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Survivors of siege of Aleppo evacuate, marking the end of rebellion.
Special, hand-painted ornaments adorn the state Christmas tree in the Capitol rotunda.
Another arson at another local tire shop — the second in 5 days.
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Mayor’ss Commission Mayor’ Commission to Combat Combat Poverty
Killer charged in bank robbery
FUTURE OF LANCASTER
THE CHALLENGE AN AMBITIOUS 15-YEAR PLAN AIMS TO CUT CITY POVERTY IN HALF AND PUT 3,000 LOW-WAGE WORKERS INTO GOOD JOBS
Convicted of murdering ex-wife, man out on parole JONAS FORTUNE
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A 73-ye 73-year-old ar-old Mount Joy man accused of stabbing a bank employee during an attempted bank robbery Wednesday in Elizabethtown is a convicted murderer who was paroled in 2015, state records show. Harvey Cyrus Fitz III, 73, was sentenced to 17 1/2 to 40 years in state prison for the 1997 killing of his ex-wife, Connie Sue (Myers) Fitz, formerly of Ephrata, at his Hershey apartment. The two were in an argument Feb. 8, 1997, when Harvey Fitz, then 53, shot 28-year-old Connie Sue Fitz in the back as she attempted to leave, according to media records. Fitz subsequently was convicted of ROBBERY, page A11 KEITH SCHWEIGERT | STAFF
The 1960s urban renewa renewall in Lancaster’s Southeast created tracts of public housing, cementing concentrated concentrated poverty poverty for decades. POLITICS
Trump train stops in Hershey President-elect stirs crowd with recounting of victory
Commission: Newly formed, diverse coalition to tackle problems JEFF HAWKES
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A speci special al commi commission ssion that has spent the past year studying ways to help the poor in Lancaster has issued an ambitious, 15-year plan to lift at least half out of poverty and place 3,000 into good-paying jobs. The Mayor’s Commission to Combat Poverty is also tapping a new, permanent coalition to lead the charge in halving the city’s poverty rate, which at 29 percent exceeds the rates for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, by 2032. “Fifteen years and get rid of half of the POVERTY, page A4
Analysis: Report fails to find plan to mend city’s city’s geographic geographi c fracture fracture
MORE ON POVERTY Graphic shows the rate at which local poverty rates are increasing. Page A4 Map shows city poverty rates by census tracts; highest rate in southeast quadrant. Page A4 The cost to eliminate poverty in the city? About $57 million a year, according to U.S. Census Bureau. Page A5
JEFF HAWKES
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The mayor’s poverty commission has issued a report touching on Lancaster’s long embrace of segregation without making a case for how to redress wrongs that embedded Lancaster County’s deepest poverty south of King Street. It’s an omission that matters. The prevalence of poverty in Lancaster is entwined with the geography of poverty. Lancaster’s Southeast, long synonymous with housing for poor minorities, now has a census tract where, for the first time, more ANALYSIS, page A4
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally Thursday in Hershey.
Startup eyes Leola for medical marijuana
SAM JANESCH
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HERSHEY — President-elect Donald Trump gave a nearly 20-minute playby-play of election night and reiterated campaign promises in a return to central Pennsylvania on Thursday night for his multistate “Thank You Tour.” Tour.” “I will never forget you, and I will never, ever stop fighting for you,” Trump told the nearly filled 10,000-plus seat TRUMP, page A12
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Three former Sunday school classmates from county team up to form company CHAD UMBLE
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Three former Sunday school classmates at a Mennonite church in Lancaster County say they are seeking a license to operate a medical marijuana growing and processing busi-
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ness in Leola. An Ephrata denti dentist, st, a Lititz poultry scientist and a New York lawyer have teamed up to form M3C Agriculture LLC, which has outlined the plans in a two-page summary submitted to Upper Leacock Town-
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ship supervisors. The operation would produce pure medical marijuana products for delivery to state dispensaries, where it could be prescribed for a variety of medical issues, according to
Massachusetts legalizes the recreational use of marijuana. Page A9
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