Jack Panyard

Lancaster

Breaking News Reporter at LNP

Breaking News Reporter @LancasterOnline Previously: @ydrcom, @LDnews and @USATODAY - @3Uncanny4 + @sonymusic

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Heavy storms forecast for this weekend as April and March record wettest months since August

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Jack Panyard

A rainy forecast that includes a chance of heavy thunderstorms should provide at least a little help with the ongoing drought impacting Lancaster and surrounding counties. Storms expected Friday and today could result in 1 to 3 inches of rain through midweek, with 4 to 6 inches in some areas, according to Millersville University Weather Information Center Director Kyle Elliott.
Dauphin County bus driver sentenced up to nearly 8 years in prison for DUI with students

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Jack Panyard

Lancaster County Judge Jeffrey Conrad intently watched video footage of Heather Shumberger driving students in a van while under the influence of prescription drugs. “What should I do with you in this situation?” Conrad asked the 42-year-old Dauphin County woman at her sentencing hearing Friday. “I’m asking you to please let me keep my life,” Shumberger said.
Columbia woman sentenced up to 10 years in state prison for 2023 car theft

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Jack Panyard

Share Destiny Delgado-Diaz cried quietly as a judge took a final look over her charging documents Thursday before sentencing her for her role in a 2023 armed carjacking in Columbia. Lancaster County Judge Thomas Sponaugle sentenced the 23-year-old Columbia woman to 27 months to 10 years in state prison after she pleaded guilty to seven charges including robbery of a motor vehicle, conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to commit strangulation, and conspiracy to commit simple assault.
Columbia woman sentenced up to 10 years in state prison for 2023 car theft

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Jack Panyard

Destiny Delgado-Diaz cried quietly as a judge took a final look over her charging documents Thursday before sentencing her for her role in a 2023 armed carjacking in Columbia. Lancaster County Judge Thomas Sponaugle sentenced the 23-year-old Columbia woman to 27 months to 10 years in state prison after she pleaded guilty to seven charges including robbery of a motor vehicle, conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to commit strangulation, and conspiracy to commit simple assault.
2 hospitalized after tractor-trailer, Jeep collide in Earl Township

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jack Panyard

Two people are hospitalized after a tractor-trailer and Jeep crashed in Earl Township on Wednesday, according to dispatchers. The collision happened just after 11 a.m. at the intersection of New Holland and Phillip roads, south of New Holland. A dispatcher with Lancaster County Wide Communications said crews were sent to the scene after a Jeep Grand Cherokee and tractor-trailer crashed, entrapping and injuring two people.
Lancaster city man gets life without parole in fatal shooting, taunts victim’s family at sentencing

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jack Panyard

Wilberto Melendez extended his middle finger and yelled at the family of the man he was convicted of killing as he was escorted out of court Wednesday after he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Moments earlier, Lancaster County Judge Merrill Spahn handed down the sentence that included an additional 4 1/2 to nine years for the 2017 fatal shooting of 31-year-old William Earl Cooper Jr.Members of Cooper’s family clapped, and some cried, as Spahn delivered the sentence.
Police searching for Philadelphia man charged with Manor Township child rape

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jack Panyard

Police are searching for a Philadelphia man charged with raping an 11-year-old girl in Manor Township late last year. Stephen Lyde, 36, is charged with child rape, sexual assault and seven related offenses after police said he raped the child on Dec. 18, 2024. Lyde picked up the child at her home, assaulted her in his car, and returned her home, where she told her parents what happened, according to charging documents.
Lancaster city shooting closes Penn Medicine Park weekend carnival [update]

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jack Panyard

Editor's note: This has been updated with Franklin & Marshall College stating the college was not involved in the shooting. Penn Medicine Park staff closed a five-day carnival a day early after police warned there might be more violence after a Saturday night shooting in the neighborhood injured two people. Middleburg-based Penn Valley Shows hosted the park's annual spring carnival, a local fair with rides, games and food trucks that has been staged at the baseball stadium since 2019.
Lancaster city shooting closes Penn Medicine Park weekend carnival

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jack Panyard

Penn Medicine Park staff closed a five-day carnival a day early after police warned there might be more violence after a Saturday night shooting in the neighborhood injured two people. Middleburg-based Penn Valley Shows hosted the park's annual spring carnival, a local fair with rides, games and food trucks that has been staged at the baseball stadium since 2019.
Convicted sex offender who lived in Manheim Twp. sentenced to prison on third assault case

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jack Panyard

Lancaster County Judge Merrill Spahn said Thomas Edward Irwin Sr. is practically serving a life sentence after Irwin pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually assaulting a girl over the course of two years. Irwin, 77, is already serving two concurrent 10- to 20-year prison sentences for sexually assaulting three other girls in two separate cases in 2019 and 2022. Concurrent means he is serving both sentences at the same time.