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The Food and Drug Administration has attempted several times to get rid of menthol but faced pushback from Big Tobacco, members of Congress and competing political interests in both the Obama and Trump administrations.

Of the 231 competing applications, four received the top award of $3 million. Denver was the only maximum award winner in Lancaster County.

The rise to 669 new claims suggests that the economic indicator continues to be elevated by fresh filings from countians who’ve exhausted their first round of benefits a trend that has lifted the volume of new filings above 500 for six straight weeks.

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The gallery will unveil Lancaster 24/7, an exhibit two years in the making. In 2019, artists Rhoda Kahler and Darcie Goldberg visited Lancaster for a day, capturing scenes around the city in a single 24-hour period.

Rosings greenhouse is the latest addition to Longbourn Blooms, a flower farm in Lancaster’s southern end. Flower farmer Amanda Fogarty named her new greenhouse and her business after her favorite book.

The cow counting measured the interactions between wildlife and livestock where their ranges meet or overlap. Roughly a third of the United States’ land cover is rangeland, and where these grazing areas abut wildland, concerns over predation, competition and disease transmission are bound to arise.

With a continued increase in vaccine supply, we now have the ability to offer our community members convenient options for getting their COVID-19 shot, Dr. Michael Ripchinski, site director and chief clinical officer with Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health said in a press release.

Bathrooms can be the most humid room in the house, thanks to steamy showers and damp towels. Some plants love humid conditions and thrive in a bathroom. Our panel of plant experts throughout the Lancaster County region picked the best houseplants for bathrooms. Share your houseplants with us.

Beverly Goss lives in the former Mount Hope School in Pequea Township with her husband, Ken. This one-room schoolhouse taught children starting in 1879, including Beverly and her father. Over the past 50 years, the Gosses made changes large and small to make the one-room building a home fit for a family of four. Read and see more ... https://lanc.news/MtHope

The announcement comes as enrollment at both seminaries has fallen significantly over the past decade.

The shop at 47 N. Queen St. also said it will discontinue its retail hours and full menu next week, offering pickup-only service for online orders beginning Saturday, May 1, until their last day on May 30.

Stoltzfoos' remains were found along with a bonnet, dress and shoes "consistent with the clothing worn by Linda on the day of her disappearance," Adams said.

Hundreds of people who were laid off at the start of the pandemic, which began in March 2020, now are seeing their initial year of benefits end.

LIVE: Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams discusses the recent discover of human remains during the search for Amish teen Linda Stoltzfoos.

Whatever your holiday preferences, one thing’s for sure: there’s no shortage of holiday entertainment, or platforms on which to enjoy it all.

For refugees caught in the impasse, the delays threaten to undermine years of work put into the complicated process of applying for resettlement. That process can take many years of security clearances, health screenings, and in-person interviews, according to the International Rescue Committee, which aids displaced persons in 40 countries around the world.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday announced new statewide restrictions as COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise.

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For Todd Roy, the Conestoga River Club’s founder and president, the reasons to protect the local river are numerous. He spoke about the obvious environmental concerns, but also the seemingly endless hours of recreation the river presents to anglers and kayakers.

Like the 253 N. Queen St. store, the Rockvale Puff ‘N Stuff sells smoking accessories such as pipes, vaporizers, rolling paper, water pipes and bubblers and also offers incense, T-shirts and tapestries.

With the Pennsylvania Department of Health not tracking COVID-19 cases in schools, it's up to each district to notify the community of a positive test from someone inside its schools. Reporting methods differ wildly from district to district.

Dough & Co., a downtown Lancaster shop that featured raw cookie dough served like ice cream, is now closed. The last day for the shop at 46 N. Prince St. was Dec. 6, but the website continues to offer delivery of products.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom Newsom has mandated that all Thanksgiving celebrations be held outside, provided only three households are represented in the gathering. Of course, all mask-wearing and social distancing guidelines must be observed.

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Parts of Lancaster County got a coating to a half-inch of snow Wednesday morning as residents got their first taste of winter, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Danielle Knittle.

Kim Pantano says she wanted to figure out a way to combine her love of styling hair and working with people with special needs, but wasn’t sure how. Parents of her students would regularly approach her and ask if she knew a salon that could cater to special needs children. That gave me the idea, Pantano says. I wanted to reach out and cater to special needs because everybody needs their hair cut.

Marie Ditmore, 71, was reunited with family and located "safe and sound" around 3:30 a.m. on October 26, police said.

Colin Usher of Georgia Tech Research Institute said robots can reduce, but not eliminate, the need for farmers to spend time in the poultry houses. With less human contact, the possible spread of diseases like avian influenza is also reduced.

Here’s your 3 football facts for today from sports writer Jeff Reinhart.

OPINION: We’ve outlined some of the issues we hope Lancaster County residents consider when they cast their ballots for president.

In these troubled times of COVID-19, lots of people have retreated into their own safe havens. In so doing, they found the motivation to finally tackle long overdue tasks around the house.

It's the one time of year that you can replace your year-round sense of existential dread with willingly induced bouts of it, especially with the abundance of scary movies to stream.

When the pandemic hit, during one Zoom service, I thought ‘I’ll just go do some origami and at the end of the service I said, ‘Hey, check this out guys,’ and they just really liked it.

Marking another milestone in the price of running for local elected office, Democrat Janet Diaz raised $1.5 million over the summer through mid-October almost twice as much as incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Martin in the race to represent half of Lancaster County in Harrisburg.