Man shot in Columbia - News - LancasterOnline.com

A man was shot in the head in Columbia late Wednesday night.

Medical personnel, along with police from multiple jurisdictions, responded to the area of 224 N. Third St. just before 10:20 p.m.

A suspect fled on foot.

Police were looking for a dark-skinned Hispanic man with dreadlocks.

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/817465_Man-shot-in-Columbia.html

"Red means stop!" Appoint Hellboy as Borough Traffic Control Officer

Wrightsville Man Busted in Underage Sex Sting | WPMT FOX43

Three men were arrested after setting up what they thought were sexual trysts with underage girls. The Office of Attorney General's Child Predator Unit busted the suspects when they showed up to meet their online chat partners for sex. Only, instead of the 13- and 14-year-old girls they thought they were meeting, they came face-to-face with the law.

http://fox43.com/2013/02/20/wrightsville-man-busted-in-underage-sex-sting/

What I Saw - 2/19/13

 At the end of an overcast and rainy day, the sun finally tried to break through the clouds, as seen here reflected in the asphalt.

And this is what the inside of an empty Turkey Hill Minit Market looks like.

(On Route 462, across from 9th Street)

Prestige of new medal for drone pilots rankles some, including PA Senator

Count US Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa) among those taking umbrage with the status of a new medal created by the Pentagon for drone operators. The Distinguished Warfare Medal will be awarded to pilots of unmanned aircraft, cyber war experts or others who are directly involved in combat operations but who are not physically present in the combat zone and facing the same physical risks of warfare. The Pentagon is adding prestige to the medal by placing it above some traditional combat valor medals in the military's "order of precedence."

http://fox43.com/2013/02/19/prestige-of-new-medal-for-drone-pilots-rankles-some-including-pa-senator/

Missing Elizabethtown Girl, Daysha Conner | WPMT FOX43

Tell police if you have seen this 15-year-old girl, Daysha Conner. She has dark brown hair with blue and purple coloring underneath, and blue eyes. She is 136 lbs, 5'2″, and has a mole on her right cheek. She also has a small mole by her nose on the left side of her face. She goes to Elizabethtown High School, Pennsylvania. Her birthday is today, February 19, 2013. She went missing on February 11, 2013.
Contact your local police department if you have seen her.
http://fox43.com/2013/02/18/missing-elizabethtown-girl-daysha-conner/#axzz2LHHx8b66

"Red Means STOP!"

I just saw a driver turn left on red. The car turned up Locust Street from the red light at the intersection at Route 462.  Last week, I saw a car totally ignore a red light at Cherry Street and 462 - in the morning, when school kids were gathering on the Cherry Street sidewalk of Park Elementary.  The driver wasn't trying to make a yellow light that suddenly turned red. The light was already red and had been for at least 10 seconds. He just didn't want to stop and chose to drive right through the light as if it didn't exist and then "flew" out the highway.

From what I've seen over the past year (at least), these two incidents are not isolated. They're commonplace.  Drivers ignore red lights and blow through stop signs routinely. The practice has become epidemic around town. I hate to be a doomsayer, but if it continues, which it probably will, there's bound to a tragedy - sooner rather than later.