Columbia man charged with 2010 rape at Long's Park | Local News | lancasteronline.com

Todd Michael Lingafelt

A 24-year-old Columbia man has been charged with raping a woman at Long’s Park in August 2010 when he was 15 years old.

Todd Michael Lingafelt, of the 800 block of Barber Street, was charged Tuesday with forcible rape, two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, indecent assault and simple assault, according to court documents.

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Columbia citizens' group sues borough over loan program, tax hike | Local News | lancasteronline.com

A citizens' group in Columbia is suing the borough to end an economic development program and roll back a tax hike that they claim funds the program.

The action, filed by the recently formed Columbia Concerned Citizens Association, claims the borough's Commercial Loan Program, started last year, violates the state constitution and that the borough is violating state law by investing money in the program.

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Maxwell's "Radiation Funk": Song about Three Mile Island nuclear accident gave people a reason to smile – pennlive.com

Thanks to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident, longtime residents of south central Pennsylvania know we are the land of potassium iodide pills in your desk drawer, evacuation routes in your telephone book, and – if you’re lucky – a copy of “Radiation Funk” in your record collection.

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60-year employee at Anvil International in Columbia plans to 'get up and go' in retirement | Local Business | lancasteronline.com

When Dennis Wood wakes up on Monday morning, April 1, he’ll do something he hasn’t done in 60 years.

Not go to work.

Wood, who got a job in 1959 at what was then Grinnell, has worked since then at the Columbia manufacturer of iron pipe fittings and couplings. The plant now is named Anvil International.

During his six decades at the company, Wood has never taken a sick day, only gone on a handful of vacations and was absent only two weeks during a companywide strike in 1987.

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Second-chance construction crew transforming condemned houses in Lancaster, Columbia | Local News | lancasteronline.com

Governor Tom Wolf visited the CAPital Construction project at 304 Cherry Street last week.

Keith Brommer, an experienced carpenter, is the foreman for the extensive gutting and rehab of a row house at 304 Cherry St., Columbia. He likes that his classroom is an actual construction site.

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