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UPDATE: Inmate escapes from...

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office launched a manhunt Tuesday, Dec. 3, for a detention center inmate who walked away from a work detail while picking up litter along Old Charles Street.

Pistol-packing pre-Black Friday...

A woman with a gun tucked into her “fanny pack” told local Walmart employees if anyone started anything with her during her pre-Black Friday shopping that she “had something for them,” according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.

McMurray retires as head...

Lancaster High School head football coach Bennie McMurray has announced his retirement. See our Friday edition of The Lancaster News for the full story.

Police search forces lockdown at...

 A police chase forced the lockdown of North Elementary School on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 4.

Bryan Vaughn, Lancaster County School District’s director of safety and transportation, said the lockdown was a precautionary measure after school officials learned about a foot chase near the school.

Man charged with shoplifting,...

After a short chase and brief struggle, a Lancaster man was arrested on several charges for allegedly taking several items from a Walmart store and then shoving an employee. 

David Lee Twitty, 42, 1316 Old Lansford Road, was arrested Nov. 24 on charges of assault and battery, resisting arrest and shoplifting, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report. 

Two arrested on drug possesion,...

Though a tip to the location of an escaped inmate didn’t pan out Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 4, it still led to the arrests of two other men on unrelated weapon and drug charges. 

Police say driver who caused...

The driver of a pickup truck that caused a fatal three-vehicle accident on Charlotte Highway (U.S. 521) in Lancaster on Nov. 22 is believed to have been suffering an insulin reaction from low blood- sugar levels.

Five charged in mailbox...

Five people were charged this week after another spree of mailbox vandalisms was discovered last weekend. 

Two adults and three juveniles under 17 years old were charged Monday, Nov. 25, with multiple counts of malicious injury to property, $2,000 or less, in connection with a string of mailbox vandalisms that happened between Nov. 23 and 24, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office press release.

The adults include Trevor Smitherman, 17, 2524 Aldridge Lane, and Logan Gordon, 17, 1087 Potter Road, the release said.

Officials reveal Project Vino

For decades, cotton has been intrinsically woven through the fabric of Lancaster County, and a newly announced multi-million dollar textile company seeks to carry on the tradition.

Lancaster County Economic Development Corp. President Keith Tunnell announced this week that Keer America Corp., the American arm of a Chinese textile company known for its manufacturing of cotton yarn, is the real name of Project Vino.

The company is a U.S. subsidiary of parent company Keer China, Tunnell said.

Man charged with assaulting his...

A Lancaster man is facing domestic violence charges for allegedly assaulting an “on and off” girlfriend when she came to his house.

According to incident report, a 24 year old Lancaster woman called the Lancaster Police Department on Nov. 9 to report that her sometime boyfriend, Cedrick Segars Jackson, had attacked her when she went to his home to collect money he owed her.