Monday, February 4, 2013
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Christine Trout, a 32-year employee of the Register of Wills office, has been charged with stealing more than $160,000 from the Register of Wills office over six years.
Former Pennsylvania State Sen. H. Craig Lewis, 68, who represented Bucks County and parts of Philadelphia for 20 years, died Sunday, Jan. 13, while swimming on Anegada in the British Virgin Islands. Sen. Lewis, who served five terms, lived in Center City.
It was a moment to note when Leo J. Scoda told Phoenixville Borough Council on Tuesday - the day after his 71st birthday - that he would not seek reelection later this year to a fifth four-year term as mayor.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, which has an international practice, is lending free legal support to District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman's office.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is scheduled to visit King of Prussia on Friday for the opening of a new industrial-sugars production facility and to announce $7 million in funding for biofuels research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor.
Thomas E. Mellon Jr., 65, of Doylestown, a prominent Bucks County lawyer and former federal prosecutor, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, at his home after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.
A ray of morning sun shot through the huge stained-glass window at the United Methodist Church of Narberth. It lasered a patch of bluish-red light onto a box of string beans so plump and green, they looked fake.
The Chester County Hospital and Health System said Friday that it will join the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
The Chester County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday elected Ryan Costello as its chair and reelected Kathi Cozzone as vice chair.
Scott Forster has responded to emergencies across Pennsylvania, ranging from hurricanes and floods to trapped miners and stranded motorists.
"Nobody ever said criminals were smart," Chester County District Attorney Thomas P. Hogan said Friday, summing up an unusual case his office had won the day before.
Hundreds of thousands of property owners in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties are getting something they probably don't want in the new year - higher real estate taxes.
The body was found in the dead of a winter night, a 19-year-old discovered shot to death on New Street in Coatesville, cash blowing around his body.
High-powered litigators gather at the collection's new home to discuss the move's legal fallout.
Nearly 134 acres in Chester and Delaware Counties have been set aside for preservation, the Natural Lands Trust has announced.
Christine Trout, a 32-year employee of the Register of Wills office, has been charged with stealing more than $160,000 from the Register of Wills office over six years.
Former Pennsylvania State Sen. H. Craig Lewis, 68, who represented Bucks County and parts of Philadelphia for 20 years, died Sunday, Jan. 13, while swimming on Anegada in the British Virgin Islands. Sen. Lewis, who served five terms, lived in Center City.
It was a moment to note when Leo J. Scoda told Phoenixville Borough Council on Tuesday - the day after his 71st birthday - that he would not seek reelection later this year to a fifth four-year term as mayor.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, which has an international practice, is lending free legal support to District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman's office.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is scheduled to visit King of Prussia on Friday for the opening of a new industrial-sugars production facility and to announce $7 million in funding for biofuels research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor.