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Missing 21 year old University of Rhode Island student Matthew Royer has been found unharmed in North Carolina .

Decarcerate PA, an anti-prison activist group, has organized a 10-day march from Philadelphia to Harrisburg beginning Saturday, and will spend Memorial Day weekend walking through Norristown and Collegeville to Pottstown, stopping for a protesting to end prison expansions along the way.

Police are looking for a 21-year-old Montgomery County student who went missing on his way home from the University of Rhode Island.

A text message that says "I'm about to leave" is the last time Janet Royer had contact with her son Thursday night.

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The Pennsylvania State Police are still searching for a 21-year-old University of Rhode Island student who went missing last week.

Pennsylvania state police suggested Monday that 21-year-old Matthew R. Royer, missing since leaving Rhode Island on Thursday, might have decided on his own to detour from returning to his Montgomery County home.

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)

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

Officials are trying to locate 21-year-old Matthew Royer of Collegeville. Royer was last seen leaving his apartment at the University of Rhode Island on Thursday.

Kim Coleman and Dawn Johnston will go head-to-head on Tuesday in the Perkiomen Township primary election to replace outgoing tax collector Ray Gaugler.

Bikesport is organizing a group of cyclists for the 10 th annual Ride of Silence through Trappe and Collegeville on Wednesday night.

Newsweek released its list of the nation's top high schools, looking at student's college readiness and focusing on "graduation rates, participation in college-level classes via Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs, and acceptance into a two- or four-year college program," according to the report on The Daily Beast .

It has been a busy week of news in Montgomery County. Have you seen the top headlines yet? One woman, 21, of Collegeville, allegedly rear-ended a car at a stop sign.

Police found an index card with the shopping/to-do list in Carolyn Murray's car as they helped her locate her license and registration.

Bishop Joseph McFadden gives the Homily to at St. Pius and Kennedy-Kenrick students during their schools' frist combined first Thanksgiving Mass at St.

Tina Traster, a former Record reporter, is writing a memoir, due out next year from Chicago Review Press, about raising her Russian-adopted daughter.

Jenny Greenwald of Greenwald Plant and Flower Workshop opened The Garden at Greenwald, a flower tent outside of her Main Street business, earlier this month to offer a "home-grown alternative to the flower tent guy" - and she has found much success.

Those Dimes And Dollars Count Up In Lower Pottsgrove The township's monthly warrant, approved by the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, shows where its money came from and went to during March.

Two alleged local hit-and-runs are being investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police .