PERMANENT POST – ARREST THE KILLERS & RESIGN CHIEF! PLEASE PAGE BELOW FOR TODAY’S NEWS

   On December 6, 2010, an arsonist killed Olga Sanchez-Reyes and critically injured two of her children. A year-and-a-half before, an arsonist also targeted a property owned by Sanchez-Reyes and her husband. This post will remain at the top of this site until an arrest is made in this horrific murder and also the horrific murder below added in July of this year.
Click here for “Lancaster police chief vows to find arsonist.”

  On May 16th of this year, 83-year-old Erma Kaylor was brutally stabbed to death in her home at 235 W. Vine Street.  No arrest has been made.

Click here for “Chief says police will find killer of 83-year-old woman.”

Click on the “UNSOLVED MURDERS” tab above to see the names of the victims of the eleven unsolved murders since Keith Sadler became the Police Chief on April 23, 2008.

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     This permanent box had been up for over a year when on July 29, 2012, I chanced upon Rosaura Torres-Sadler and her book detailing physical abuse by her ex-husband, the current Chief of the Lancaster Police, Keith Sadler (click here).
    The Lancaster Newspapers have not written one word about this  and most citizens in Lancaster are unaware of his past.   “Abuse Hidden Behind the Badge” is available from Amazon.com.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! LIP WILL BE BACK ON APRIL 24TH!

FIVE YEARS LATER -
FASCINATION WITH
ROSEBORO MURDER CONTINUES! 

TV CREW IN TOWN!

Angie & Randy Funk from their mutual Facebook page.

Angela Funk from her Linkedin profile and Angie & Randy Funk at Christmas from their mutual Facebook page.

Michael Roseboro in prison.

     It’s Spring Break! LIP will not be publishing after today and will return to daily publishing on April 24th.   
     LIP News has learned there is a national investigative television show  in development on the Roseboro murder.  They are currently in Denver and have lined up interviews with several people directly involved in the case for the next several days. The producer said it will take four to eight months to air. If you are out and about in Lancaster County in the next few days, you just might see their film crew. It will be interesting to see how this show will differ from the 48 Hours program “Lady in The Pool
    Wow!  Five years later!  And yes, Angie and Randy still live together in Denver with their three (actually Michael Roseboro is the father of one) children. 

* UPDATED – WHO WAS THE VICTIM? – 2

 * According to Cardwell’s docket, the charges were waived to court at this morning’s preliminary hearing and his Formal Arraignment in Common Pleas Court is scheduled for May 9th at 9:00 am.  I faxed a request for comment to his attorney, Steven Breit, at about 1:00 pm today and will post his response if one is received.  I will continue to follow this case after Spring break.
There is a huge surprise coming this afternoon!

PRELIMINARY HEARING TODAY!

     Javon Caldwell’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for this morning at 9:30 am in front of District Judge B. Denise Commins according to his court docket.  Caldwell is charged with terroristic threats, simple assault and careless driving resulting from an incident on March 8th of this year.  He is being represented by none other than “Amish Mafia” attorney Steven Breit!  From March 13th on this site, “WHO WAS THE VICTIM?” (click here):

Man pulls gun during road-rage incident in East Lampeter Twp.(click here) 

     LNP reporter Jennifer Todd uses the word “victim” five times in the article that accompanies the above headline which has been a lead story on Lancaster Online for hours.
Who was really the victim here?  Did Javon Caldwell have the right to protect himself and his infant?  And what is the other man’s name – or did his parents really name him “victim?”  And why this huge, scary headline when it was a toy gun?

REFLECT POORLY ON THE NEWSPAPER?

OWN UP TO BEING
A FRAUD, SMART!

WHITE WOMEN CAN STEAL!

WOULD THE REAL NICOLE
PLEASE STAND UP!

      Are these pictures of the same woman?  For two days, Lancaster Online had the poorly headlined story, “Office manager embezzles over $40,000 from car shop, police allege,” on their homepage (click here).  For twenty-four hours, they featured the picture on the left.  Suddenly, they switched to the picture on the right with no explanation. 
     Are they both Nicole Carl?  Is one from social media and one her police booking photo?  Why doesn’t the reporter on the story and the editors explain and tell the public why the photo switch?  This is terrible reporting!
     And why do they even bother to arrest white women in Lancaster County for stealing money from “white collar” jobs?  They all get probation!
     And what happened to the story about House Member Mike Sturla’s office assistant charged with trying to steal from her insurance company?  That story disappeared quickly, didn’t it?
Please check back later today.

