woman's home a year ago.Jason D. Malles, 28, of Stonecreek Road, was charged this week with arson and risking a catastrophe for allegedly setting fire......

Published November 19, 2009, 10:16 AM EST

by DAVID O’CONNOR

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Out along Lancaster County's tourist strip, Dutch Haven is known as "The Place that Made Shoofly Pie Famous."But come this Thanksgiving, owner Paul Stahl wants it to start being known for something else.On the day when Americans stop to give thanks, Stahl and employees......

Published November 18, 2009, 9:34 PM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - A drunk Bainbridge man started a fire at an occupied home Tuesday night, assaulted a police officer, got Tasered and then injured himself by banging his head against a police car partition, police said.Joseph W. Bartles, 35, of 144 Elbow Alley, went to a home that is in the process of bein......

Published November 18, 2009, 6:42 AM EST

by PATRICK BURNS

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Two fire companies that serve East Earl Township refused to answer a call last week from township supervisors.Supervisors on Nov. 10 voted to establish Weaverland Fire Council, a seven-member board designed to help improve local fire department coverage and advise how money should be alloc......

Published November 17, 2009, 7:36 AM EST

by DAVID O’CONNOR

LANCASTER, Pa. - It could be sunny and beautiful, or "in the middle of a thunderstorm or the middle of a blizzard." And it could be any time of day."When we're called, we leave our homes and our families to get in harm's way," Lancaster Township fire official Steve Roy said to a packed meeting room in his ......

Published November 16, 2009, 8:15 AM EST

by DAVID O'CONNOR

LANCASTER, Pa. - Kate Lutz and her sister Kim were walking Kim's dog in the nearby Lancaster Township park one day last spring when they stopped for a moment."This is such beautiful land. ... I hope nothing ever happens to it," Kate Lutz remembers exclaiming.It's what they call an ......

Published November 14, 2009, 12:02 AM EST

by LARRY ALEXANDER

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - A fight in a local tavern has left a 47-year-old man hospitalized.Charles Martin Jr. is at the Hershey Medical Center following a fight that broke out at around 11 p.m. Thursday in the Bainbridge Inn. Martin, of Bainbridge, is listed in critical condition, according to a hospital spokeswom......

Published November 13, 2009, 7:57 AM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Firefighters responded to a house fire in West Cocalico Township at about 1 a.m. today, Lancaster County Communications reported.The original call reported a fire on a rear porch at 315 S. Ridge Road, Reinholds, a press release said. Firefighters arrived to find a fire in progress.R......

Published November 13, 2009, 6:21 AM EST

by AD CRABLE

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Rapho Township's approval of a $93 million beet ethanol plant in August has prompted two court appeals, including one by the plant's owner.Four business owners adjacent to the 34-acre industrially zoned plant site on the edge of Mount Joy Borough are asking a Lancaster County Court......