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Rod Stewart is to become a father, for the seventh time, at the age of 60. The rock star -- best known for songs like "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" -- has confirmed that he and his fiancee Penny Lancaster are expecting a child in early December. Stewart said he felt "blessed" and planned to marry Lancaster in spring 2006. However, the singer still needs to divorce his second wife, Rachel Hunter, who is seeking a share of his fortune. Rumors of the pregnancy circulated last week but the couple was reluctant to confirm it until Lancaster had safely passed...

LANCASTER - Three months after being sentenced to probation for attacking a group of young siblings at Jane Reynolds Park and choking one of them into unconsciousness, 15-year-old Barry Hawes is facing murder charges in the shooting death of a 50-year-old Lancaster man. The apparent escalation in violence has scared and angered the parents of the youngsters who were attacked at the park. Court authorities confirmed Wednesday that Hawes was one of three unnamed defendants - then 10, 14, and 17 - charged with felony assault for the Aug. 27 park attack. The assailants allegedly kicked, punched and choked a...

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - A Democratic city councilman is demanding that a baker remove photos of President Bush from his stand in Lancaster's farmers market, saying the city needs a "healing period" following the bitterly contested election. City Councilman Nelson Polite asked baker David Stoltzfus last month to remove the pictures. When Stoltzfus refused, Polite threatened to try to enact a city ordinance that would ban all political material from public places. "I just feel that since it was a close election and the city's so divided, that we should have a healing period," Polite told the New Era of...

Bush photos draw ire Lancaster official calls for removal By By JOHN M. SPIDALIERE Lancaster New Era Thursday, December 09, 2004 - David Stoltzfus says there's only one reason he would take down the photos of President George W. Bush he has displayed at his baked-goods stand in Lancaster's Central Market. Bush would have had to have lost the recent election. Instead, he beat Democratic challenger John Kerry to win a second term. "If it were Kerry that won, he'd be up there," says Stoltzfus, who operates the Upper Crust stand. Doesn't matter, says City Councilman Nelson Polite. "It should...

Flap erupts over photos of Bush at market stand Democrat City Councilman Nelson Polite says the photos are inappropriate in a public place. Others rally behind standholder. LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - David Stoltzfus says there’s only one reason he would take down the photos of President George W. Bush that he has displayed at his Central Market baked-goods stand. Bush would have had to have lost the recent election. Instead, he beat Democratic challenger John Kerry to win a second term. “If it were Kerry that won, he’d be up there,’’ says Stoltzfus, who operates the Upper Crust stand. Doesn’t...

David Stoltzfus says there’s only one reason he would take down the photos of President George W. Bush that he has displayed at his Central Market baked-goods stand. Bush would have had to have lost the recent election. Instead, he beat Democratic challenger John Kerry to win a second term. “If it were Kerry that won, he’d be up there,’’ says Stoltzfus, who operates the Upper Crust stand. Doesn’t matter, says City Councilman Nelson Polite. “It should come down. This is a public market.”

Was anyone at BC04 Rally in PA today that got pics of stage? Had Stage seating and got great behind scene shots, would like some from front of stage showing us.

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - A busload of John Kerry supporters from Washington, D.C., was waving Kerry/Edwards placards Saturday in Penn Square. Teams of volunteers from a Democrat-leaning national organization are knocking on doors in the city. And some voters can expect to find a soap opera star on their front steps Monday, asking them to vote for President George W. Bush and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter. With voter registration at a close for the Nov. 2 election, the political parties are marshaling hundreds of volunteers for the next step in the election game: voter contact and voter turnout. Get-out-the-vote, or...

Republicans, searching for votes, look to Amish for support LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press BIRD-IN-HAND, Pa. - The Amish live without electricity, cars, telephones, and usually, without voting. But they are being sought out this year as Republicans try to sign up every possible supporter in presidential battleground states. Amish almost always side with the Republican Party when they do vote - making them an attractive, if unlikely, voting bloc in the neck-and-neck campaign between President Bush and Democratic nominee John Kerry. A majority of the nation's Amish live in key swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. "Pennsylvania and Ohio...

