Newtown News

Victoria Wyeth doesn't just dryly list facts about the paintings of her grandfather Andrew and uncle Jamie during her guided tours at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa.

Newtown Township's fire marshal is investigating a Thursday late night blaze at a home on the 600 block of Linton Hill Road, Fire Marshal Don Harris said.

Neshaminy Valley Music Theatre. 7-9:30 p.m. today and Tue. Auditions for Guys and Dolls.

A former teacher in suburban Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to charges from his months-long affair with a 17-year-old girl in his school.

On a recent balmy afternoon, the Liberty Belle paddle boat sat in the calm, greenish-brown water of the Delaware River at the base of High Street.

Newtown officials will discuss the chief of police's proposal for surveillance cameras in the low-crime borough at a public safety meeting Tuesday night.

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and at Trove Decor in Newtown, the old and shabby are transformed into interior gems.

BioClinica, Inc. has signed a long term, 36,143-square-foot lease as the anchor tenant at 800 Adams Avenue, a new, class A office building in the Philadelphia suburb of Valley Forge, PA.

"The Biggest Loser" has been going strong for nearly eight full seasons, and with 9.6 million viewers tuning in every week, it's one of NBC's most popular shows.

At 1105 hours, a Wagner Building staff member reported someone had removed money from a cabinet located in Room 112 Wagner Building.

The application deadlines have been extended for the USEF Dressage Youth/Pony Pilot program, a series of clinics designed to help develop young riders.

It's a Monday evening at Holy Redeemer Hospital in Huntingdon Valley, PA. Fifteen RN students--many who have not practiced for years, including one who's been absent from the profession for 25 years--begin their clinical experience in the nurse refresher course sponsored by Bucks County Community College , Newtown, PA.

For poet and professor Bernadette McBride, the third time was the charm. A resident of the Holicong section of Buckingham, she's been named the 2009 Bucks County Poet Laureate, officials at Bucks County Community College announced Friday.

LAHASKA, PA, November 01, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- On November 7, 2009, Sheila Jacobs, Certified Financial Planner and CEO of Life & Money Consulting in Lahaska, Pa., will speak to the topic of the Business of Marriage at the Day for All Women Conference at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pa.

Harry Rose's Rose Group has slowed its pace of expansion for Applebee's. Chain restaurants are feeling the squeeze of a shrinking economy - but they continue to open new locations in the area.

The former head of a Newtown, Pa. company has landed on the FBI's ten most wanted list.

According to authorities, Raymond Steward Jr. was holding marijuana and about $7,000 in cash.

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

A 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team battalion accepted the "Association of Old Crows Outstanding U.S. Army Electronic Warfare Unit for 2009" honor Monday.

Road work that officials say will ensure access to Washington Crossing National Veterans Cemetery in Upper Makefield will begin Monday on Stoopville Road and some segments of Route 532, or Washington Crossing Road, in Newtown Township, Upper Makefield and Lower Makefield.