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Christopher Sardelli
csardelli@thelancasternews.com
A proposed firearms ordinance was shot down by Lancaster County Council on Monday night.
Council members, as well as representatives from a special citizens committee, had been discussing the idea of a negligent-shooting ordinance for months, ever since the shooting death of a horse on a Panhandle ranch last summer.
But the proposed ordinance was nixed by council Monday after members heard the committee’s recommendation to instead focus on existing state laws.

Local authorities have arrested a Waxhaw man they say tried to rob TD Bank in Indian Land last month.  
Glenn Stewart Howie, 47, 5618 Rehobeth Road, Waxhaw, has been charged by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office with robbery/entering a banking institution with intent to steal.
On Jan. 27, a man wearing a suit, baseball hat and sunglasses entered the Charlotte Highway bank and showed a teller a note that demanded money.

Reece Murphy
rmurphy@thelancasternews.com
The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office is investigating what may be yet another murder in Lancaster, this time in the Brooklyn neighborhood just south of the city limits.
In a release late Friday afternoon, Sheriff's office Maj. Matt Shaw said deputies were called to investigate what he called a "suspicious death" in a vacant home at 900 Starnes St. around 11 a.m.

By Michele Roberts
For The Lancaster News
Lancaster Golf Club’s Fairway Room was aglow with shades of pink Thursday night as women gathered to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Healthy Woman program, a resource of Springs Memorial Hospital.