Deputy's killer filed complaints against him in '94 By Greg Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE -- Nine years before shooting Deputy Steve Sorensen to death outside his desert trailer, Donald Charles Kueck tried to get the deputy criminally prosecuted for assault, his family said. Kueck, who died in a fiery gunbattle six days after Sorensen's Aug. 2 slaying, filed complaints in 1994 with the Sheriff's Department and other agencies alleging that Sorensen, while off duty, had pointed a gun at him during a traffic dispute on a two-lane desert road. "He (Donald) didn't hate cops but he didn't trust them, and...

Driver Shoots and Kills Man After Amish Pranksters Throw Tomatoes at His CarThe Associated PressPublished: Sep 2, 2003 MOUNT HOPE, Ohio (AP) - A driver fired a shotgun into a cornfield and killed a man after being tormented by a group of young Amish pranksters who pelted his car with tomatoes, authorities said. Steven L. Keim was with about 10 other members of the Amish community, ages 15 to 23, who were hiding in the field Monday night, throwing tomatoes and firing paintball guns at passing cars, the Holmes County Sheriff's office said. After driving past the cornfield several...

Death of boy closes day care 06/07/2003 By KATIE MENZER / The Dallas Morning News A Lancaster day-care center has closed one week after a 2-year-old boy in its care died after he being left in a hot van. Officials with the state's child-care regulatory division said an agency investigator visiting Little Dudes and Daisies Daycare and Learning Center on Friday morning was told the center would close at the end of the day. "That was personal decision they made, not a recommendation of the state," said Stacey Ladd, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services....

Child-care workers set to turn selves in Attorney for pair says he's outraged by $1 million bail06/06/2003 By IAN McCANN / The Dallas Morning News LANCASTER – An attorney for the two child-care workers charged in the death of a 2-year-old left in a hot van said Thursday he is finalizing the women's surrender to ensure they spend as little time in jail as possible. With bail set at $1 million each, they're bound to spend at least a few days in custody, said their attorney, Craig Watkins, who called the bail amount outrageous. He said his clients would turn...

Toddler dies after being left in hot van 06/03/2003 By IAN McCANN / The Dallas Morning News A 2-year-old left inside a hot daycare van in Lancaster for more than two hours on Friday died early Tuesday. The boy, whose name has not yet been released, had been in critical condition at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. He died about 12:15 a.m., hospital officials said. Police said the boy and nine other children had returned from a field trip to a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant about 1 p.m. Workers realized that he was still strapped in a car seat inside...

Britain's only surviving operational Lancaster bomber is taking to the air to mark Friday's 60th anniversary of the Dambusters raid. The Dambusters 617 Squadron was formed in 1943 after warplane designer Barnes Wallis developed the bouncing bomb. It was designed to spin backwards at 500rpm, skipping over torpedo nets, before detonating against dams in enemy territory. A weekend celebrating the skill and bravery of the aircrews centres around Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey, where Wallis and his team worked. A key member of the team, Norman "Spud" Boorer, who worked at Brooklands for many years, will open a Dambusters exhibition....

<p>But even the authors have different views about the chances of any of them passing.</p> <p>"I think they're the best they've been," said Rep. Charles Lancaster, R-Metairie, a longtime critic of the open primary system who has tried for years to reverse it.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two correctional officers at a state prison in Lancaster were suspended for allegedly attempting to smuggle drugs into the county's only maximum-security prison, officials said.</p> <p>One of the guards, Dwayne Brewton, was arrested last month on conspiracy charges for plotting to sell drugs and cell phones to inmates, prison spokesman Lt. Ken Lewis said. Prison investigators searched a suspected drug pickup point for Brewton and found 39 grams of marijuana, 1 gram of heroin and 3.5 grams of crack cocaine, Lewis said.</p>

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