** UPDATED – * LEBANON LEVI IS FROM…LEBANON?

DO THEY UNDERSTAND NOW?
THIS IS WHAT CAMERAS DO!

* *** BREAKING NEWS *** The New Era “Editorial Page Editor,” James F. Burchik, lives in Mount Gretna, Lebanon County!!!

ENOUGH ABSURDITY?

 Lebanon Levi and Lancaster Attorney Steven Breit

     Their leader, 34-year-old Levi King Stoltzfus — aka Lebanon Levi — had a  number of run-ins with the justice system before the cable TV show began in  2012.
And get this, he’s not even from Lancaster County. He’s from across the  border in Lebanon County.
From today’s New Era editorial slamming the “Amish Mafia” TV show and titled, “Enough of ‘Amish Mafia’ absurdity,” (not currently online).
     What an unbelievably stupid editorial!  And get this editorial writer, it’s just a TV show!
     With all the moral indignation they can muster, the editorial states:
     And they’re dragging Lancaster County through the mud, as well.
     The racist, unethical Lancaster Newspapers have been dragging legitimate journalism through the mud for years!  And why don’t you mention local attorney Steven Breit, the legal consultant for the show and attorney for many of the cast members?
Please check back later today.

THREE NUNS IN A RAILWAY COMPARTMENT?

 WHO DONE IT?

      It has been that kind of a day!  The video is courtesy of my British friend, galty, under the “ASSAULT IS A CRIME!” post below on this site!  I really would like to hear the story about the three nuns in a railway compartment! 
     Back to “serious” news tomorrow – and apparently LNP owner, Beverly (Peggy) Steinman’s, purse strings don’t reach to the Commonwealth Court – click here for “Commonwealth Court rebuffs LNP effort to learn hotel-tax payments.”  This company is unbelievably corrupt!  I’d like to see what Monty Python could do with Peggy, Gil Smart and LNP!

* UPDATED – GIL SMART INVESTIGATES? AGAIN?

ARE THEY MARRIED?

 *     Every single day there is so much to cover and so little time.  This comment came in under “BREAKING NEWS – NOT SHACKED UP!” below on this site and since it’s been pushed down fairly far, you might not have noticed it – and it’s important.  This man was from York and it’s also a story I have wanted to address.   If you follow the link to the YDR story, it really is scary!  What the heck is going on?  Why doesn’t Smart investigate this?
      Hmmmm… is this something new? Running Lancaster Newspapers stories on the York Daily Record and then steering online viewers to the Lancasteronline website for more info?
     Shouldn’t the YDR be investigating this fiasco of kid glove treatment of this doctor instead of just re-spewing the LNP’s nothing of an article?
     Will the newspapers “marry” as well?
     Click here for, “Lancaster doctor pleads guilty in death of man found in car in North York.”

ANOTHER UNSMART REHASH!

ASSAULT IS A CRIME!

 INCLUDING BY THE POLICE!

    
      Who beat Christopher Paul Guido?  What reporters, editors and newspapers in this country run a booking photo like this without asking who assaulted him?  It seems fairly obvious in this case that it was the police and that is a crime. 
     Guido is not charged with resisting arrest – a common cover for police brutality – and he’s not charged with assault either.  So the police are not alleging that he put up a fight or resisted when arrested. And there’s not a mention of how he got all the bruises, scrapes and the fat lip in the police press release (click here). So how did his face get this way?  And why isn’t anyone at the Lancaster Newspapers asking?  Why isn’t Mayor Gray asking?  Why isn’t the Chief of Police asking?  Do the Mayor and the Chief condone police brutality?
    Would it be okay if the police had done this to Peter Sturla, the son of House of Representatives Member Mike Sturla, when he was arrested twice?   Oh, that’s right -  the Lancaster Newspapers didn’t even report those two arrests. 
There will be much more tomorrow.

