Chester County News

A Gap woman was killed when her car struck a tractor-trailer head-on Thursday afternoon on Route 30 in Gap, police reported.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 7:10 pm US/Eastern WEST CHESTER, Pa. A former assistant fire chief accused of setting two small fires in an arson-plagued steel town near Philadelphia has worked out a plea bargain freeing him from jail.

The superintendent of high schools for the New York City public school system has a new job in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Chester County announced yesterday that it would offer free swine flu vaccine next week to people in priority groups at three all-day clinics in West Chester.

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Chester County received three AAA bond ratings last week, the commissioners said Friday in a news release.

What goes around comes around, at least when talking about the revolutions of a Ferris wheel.

It was a short day for some students in part of Chester County, after a bomb threat on Wednesday morning.

Two schools in the western part of Chester County are on lockdown after a bomb threat.

State Police are on the scene of a fataltiy in Sadsbury Township in remote eastern Lancaster County near the Chester County line.

On an evening in March 2008 some 30 guests arrived at the home of Tony and Neely Young -- a 14,000-square-foot Tudor-style mansion overlooking 57 acres in Chester County, Pa.

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DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. - October 31, 2009 -- Firefighters in Chester County are battled a multiple alarm at a tire business.

A Philadelphia commuter train caught fire Wednesday, complicating the morning rush already hampered by the city's transit strike.

The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever shot two pet dogs in Chester County has increased to $25,000, Rich Britton, spokesman for the Chester County SPCA, said yesterday.

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.

The Chadds Ford area community is seeking justice in the execution-style shootings of two German short-haired pointers whose bodies were found lying tail-to-tail by a railroad track on Sunday.

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.

The SPCA is investigating a horrid case of dog abuse in Chester County. Two German short-haired pointer mixes disappeared from a house over the weekend.

Animal welfare officials in suburban Philadelphia are asking for help in finding the person who fatally shot two dogs that belonged to a local family.