Catching Up On The News Executive Passes Killed In Fire City Police Sued Pipeline Pathway Corruption Case On Probation Shooting Arrest Fraud…

Catching Up On The News Executive Passes Killed In Fire City Police Sued Pipeline Pathway Corruption Case On Probation Shooting Arrest Fraud Conviction Sturla Fires Aide Gender Pay Gap

The following is a look at local news events during the week of April 6.

Steinman Enterprises adviser Willis W. Shenk, 98, died Saturday, April 12, after serving the company for 65 years and retiring as chairman of the board in 2004. He also served as a trustee to the two Steinman foundations, which recently merged.

Christina Joy Shanholtz, 33, and her two dogs died as fire ravaged a home on Newport Road in Penn Township early Sunday, April 6.

Lancaster city resident Trina Howze claimed in a lawsuit that a city police officer pepper-sprayed her for no reason on Nov. 2. She is seeking more than $75,000 to compensate for a chipped tooth, back pain and emotional distress.

Landowners learned Monday that the right of way for a natural gas pipeline proposed by the Houston firm Williams Partners would run parallel to a power line in southern Lancaster County but would not follow an existing easement in northern Lancaster County. A public meeting on the 35-mile line is set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at 150 N. Duke St.

Emily A. Stone, 36, of Conestoga, smoked marijuana with two Penn Manor High School students and sold drugs to one of them, police said. She faces drug and corruption of minor charges.

Parents William Herman, 24, and Pearl Herman, 25, Ephrata, were placed on three years' probation for housing an infant boy in a filthy mobile home inhabited by more than 100 animals. Grandfather Robert Herman Sr. is already serving two years' probation.

Police on Monday charged Ryan Rivera, 16, with shooting a boy, 16, in the leg while at a private birthday party at Crispus Attucks Community Center on Saturday.

Jay Stout, 55, a former Elizabethtown resident and owner of Flying Tigers, an aircraft inspection and repair business near Marietta, was found guilty of fraud Wednesday in federal court in Philadelphia.

Rep. Mike Sturla fired one of his aides after she was charged with insurance fraud, it was reported Friday. Vanessa Rodriguez, 32, of Lancaster, was charged in connection to a January incident at her home.

A U.S. Census Bureau survey reported that Lancaster County women earn on average 59 cents for every $1 that men earn here, compared to 77 cents for every $1 men earn nationwide.