* UPDATED – ASK PRESIDENT OBAMA!

“CONTEXT OF ‘N-WORD’
CANNOT BE IGNORED”

The headline on a Letter to the Editor in today’s paper by Rev. Edward M. Bailey of the Bethel AME Church and signed by 78 members of the church (click here).
      Unbelievable!  So the new President of the Lancaster Newspapers, John Kirkpatrick III, thinks the “N-word” can be used in a good way;  even in an “affectionate” way.  Why am I not surprised?  Absolutely disgusted – but not surprised.
If LNP had a minority editor or reporter, Kirkpatrick could ask them what they think about the “N-word.”  But of course, LNP doesn’t have a single minority on their editorial staff.  As the Rev. Bailey suggests:  why doesn’t Kirkpatrick ask President Obama what he thinks of the word?  Or maybe Kirkpatrick could stay local and ask Ron Martin of WGAL what he thinks of the word?
Absolutely unbelievable!  Run this racist newspaper company out of town!
Please check back later today.

50 YEARS SINCE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964

 NO CHANGE IN LANCASTER!

      Charles Sumner “Chuck” Stone Jr., an outspoken former Philadelphia newspaper columnist so trusted that more than 70 criminal suspects surrendered to him first rather than to police, died Sunday in an assisted-living facility in North Carolina. He was 89.
     …In 1977, suspects began calling on Mr. Stone to help them surrender to police, believing his presence offered a measure of protection from law enforcement officers who had a reputation for heavy-handedness against African Americans.
     “People would turn themselves in to Chuck so they wouldn’t get tuned up by the police,” said novelist Pete Dexter, a former Daily News columnist who shared an office with Mr. Stone. “He was a singularly good human being.”
Philly.com (click here).
      The death of Chuck Stone and memories of my time at the Philadelphia Tribute have occupied my thoughts for the last few days.  I spent a long time last night and this morning looking for a piece I wrote many years ago about one of the most life changing nights I spent there, but couldn’t find it.  So, I’ll briefly rehash it.
      I was alone in the office and answering the phone.  All the reporters and Associate Editor, Jim Davis, were at dinner.  The only other person in the office was the Editor, Jim Cassell, in his office in the back of the room. 
     I took a call from an angry and scared man who said he had just witnessed the police beating up a Black man and we needed to send a reporter now.  He said he would wait there until someone came to tell his story.  He said a lot of people had seen it happen.  It happened less than two blocks from the office.
     I went to tell Jim Cassell.  He put on his coat and was about to leave.  “Be careful,” I said.  “Why do you say that?” he asked.  “There will be police everywhere.”  “I know,” I said, “That’s why I said be careful.”  “You’re learning a lot here, aren’t you?” he said and he left.
     The moment he walked down the stairs, the phone began to ring and it didn’t stop for three hours.  Jim and the reporters came back and the office began to work as one.  We put out a brilliant, moving edition of the Philadelphia Tribune that caught the mayor’s, and the police’s, attention. 
     Millie, the receptionist, was finally told to stop putting calls through unless they seemed vitally important.  The last call she put through was from a white doctor at the local hospital.  We didn’t know the purpose of his call. 
     “I’ll take it,” Jim Cassell said, “and if he gives me any shit, I’m going to let him have it,” the normally mild-mannered man said with an anger I had never seen.
     He came out of his office several minutes later.  “He said he worked on the man tonight.  The police beat him very  badly.  He says he sees way to much of this.  He said we have to do a story and help put a stop to this.  He said it’s not right that the police do this.   He said I can use his name and position at the hospital.”
     It was that kind of night.  That was over thirty years ago.  I’ll have a lot to say later today.

PITTS IS THE PITS!

AND LNP IS WORSE!

      The demographics of this country will overtake the Republicans.
Mary Weaver in this morning’s panel on immigration talking to Joe Pitts’ Chief of Staff, Tom Tillett (click here). 
      That’s the way to tell him, Mary!  And why was Barbara Hough Roda, the Executive Editor of the racist and law-breaking Lancaster Newspapers, the moderator of this program?  And her boss, Beverly (Peggy) Steinman, the owner of LNP, has been one of Joe Pitts’ biggest financial backers for years.  It is unconscionable!
Please check back later today.

