Lancaster County commissioners are set to vote Wednesday on whether to set aside $10 million in county funds to pay for continued planning of the new prison project, now stretching into its third ...

A former state prison employee has been sentenced to 90 days in prison after pleading guilty to sexual contact with an inmate. The 36-year-old woman, a former employee of the Mike Durfee State ...

LANCASTER, Ohio — The rehabilitation and renovation of an old factory into luxury apartments and business space is getting underway in downtown Lancaster. The building that once housed the ...

LANCASTER, Pa. — A Lancaster teenager has been sentenced to two-and-a-half to six years in state prison after pleading guilty to attempting to rob an 11-year-old at gunpoint in February 2024. Jadriel ...

LANCASTER — An ice storm is predicted to hit Ohio on Wednesday evening, bringing dangerous travel conditions. The National Weather Service put out a weather advisory from Wednesday, Feb.

El Salvador's mega-prison built to house up to 40,000 inmates is referred to as CECOT, meaning the Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism. Miguel Sarre, former member of the United Nations ...

Michael J. Slaughter, 41, of Nashport, Ohio, was sentenced to prison for eight years to charges related to the death of his father, 65-year-old Michael Slaughter, Sr. The younger Slaughter pleaded ...

NEWSWATCH SEVEN AT SIX. A LANCASTER COUNTY JUDGE SENTENCES A 16 YEAR OLD TO DECADES BEHIND BARS. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M JULIE CORNELL AND I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. TAYVON MORRISON WAS ONLY FACING ...

A 22-year-old man will spend the next 17 years in prison for four armed robberies ... Parker, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. Bah used guns to steal keys from four ...

In 2022, Lancaster County officials bought a 78-acre farm on the Conestoga River to be the site of a new prison. Recent estimates have put the final price tag of the project close to $400 million.