North Wales News

On the same day the U.S. Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate had reached a landmark 10.2 percent, President Obama signed a law extending unemployment benefits by up to 20 weeks in some states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

A five-count indictment was returned today charging Shawn K. Johnson and Keenan Danan Quinn with conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, bank robbery, armed bank robbery, and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy.

A supply of H1N1 vaccine is expected to arrive within a week. The North Penn School District has a tentative game plan in place for how to distribute H1N1 vaccine expected to arrive in the next week.

The Slate Belt Chamber of Commerce recently announced that this year's Business Person of the Year recipient is Gina Jennings.

A group of scuba divers submerged to carve pumpkins underwater in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

About 1,070 Montgomery County residents received free H1NI vaccinations Thursday at Congregation Beth Or in Maple Glen.

With Halloween falling on a Saturday this year, things might get a little wild. If you're still looking for plans, perhaps consider one of these options: Wear a Halloween costume to a day-early cocktail party happening October 30 at Alison two in Fort Washington, where cocktail-making demos, along with drink and hors d'oeuvre specials, will be ...

For kids who may be interested in the ancient sport of fencing, the Circle d'Escrime School of Fencing in Sellersville is hosting a youth fencing competition for children ages 8 through 14 Saturday.

An Upper Moreland man was arrested Saturday after he threatened his girlfriend and her daughter with a knife, police said.Andy J. Thompson 46, of Upper Moreland, was charged with simple assault, terroristic threats, harassment and possession of an instrument of crime.He was arraigned and placed in Montgomery County Prison on $5,000 bailUpper ...

Upper Moreland police arrested an Abington man Thursday after they said he intentionally struck a road crew flagman with his vehicle.

The North Wales, Pa. man who police say set up his uncle for a home invasion robbery at his Montgomery Township home earlier this year has admitted in court his role in the man's murder .

Steven A. Bliznick, 58, of Upper Black Eddy, was charged with DUI after state police stopped his vehicle on Route 611 at Kintner Hill Road on Sept.

A one-car crash Saturday afternoon on the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension injured two people and tied up traffic for hours.

A one-car crash Saturday afternoon on the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension injured two people and tied up traffic for hours.

Skeptics' eyes rolled this week when President Barack Obama invited a black Harvard professor and white Cambridge police sergeant, embroiled in a feud over alleged racial profiling, for beers at the White House.

Thieves cannot just buy themselves out of being prosecuted for their alleged crimes, according to a Montgomery County prosecutor.

Bucks and Montgomery counties were big winners this week as the state announced that $500 million is being distributed for water and sewer projects.

This is a picture of some place in Wales. I wouldn't know for sure because I have never been there and most likely never will be.

When Thomas Strock was little, he and his sister found a small box turtle nibbling a garden tomato in Long Island .

The Art Gallery at Fox Manor, Hazleton, is presenting three historical paintings by James McDonald.