Published March 19, 2010, 8:33 AM EST

by CINDY STAUFFER

A man held up the Turkey Hill convenience store in Ronks early this morning, East Lampeter Township Police said.The robber displayed a weapon, but police declined to disclose what kind, and escaped with an amount of cash, which also was not disclosed.The man fled on foot after the robbery, which hap...

Published March 18, 2010, 10:07 PM EST

by LARRY ALEXANDER

Weeks of surveillance of a Lancaster city home ended Thursday with the arrest of nine people on drug charges, police said.Police said they recovered $2,960 in cash, 182 grams of marijuana and a small amount of cocaine in the house at 629 East End Ave.After the arrests, Lancaster city housing officia...

Published March 18, 2010, 9:41 PM EST

by DAVID O'CONNOR

In East Hempfield, "we have crime … but it could be worse," according to the man who knows best, township police Chief Doug Bagnoli.In fact, it could have been a lot worse in 2009, with the bad economy making people more desperate and willing to break the law.But the township saw a ...

Published March 18, 2010, 12:25 PM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

A scammer accessed a Lancaster business's phone line Wednesday morning and used it to send an automated call to many people across the country, police said.The message told them their bank card or ATM card was canceled and they should press 1 on their phone and provide their personal information...

Published March 18, 2010, 11:30 AM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

Police nabbed a suspected felon Tuesday morning after a routine traffic stop in the city.Miguel Valdes-Pinon, 44, of Lancaster, was pulled over in the 900 block of Harrisburg Avenue for not having an inspection sticker on his vehicle, police said.Police determined Valdes-Pinon was wanted by police i...

Published March 18, 2010, 10:30 AM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

A baby sitter who allowed a 15-year-old Lancaster girl to drive her 9-year-old sister to a McDonald's restaurant has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, police said Thursday.Jeremie N. Ramos, 21, of East Strawberry Street, was watching the children for their mother on March 6, ...

Published March 18, 2010, 9:25 AM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

Susquehanna Regional police are investigating thefts from vehicles and a residential burglary that happened overnight Monday along Fawn Drive and Deer Lane in Conoy Township, near the Dauphin County line.A cell phone, GPS units and computer-related items were among the items stolen, police said. One...

Published March 18, 2010, 7:27 AM EST

by RYAN ROBINSON

Thieves in the southern end of Lancaster County are taking some unusual things.A resident of the 600 block of Robert Fulton Highway, Quarryville, said two Canada goose decoys were stolen from his backyard Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, state police said.A Peach Bottom resident told police someo...

Published March 18, 2010, 12:01 AM EST

by JEFF HAWKES

Michele Re, 46, walked out of the state prison at Cambridge Springs on Jan. 10 thinking she had paid her debt to society by spending a year and a day behind bars.The grandmother planned to start over by moving in with her widowed sister in Elkton, Md., finding work and returning to school to study c...

Published March 17, 2010, 10:18 PM EST

by JANET KELLEY

More than 15 years ago, Elvin Delgado told a Lancaster judge he planned to change his life.That was when Delgado was a teenage member of the South Ann Street Posse, facing state prison for third-degree murder in the death of Tyron "Tykie" Speller.Apparently, when he got out of jail, Delgad...