Springfield News

On April 12, 2013, at 10:00am, the complainant, a 28 year-old female, reported to Philadelphia Police that fraudulent activity was being place against her credit card, however the complainant was still in possession of the credit card during the activity.

Fashion retailer Wet Seal Inc. agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania resident who claimed the retailer discriminated against African-American employees because they did not fit the company's brand image.

The accident occurred shortly before 9:00 p.m. along Baltimore Pike just west of Bishop Avenue in Springfield Township.

Viola Bement, Director at the Devon Horse Show, dies at 91. Constance Leah Braendel, of Paoli, dies on April 21.

The following information was supplied by Marple Township Police . Any arrests or charges mentioned do not indicate guilt or conviction.

Mary Anne Sweeney, who worked beside Joseph McFadden long before he was installed as bishop of Harrisburg, today paid the man what she deemed the ultimate compliment in saying McFadden was a "truly good priest." "I saw how good he was to the sick and comforting to the dying," said Sweeney, the principal at Saint Catherine Laboure School in Swatara ... (more)

Daniel Fried, 47, of Springfield, Pa., ended up in a struggle with State Police troopers after he pulled himself over in 2010 on Route 72 in Burlington County because he had gone into diabetic shock.

When grew up in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in the 195os and 60s, I was very much aware that the Republican machine ran the politics of the town, as well as the county, going back to the Civil War.

April 23rd, 2013 A man avoids injury after colliding with a train in West County.