Crime  

The state Judicial Conduct Board officially suspended, with pay, District Judge Kelly S. Ballentine on Wednesday.

According to a press release from the Court of Judicial Discipline in Harrisburg, Ballentine's suspension is pending felony charges against her.

Ballentine, 43, who presides over p...

City police have charged an Ephrata man with burglarizing several offices over the weekend at the Griest Building in downtown Lancaster.

And police in Ephrata say the same man is responsible for burglaries there earlier this month at a theater and pool.

Richard Anthony Garcia-Flores, 25, of th...

Police are asking for the public's help to identify two suspects in the theft and fraudulent use of a credit card last week at a Manheim Township grocery store.

A Colorado woman reported Feb. 13 that her wallet was taken from her shopping cart while she was in Giant, 1605 Lititz Pike, township po...

Five cars were stolen in Lancaster city and Lancaster Township on Monday night or Tuesday morning, according to police.

"Police are exploring the possibility that these thefts may be related," city police Lt. Todd Umstead said, but no arrests had been made as of Wednesday.

One of the car theft...

A Chester County woman accused of selling thoroughbreds for slaughter instead of finding people to adopt them as promised can enter a program for first-time offenders under a deal with prosecutors.

Kelsey Lefever of Honey Brook waived a preliminary hearing Wednesday on charges of theft by decepti...

A Lititz man will spend at least six years in state prison for beating his infant daughter, causing a skull fracture and brain injuries.

Eric M. Ortega said he is shocked at his own behavior, which likely caused the child permanent damage, according to court testimony.

"I still can't believe I...

A former local all-star athlete will serve probation for assaulting a man last year outside a Manheim Township hotel.

Leontae Turner admitted to "smacking" the victim and knocking him to the pavement on May 12 at Country Hearth Inn on Keller Avenue.

In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors...

A Terre Hill man was arrested after police found five loaded guns inside his unlocked van at an Atlantic City, N.J., casino parking garage, according to a newspaper report.

One of the handguns was reported as stolen in Pennsylvania, according to a criminal complaint.

It was around 9:45 a.m. Tu...

Police didn't have to look far to find a man whom they say assaulted and robbed a taxi cab driver Sunday morning in East Lampeter Township.

Officers responding early Tuesday to a burglar alarm at M&S Auto, 2282 Old Philadelphia Pike, found the suspect, 26-year-old Dennis Maurice Bonneau, at t...

Darcy Gorron claimed to be a devout Christian when he got caught up in sex-assault charges last year.

In November, a local jury convicted Gorron of molesting a preteen girl.

"I love children as a father, not as a predator," he said at sentencing Tuesday morning. "I'm not perfect; nobody is."
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