West Goshen News

A mistrial declared last week by a Chester County Court judge sparked debate today about whether the defendant, Morgan M. Mengel, should be re-tried. A week ago, Senior Judge Thomas G. Gavin said a witness' recounting of a derogatory comment made about the defendant by her father would likely prevent her from getting a fair trial.

Lottery officials announced this morning that a shopper at the Acme in the West Goshen Shopping Center bought a jackpot-winning Cash 5 ticket worth nearly $514,000 yesterday.

On Monday morning at about 10:30 a.m. the Chase Bank branch at 5151 W. Goshen was robbed by a man who entered the bank and handed a note to a teller demanding money.

Expressing regret and quoting Shakespeare, a Chester County Court judge declared a mistrial in a murder case Friday after three full days of testimony.

The Daily Local reports that Common Pleas Court Senior Judge Thomas Gavin declared the homicide case against Morgan Mengel a mistrial due to the jury being unavoidably tainted.

Murder defendant Morgan M. Mengel knew how to get what she wanted, and one of her longtime goals was to make her late husband "vanish," prosecution witnesses testified Wednesday.

Kevin Mengel's mother Kathy Barton was the first witness. She told the court she first became suspicious over Father's Day of 2010 when her son, a devoted father of three, broke from his normal routine of calling her several times every day.

The Daily Local reports that jury selection will begin Monday for a woman who allegedly instigated the fatal beating of her husband.

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission has released population projections for the Philadelphia metro area, including all of Chester County, through 2040.