Quakertown News

State and county fire officials continue to investigate Saturday night's deadly accident that occurred near the end of Quakertown, Pa.'s Fourth of July fireworks celebration.

Authorities have identified the 19-year-old worker killed in an eastern Pennsylvania Fourth of July fireworks accident.

The 4th of July turned deadly for an employee of New Castle based, Zambelli International Fireworks.

FIVE PEOPLE WORKING on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, one of them in Quakertown, Bucks County.

At least four people working on Fourth of July fireworks shows are dead from explosions yesterday/ 3 of them died from a blast on Ocrakoke Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks.

The fireworks worker killed during last night's 4th of July display in Quakertown, Bucks County has been identified as a 19 year old man from Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

Four people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, three of them by a single blast that rocked this remote village on the Outer Banks islands.

Quakertown Borough police in Bucks County are confirming that an unidentified fireworks handler was killed on Saturday night when a fireworks display being held at Memorial Park at 4th and Mill Streets went awry.

A 40-year-old man was take to the hospital Friday after a fireworks accident, according to officials.

A Quakertown contractor was sentenced to six to 12 months in prison Wednesday for stealing money and wrecking the homes of more than a dozen local customers.

A federal organization is investigating the death of an 85-year-old longtime employee of the Quakertown Farmers Market who was killed by electrocution at the Q-Mart on Saturday.

Improving traveling options for them would likely result in more use, a survey says.

A faithful employee who worked for the Quakertown Farmers Market for nearly 50 years died there Saturday afternoon when he was shocked by at least 450 volts of electricity, officials said.

How much should it cost to go green? That's the question Quakertown officials continue to discuss as they work on adopting regulations to allow residents to generate their own electricity.

In an attempt to stabilize electric prices, Perkasie has extended its contract with its energy provider by two years, locking in lower rates than it now pays.

I'm Burning! Last words of a young woman named Neda Soltan. She has been embraced as a martyr in Iran after a video purportedly captured her killing.

Marijuana possession charged: Kerry DelGoto, 21, of John Henry Drive in Sinking Springs, Berks County, was charged with possession of narcotics on June 18.

It looked like the middle of winter in the middle of June in some parts of the region yesterday afternoon as scattered thunderstorms dropped hail from the size of pennies in Allentown to the size of golf balls in Quakertown.

In Berks County, the annual balancing act between providing a good education and avoiding hefty property tax hikes appears to have spawned a small trend.

A 28-year-old Quakertown area man today admitted he used the Internet to expose himself to and engage in sexually explicit conversations with what he thought were teenage girls.