West Chester News

Coming into West Chester on Route 202 from Route 1, there is Jimmy John's Pipin' Hot Sandwiches, a roadside staple for the area, countless car dealerships, shopping centers and plenty of traffic lights.

Once upon a time, the stage-and-screen Maria von Trapp sang about bright copper kettles, warm woolen mittens and a few other of her favorite things.

Sprinkles opened in West Chester last week, and to commemorate the occasion, they're dishing out free frozen yogurt on Wednesday, Nov.

The Crime Victims' Center of Chester County, a nonprofit agency dedicated to victim advocacy, will host its first art show and live auction from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday at QVC Studio Park in West Chester.

WEST CHESTER, Pa., BUSINESS WIRE -- Don Skomsky, P.E. has accepted an invitation by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to speak about Zoggles' electronic anti-fog/anti-ice technology at their 14th Annual Independent Inventors Conference.

The Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee today unveiled the first major overhaul of the state's 12-year-old charter school law that would make it easier for schools to be approved but would increase their financial oversight.

Share + Oct 29, 2009 10:51 am US/Eastern WEST CHESTER, Pa. A teenager has been sentenced to eight to 16 years in the attempted robbery of a suburban Philadelphia hotel last year that resulted in another suspect being shot to death by police.

Two pet dogs were found shot to death Sunday and laid out tail to tail "like bookends" along railroad tracks in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, an official said this morning.

Share + Oct 27, 2009 12:11 am US/Eastern WEST CHESTER, Pa. Police in Chester County are searching for whoever is responsible for shooting and killing two family pets execution-style. Officers with the Chester County SPCA said two dogs were shot and then left along railroad tracks in Pocopson Township.

At 0823 hours, a staff member reported a privately owned vehicle struck and damaged a street sign on Pollock Road near the Grange Building.

A plaintiff in a hostile work environment case who claims that her boss' sexual innuendo was offensive and humiliating cannot block the jury from hearing about the dirty jokes found on her own workplace computer, a federal judge has ruled.

Jennifer Kiefer, 29, of Raritan Township was arrested Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. on charges of theft and forgery for allegedly faking the signatures on two checks issued to a family member.

WEST CHESTER, PA, October 18, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- American Air Distributing Inc., a wholesale distributor of heating and air conditioning equipment, arranged the logistics for employees and contractor participation in this year's Salvation Army Food Drive.

Wholesale prices in the U.S. unexpectedly fell in September on lower fuel costs, a sign inflation remains muted and the Federal Reserve has leeway to keep borrowing costs low as the economy recovers.

WEST CHESTER, PA, October 18, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Metabo Corporation, a leading international manufacturer of professional grade portable electric power tools and abrasives for industrial, construction and welding applications, recently released the BS18 LT drill/driver. As the latest tool in the 18 V PowerMasterSeries of lithium-ion ...

To her friends, she was the one who made them laugh and feel special. To her chemistry professor at West Chester University, she was the well-prepared junior from Philadelphia who, in class three nights ago, "was really engaged and following this discussion of how nanoparticles grow into raindrops." And now, to Philadelphia police, Selene K.

October 12, 2009 The GOP Plan to break the backs of suffering Americans So, the financial crisis is over, is it? All that's left is that minor annoyance, that lagging indicator called unemployment.

With gold prices seemingly remaining comfortable above $1,000 an ounce, the phone was ringing nonstop Monday at Muller Rare Coins & Fine Jewelry as customers locked in prices to sell their gold.

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The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in August as exports climbed to the highest level of the year and oil imports plunged.