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Man, 25, was picking up his pistol when it accidentally discharged bullet into his groin in Lancaster Township on Sunday, police said.

Richard Rivera is a 19-year-old Lancaster city teen who runs with violent gang of youths known as "L Block," a prosecutor said. Judge ordered 10-to-28-year sentence.

Police accuse an Ephrata man of pointing shotgun at 3-year-old son, a Manor Township man of threatening to kill police and a Lancaster man with fleeing from officers in a vehicle occupied by children.

Female brought to local hospital with gunshot wound late Saturday.

A new collective bargaining agreement for teachers in School District of Lancaster that was expected to pass this week met its first snag on Tuesday.

The circumstances that led to a police officer being shot and a wanted fugitive killed during a May 19 warrant sweep in Lancaster city will be disclosed Friday at 3:30 p.m.

A potentially widespread attorney general investigation this week at a Catholic monastery in central Pennsylvania involves a friar who committed suicide there in 2013.

Scott Grant, 56, will serve his prison sentence for threatening to kill the Ephrata cop who charged him with sex abuse, following a recent Superior Court ruling.

Christopher M. Eckman, 36, of the 300 block of New Holland Avenue, was charged with a number of offenses after twice fleeing police this past Saturday, Southern Regional Police said.

Tyquan Robinson, a 23-year-old Lancaster father of five children, jailed one to two years for dealing crack cocaine in the city.