Chester County News

On May 2, 1908, as he strolled along the Perkiomen Creek in Montgomery County, Bayard Long collected a flowering sprig of redbud.

As dozens of young Chester County Family Academy students cheered them on, a pack of riders, including West Chester Mayor Carolyn Comitta pedalled to the West Chester Borough Municipal Building to promote biking and biking safety.

The loans are all standard commercial mortgage executions that were closed simultaneously for the same borrower, a Pennsylvania limited partnership.

Editor's note : The following information comes from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

The Pennsylvania Primary election is on Tuesday and before you go to the polls, here's how to see a copy of the ballot for where you vote.

Pennsylvania recently reauthorized the use of grand juries to indict criminal defendants in certain circumstances, instead of going the traditional route of a preliminary hearing.

Driving down Lincoln Highway the other day, I was a little shocked to note how many businesses were either struggling or shuttered, and I was thinking to myself, "man, I hope there's something that can be done about that." Earlier this year, the township's Board of Commissioners adopted the local authorizations needed to adopt the Local Economic ... (more)

After years of development, a new set of educational standards for Pennsylvania has run into late-in-the-game opposition along unusual political lines.

Robert Elwood Landis, 49, has been ordered to stand trial for second degree homicide, manslaughter, DUI and multiple other charges related to a two-vehicle accident that prosecutors say claimed the life of Liam Crowley of Chesterbrook, Tredyffrin Township.

Chester County will hold a collection of household hazardous waste and electronics waste Saturday at Owen J. Roberts Middle School in Pottstown.

Over the last 15 years, restaurants and chefs have gotten most of the credit for the blossoming of Philadelphia's vibrant food scene.

Three Chester County men already charged with a Coatesville murder have been indicted by a grand jury in a strategy aimed at preventing witness intimidation, officials said today.

A program designed to assist people in or approaching career transition will be held Friday at the Penn State Great Valley campus from 8:30 a.m. until noon, a county news release said.

The Chester County Sheriff's Department has raised about $20,000 through a gun raffle that included an AR-15 rifle similar to the one used in last year's shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Robert Elwood Landis, 49, has been ordered to stand trial for second degree homicide, manslaughter, DUI and multiple other charges related to a two vehicle accident that prosecutors say claimed the life of Liam Crowley of Chesterbrook, Tredyffrin Township.

Cardinal flower, iris, salvia, sedum, columbine, ginger, butterfly weed and many more floral varieties will be available at the West Chester Garden Club's Third Annual Plant Sale on Thursday.

Several Marple Township police officers were honored at a township meeting on Monday.

The creative folks in Modena who turned recycling into a successful business venture have taken the same approach to celebrations: Expand and innovate.

Democrats in the Pennsylvania state senate are crying foul over the way the Corbett administration plans to implement new tests for graduating high school students in the state.

This set of grade-level standards spell out what students should know and be able to do at each grade level.