Coatesville News

COATESVILLE, Pa. - June 27, 2009 -- The couple was shot, execution style, last 4th of July weekend.

Noack in the Aerzen shop area. The plant, one of the greenest in Penna., has such features as energy-efficient appliances, rain gardens, and straw bales for wall insulation.

Investigators in Chester County say they've made two arrests in the grisly murder of a teenager who disappeared eight months ago.

A southeastern Pennsylvania man is free on bail, charged with criminal mischief for flooding the Easton police station.

Two men have been charged with the murder of a Coatesville, Pa. teenager who disappeared last fall and whose remains have never been found.

Governor Ed Rendell made a plea for full funding for the Pennsylvania State police on Sunday at the Belmont Avenue barracks in Philadelphia.

It's too bad that Michael J. Kitson and Bob Calandra's new job-survival book wasn't out in 1993, when Calandra got canned from his job as senior editor of a health magazine.

Caroline and Sidney Kimmel hosted the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson's Inaugural Ball Thursday at the Please Touch Museum.

A suburban Philadelphia jury has convicted a rap singer of first-degree murder for a 2005 shooting death that authorities said was revenge for the theft of a gold chain.

Using more than $380 million in federal economic recovery funding, Pennsylvania will help more than 5,000 families get into affordable housing and at least 1,000 buy their first home with down payment assistance, Gov.

City Manager, Jim Baugh, announced recently that he has offered the position of Assistant City Manager to Tarron J. Richardson, Ph.D. A He will assume the position on June 22, 2009 which was vacated by Lynda Humble, now serving as City Manager for City of Rowlett.

Areas of dense fog have formed across New Jersey this morning, with visibilities down near zero in parts of coastal South Jersey around 5 AM today, has lead to the issuance of a Dense Fog Advisory .

The Delaware County Summer Festival marks its 35th season of free outdoor entertainment at Rose Tree Park, opening with the Rose Tree Pops on June 10 and closing with a samba/bossa nova celebration with Minas on Aug.

A Chester County nonprofit organization is stepping up to help some Coatesville, Pa.

Penn State University student Andrew E. Staub was awarded the 2009 Ralph Flamminio Memorial Scholarship at the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors' annual meeting Friday.

For more than 50 years, workers at the Reynolds Packaging plant in Downingtown have been printing packaging for consumer goods -- from pouch tobacco to chocolate milk.

As the recession hampers funding for nonprofits, the Crime Victims' Center of Chester County is turning to wine to help finance its programs for crime victims and their families.

Tom Kelly IV, Daily Local News / AP Photo The small, unassuming town of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, has suffered 50 fires in 15 months, making it the site of the country's worst arson epidemic in decades, and providing a frightening case study in how the crime of fire-setting can turn self-perpetuating. The Daily Beast reports from a city under ...

WHY? Even with suburbia banging down the door, the Brandywine Valley still offers quiet back roads, great pubs, handsome stone homes and great gardens.

An employee of a West Philly grocery store is in critical condition after being shot twice during a robbery Tuesday night, police said.