Lancaster PA

COATESVILLE, Pa. - Details in this story are disturbing. If you or someone you know is the victim of domestic abuse, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233. The free service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Every call is confidential, and you can remain...

Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff joined Amy Poehler on her Good Hang podcast to discuss his Lancaster County roots, hometown institutions, and early influences on his career. The 80-minute episode dropped on Tuesday morning, Feb. 10, on all major podcast platforms. As a teenager, Groff recalled performing at the...

LANCASTER, Pa. — A Lancaster man accused of stabbing another man during a fight earlier this year will proceed to trial after waiving his preliminary hearing, the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office said this week. Matthew Albert Rowley, 35, is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, prohibited...

WEST MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP, PA — Police are searching for a woman wanted in connection with retail thefts at a department store last year. Aracelis Sanchez, 25, of Lancaster, is wanted on charges of retail theft and criminal conspiracy – retail theft, both felonies of the third degree. Police...

LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) — Biking Lancaster will soon get easier. The city received more than $900,000 in funding from the state to construct a two-way bike lane. The lane will extend more than a mile and stretch from East King Street to South Queen Street. “We are trying to make it a bigger part of […]

READING, PA — A man wanted on felony charges was apprehended by a U.S. Marshals Service task force Feb. 11. Roberto Ortiz Jr., 28, of Reading, was taken into custody in the 1000 block of Birch Street. Ortiz Jr. was wanted on felony charges of strangulation and simple assault...

MAIDENCREEK TWP., Pa. - A mini-excavator fell on a person in Berks County Thursday morning, sending the person to the hospital. Crews were sent to the 100 block of West Wesner Road in Maidencreek Township around 7:45 a.m., according to the Blandon Fire Company. The fire company says a contractor...

Two 16-year-old teenagers are being charged as adults following a shooting incident that damaged vehicles and apartment buildings in Lancaster Township, Pennsylvania. According to Lancaster Township Police Department, officers responded to reports of shots fired at the Hawthorne Gardens apartment complex on Dickens...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Emergency officials with the Robert Fulton and Quarryville Fire Companies helped rescue a deer that was on ice Thursday. Officials said they arrived to the Octorara Lakes Reservoir around 10:30 a.m. to find an exhausted deer in the middle of the frozen water. Using...

The incident happened on the 1300 block of Arcadia Road on Tuesday, Feb. 11, when excavating equipment was being used to repair the leak, according to a media alert. Coroner investigators responded and found an adult male employee at the scene who was pronounced deceased, the release states. He was...