Doylestown News

The judge said Dennis Schwendiman caused the victim's family pain with his selfish actions.

Doylestown borough in Bucks County may have a serial arsonist on its hands. The borough has had 8 suspicious fires in the last 10 days.

It began with a string of five fires on October 23rd. The most recent was on Sunday.

The new district attorney already is talking about adding new technology and flexible schedules to the DA's office.

Democrats picked up two more seats on Doylestown Council and created a supermajority of 8-to-1. The party also kept its mayor.

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - A man who told police he was punched for being a New York Yankees fan has been arrested on outstanding warrants in suburban Philadelphia.

Feldman Shepherd Attorney Mark W. Tanner will serve as a faculty member for the Pennsylvania Association for Justice CLE seminar on November 20, 2009.

Share + Oct 31, 2009 9:52 am US/Eastern DOYLESTOWN, Pa. A suburban Philadelphia man has been acquitted of murdering a teenager in a road-rage case 3A1 2 years ago.

The two candidates campaigning for Bucks County district attorney want to rejoin the office where they began their careers years ago, though they took different routes since then.

The Bucks County, Pa., NAACP called for disciplinary action and teacher sensitivity training in the Central Bucks School District Tuesday after an eighth-grade math class at Lenape Middle School got a homework assignment with an image of a black man that the group called "insulting" and "disparaging." The picture - with the caption "Solving ...

Levittown - Family caregivers face many challenges, among them finding the time to attend seminars where they can get their questions answered.But next month professional advice is only a phone call away.To mark National Family Caregivers Month, the Bucks County Area Agency on Aging is holding two community teleconferences for the public on ...

Ray Szymkiewicz, who tends bar at the Knight House restaurant in Doylestown, was noticeably uneasy as he sat outside the ballroom Sunday night at Spring Mill Manor in Northampton.Entering the ballroom were volunteer firefighters and emergency response personnel in their uniforms to take their seats for the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce's 37th ...

The person who wins the race for district attorney will be the first outsider to lead the office in more than 50 years.

Swine flu and seasonal flu have dominated the conversation for months as people line up for vaccines, hoping to stave off illness this year.Now it seems Fido has his own brand of flu to worry about.Cases of canine influenza, or H3N8, have been reported in Bucks County, but local veterinarians do not believe we're close to an epidemic.

Dave Heckler also picked up endorsements from neighboring district attorneys, the state police and a police organization.

An arsonist is on the loose. Police are searching for the person or persons who ignited the Friday blaze that left a Doylestown couple's recently renovated home uninhabitable.

Well known for being stern and somewhat cranky on the bench, former county Judge Dave Heckler is now being accused of flying into a "rage" during a traffic dispute, prompting some to question whether he's got the right temperament to lead the Bucks County District Attorney's Office.Heckler, the Republican candidate for DA, said the accusations, and ...

Bucks County, named by William Penn after his home town of Buckinghamshire, England has lots to offer the experienced traveler or the weekend traveler looking for some place to explore.

The death of a 41-year-old man, whose body was found Tuesday night in the men's bathroom of the Bucks County Free Library in Doylestown, "does not appear to be suspicious," the deputy Bucks County coroner said Wednesday.

Doylestown Township supervisors agreed Tuesday night to solicit proposals for a comprehensive traffic study of the area surrounding the intersection of routes 263 and 313.Traffic in the area has been the focus of much discussion within the township since Philadelphia developer Joe Grasso proposed creating a shopping center at the intersection, and ...