Chester County News

Oley Turnpike Road remains closed west of Route 662 this morning after a horrendous fire damaged three barns on an Oley Township horse farm.

Police said they believe the driver of a car that slammed into a Chester County house may have been drunk.

At the intersection of Business Route 30 and Route 340 in Chester County, you won't find a lot of people walking.

It seems there's one in every crowd, at least, on the Fourth of July. You know, the guy who bought a small cache of fireworks and can't wait to woo the children and others at a party by launching them into the night sky.

Police investigating a prostitution ring in Chester County relied on two customers for information, one of whom was Mark A. Sargenta 'dean of Villanova Law School.

Wednesday night's thunderstorms didn't cause any major reported damage around the county, but they did knock out power to York County 911's old radio system.

PHOENIXVILLE, Chester County Police in Chester County say a man weary of children playing in his cul-de-sac blared a pornographic soundtrack to chase them off.

Pennsylvania state police are investigating a crash involving a car and a horse-drawn buggy in western Chester County yesterday that killed a young woman and seriously injured a 29-year-old man.

Investigators in Chester County say they've made two arrests in the grisly murder of a teenager who disappeared eight months ago.

Is an economic slump the right time to force U.S. companies to burn less fuel? The American Clean Energy and Security Act would force U.S. industrial and power plants to cut the carbon spewing from our slice of the world , and to mandate and subsidize "clean" power from water, wind, and sun.

A prosecutor in southeastern Pennsylvania says a 16-year-old boy was shot dead in October and his body was cut up with two chain saws and put in the trash.

Chester County Commissioner Carol Aichele will run for lieutenant governor in next year's Republican primary, she said today.

Two men have been charged with the murder of a Coatesville, Pa. teenager who disappeared last fall and whose remains have never been found.

Chester County authorities confirm that a body recovered from the Brandywine Creek this past Saturday was that of a missing kayaker.

The former state dog warden in charge of the counties where two large kennel raids and a mass shooting occurred in the last year - and the subject of a lengthy investigation - has been fired from the Department of Agriculture.

The Humane League of Lancaster County is turning dogs away because the municipalities where they are found refuse to pay for the dogs' care.

An indictment issued Tuesday charges that Norian Corp. and its parent, Synthes Inc., conducted its own tests of the product, subverting Food and Drug Administration safeguards.

A suburban Philadelphia jury has convicted a rap singer of first-degree murder for a 2005 shooting death that authorities said was revenge for the theft of a gold chain.

Police say the driver of a car was speeding and texting just before a crash that killed a pregnant teenager and her unborn baby April 14 in Philadelphia's western suburbs.

Jun 10, 2009 9:37 pm US/Eastern THORNBURY TOWNSHIP, Pa. A driver has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal accident in Chester County in April.