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Jeremy L. Weaver had an innocent-looking 7UP can in his car, police said, when they pulled him over in Reamstown last week.Only the 21-year-old Akron man wasn't thirsty, they said, except for maybe a drug deal.When police screwed off the bottom of the can — a fake designed to hold valuable...
Turkey Hill Dairy said it has recalled a small batch of its chocolate marshmallow ice cream because it may contain almonds.The Conestoga-based dairy said it had isolated the problem to fewer than 150 1½-quart containers sold after Jan. 28 in central Pennsylvania.The ice cream had been distributed di...
Cars collided and spun their wheels this morning, as commuters returned to work after the weekend's massive storm.Plows were out scraping down roads but rutted and slick spots made some commutes slow or treacherous.Traffic was backed up a bit on some major roads, as vehicles got stuck, an East H...
The Luzerne County juvenile-court scandal could provide impetus to what is a bold proposal: performance evaluations for judges.Clifford E. Haines, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, made such a proposal to an ad hoc commission looking into the Luzerne mess, in which two judges allegedly ...
It rarely happens.Attorneys may not agree with a sentence handed down by a judge, but they usually accept it.But last week, a prosecutor took the unusual step of formally asking a judge to reconsider the sentence he gave to a drunken driver who caused a fiery Route 30 crash that killed one woman and...
Martha Harris' daughter was born with a life-threatening condition called non-immune hydrops.But Kathryn Harris beat the odds and is preparing to attend college, despite the learning difficulties, vision impairments and other physical and emotional disabilities related to her condition.It wasn&#...
Dare we mention itThere's a possibility of another storm dropping a foot or more of snow on Lancaster County on Tuesday night and Wednesday. And this one could be a true blizzard.Heavy snow and drift-whipping winds of 20 mph to 40 mph are only possibilities at this point. It depends on several ingr...
It was three days spent trying to forget.Three days since Elizabethtown College suffered a hard-to-swallow 61-60 road loss to Messiah — one it likely could have avoided by making a few free throws down the stretch, and one that sent it into a three-way tie for third in the Commonwealth Confere...
Cold temperatures and a thick blanket of snow dogged firefighters early Sunday as they battled a house blaze in Lancaster Township."It definitely made things tough for us," Lancaster Township Fire Department Chief Ron Comfort Jr. said.Firefighters were dispatched to 1725 Southport Drive at 1:19 a.m....
I have these thoughts. They make my head hurt.I think I'll buy a pair of those American Eagle jeans, the same brand my daughters like. So I'm 49 and my girls are 12 and 16. I'm thinking maybe that swirly design on the pockets will make my butt look cute.I also think "Tik Tok," the latest song by the...
Lancaster County residents should get used to that "winter wonderland" look.It won't be changing anytime soon.With temperatures expected to stay below freezing for most of the week, and fresh snow on its way — likely Tuesday and Wednesday — the snow that fell during Friday and Saturd...
The Making Work Pay Credit was the centerpiece of the stimulus legislation, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Making Work Pay Credit is an individual tax credit in the amount of 6.2 percent, not to exceed $400 for single taxpayers and $800 for couples filing joint returns in 20...
Walter H. Shirk loves finding "echoes from the past."For years, Shirk has taken expeditions to find and photograph historical lime kilns, mile markers and carriage step stones.Shirk first became interested in searching for lime kilns in 2008 when he saw the kiln at Poole Forge, west of Churchtown, b...
In the midst of a difficult season, Brendon Herr has found optimism.Not an easy task, considering the type of season the Lebanon Valley College men's ice hockey team has had to endure.But Herr, a New Holland native who was put in charge of the Flying Dutchmen's progam when head coach Ted Rus...
Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at Lancaster Public Library, 125 N. Duke St.25 years agoPREMIE...
With another snowstorm expected to hit, Lancaster Newspapers Inc. is providing free access to eEditions, its online copy of the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era and Sunday News, on Tuesday and Wednesday.If delivery of you newspaper is delayed, or you cannot get to the store where you buy the...
At least twice a season, for the past three years, Terry Law's Manheim Township girls' soccer team has faced Hempfield.And by now, obviously, Law knows what to expect.The Black Knights will likely be good. Real good.It will likely be a defensive struggle, as so many L-L League Section One gi...
In 2008, the Indianapolis Colts chose wide receiver Pierre Garcon in the sixth round of the NFL draft.Garcon had to miss the Colts' first minicamp because of an NFL rule that prohibits rookies from attending Organized Team Activities — the NFL's own lofty term — until that year&#...
Again this season a major snowstorm blanketed Lancaster County, this time dropping 2 feet and more of snow across the region.The storm that paralyzed the county Friday night and Saturday, coupled with a storm that dropped 16 inches of snow in December — a county record for December — is ...
