Lancaster News  

Plans for the North Queen Street Parking Garage are moving forward.

Lancaster City Council on Tuesday began deliberation of a measure that would transfer ownership of a vacant apartment building to the city Redevelopment Authority.

The authority is charged with building and owning the $10 mill...

Vandals damaged four flag poles at St. Peter's United Church of Christ in Lancaster city, stealing the pole toppers and leaving some of the flags thrown on the ground.

"We are distraught at what happened," the Rev. Bonnie Hollinger said.

The flags are part of a display of 10 flags representing...

Sequoyah Hawkins told a grieving family Tuesday that he wasn't friends with Chrishon Johnson-Gray, whom he killed three years ago on a Lancaster city street.

"But we weren't enemies, either," Hawkins told Johnson-Gray's family at his sentencing hearing. "We never had any bad blood, or bad words.
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State police said a Lancaster woman, who was driving drunk, fled from police and rammed two officers' cars — all while her three young children were riding with her in her minivan.

It happened at 9:40 p.m. on Monday between mile markers 9 and 4.5 on southbound Route 83 in Springfield Townsh...

A new eatery with a novel name — Here, the kitchen at local — has opened at 213 W. King St. The restaurant, which has seating for 28, is located inside Expressly Local, an organic grocery store.

The BYOB restaurant is owned by Anthony Marini, a chef who oversaw the addition of some ki...

A female was taken to the hospital after crashing a sport utility vehicle into two parked cars and a parking meter in the city this morning, police said.
The 9 a.m. wreck was in the 100 block of East Chestnut Street.
The female was passed out at the scene, but regained consciousness, emergency respo...

Erma Kaylor lived a simple life.

She obsessed over her beloved Philadelphia Phillies.

She adored her 10-year-old Jack Russell terrier named Jill, chocolate-covered cherries and the music of the late country star Conway Twitty.

Mostly, though, she cherished time spent with the neighborhood c...

Viviette Applewhite, 93, has voted in every presidential election since she cast a ballot for John F. Kennedy in 1960, but she won't be able to vote this year.

Applewhite, of Philadelphia, had her purse stolen several years ago. In it was her birth certificate.

She's never had a driver's licen...

Think a picture of the bride and groom on the expansive wraparound porch at historic Rock Ford Plantation would be perfect?

Or how about a family portrait taken by a professional photographer in front of the Maple Grove School at Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum?

How about a promotional s...

A barefoot, nimble thief gained entrance to a Lancaster city garage via its skylight but was caught as he tried to flee with a pair of gloves.

Police said Gerald P. Allison, 27, of the 200 block of North Main Street, Manheim, was charged with burglary in the Saturday night incident.

City polic...