Devon News

Gee, it only took a federal criminal investigation of at least six charter schools and the jailing of one charter official before the state finally moved to improve financial oversight.

Eastern Property Group has tied up a slew of leases at its new project - Town Center at Wayne at 200 W. Lancaster Ave., which sits across from Anthropologie.

The FBI and Philadelphia police are looking for Kebrum Teklu, 22, who is wanted in connection with the armed robberies of three food outlets in Delaware and Chester counties.

WP Realty is at it again. The Bryn Mawr, PA-based opportunistic retail investor has garnered $115 million of equity commitments for its fifth fund, which recently closed on its first acquisition, picking up a small retail center and adjacent land in nearby Devon, PA for approximately $18 million.

Offering Main Line dining at reasonable prices, The Paddock at Devon, located on Lancaster Avenue, is a great place for friends to meet and enjoy excellent food without having to pay for an expensive bill.

A wastewater pond from a hydrofracked horizontal well in Springville, Pa. Exxon recently paid an $85,000 fine for the deaths of migratory birds that landed in similar ponds.

Longhorn Cavern is formed in the upper massive limestone of the Gorman Formation, Ellenberger group, of Ordovician age.

Smart Business Advisory & Consulting said Tuesday that it will merge with business consulting firm LECG Corp.

Photograph: Ian R Cartwright/School of Archaeology/PA Deliberate cut marks on a 9,000-year-old human bone excavated in a west country cave more than a century ago suggest that prehistoric Devonians may have been cannibals.

Photograph: Ian R Cartwright/School of Archaeology/PA Deliberate cut marks on a 9,000-year-old human bone excavated in a west country cave more than a century ago suggest that prehistoric Devonians may have been cannibals.

State investigators conducting a probe of the Agora Cyber Charter School learned that the school's founder had obtained a $205,500 federal grant for the school based in Devon, but they could find no record that the check was deposited in any of Agora's bank accounts.

State investigators conducting a probe of the Agora Cyber Charter School learned that the school's founder had obtained a $205,500 federal grant for the school based in Devon, but they could find no record that the check was deposited in any of Agora's bank accounts.

Photograph: Ian R Cartwright/School of Archaeology/PA Deliberate cut marks on a 9,000-year-old human bone excavated in a west country cave more than a century ago suggest that prehistoric Devonians may have been cannibals.

State investigators conducting a probe of the Agora Cyber Charter School learned that the school's founder had obtained a $205,500 federal grant for the school based in Devon, but they could find no record that the check was deposited in any of Agora's bank accounts.

Attorneys for the state Department of Education today began outlining their case for revoking the charter of the Agora Cyber Charter School, saying they would show that the Devon-based school was spending 21 percent of its funds on management fees.

With the state poised to pull the plug over alleged mismanagement, an online charter school based in Devon is fighting back in not just one court, but three.

RISMEDIA, June 19, 2009-Fox & Roach Charities, the charitable arm of Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS? headquartered in Devon, PA, was listed #23 on the Top 25 Corporate Charitable Contributors in the May, 2009 Philadelphia Business Journal .

Ita s finally done: Episcopal Academy has completed the sale of its Devon, Pa., campus to Delaware County Christian School.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education is threatening to revoke a school's charter over a management contract with a company owned by its founder.

East Resources, Inc. , a privately-owned oil and natural gas exploration and development company based in Pennsylvania, announced today that it has received a significant investment from private equity funds of global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.