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“I don't believe Bucks County is going to stay in a slump as strong as, let's say, Florida, which has a totally different set of challenges. "It may be slower, it may be something we haven't experienced for a while, but it's still positive”

Pending home sales declined in Bucks and Montgomery counties between January and February, a sign that the housing market has not hit bottom. via PhillyBurbs.com

Two suburban Philadelphia counties that were longtime bastions of the Republican Party now have more registered Democrats than Republicans. via WTKT-AM Harrisburg

Delaware Valley residents, some five million strong, can now sign up for a public warning system that alerts people to emergencies through text messaging. via KYW-AM Philadelphia

“This is great news for Bucks County and for the veterans of Southeastern Pennsylvania”

The deal that will bring a national veterans cemetery to Bucks County is expected to be concluded tomorrow when Toll Bros. via Philly.com

“I make mistakes when I go too fast”

Hannah Schill, 13, stood at the microphone, poised and confident. When the spelling-bee announcer enunciated the word nougat , Schill repeated the word and then asked for the definition: a confection of nuts or ... via Philly.com

“Our job is to have the wisdom to come up with a compromise that a majority of folks feel is reasonable.”

State Reps. Joe Markosek and Kathy Watson are from different political parties and opposite sides of the state, but they share one problem. via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It started two days after Christmas when Bethlehem police arrested two juveniles for spray-painting ''229'' along a trail in Monocacy Park. via MergeDigital

A mysterious disease wiping out thousands of bats in the Northeast has Pennsylvania naturalists worried about one of the state's largest bat caves, in Upper Bucks. via The Morning Call

Police this morning identified Cole Ballay as the 17-year-old Germantown Academy student who died in in a two-crash in Whitemarsh Township yesterday afternoon. via Philly.com

The state Agriculture Department identified six Bucks County school systems among 196 in Pennsylvania that have received recalled beef from a California packing plant. via PhillyBurbs.com

Police said the stabbing occurred at 3:15 p.m. No weapons were recovered; police had made no arrests. via Daily News

The region's newest baseball team, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, is trying to help locate a pig that is missing. via WPVI-TV Philadelphia

“Also, she wouldn't just wander off like that. She went out for a stroll every day and always returned.”

By JAMES MCGINNIS Bucks County Courier Times Mirabelle, a tiny potbellied pig and mascot for the Ross Mill Farm "Home of the Hog" in Warwick, has gone missing ... and her owners fear she was stolen. via PhillyBurbs.com

“Out of all these years, I have only had one female wander off, and that was before I had a boar.”

Mirabelle the pot-bellied pig had it pretty good. She had a spot at a cushy pot-bellied pig farm in Warwick Township, Bucks County, was in heat, and had a stable full of "intact male" suitors standing by just ... via MergeDigital

A Richland Township roofing plant that three years ago embarked on a $70 million expansion will close its doors by mid-year, a casualty of the slumping housing market. via The Morning Call