Levittown News

Levittown - Amy Abattoir moved to central Pennsylvania from New York City a couple of years ago.SheA's still amazed with the beauty of the region.An artist, Abbatoir has been working on a series of paintings she calls "Driving in the Pennsylvania Dusk." A six-painting preview of the series is on display at Cherry Alley Cafe in Lewisburg.Her series ...

Remember Mayhill Fowler, the citizen journalist whose tape recorder sparked the infamous Pennsylvania "Bittergate" scandal that came close to derailing Barack Obama's drive to the White House, highlighting the disconnect between a Harvard Law grad and the rank-and-file Democratic voters he said "were clinging to guns and religion" as a response to ...

Bristol Township police are continuing to investigate the shooting deaths of a married couple found in their Holly Drive home in Levittown Tuesday evening.

SEPTA's largest union went on strike early this morning - crippling a transit system that averages more than 928,000 trips every weekday in the city.

Levittown - The former executive director of a western Pennsylvania sewer authority has pleaded guilty to charges he stole $141,000 from the agency, though the amount he'll have to repay remains a matter of dispute.Fifty-four-year-old Carl Paul Lewis, of Ellwood City, pleaded guilty Thursday to theft charges and has agreed to a one- to two-year ...

Bucks County's libraries laid off 20 employees this week and will reduce hours next month, due to a 21 percent cut in state funding.

Levittown - Stars. Not hex signs, but stars.Patrick Donmoyer, 23, has spent more than a year documenting and photographing 400 examples of such celestial iconography, a form of folk art painted on Pennsylvania barns over the last three centuries.To Donmoyer, these stars matter as emblems of Pennsylvania German cultural identity.He is a true fan, ...

Levittown - Pennsylvania is making a new push to get federal approval for tolls on Interstate 80, the heavily used route that bisects the state for more than 300 miles, from Ohio to New Jersey.The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and state highway department submitted supplemental materials late Thursday to the Federal Highway Administration that ...

Teacher Marc McFadden leads students and faculty at James Buchanan Elementary School in Levittown, Pa., in singing the "Repeat Phillies Song."

Levittown - A western Pennsylvania judge has been asked to save a 121-year-old cottage believed to be the summer home of steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie.The Cresson Area Historical Association owns the Braemar-Jones cottage which Cresson Township officials want to demolish because it is in disrepair.

Levittown - State police say they charged a man with stealing a laptop computer after a monitoring device inside it led police to a southwestern Pennsylvania home where the computer was being used.Thirty-eight-year-old Chea Lamont White, whose address wasn't immediately available, was arrested on theft charges Monday at a home in Clairton, where ...

Levittown - A circle of white paint covers all but the lips, eyes and brows.White-gloved fists move around the edge of each face.These aren't your typical mimes caught in a box or pulling on a rope.The three Stephens children are making their motion for "amazing."Andre, Taniah and SaNae Stephens have been miming together to music at church events ...

Levittown - A federal judge has denied a central Pennsylvania man's appeal of an order that he be extradited to Peru to stand trial in the murder of the 21-year-old woman he married there.U.S. District Judge James Munley dismissed the petition filed by 28-year-old William Trickett Smith II of Paxtang contesting his extradition in the murder of ...

Levittown - We live in an increasingly interconnected world. But could a car collision with an electric pole 4 miles from your house cause your air conditioner and VCR to burn out? That's what PECO told Sharon Lazeration of Tullytown.

Levittown - A western Pennsylvania man plans to sell the farm where he held jam band concerts he says were religious services and move his Church of Universal Love and Music to another location.William Pritts sued Fayette County in 2006, saying officials violated his religious freedom by using zoning restrictions to stop the concerts.

Levittown - A district attorney says he's dropping rape charges against two boys after a third was acquitted in the same incident involving a 14-year-old girl at a western Pennsylvania high school.Hermitage police had charged the boys, 14, 15, and 16, with conspiring to rape the girl Oct.

Levittown - Hungry?So are thousands of Buck County residents who frequent area food pantries.

Levittown - The state Department of Health says two residents of Lancaster County in central Pennsylvania who had meningitis have died in the past few days.Department spokeswoman Holli Senior says one of the cases appears to be viral meningitis _ although that person may have died of an underlying health condition _ and the other bacterial ...

Levittown - An eastern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to five to 10 years in state prison for the death of a friend whom authorities say he shot while he was drunk and playing with a gun.Northampton County President Judge F.P. Kimberly McFadden imposed the maximum term on 21-year-old Andrew Freeman of Easton.

Levittown - A western Pennsylvania man has been charged with bringing a prohibited offensive weapon into a county courthouse: a cane that included a sheathed 17-inch knife blade.Forty-seven-year-old Carl Miller Jr., of North Charleroi, says he bought the cane at a flea market and didn't know it could be pulled open and contained the blade.Miller ...