Broomall News

Taxes will go up 7.4 percent in Delaware County next year after the County Council unanimously passed a $309 million budget yesterday.

Fastech Investment Group LLC has purchased two information-technology and telecommunications services vendors and merged them with its own IT unit, Ixilix, to form Fastech Integrated Solutions .

Two suburban doctors and a businessman convicted in July of naturalization fraud on behalf of immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship were sentenced yesterday to federal prison.

An unusual peace process will play out soon in Afghanistan. There will be no shiny limos, or summits for talking heads.

High production resulted in a 17 percent increase in repair and overhaul completions over fiscal year 2008 at Tobyhanna Army Depot, and $846 million in orders exceeded the plan by 2.7 percent, according to a release from the depot.

BALA CYNWYD, Pa. - November 25, 2009 -- The day before Thanksgiving is to food stores what the day after is to retailers.

A gym owner-turned-investment fund manager was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that left investors short $35 million once the fraud unraveled.

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Okay, I'm no George Bernard Shaw when it comes to critiquing theater productions but having seen the Walnut Street Theater's production of "Oliver!" recently I was impressed.

BORN crooner Fabian Forte says it was "f------ incredible" that Secretary of State Hillary Clin ton said during a speech Friday in the Philippines that she'd had a crush on him.

A staple of Delaware County convenience may be coming to a neighborhood near you.

BOOKS TO GO: Forget the Kindle , the newest eBook reader on the block is the Nook .

Pete Shellem worked for the The Patriot-News for 23 years. Words were the tools that investigative journalist Pete Shellem used to unlock prison cells and bring justice to people who had seen little.

ON THE DAY before his death, singer Al Martino was in a Fort Lee, N.J., studio recording a cover of Garth Brooks ' "If Tomorrow Never Comes." His wife, Judith , and son, Al Cini , shared the news with us Friday at the D'Anjolell Funeral Home, in Broomall, which held the viewing and memorial service of the South Philadelphia born show business star.

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month brings a bevy of pink products sold to benefit breast-cancer research.

Mitchman John Chet These homeowners didn't want a closed-off dedicated theater, but they still got a big theater experience in the center of their open room.

A few weeks back I wrote an article about TD Bank becoming the first bank to open a branch in the city of Chester in at least 15 years.

CSPTV Hits the Strip CSPTV arrives in Las Vegas and kicks off a week of store tours, beginning with Short Line Express.

"I thought he was on the wagon," whispered guests at Philadelphia magazine's Let's Do Cocktails competition Thursday at the Loews Hotel when they saw 94 WYSP's Danny Bonaduce swilling cocktails with abandon .

BROOMALL, Pa. -- Swiss Farms, with the tagline "America's Drive-Thru Grocer," has awarded its first franchise.