Animal cruelty  

Joseph Meyer wants to bring a big, new horse-lover's paradise to West Hempfield Township.
He envisions expanding his Allimax Farm stable at Marietta Pike and Kames Hill Road to feature 110 horses, beefed-up trail rides, lessons and boarding, educational programs, clinics and demonstrations.
But some...

An Adamstown man is facing charges for allegedly shooting his dog and then leaving it to die along the side of the road.

Deuce, an 8-year-old brindled pit bull, was shot twice — once in the neck and once in the face. The dog had to be euthanized because of the severity of its injuries.

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The cases of two Amish church members accused of treating their horses cruelly have been resolved.
Paul Smucker was found guilty Tuesday by Magisterial District Judge Janice Jimenez and fined $300.
Linda Byler pleaded guilty and paid a $300 fine Sept. 7, according to the district judge's o...

A district judge found a Lancaster city man guilty Thursday of cruelty to animals for shooting his dog.

District Judge Cheryl Hartman ordered Ronnie Burkman, 59, to pay a $300 fine for killing the pit bull on April 11.

"He decided he didn't want his dog any longer, so he shot her and buried he...

In October, Golden Acres Kennel in Narvon passed its second state Department of Agriculture inspection in as many months.
But that hasn't allayed the fears of animal-welfare advocates.
They insist that the state was wrong to license a business to Nancy Zimmerman, the wife of a man convicted just las...

A woman recently noticed something unusual about horses she keeps on her Salisbury Township farm.
Someone apparently has been shooting at them with a BB gun.
The resident of the 5000 block of Glen Oaks Drive reported the animal cruelty incident to state police, who are investigating.
She said someon...

When the owner of a kennel in northeastern Lancaster County was convicted of mistreating his dogs last year, animal welfare activists cheered.

They believed it would be the demise of an operation they long considered notorious.

They were wrong.

A new kennel has opened up at the same Breckno...

An Ephrata man was jailed Wednesday for what a prosecutor called the "barbaric" killing of his roommate's cat.

Jefferson Miller, 34, was ordered to jail for 2 to 23 months, followed by two years of probation for the Dec. 9, 2010, crime.

Miller slashed the throat of his roommate's cat, then hel...

Animal cruelty charges against a Columbia horse stable owner were dismissed Monday morning in Lancaster County court.

The local Humane League had charged Joseph Meyer with failure to provide his sick mare, Dusty, the proper medical care.

On Monday, however, County Judge Howard Knisely ruled th...

Prosecutors say Columbia stable owner Joseph Meyer denied his dying horse medical attention, so they charged him last summer with animal cruelty after Dusty was euthanized.

But Meyer claimed in court Wednesday that his treatment of Dusty was good enough.

A Lancaster County judge will decide Mo...