York County

FireLineboro: Firefighters from Lineboro, Manchester, Hampstead and York County, Pa., Station 52, responded at 4: 27 p.m. Thursday to smoke in a basement in the 3300 block of Tracey Mill Road. Units were out 31 minutes.

FiresLineboro: Firefighters from Lineboro and Manchester responded at 3: 25 p.m. Wednesday to assist on a three-alarm building fire in York County.Hampstead: Firefighters responded at 8: 54 a.m. Wednesday to a gas leak on Northwoods Trail at Route 30. Units were out 90 minutes.

FireLineboro: Firefighters from Lineboro, Manchester and Hampstead assisted crews from York County at 11: 03 p.m. Thursday at a house fire on Route 516 near the state line. Units were out 90 minutes.

FireLineboro: Firefighters responded at 10: 52 a.m. Tuesday to a house fire on Watertank Road, York County, Pa. Units were out two hours and 40 minutes.

FireLineboro: Firefighters from Lineboro and Manchester responded to a house fire in York County, Pa., at 9: 15 p.m. Thursday. Units were out 26 minutes.

Take the Smithsonian on your next tripThe Smithsonian Institution offers information about its 300-plus study tours on its Web site (www.si.edu/tsa/sst). Although simple, the site is comprehensive and sorts the trips by category, such as Family Adventures, Odyssey Tours, International River and Ocean Voyages and Civil War Study Tours and Seminars.Vacations range from three days to three weeks and take groups of about 20 people.Some of this year's Odyssey Tours include crossing the Pyrenees (Sept.

FiresManchester: Firefighters transferred an engine to the Lineboro station at 3: 27 p.m. Wednesday. Units were out more than two hours.Lineboro: Firefighters transferred an engine to the Jefferson Station, York County, Pa., at 2: 59 p.m. Wednesday. Units were out more than two hours.

FireLineboro: Firefighters from Lineboro and Manchester responded at 1: 30 a.m. yesterday to a barn fire on Route 216 and Glenville Road in York County, Pa. Units were out three hours.

FireManchester: Firefighters from Manchester, Hampstead, Lineboro, Westminster, Arcadia in Baltimore County and Pleasant Hill in York County, Pa., responded at 5: 14 a.m. Friday to a woods fire in the 3300 block of Locust Street. Units were out three hours.

FiresHampstead: Firefighters responded at 3: 31 p.m. Monday to a brush fire in the 200 block of Hanover Pike. Units were out six minutes.Lineboro: Firefighters transferred an engine at 11: 17 p.m. Saturday to the Jefferson Fire Department in York County, Pa. Units were out one hour and 38 minutes.Hampstead: Firefighters responded at 2: 03 p.m. Friday to an investigation of a possible fire in the 2800 block of Cape Horn Road. Units were out 10 minutes.Pub Date: 9/16/98

Beleaguered commuters from southern Pennsylvania to Maryland will have a new alternative to driving down Interstate 83 starting today: hopping on a bus from York that connects with Baltimore's light rail system. York County's public transportation system, rabbittransit, will run six round trips each weekday day between York and Shrewsbury, Pa., and the Timonium/Hunt Valley area. The rabbitEXPRESS service, a three-year demonstration project funded by the federal government's Congestion Mitigation Air Quality fund, comes at a time when Maryland has been shedding commuter routes in response to budget problems.

A Pennsylvania municipal official and former police officer charged with raping a woman in Southeast Baltimore has fled after being charged with two other rapes in his home county, and police say he is considered an armed and dangerous serial rapist. Michael L. Johnson Jr., 40, was arrested Dec. 1 at his Hanover, Pa., home and charged in connection with the Baltimore attack, in which a man claiming to be a Maryland state trooper assaulted a woman as she was handcuffed inside a minivan.

