On 29 April 2008, two teens Ryan Herbert and Brendan Harris were convicted for the murder of Lancaster and given life sentences, three others were given lesser sentences for the assault on her boyfriend Robert Maltby.

* 1938 – Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Ron Lancaster, American-Canadian football player ( b. 1938 )

The Lancaster Barnstormers and the York Revolution followed suit in 2009, primarily because of the 2008 economic recession.

Voting was restricted to the adult male owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more – the equivalent of about £ 80 as of 2008 – and votes could only be cast at the county town of Lancaster, by a public spoken declaration at the hustings.

As of 2008, the ratio of Republicans to Democrats in Lancaster County now stands at 1. 8 Republicans to 1 Democrat, down from a 3-1 advantage for the Republicans in the late 1990s.

* Robert James Lancaster, Sr. ( January 16, 1920 — October 14, 2008 ), was a farmer and small businessman who served for twenty years on the St. Joseph Town Council.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Lancaster spent 1. 74 % ($ 259, 465 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 36 per person.

Lancaster County is number 147 in US micropolitan areas ; with a 2008 population estimate of 73, 393 in the micropolitan area.

The Lancaster District School No. 6 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Six of those paintings are highlighted in Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth ’ s Late Paintings of Lancaster, a 2007 Amon Carter Museum retrospective of his work, displayed in 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

* October 14-Ron Lancaster, Canadian football player and coach ( d. 2008 )

A fire also destroyed much of the Lancaster County, South Carolina Courthouse in August 2008.

In February 2008 the Baden-Powell Scouts opened Fakenham Lancaster Baden-Powell Air Scouts, giving the town two active Scout groups for the first time in 39 years.

In 2008 Conservative MP Mark Lancaster flew business class to Bangkok with the British Council for a two-day conference, at a cost of £ 5, 018.

Plans were announced in March 2008 to raise the funds necessary to get the Lancaster into the air again.

Recent Celebrants have included: The Right Reverend Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2012 ); The Reverend Paul Keane, Old Oratorian and Chaplain to the University of Essex ( 2011 ); The Very Reverend Richard Duffield, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory and Promoter of the Cause of Canonisation for John Henry Cardinal Newman ( 2010 ); The Very Reverend Robert Byrne, Provost of the Oxford Oratory ( 2009 ); The Right Reverend Patrick O ' Donoghue, Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster ( 2008 ); The Right Reverend Dom Aidan Bellenger, Abbot of Downside ( 2007 ); Archbishop Maurice Couve de Murville, Archbishop Emeritus of Birmingham ( 2006 ); The Right Reverend Dom Cuthbert Brogan, Abbot of Farnborough ( 2005 ); The Right Reverend Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2004 ); The Right Reverend Bishop George Stack, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2003 ); His Eminence Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O ’ Connor, Archbishop of Westminster ( 2002 ); The Right Reverend Bishop Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds ( 2001 ); Bishop Victor Guazzelli, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2000 ); The Abbot of Ampleforth ( 1999 ); The Catholic Chaplain to Harrow School ( 1998 ); the Provost of the London Oratory ( 1997 ); the Apostolic Nuncio ( 1996 ); His Eminence George Basil Cardinal Hume ( 1995 ); Dom Stanislaus Hobbs of St Benedict ’ s Abbey, Ealing ( 1994 ); the Master of St Benet ’ s Hall, Oxford ( 1993 ); and the Provost of the Oxford Oratory ( 1992 ).

Stockton won its 11th championship with a 9 – 3 win over the Lancaster JetHawks on Sept. 14, 2008.

), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Frankfurt / Lancaster, ontos verlag, 2008.

Ronald " Ron " Lancaster ( October 14, 1938 – September 18, 2008 ) was one of the pre-eminent quarterbacks of the Canadian Football League during his playing career ; after his retirement as a player, he was also coach and general manager in the same league, and a sports announcer for CBC Television.

Alison Weir's non-fiction study, Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess ( 2008 ) ( U. S. title, Mistress of the Monarchy, The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster ) examines the book in historiographic terms and, while praising its general historical accuracy, categorizes it as primarily a feminist romance.

In March 2007, Lancaster announced that he would retire as system president in the spring of 2008.

LeCroy then signed with the Lancaster Barnstormers of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball in April 2008.

Jordan Herr, also one of Tom's sons, played for the Lancaster Barnstormers for the 2008 season.

Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Nearly 100 children at the center of an international scandal that left them stranded at an orphanage in remote eastern Chad returned home after nearly five months March 14, 2008.

Georgia left the CIS in August 2008 after a clash with Russia over South Ossetia.

He left again and then returned 42 years later in 2008.

She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.

Jeff Penalty left the band in March 2008 in what he describes as a " not amicable split.

The letters of the captain and alternate captains were moved to the player's right shoulder ; Detroit is the only team in the league that made this change ( the change was necessitated by the stitching of the sweater ), although the 2008 NHL All Star jerseys featured this as well, and the Captain and Alternate Captain's letters have switched back to the left shoulder as of the 2011 – 12 NHL Season.

Many international artists such as Banksy have left their work in Melbourne and in early 2008 a perspex screen was installed to prevent a Banksy stencil art piece from being destroyed, it has survived since 2003 through the respect of local street artists avoiding posting over it, although it has recently had paint tipped over it.

Georgia relationships with Russia are at it lowest point in modern history due to Georgian-Russian espionage controversy and due to the 2008 South Ossetia war, Georgia broke off diplomatic relations with Russia and has left the Commonwealth of Independent States.

In 2008, Pegasus Books published The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II: The Seed of Banquo, a play by American author and playwright Noah Lukeman which endeavoured to pick up where the original Macbeth left off, and to resolve its many loose ends.

Matt Kelland of Short Fuze ( left ) and Keith Halper of Kuma Reality Games at the 2008 Machinima Film Festival with the Mackie award for Best Technical Achievement

In January 2008, Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella launched an attack on Fraser, after a speech he gave at Melbourne University on " the Bush Administration ( reversing ) 60 years of progress in establishing a law-based international system ", claiming errors and " either intellectual sloppiness or deliberate dishonesty ", and that he tacitly supports Islamic fundamentalism, should have no influence on foreign policy, and that his stance on the war on terror has left him open to caricature as a " frothing-at-the-mouth leftie ".

In 2008, a group of scientists examined 11 vials left over from Miller's experiments of the early 1950s.

Argentine communist revolutionary Che Guevara ( left ) and Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008

In 2008, Nayak left the party to rejoin the Congress Party.

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Austin left Broken Bow in 2008.

* With Stadiums Going, Going, Ashes May Be Gone by James Barron, The New York Times, New York edition, October 11, 2008, Page A17, retrieved on October 12, 2008 grieve over ashes smuggled into and left under or over Shea and Yankee stadiums.

" Bernstein subsequently left in early 2008, but the struggling network remained on the air with a revamped line-up.

In April 2008, Barber left and was replaced by Chris Remmington.

John Linnell stated in an interview in early 2008 that Dial-A-Song had died of a technical crash, and that the Internet had taken over where the machine left off.

During May and June 2008, Zanzibar suffered a major failure of its electricity system, which left the island without electricity for nearly a month.

The first major blackout, which left the islanders powerless and entirely dependent on alternative methods of electricity generation ( mainly diesel generators ), was from 21 May to 19 June 2008.