Yeadon News

The holiday shopping season is creating a boom in businesses in Delaware County.A Shoppers who live in communities like Yeadon, Upper Darby and Croydon have been keeping the stores busy, according to local retail employees.A Even with last weekend's stormy weather, they are still coming to the local Delaware County commercial corridors and malls in ...

One man is dead and another critically wounded after what police believe was likely a gang retaliation shooting in Grays Ferry last week.

A 20-year-old man shot and killed yesterday on a South Philadelphia street has been identified as Domonic Coleman of Yeadon.

New Jersey Gov.-elect Christopher J. Christie yesterday nominated a Democratic prosecutor to be his attorney general.

When Delaware County authorities launched a legal lynching masked as a criminal trial a few days before Thanksgiving, two members of the NAACP, including one who is 90 years old, sat in that suburban Media courtroom monitoring this outrageous injustice.

LANSDOWNE, Pa. - November 25, 2009 -- Before the mid 1970's, intellectually disabled men and women were involuntarily sterilized in the U.S., but today, tens of thousands of these special needs adults are successfully parenting their children.

A Delaware County woman has pleaded guilty and been sentenced in the beating death of an elderly Yeadon woman.

YEADON, Pa. - October 30, 2009 -- Police are looking for the man who robbed a teenage girl at gunpoint while she was walking to school.

Assaults overnight left a man and teenage girl in critical condition, and Philadelphia police have made an arrest in one of Saturday's two slayings.

An Upper Darby man has been sentenced to life in prison in the robbery and beating death of his 85-year-old great-aunt last year.

YEADON, Pa. - September 23, 2009 -- Yeadon Police are warning residents to be on the lookout for suspicious individuals in the wake of two burglaries and one attempted burglary early this morning.

A pizza deliveryman was shot during an attempted robbery in North Philadelphia last night.

A former Yeadon Borough councilman pleaded guilty today to two counts of harassment against the borough's former finance director.

The Mayor of Darby Borough has had it with crime and wants change. A 9 p.m. curfew is now in effect for a small part of the borough, just west of the Philadelphia county line and south of Yeadon.

A $50,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest and a conviction in the 2008 murder of a Delaware County man, the Citizens Crime Commission announced today.

JAMES MILLER shows his form yesterday during a bikini car wash at North Bowl Lounge n Lanes, in Northern Liberties, to raise money for his friend Mary O'Malley, a server there who was recently hurt in a bike accident.

M. FALK / Staff photographer Tex, winged member of the Miller family, was taken during a burglary of their Northeast home almost six weeks ago.

Yeadon Borough, like other Delaware County municipalities that hug the Philadelphia border, is no stranger to cutthroat politics or the occasional out-of-control council meeting.

Yeadon is 1.6 square miles of political turmoil. A Borough Council member with a felony record has been removed from office by a judge.

A worker from the Fairmount Park Operations Division examines a fallen branch that killed Mary Katherine Ladany on August 5, 2009.