Phoenixville News

The Delaware Valley Healthcare Council announced Thursday this year's award winners for patient-safety initiatives and other programs designed to improve care.

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Jim Jacobs, a broker who has been with Zommick McMahon Commercial Real Estate Inc.

Her battle with fibrosis of the lungs nearly finished, Carmen Rivera seemed to be holding on, waiting for one last thing before closing her eyes for good.

With the district and state meets looming, Elizabeth Simpson is hitting her stride when it matters.

Sixteen residents of Pottstown, Royersford, Limerick, Spring City, Collegeville, Schwenksville and Phoenixville are among 55 students who were named to the Dean's List for the summer 2009 semesters at Montgomery County Community College, the college announced Monday .

Emergency personnel carry a woman to a medical helicoptet aftershe was reportedly run over by her own vehicle Thursday at the Inn at Pocono Manor.

Many burglars use the money they receive from fencing what they steal to feed their addictions, and in that regard, Brian Richard Stabile was no different.

Suave and sophisticated former pub-rocker, producer extraordinaire and master pop craftsman Nick Lowe plays in Phoenixville on Sunday night.

Mark A. Benz outside Brandywine's expanded behavorial health unit. Chester County's community hospitals are getting bigger.

Restaurant Weeks are popping up left and right. From now until October 11, Delaware is running its first statewide Restaurant Week , with $30 three-course meals at participating restaurants .

Bridge inspections along the eastbound side of U.S. Route 422 , from Pawlings Road west to Egypt Road , will restrict traffic there to the left lane only Saturday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said in a motorists' alert.

The three mothers waiting to meet with the principal looked harmless enough, but before they were allowed into the Spring-Ford district school, they had to undergo a computerized background check.

Guess what? Even when outlet shopping in the shadows of the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant and having dinner at the Craft Ale House afterward, I still managed to find some rabid beer geeks to dine with who were not in the mecca for beer geekery this weekend .

New Century Bank might want to consider changing its name to New Sovereign Bank .

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for operating a real estate investment fraud scheme that victimized members of a New Jersey church congregation.

The Pennsylvania man responsible for a Ponzi scheme that bilked a total of more than $1 million from congregants at the Church of Grace and Peace in Toms River has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison.

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for operating a real estate investment fraud scheme that victimized members of a New Jersey church congregation.

A Phoenixville man was sentenced to eight years in prison today after he admitted luring churchgoers into two Ponzi schemes that cost them more than $1 million.

Forge Theatre in Phoenixville is proud to present Neil Simon's comedy, "The Odd Couple - " The Female Version." Gender roles are switched in Simon's hilarious re-write - " Oscar is now Olive, Felix is now Florence, and instead of poker, their friends play a raucous game of Trivial Pursuit.