Bristol News

Bristol, Pa., is ready for the holiday season. On Friday, the borough will celebrate its 57th annual tree lighting.

Despite signs that the economy is strengthening, social service agencies in Bucks County say more families are struggling.

Ambulance workers will get new helmets and eye protection. Pedestrians will have a safer way to get across dangerous intersections of Route 13.

Seven police departments within Bucks County, Pa. are using software that allow their police officers to share basic criminal information while on their beats.

A Bristol Township man was jailed Wednesday after allegedly selling $100 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover officer.

Since the first Give A Christmas drive in 1958, the Bucks County community has given more than $2.7 million to help thousands of families.

Bristol police are investigating a car accident that occurred early Saturday morning involving a borough police vehicle, Sgt.

Congressman Patrick Murphy, D-8, Tuesday joined Bucks County seniors, nurses, small-business owners and health care reform advocates at the Lower Bucks Senior Activity Center in Bristol to celebrate the House passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

A Bucks County jury on Friday found a Bristol man not guilty of dealing marijuana out of his Beaver Street apartment.

The Robert W. Bracken American Legion Post in Bristol will salute veterans at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Harriman World War II Monument at Pond Street and Farragut Avenue.

Rebecca and Nelson Alicea arrived outside Harry S Truman High School Tuesday prepared for a long wait to get their three kids the hard-to-find swine flu vaccine.

Middletown resident Cathy Gallagher breathed a sign of relief when she learned last week that Neshaminy students would get swine flu vaccines later this month.

Parents should already have letters in hand explaining how the program will work.

Russell Vender used a .22-caliber rifle to murder his wife before shooting himself in the head, the coroner said.

Democrat John Monahan 3,515 Republican James McCullen 2,462 Council Democrats Tina Davis 3,404 Bob Lewis 2,962 Rick Pluta 2,903 Tony Tucker 2,804 Republicans Republican Barbara Da Emidio 2,543 Theresa Susan Gabriella-Frey 2,166 Joseph Turner 2,129 William Priestley 2,290 Independent Wayne Turner 568 Uncontested constables Bill Keyser Kevin Wagner ...

Officials say the reason the tech school's PSSA scores are so low is due to about 30 percent of the test takers are special education students.

More than 60 works by the late Bill Bagley, a longtime teacher and an accomplished though unheralded artist, are on view from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Tracy Mansion in Bristol.

The $28 million Route 13 revitalization would include grassy medians and pedestrian crossings, officials said.

My great-great-grandfather Thomas McGowan was born 1825 in Ireland. He immigrated to the United States and lived his life in Newtown, PA.

People have such varied appreciations in things they enjoy doing while traveling.