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On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3] Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse.
Christiana Riot. "The Christiana Tragedy", an 1872 depiction of the shooting of Edward Gorsuch. [1] The Christiana Riot, also known as Christiana Resistance, Christiana Tragedy, or Christiana incident, was the successful armed resistance by free Blacks and escaped slaves to a raid led by a federal marshal to recover four escaped slaves owned by ...
Lancaster County ( / ˈlæŋkɪstər /; Pennsylvania Dutch: Lengeschder Kaundi ), sometimes nicknamed the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 552,984, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most populous county. [2]
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Cellphone footage of a deputy throwing a woman to the ground by her neck during an incident in Lancaster last month has prompted an investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department ...
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. / 40.03972°N 76.30444°W / 40.03972; -76.30444. Lancaster ( / ˈlæŋkɪstər / LANG-ki-stər) is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and one of the oldest inland cities in the United States. [4] With a population of 58,039 at the 2020 census, [5] it is the tenth-most-populous city ...
The Pennsylvania State Police is a full service law enforcement agency which handles both traffic and criminal law enforcement. The Pennsylvania State Police was founded in 1905 by order of Governor Samuel Pennypacker, by signing Senate Bill 278 on May 2, 1905. The bill was signed in response to the Great Anthracite Strike of 1902.
42-071-41224. Website. www .twp .lancaster .pa .us. Lancaster Township is a civil township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is in the central area of the county, and it immediately surrounds Lancaster City. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 18,591.