West Middlesex News

State police fire marshals were investigating the death of a worker Saturday at the start of the grand finale of fireworks at Quakertown's Memorial Park.

Authorities in Bucks County, Pa., say the man killed in a fireworks explosion in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday worked for Zambelli International in New Castle.

Share + Jul 6, 2009 10:35 am US/Eastern QUAKERTOWN The investigation continues today after a local man, working a summer job with a fireworks company, diedA in an accident during a Fourth of July fireworks show in eastern Pennsylvania.

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

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.

The owner of a West Middlesex truck repair and towing shop charged with buying a truck he knew had been stolen will face the charges in court.

WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. a ' The 6th annual Shamrock Golf Scramble will be July 11 at Tam Oa TMShanter Golf Course, state Route 18.

Jun 19, 2009 10:55 pm US/Eastern WEST MIDDLESEX Police are investigating a rash of church burglaries in Mercer County.

Is nothing sacred? Lately in the Mercer County area the answer is: Obviously not.

Police in the Shenango Valley say their string of apparently related church break-ins has now reached an even-dozen. We're told churches were burglarized in Farrell, West Middlesex and Sharpsville in recent days.

In a trend that the leader of the Shenango Valley Ministerial Association is calling disgraceful, three more churches were broken into between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

An open house to discuss changes in the process involving the Pennsylvania doe license application will be held today.

Hermitage Planning Commission has recommended approval of two subdivision requests for the Camelot Estates residential development proposed for Virginia Road.

By Joe Pinchot SHENANGO VALLEY - The Bible's Book of Proverbs teaches that the path of life leads upward for the wise.

The man driving the car Kevin Washington was riding in when police arrested him April 13 said Washington told him to keep driving as police lights blazed behind them.

Mercer County elections office completed its count of absentee votes, but the tallies did not scramble the results from the general election in three close races.

Tracy C. Hemminger, a West Middlesex School Board member seeking re-election who squeaked through to the general election with a fourth-place Democratic primary finish, said he was disappointed with the results, but not just for himself.

Shirley Jean Klucher, 85, Nugents Convalescent Home, died at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, 2009, of natural causes.

* Sharon High School class of 1963 gathers for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at The Keg.

Prophet Gary Brooks will minister at two services this weekend in Living Word Church, 1109 East St., in the Patagonia section of Hermitage.