Chester County News

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.

The ticket from the Feb. 7 drawing was sold at the Acme in the 900 block of Paoli Pike in West Chester.

The Berks County Commissioners' plan to give a landlocked Maxatawny Township woman access to her property ran into a roadblock Tuesday at a meeting of Kutztown's public works committee.

Shortly after the Super Bowl ended, a Chester County motorcyclist was struck in a hit-and-run accident in East Brandywine Township that claimed his life Tuesday, said Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan.

Wow, THAT'S A BIG TREE. And there's another one. Turns out, there are lots of great big trees in Pennsylvania and you can learn a lot about them, tomorrow, Thursday February 9th, at 7 pm at The Aston Township Historical Society's meeting at the Municipal Building on Pennell Road in Aston, PA.

The People's Light and Theatre Co. is holding its Live Auction Cabaret 2012 on March 2, a major fundraiser that benefits its Arts Discovery theatre education programs.

A Colorado man was making a $40,000 marijuana delivery in Chester County last week when he was arrested, authorities said.

Phoenixville Community Health Foundation has a hand in helping many area non-profits and people from all walks of life.

Police have not released the name of a Willistown man who allegedly fired a gun on Sycamore Circle, causing nearby General Wayne Elementary School to lock down just before dismissal time, around 3:30 p.m., Monday afternoon.

An overturned tractor-trailer has spilled trash and diesel fuel on Route 1 in Chester County, jamming traffic for the morning rush.

In the basement of New Hope Baptist Church, 621 Church St., on Monday night, about 25 churchgoers and pastors from other churches gathered in response to recent violence in the city, including a weekend killing.

In a letter to a judge ruling on a traffic case, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Rohrer contended the state cannot legally force individuals to get driver's licenses or register their cars, and likened the continuation of the requirements to slavery.

A 14-year-old West Grove boy will be joining other accomplished, young scholars from across the country tomorrow at the White House.

The Cherry Hill School district confirmed two cases of Pertussis, better known as whooping cough.

A worker walks through the steam of compost being transfered into a compost tunnel.

State police from the Embreeville barracks today identified the man who died last week after setting his car on fire as 38-year-old Thomas J. Evasew of Phoenixville.

Detectives watched as a drug deal nearly happened before their eyes and then allegedly had a shotgun pulled on them by a Phoenixville man during a narcotics investigation in the borough.

When Bob Keares proposed building Pennsylvania's largest solar farm in the heart of Chester County, he expected a warm reception, certainly from environmentalists.

A fragment of the storm that caused blizzard conditions parts of the eastern Rockies and High Plains sent some snow into parts of Ohio and southern Pennsylvania today.

It's been a tough week for our beloved state senator, who also happens to be Senate Majority Leader.