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Denise Heckstall, 25, is accused of shooting another woman over a man June 27 in Lancaster.

A trial is scheduled to open this week in Philadelphia for Khusen Akhmedov, a 24-year-old Lancaster man charged with killing four pedestrians in an alleged drag-race crash in 2013.

District Judge Jayne Duncan, who has been removed from criminal and traffic cases, said, through her attorney, that a "criminal investigation" is over a traffic ticket that was allegedly mishandled.

Police arrest man who allegedly repeatedly stabbed a man in Lancaster. Several other men face sex charges.

A tip helped police arrest Justin "Frog" Davis on Sunday, two months after he allegedly shot a 2-year-old boy in a car in Lancaster city, police said.

Michael Kirkham came to the U.S. from England in 1957, while Mustafa Nuur arrived with his mother and siblings from Somalia just last September.

Do you want a pet pig? The Lancaster County SPCA has one.

Police arrest one Mountville armed robbery suspect after he ran into a second convenience store in Millersville, they said. Another suspect was spotted as he drove by the investigation scene.

Police respond to alarms and take two youths into custody after they broke into the First Presbyterian Church in Lancaster early Friday, a church official said.

Jayne Duncan, district judge in Elizabethtown since 1991, has been suspended from the bench amid an "ongoing criminal investigation," a court order shows.