Lancaster County (Virginia)

A fox that bit two people in Loyalhanna Township, Westmoreland County, on March 1 has tested positive for rabies. "A homeowner went outside to unlock her car in the morning," said Nicole Bucher, deputy press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're back after a fairly restful long weekend only to find state government as sleepy as a middle school in August. This probably befits the season, of course. The business of state must be put......

Five years ago today, Charles Carl Roberts IV entered an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa., and shot 10 girls — mortally wounding five — before killing himself. This quiet, rural community in Lancaster County suddenly became a place of...

A Lancaster County family is mourning the loss of their teenage son. The 17-year-old was shot to death in Virginia Beach and now police are looking for answers. Seventeen-year-old Kody Scruton was a former student at McCaskey East High School in...

Washington County Health Department Carla Freeman has been named Washington County Health Department's Employee of the Quarter for the first quarter of 2011. Freeman has been employed by the health department since 2008, where she works as a community...

HARRISBURG - In announcing the current results of its ongoing investigation into an alleged mountain lion attack on Oct. 9, Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced that there is no evidence that the alleged attack on Samuel Fisher, 42, of...

Carl Snyder, 83, has a farmer's weathered face. His thin lips can be set in a straight line, his square chin cementing an image of determination. His roots here go deep. His family came to Lynn Township toward the end of the 1700s and lived through the...

A spate of school shootings in less than a month has raised fears that even more "copycat" crimes lie ahead - with psychologists warning that news media attention could, in fact, perpetuate the violence. "When you have someone already on the edge,...