Devon News

If Charles Szoradi could figure out how to power a car or even a light bulb with his caffeine-free personal pep reservoir, he just might achieve his goal of ending America's energy-hogging ways.

The Paoli Local, now known prosaically as the R5, passes through some of the region's wealthiest suburbs - the storied Main Line, with train stations in towns whose names resonate with privilege: Merion, Radnor, Wayne, Bryn Mawr, Devon.

At a time when the unemployment rate tops 10 percent, many unemployed Americans will no longer qualify for federally subsidized health insurance.

Eighteen months after Pennsylvania's retirement system began investigating Dorothy June Brown for collecting full-time salaries from two charter schools, Brown's pension benefits have been slashed.

Gee, it only took a federal criminal investigation of at least six charter schools and the jailing of one charter official before the state finally moved to improve financial oversight.

Eastern Property Group has tied up a slew of leases at its new project - Town Center at Wayne at 200 W. Lancaster Ave., which sits across from Anthropologie.

The FBI and Philadelphia police are looking for Kebrum Teklu, 22, who is wanted in connection with the armed robberies of three food outlets in Delaware and Chester counties.

WP Realty is at it again. The Bryn Mawr, PA-based opportunistic retail investor has garnered $115 million of equity commitments for its fifth fund, which recently closed on its first acquisition, picking up a small retail center and adjacent land in nearby Devon, PA for approximately $18 million.

Offering Main Line dining at reasonable prices, The Paddock at Devon, located on Lancaster Avenue, is a great place for friends to meet and enjoy excellent food without having to pay for an expensive bill.

A wastewater pond from a hydrofracked horizontal well in Springville, Pa. Exxon recently paid an $85,000 fine for the deaths of migratory birds that landed in similar ponds.

Longhorn Cavern is formed in the upper massive limestone of the Gorman Formation, Ellenberger group, of Ordovician age.

Smart Business Advisory & Consulting said Tuesday that it will merge with business consulting firm LECG Corp.

Photograph: Ian R Cartwright/School of Archaeology/PA Deliberate cut marks on a 9,000-year-old human bone excavated in a west country cave more than a century ago suggest that prehistoric Devonians may have been cannibals.

Photograph: Ian R Cartwright/School of Archaeology/PA Deliberate cut marks on a 9,000-year-old human bone excavated in a west country cave more than a century ago suggest that prehistoric Devonians may have been cannibals.

State investigators conducting a probe of the Agora Cyber Charter School learned that the school's founder had obtained a $205,500 federal grant for the school based in Devon, but they could find no record that the check was deposited in any of Agora's bank accounts.

State investigators conducting a probe of the Agora Cyber Charter School learned that the school's founder had obtained a $205,500 federal grant for the school based in Devon, but they could find no record that the check was deposited in any of Agora's bank accounts.

Photograph: Ian R Cartwright/School of Archaeology/PA Deliberate cut marks on a 9,000-year-old human bone excavated in a west country cave more than a century ago suggest that prehistoric Devonians may have been cannibals.

State investigators conducting a probe of the Agora Cyber Charter School learned that the school's founder had obtained a $205,500 federal grant for the school based in Devon, but they could find no record that the check was deposited in any of Agora's bank accounts.

Attorneys for the state Department of Education today began outlining their case for revoking the charter of the Agora Cyber Charter School, saying they would show that the Devon-based school was spending 21 percent of its funds on management fees.

With the state poised to pull the plug over alleged mismanagement, an online charter school based in Devon is fighting back in not just one court, but three.