** – * DOUBLE STANDARDS

** This has turned into a crazy week.  LIP News will be back tomorrow.  Thank you for your patience.

* The police press release on the arrest is here.

LANCASTER POLICE MAKE
AN ARREST IN SHOOTING

      Great job Lancaster City police for removing this perp from our streets.  I can’t understand why a 16 year old man/child’s mug shot is plastered on the front page of the paper and tv when G Scott Davis, an adult, whom actually killed someone was withheld for so long.  The double standard is sickening.
     This comment in this morning about LNP’s story, “Police arrest teen in shooting of 16-year-old in Lancaster city,” (click here).
Please check back later today.

* IN HONOR OF CHUCK STONE

* “Chuck Stone, 89, a legendary former Daily News columnist,” Philly.com (click here).

TRIBUNE DAYS

The Skirt Ride-Up Problem

(Continued from the Front Page) 

   I made the appointment.  What did he want me to ask?  New to Philadelphia and everything that was going on, I had no idea what I was supposed to talk to Chuck Stone about.

   ““You said you’’re a reporter, think of something,”” Jim said. 

    “”Can you give me a little help or hint?”” I asked. 

    Finally he said, “”There’’s talk he might go into politics.  Ask him about that.””

    Well, I came back with a story.  Jim leaned both his arms on my desk, glared at me and said, “ “If you’’re setting me up to be a fool I will find out where you live and I will personally come and strangle you.  Show me your notes.  He didn’t say that!””

    ““Yes, he did,”” I said. 

    Jim did a nice layout, boxed it and put it on page three with the catchy headline, “”Chuck Wants to Stone Gray.””  Chuck Stone responded to it several days later in the Daily News with great kindness and humor.  

    Thus, would begin Jim’’s quest to find out “how I got the story.”

    It was about a week later that I was sitting at Jim’’s desk and we were talking about Chuck Stone. 

    ““He said he worked as a reporter with somebody here, somebody named Jim,”” I said.  ““I forget the last name.  He said he should call him so they can go out to dinner.”” 

     ““What did you say, young lady?”” Jim Cassell came out of his office in the back. 

     “”Are you that Jim?”” I asked.  ““I’’m sorry.  I never knew your last name or I would have told you before.”” 

    ““Are you sure he said I should call him?” ” he asked.

    “”Yes,”” I said, “”He said it twice.  He’’s all alone in that big white building.  I’’m sure he must get lonely.  I’’m sure he meant it.””

     Jim came back into the office the next week after having dinner with Chuck Stone.  He was in an excellent mood.  “”He’’s a wonderful man,”” he said.  ““We agreed to have dinner again.  Yes, indeed, a fine man.””

    He stopped by my desk on the way back to his office and said in a low voice, ““Chuck said your skirt was quite short.””

    ““Oh!”” I said, ““It was not.  That skirt was below my knee.””

    He hesitated slightly and then began to walk away.

    ““Did he say anything else?”” I asked.

    ““No,”” Jim said, “He just said that your skirt was short.””

    I went on the defensive.  ““It most certainly was not,”” I said.  “”That’’s the first time I wore that skirt.  I didn’’t know it had a ride-up problem.””

   ” “Excuse me, young lady?”” Jim asked.

    ““Well,”” I said.  “the skirt had a ride-up problem.  It’’s not my fault.  How was I supposed to know?  It was the first time I ever wore it!””

    “”A ride-up problem?”” Jim asked.

    Jim Davis entered the conversation, “I am not familiar with this ride-up problem,”” he said.   “”Could you please explain it?””

    “”Some skirts ride-up,”” I said,  ““You never know.  You try them on in the store but you don’’t know if they ride-up or not until you wear them and sit down.  Some skirts ride-up when you sit down.  That skirt had a bad ride-up problem.””

    “”I see,”” Jim Davis said.  ““I will ask my wife about this ride-up problem,”” and he wrote it down on his ever present list of things to do, things to look up and questions to ask.

