Bensalem News

Bensalem officials remained tight-lipped about a "suspicious" fire in the police department parking lot that apparently started in a patrol car and damaged two employee cars.

A man and a woman from Middletown are in trouble for leaving their young sons at home alone while the couple gambled at Parx Casino in Bensalem.

When theA Corbett administration and Republican lawmakers criticized school districts for raising taxes while sitting on fund balances, they were pointingA fingers at a district like Bensalem.

Bensalem Township School District's budget guru on Thursday said that a new six-year contract with the teachers union contains enough reductions in cost increases that it will pay for salary increases.

The following local students recently earned college degrees: Michael Sean Roberto, son of Mary Anne and Matthew Roberto of Bensalem, graduated from Saint Michael's College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems.

Police later learned the boy and his brother were left home alone by their parents so they could gamble at the Parx casino in Bensalem.

The following arrest information was provided by the Bensalem Township Police Department.

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"Take me out to the ballgame Take me out with the crowd; Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if I never get back." This week, readers voted for the best place in Bensalem to watch a ballgame.

BENSALEM, Pa. - If you suddenly find an extra $69,300 in your bank account, don't spend it, whatever you do.

Cold-blooded, cash-hungry and cruel was the picture a district attorney attempted to paint of three Trenton men accused of murdering Bucks County musician Danny DeGennaro, 56, during a botched robbery last December.

The following information was provided by the Pennsylvania State Police Trevose Station.

Forty-three-year-old Deborah Gore, a 17-year veteran of the police force, was arrested on Thursday, allegedly for stealing from the Kohl's store in Bensalem.

John Becker is said to have shown his Hatboro Police Department badge while hawking firearms allegedly stolen from the station's evidence locker.

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The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has released an advisory, cautioningA motorists traveling westbound on the PA Turnpike between the Delaware Valley and Willow Grove Interchange to be prepared for a double-lane traffic pattern to be in effect tonight, Tuesday fromA 9 p.m. until 6 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Prosecutors on Tuesday hinted that they may be willing to make a deal with some of the people accused of taking part in Levittown musician Danny DeGennaro's murder.

A federal judge has sentenced an Ohio man to just over six years in prison after he and his wife pleaded guilty in a plot to ship money to a Mideast terrorist group.

The following arrest information was provided by the Bensalem Township Police Department.

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