The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office is conducting an investigation into an incident Sunday night in Lancaster city that involved a police officer fatally shooting an individual. The incident took place Sunday just after 10 p.m. at a home in the 500 block of Pershing Avenue. The deceased...

A New Jersey man was convicted this week of all counts regarding a human trafficking ring he operated last year involving two women and numerous hotels in Lancaster County. A Lancaster County jury on Wednesday afternoon convicted 37-year-old Dominic Roach of 18 counts, following a three-day trial...

We continue to monitor the overdose death rate in Lancaster County, which offers some encouragement in that fewer people are dying here from overdose. However, a recent research project from our office shows the number of overall overdose incidents reported to a 911 dispatcher is up. We submitted...

A prison inmate already serving years for sex abuse of a child was recently sentenced to additional time – 57 years of supervision - for abuse of two other children. Brian T. Morningstar, now 45, was sentenced in 2014 to 8 to 20 years for sex abuse of a girl. That sentence will start after his...

A prison inmate already serving decades was recently convicted of brutally beating an inmate last year at Lancaster County Prison. The victim survived after two brain surgeries and other treatment from the attack by 39-year-old Tomas Matthews. The beating happened April 3, 2017, a couple months...