COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Police say two 17-year-old boys have been charged with breaking into a Pennsylvania home and baking drug-laced brownies. Police say the burglary happened late July 22 in Perkiomen Township, though the department only recently publicized it. Police say the boys were found with drug paraphernalia and more than 2 pounds of […]
DARBY, Pa. (AP) — A doctor told police that a patient fatally shot a caseworker at their hospital complex before the doctor pulled out his own gun and exchanged fire with him and wounded him, a prosecutor said Thursday night. Dr. Lee Silverman, a psychiatrist, was grazed in the temple during the gunfight in his […]
BOYERTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania school district says an aide has been suspended after she tricked students into eating pet snacks by telling them they were cookies. About 75 fourth-graders at New Hanover-Upper Frederick Elementary School received the pet treats during recess Thursday. No injuries were reported. Student Gabriel Moore tells WFMZ-TV the aide […]
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy charged with fatally shooting a Pennsylvania cab driver who didn’t take his preferred route was interviewed as a witness to a triple homicide in New Jersey last year, police said. Aazis Richardson was charged with murder Friday night, hours after 47-year-old cab driver Vincent Darbenzio was found shot […]
BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Several students will be disciplined for releasing hundreds of crickets in a western Pennsylvania high school as a senior prank. Chartiers Valley School District tells KDKA-TV that the students involved in Thursday’s prank at the high school in Bridgeville have been identified and will be disciplined. The district spokeswoman, Kara Droney, […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania’s ban on gay marriage was overturned by a federal judge Tuesday in a decision that legalized the practice throughout the Northeast and sent couples racing to pick up licenses. U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III called the plaintiffs — a widow, 11 couples and one couple’s teenage daughters — courageous […]
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) — A southeastern Pennsylvania man charged with breaking into a neighbor’s house says he was only borrowing eggs to make breakfast. The Bucks County Courier Times says Middletown police contend Christopher King didn’t have an omelette on his mind when he climbed through the window Tuesday morning. Police who responded to the […]
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — An official says four students were believed to be seriously injured at a high school near Pittsburgh, where a student with a knife stabbed or slashed others, injuring as many as 20. Westmoreland County emergency management spokesman Dan Stevens says not all of the 20 injured were cut by the knife, […]
Listen to Senator Hughes interview with Roland Martin above. Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Hughes is known by Philadelphians as a hands-on legislator with an active community agenda. As part of that agenda, the West Philadelphia native has been a major part of raising awareness for HIV/AIDS along with his wife, actress Sheryl Lee Ralph and […]
A state judge has ruled that Pennsylvania can’t require voters to show ID at the polls because it “unreasonably burdens the rights to vote” guaranteed by the state constitution. A coalition of civil-rights groups challenged the requirement in court last summer after Republican lawmakers passed it and the Gov. signed it into law. For more […]
A man feuding with officials in his rural Pennsylvania town over living conditions at his ramshackle, trash-filled property killed three people at a municipal meeting — including at least one town official — in a rampage that blew holes through the walls and sent people crawling for cover, police said. The gunman, Rockne Newell, was […]
A Pennsylvania man was arrested for breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment and gluing her property together. Pennsylvania State Police said Dennis Homberg broke into his ex’s Lykens apartment on November 12. The 42-year old allegedly glued her refrigerator door shut and her utensil drawer shut. Homberg also poured glue over her computer keyboard. He faces […]