    Jim Cassell gave me a disbelieving look, “”I am not familiar with this skirt-ride up problem either,”” he said.

    I turned to Gwen.  “”Gwen,”” I asked, ““do some skirts have ride-up problems?””

    “”Oh yes,”” Gwen said very seriously.   ““You try them on in the store but you never sit down.  Some skirts have a bad ride-up problem and you don’’t know until the first time you wear it.””  She nodded her head vigorously.

    Both Jims were looking back and forth from one to the other of us.

    “”Well, Jim,”” Jim Cassell said, ““You let me know after you ask your wife,”” and he was about to walk away.

    “”Did he say anything about my shirt?”” I asked.

    ““No,”” Jim Cassell said.  ““Did your shirt have a problem too?””

    ““It shrank!”” I exclaimed.  ““It was the first time I washed and dried it and when I put it on it had shrunk.  Is it shrunk or shrank?”” I asked.  “”I always get those two confused.””

     Jim gave me a doleful look, ““I believe it’’s shrunk.””

    “”Thank you,”” I said. ““The shirt shrunk.””

    ““How much did the shirt shrink?”” he asked.

    ““Quite a bit,”” I said. ” “It was tight.””

    ““How tight was it?”” Jim asked.

    ““It was quite tight,”” I said.

    ““Have you ever worn that shirt here?”” he asked.

    “”Oh, no,”” I said.  ““I washed it again and it shrunk even more.  I’’d be arrested if I wore that shirt.””

    ““I see,”” Jim said as he gave me another doleful look and was about to walk away.

   ““I’’ve never had a shirt shrink at a better time,”” I said smiling.

    He looked at me.  ““So you’’re saying your skirt had a ride-up problem and your shirt shrunk?”” he asked.

   “”Exactly!”” I said.

    He was thinking fast.  He stopped in front of Gwen’’s desk.  ““Gwen,”” he said, ““do you remember when you interviewed that politician?  You looked very nice that day.  As I recall your skirt was quite short.””

    Gwen was awkwardly looking down at her hands. ““Well, um, yes,”” she said.  

    ““Did you get a good story, Gwen?”” I asked. 

    She turned and gave me a broad smile, ““Yes,”” she said, ““I got quite a good story.””

    “”Men are so easy!” I said and we both howled.

    Jim looked back and forth as if this thought had never entered his mind before.  He shook his head and walked back into his office.

     Three minutes later we heard a roar of laughter.  ““The shirt shrank,”” he said and he roared again. 

    Both Jim’s reported the following night that they had checked with their wives who confirmed that skirts, can indeed, have a ride-up problem. 

Out of the utmost respect for Chuck Stone, I need to say that I didn’’t really get the story that way – well, yes and no, but not the way you think.  But then, that’’s another story.

COMING NEXT – THE KLAN

http://www.lipnews.com/TribuneDays3.html

WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?

04.04.14 Shooting 407 Howard Ave.

                     6 April 2014 by Det. Lt. Jarrad P. Berkihiser

     On Saturday, April 4th approximately 9:19PM Officers were dispatched to the report of a shooting at the Crispus Attucks Center, 407 Howard Ave.  Upon arrival officers located the shooting victim, a 16 year old male from Lancaster City suffering from a single gunshot wound to the leg.  The victim was transported to Lancaster General Hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening wound.  Based on the preliminary investigation it appears that the victim was shot inside the center during a private party.  
     While officers were investigating the shooting numerous fights were reported in the general area of Howard Ave. which required officers to request assistance from Manheim Township police to assist with crowd control.  No arrests have been made and the shooting remains under investigation.  
     Anyone that has information about this shooting are encouraged to call the Lancaster City Police or the Lancaster City/County Crime Stoppers.  
A press release on the Lancaster Police website (click here).  
      Obviously Saturday’s date was the 5th, not the 4th, but what the heck is going on? 
Please check back later today.

BREAKING NEWS – NOT SHACKED UP!

KIRKPATRICK & GLINES:
MARRIED BY J. RICHARD GRAY!