The president of a York County township's board of commissioners - a former police officer and Army veteran - was arrested after a two-hour standoff at his home Monday and charged with raping a woman in Baltimore last month, police said. Michael L. Johnson Jr., 40, of Hanover in southwestern York County, Pa., is accused of posing as a police officer and picking up a 21-year-old woman in the Baltimore Highlands area of southeast Baltimore on Nov. 2. He allegedly told her he was arresting her for prostitution as part of a sting operation and handcuffed her to the back seat of his minivan, which had its windows covered with sheets.

Looking for a place to stay for the inaugural festivities? How about $5,800 for a week in a 7,000-square-foot house in Mitchellville? Or $6,000 for "Large Estate Style home in Montgomery County"? On a tighter budget? Maybe a New Carrollton "1 BDR, 1 bath Condo" for $200 a night would do the trick. Four-night minimum, but take heart: There's a high-speed cable modem, and smoking is negotiable. Excited supporters of President-elect Barack Obama are busy laying plans to travel to Washington so they can witness history in the making.

The Harford County sheriff has ordered a review of departmental policies after the office failed to notify state authorities this week that a man undergoing an evaluation at a psychiatric hospital had been charged with rape in Pennsylvania. Instead, Paul D. McGlothlin, 32, was left unattended in an unlocked room on the open campus of Spring Grove State Hospital Center in Catonsville, officials said. Early Tuesday, he fled the hospital, apparently after cutting through mesh wiring affixed to a window.

On July 16, 2007, LINDA L. (Holcolmb) SHANABROUGH; beloved wife of Joseph E. J. Shanabrough; loving mother of Jamie and Paige; dear sister of Cosby and Charles "Buddy" Lightfoot. Also survived by five grandchildren, one great-grandchild and a host of loving nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends in the LEMMON FUNERAL HOME OF DULANEY VALLEY INC., 10 W. Padonia Road (at York Road) Timonium, MD 21093 on Friday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services and Interment will be held in Dillwyn, VA. Expressions of sympathy may be directed in Linda's memory to the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454 Alexandria, VA, 22313 and/or the American Heart Association, Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, 4217 Park Place Court, Glen Allen, VA 23060 and/or the SPCA of York County, 3159 Susquehanna Trail North, York, PA, 17406.

STEWARTSTOWN, PA. -- After hearing testimony about the extreme pain suffered by a former Baltimore County woman who died covered with deep bedsores, a Pennsylvania judge ruled yesterday that the case against her son and his wife, who have been charged with first-degree murder in her death, should move to trial. William Donohue, 72, and Frances Donohue, 60, were arrested in March and charged with murder in the May 2004 death of his mother, Bernadette Leiben, 87. At a preliminary hearing yesterday, prosecutors presented evidence showing that Leiben apparently did not receive medical care after she and the Donohues moved from the Jacksonville area of Baltimore County to a farmhouse just over the Pennsylvania border nearly a year before she died.

WALTER "Sonny" E. OCH, born on September 3, 1947 passed away suddenly at his home early Wednesday morning, September 6, 2006. He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Patricia Davenport Och; two sons, Whitney and Ivey Och; one daughter, Kelli Wise and one granddaughter, Izzabella Och. Donations can be made in his name to the York County, PA SPCA.

Ex-Loyola student charged in fire at professor's Pa. home SHREWSBURY, Pa. -- Police in York County, Pa., have charged a former Loyola College student with attempted homicide and arson after they say he set fire to a former professor's home early yesterday. Southern Regional Police in York County accused 25-year-old Garrett Alder of Manchester, Conn., of setting fire to the garage attached to the home of Bradley T. Erford. Flames spread to the home. Erford and his two children were home but were not injured, authorities said.

After serving less than 12 months of an 18-month term in the county jail for raping and sexually abusing an elementary school-age girl, former Carroll County schools Superintendent William H. Hyde is expected to be released today. But he won't be a free man. Officials from the York County, Va., Sheriff's Department said they plan to take him into custody the moment he is released from the Carroll County Detention Center. He is charged with abusing the same girl he was convicted of abusing in Carroll County in the summer of 2002 during a trip to Virginia.