Marcus Hook News

State Rep. Thaddeus Kirkland addresses protesters complaining about Chester Police Officer Joshua DeWees while DeWees supporters are gathered across the street.

The Coast Guard yesterday suspended rescue efforts for a 21-year-old Lansdowne man who vanished early yesterday when the boat he was aboard capsized in the Delaware River near Marcus Hook.

Rescue crews have been searching the Delaware River in the Philadelphia area for a 21-year-old Delaware man after the boat he was aboard capsized early Friday.

AmQuipa s Board of Managers today approved the promotion of Frank Bardonaro, Jr.

Warrants have been issued charging a Pennsylvania man with breaking into an elderly couple's Holly Oak home last week.

Centered on the eastern edge of the Angelo State University campus, local police, Goodfellow, and state law officers conducted a disaster drill this morning.

BRITISH Petroleum, the cash- strapped oil giant, is considering selling one of its big US oil refineries as part of a restructuring of its downstream activities in America.

Fire officials yesterday blamed the spectacular May fire that destroyed part of Sunoco's Marcus Hook refinery on a rusty 10-inch pipe that ruptured and caused a catastrophic natural-gas leak.

Pipe corrosion that went undetected for years led to an explosion and fire that rocked a Sunoco oil refinery in Claymont in May, authorities said Tuesday.

Police have arrested two men, one of whom allegedly posed as a Water Department worker, who they say beat a 97-year-old man during an attempted robbery in his Fern Rock home.

Marcus Hook police officers are not among the Delaware County cops being investigated by state police for cheating on their recertification exams, as the Daily News reported Monday, Acting Chief John Ireland said yesterday.

How difficult is the routine test that Pennsylvania's 23,000 municipal cops take to maintain their police certification? Think of the GEICO car insurance commercial: "So easy, a caveman could do it." Yet, more than a dozen Delaware County police officers - some, veterans with decades of experience - may lose their jobs for allegedly cheating in ...

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The U.S. Labor Department Has Fined Sunoco More Than $200,000 For Workplace Violations At The Marcus Hook Refinery.

Sunoco Inc. said today that it will not rebuild the chemical plant at its Marcus Hook refinery that was the site of a huge fire May 17.

NO MATTER WHICH way you're driving on Interstate 95, you can't miss the billboard at exit 1. On the south side of the sign, TNT Fireworks announces the grand opening of its new super-center in Delaware County, just off the Chichester Avenue exit.

Oil prices extended a three-day rally to over $73 a barrel on Thursday on hopes for a recovery in world energy demand and worries refinery shutdowns could tighten gasoline supplies heading into the U.S. summer driving season.

Delaware state fire investigators say they have not yet been able to enter the site of an explosion at Sunoco's Marcus Hook Refinery to search for the cause.

Sunoco Inc., the largest refiner in the U.S. Northeast, plans to restart a gasoline-making unit at the Marcus Hook refinery this week, according to a person familiar with plant operations.

Delaware Gov. Jack Markell says Sunoco's Claymont ethylene complex should stay closed until the cause of the explosion and fire there earlier this month is determined and the plant can run cleanly.