Montgomery County News

Construction is expected to begin "soon" on a new home for Hatboro District Judge Paul Leo's court.

Twenty-year-old Benjamin Troy Lopez of Trappe has been charged with committing burglaries at numerous locations throughout Montgomery County.

Incumbent James Kaiser and newcomer Shawn Watson appear to have won Republican nominations to run for two open seats on the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners in the November general elections, according to unofficial results posted Wednesday morning by the Montgomery County Department of Voter Services.

As Lansdale First Political Action Committee treasurer and current Councilman Denton Burnell spoke his first words over the phone Tuesday night after the Democratic and Republican Primaries, one could sense the disappointment in his voice.

It's Gary Zitin versus Patricia Gallagher unofficially for tax collector in Montgomery Township in November.

The woman who brought fireworks to Lansdale heads to November on the Democratic ticket, along with Friends of Lansdale PAC-endorsed Jeff Howard, following the Tuesday Primary for Lansdale Borough Council.

As the search continues for a missing student from Skippack Township, Montgomery County, police say it is possible the young man may have 'voluntarily' disappeared.

Information courtesy of Montgomery County Community College With an increase of 38 percent over the last five years, the largest class in Montgomery County Community College history will graduate on May 23.

Twenty-three students from western Montgomery County - including 12 from Pottstown, three from Collegeville, and one each from Barto, Bechtelsville, Gilbertsville, Limerick, Phoenixville, Spring City, Stowe and Trappe - are among the Montgomery County Community College Class of 2013 named Monday to Who's Who Among Students in American Junior ... (more)

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

Murder charges were filed Monday against three suspects in a West Pottsgrove home-invasion case earlier this month, when Kareem Ali Borowy, 19, was removed from his home and shot to death.

And this call came in this morning around 9, from an Upper Gwynedd Township woman who'd been watching and listening to a mother duck standing over a storm drain.

The Historical Society of Montgomery County , located at 1654 Dekalb St. in Norristown, will hold a four-week Genealogy Workshop, from May 21 - June 11.

Four Montgomery County residents are hoping to fill two open seats in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas in November, but the first step is making it past the Primary Election, in which all of the candidates are cross-filed. Republican candidates Sharon Giamporcaro and Maureen Coggins are on the Republican and Democrat ballots, as will ... (more)

Police are searching for a University of Rhode Island student who they say never made it home to Montgomery County.

Hello, my name is Joe Wolf and I am running for Lansdale Borough Council, First Ward, in the Democratic Primary.

A man went to a pharmacy and a pizza shop in Pottstown and a grocery store in West Pottsgrove Township and tried robbing the places with his fingers in the shape of a gun, police said.

It isn't always easy, but if you have the right tools in your hand, you can find a decent seasonal job.

A Lansdale political action committee that identifies itself as nonpartisan has received thousands in contributions from the county Democratic organization, and has failed to file required documentation for its activities during the primary election cycle, according to county officials.

A fire destroyed a two-story barn and a small cottage in Douglass Township, Montgomery County, officials said Saturday.