      John A Kirpatrick III, President of the Lancaster Newspapers, and Sara Lee Glines, Publisher of the York Newspapers, were married on Feburary 1st of this year by Mayor J. Richard Gray at 120 N. Duke Street (City Hall).  Previously knowing that they had puchased a lovely five bedroom, 3006 square feet, stone home for $344,200 on Wheatland Avenue in Lancaster, I was planning on running a shocking “shacked up” headline.  Today, I check the marriage records and they bought the home one day before being married by the Mayor!
     I’m sure LNP owner Peggy Steinman is pleased and plus she has gained control of the York papers and there is no better way to kiss the Mayor’s butt than to have him perform the ceremony!  Ain’t Lancaster great!  Their lovely new home is below!
[Editor's note:  Carol Power will not like the tax assessment amount on this home!]

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!

EXCESSIVE FORCE
ON FIRST FRIDAY?

* BREAKING NEWS – SHOT FIRED

***BREAKING NEWS ***

      A shot was fired this morning in the 200 block of South Queen Street just before 8:00 am.  Police alerted LGH that someone might seek medical treatment for a gunshot wound.  It apparently involved a fight and police are on the scene just below the Save-A-Lot.

Picture courtesy of “Must See Pics an Vids” Facebook page.

Check back as the story develops.

** UPDATED – * UPDATED 4-3-14 – EQUAL JUSTICE? – 4

 **    I don’t know, Lauren Gardill.  How does a couple end up naming their son Devin?  You and your husband both receive paychecks from the public; your husband, James Gardill, as a West Hempfield police officer and you as an employee of the Hempfield School District.  I find the racist posts on your Facebook page (including the video linked to below and embedded on your page so you can view it there) extremely, extremely disturbing and offensive.  Enough so that both you and your husband’s jobs should be challenged.   

* UPDATED – 4-3-14 – Should an employee of a public school district and the wife of a policeman post this video on her Facebook page?  (Warning: extremely racist and disturbing!)

SIX FIRST DEGREE FELONIES -
UNSECURED BAIL!

“Devin’s Double Door Kick,” posted on Luke Karpathios’ YouTube channel (profanity warning and you can follow the link in the video to it on YouTube).  The pictures of Devin Gardill below are from his “MySpace” page.

     The photos on the right immediately above are the photos of Devin Gardill and Luke Karpathios being used by the Lancaster Newspapers today to accompany the story, “Attorney General takes over violent home invasion case that involved W. Hempfield cop’s son,” (click here).

ANOTHER SHOOTING LAST NIGHT!

AND NOT A WORD
ABOUT IT FROM LNP!

     Last night per scanner -  call dispatched at 11:17, shot fired, man down 600 block N Plum.  Body gone when police arrived, 1 ran North 1 ran South.  Guy running in alley carrying shotgun.  Blood at scene.  Per LGH guy walked in ER with bloody hand, he says he passed out and woke up with bloody hand.  Police follow blood trail to N Lime St.
     This email in this morning and also a phone call from another person who listened to the scanner last night and heard the exact same thing.
     This is shocking!  A shotgun!  Why isn’t the public being informed of these very serious incidents?  Do the Lancaster Police ever make arrests?  Is anyone, anyone at all surprised that Lancaster is #13 on a list of the most dangerous small cities in the country?  What are Mayor Gray and Police Chief Sadler doing about this besides saying it’s not true? 
    This is an outrage and I will come back to all of this tomorrow.

LNP: FAILURE TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC!

THEY HAVE AN OBLIGATION
TO INFORM & PROTECT THE PUBLIC!

* UPDATED – LNP: NO ETHICS WHATSOEVER!

 * Joe!  Representative Joe Pitts.  This is Beverly (Peggy) Steinman, owner of the Lancaster Newspapers!  Would you like some money?  I have lots!  Let me open my Vera Bradley handbag and give you some.  I give under the name “Showcase of Fashions,” don’t you know?  We sell lovely Vera Bradley bags and that’s about all, Joe.  But go here and see if there’s something your wife might like!  We’ll call it a tax “write off!!”  I’ve made millions off the people of Lancaster County, don’t you know?

Ethically challenged: Pa. Legislature must end gift charade

The title to today’s Intell editorial, (click here). 

     This is the most outrageous, hypocritical, pot calling the kettle black headline I have yet to see in the Lancaster Newspapers.  They have zero eithics!  Absolutely zero! Tell it to your boss, Beverly Steinman, Earle D. Cornelius!
Please check back later today.

GET A LOOK AT THIS?

WOOF!  WOOF!

      LNP ???  They MUST have another animal story on deck.
      This comment came in yesterday regarding the Lancaster Newspapers and their failure to cover Lancaster being named one of the 13 most dangerous small cities in the country.  And, of course, the day would also bring the plea and sentencing of G. Scott Davis, House Member Bryan Cutler’s brother-in-law, for the Christmas Eve shooting death of his two-month-old daughter.    
     But what was on LNP Executive Editor Barbara Hough Roda’s mind yesterday?  Dogs!  Yup!  Barbara made one tweet yesterday and this is it (click here):
     Get a look at agile canines at the Kennel Club show
– with a link to a group of pictures of sad looking dogs going through an “agility competition” in Harrisburg on Lancaster Online (click here).
     This is so pathetic it’s almost funny.  Is it possible for this paper to go any more to the dogs than Roda has taken it?
     Please check back later today when we’ll check to see if LNP reporter Bernie Harris or Mayor Rick Gray has a brain and much, much more!

* UPDATED – BRYAN CUTLER’S BROTHER-IN-LAW GETS PROBATION! – LANCASTER: #13 MOST DANGEROUS IN COUNTRY!

** UPDATED – * DAVIS TO PLEAD TOMORROW

** This afternoon’s update is under the comments on this post and directed at Steven D. Markle of Leola.

 *    This comment in this morning under the J&K story:

LIP News, please get your facts straight or take down this article…

 Q: Why did J&K Supermarket close?
A: J&K Supermarket’s lease term ended, so the business has moved to the Coatesville area.

 Q: Is that the owner of J&K Supermarket, the person pictured and interviewed?
A: No, he is NOT the owner, he served as their full time cashier.

 J&K Supermarket’s owners chose to save a few dollars, and as a result did not secure the business and premises properly.

 Radius Bike Shop coming soon!
545 New Holland Ave | Lancaster, PA

     Nice little ad for your new bike shop!  You, in fact, are wrong on these items and I will address all your points later!

UNKNOWN IF SENTENCING
WILL ALSO OCCUR

     According to his docket and the court calendar, G. Scott Davis is due to plead guilty tomorrow to involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment, and endangering the welfare of a child in the Christmas Eve shooting death of his two-month-old daughter.  It is scheduled for 3:00 pm in Courtroom number 8 before Judge Dennis Reinaker. 
     For those having trouble finding his docket, you can use his OTN (offense tracking number) of T-4168496 or his docket number which is CP-36-CR-0000384-2014.
Please check back later today.

* LIKE A BLANKET!

* Doing some research this afternoon – back tomorrow.

AN INDEPENDENT
MONITOR OF POWER?

      Under Bob’s [Robert Krasne, publisher and chairman of the board of Lancaster Newspapers]  direction, the LNP’s strategic restructuring has gained traction. “We have a strong balance sheet and very bright prospects. The most notable change is our focus on local news and information and connecting with the community. Our mission is to be the source of information for every resident of Lancaster County. We don’t have bureaus in Washington or Benghazi. We want to cover Lancaster County like a blanket.”   
Business to Business on Robert Krasne in December of 2013 (click here and you may have to register to read the entire article.  The above is the last paragraph). 
     I’ve been thinking about this a lot.  What he really means is the only source of information.  I love the “blanket” line.  “We will tell them what we want them to know and that is all they will know!  We will control this town and run things the way we want to run them as we have been doing for years.  We will keep the white, privileged and elite in power no matter what!  And we’ll make millions as we do it!”
     These newspapers don’t even qualify to be a legitimate news source.  They violate every single rule of the PEW Principles of Journalism (click here).  Every single one!
     All of this, of course, is why the Lancaster Independent Press was founded over 40 years ago.  I wonder if Beverly Steinman, the owner of LNP, has made another donation to U.S. Representative Joe Pitts’ campaign recently.  She’s a one person bankroll of that dinosaur.  Unbelievable!
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