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Levittown, Pennsylvania is located in Bucks County. Zip codes in Levittown, PA include 19056, 19057, and 19054. More Levittown information.

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Friday | PhillyBurbs.com

Jury mulls fatal western Pa. bar shooting case

Levittown - A western Pennsylvania jury is trying to decide whether a Pittsburgh-area man is guilty of murder or acted in self defense in the shooting death of a man outside an Erie bar.Prosecutors urged jurors Thursday to convict 32-year-old Michael Wright of Braddock of first- or third-degree murder in the March 28 killing of 31-year-old Rondale ...

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Friday | PhillyBurbs.com

2 get prison in Pa. mistaken-identity gang murder

Levittown - A pair of eastern Pennsylvania gang members who acknowledged taking part in the mistaken-identity slaying of a man at an Allentown graduation party last year have been sentenced to prison terms.Lehigh County Judge Maria Dantos on Thursday sentenced 19-year-old Brandon Figueroa to 20 to 40 years and 30-year-old Tariq Bailey to 17 to 40 ...

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

PhillyBurbs.com

Denzel Washington cheers on son's 1st college game

Levittown - Actor Denzel Washington was playing proud father as he cheered on his son Malcolm's first game with the University of Pennsylvania basketball team.Washington sat three rows behind Penn's bench Friday night during the Quakers' season opener at Penn State.

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

Philly.com News

Impairment at issue in trial over officer's traffic death

The Levittown man whose car allegedly slammed into a parked police car, causing the cruiser to fatally run over Officer Christopher Jones as he returned to it during a traffic stop, was "impaired," witnesses said yesterday.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

PhillyBurbs.com

No recusal by Pa. judge in child starvation appeal

Levittown - A western Pennsylvania judge has declined a defense request to step aside rather than hear a death row inmate's appeal in the starvation death of her 7-year-old daughter a decade ago.Defense attorneys had asked Washington County Judge Paul Pozonsky to recuse himself before a Dec.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

PhillyBurbs.com

Testimony: Pa. judge filled beds in private jail

Levittown - A disgraced former Pennsylvania judge began requiring detention for certain youth offenders just three days after the opening of a for-profit detention center whose owner was paying him kickbacks, according to testimony.Former probation official Sandra Brulo says the zero tolerance policy put into place by former Luzerne County Judge ...

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Fri Nov 13, 2009

PhillyBurbs.com

Sikh owners to keep 1 Pa. airport sandwich shop

Levittown - The Sikh owners of two eastern Pennsylvania airport sandwich shops have settled a federal lawsuit alleging that they were being evicted because their appearance worried passengers.Attorney George Kanupis says the owners will keep the lease on one Subway restaurant at Lehigh Valley International Airport and will get "generous financial ...

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

6 ABC

Body discovered in Levittown

LEVITTOWN, Pa. - November 11, 2009 -- Police in Levittown, Bucks County are investigating the discovery of a body.

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PhillyBurbs.com

Pa. man gets plea deal in crash that killed friend

Levittown - A western Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to drunken driving and involuntary manslaughter in a crash that killed a friend a year ago.Twenty-four-year-old Paul Endler of Somerset County will be sentenced Dec.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

The Tribune-Democrat

NEW a " Coroner: Philly-area man killed wife, self

Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say a man involved in a bitter divorce case shot and killed his wife and then himself.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

PhillyBurbs.com

Pa. artist captures beauty of the valley

Levittown - Amy Abattoir moved to central Pennsylvania from New York City a couple of years ago.SheA's still amazed with the beauty of the region.An artist, Abbatoir has been working on a series of paintings she calls "Driving in the Pennsylvania Dusk." A six-painting preview of the series is on display at Cherry Alley Cafe in Lewisburg.Her series ...

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Philly.com

Attytood: The Levittown barfly who almost kept Obama from becoming president

Remember Mayhill Fowler, the citizen journalist whose tape recorder sparked the infamous Pennsylvania "Bittergate" scandal that came close to derailing Barack Obama's drive to the White House, highlighting the disconnect between a Harvard Law grad and the rank-and-file Democratic voters he said "were clinging to guns and religion" as a response to ...

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PhillyBurbs.com

Probe continues into couple's shooting deaths

Bristol Township police are continuing to investigate the shooting deaths of a married couple found in their Holly Drive home in Levittown Tuesday evening.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

Philly.com

SEPTA union on strike

SEPTA's largest union went on strike early this morning - crippling a transit system that averages more than 928,000 trips every weekday in the city.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

PhillyBurbs.com

Ex-Pa. authority head guilty in $141K theft

Levittown - The former executive director of a western Pennsylvania sewer authority has pleaded guilty to charges he stole $141,000 from the agency, though the amount he'll have to repay remains a matter of dispute.Fifty-four-year-old Carl Paul Lewis, of Ellwood City, pleaded guilty Thursday to theft charges and has agreed to a one- to two-year ...

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PhillyBurbs.com

Bucks libraries lay off 20 workers

Bucks County's libraries laid off 20 employees this week and will reduce hours next month, due to a 21 percent cut in state funding.

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Sat Oct 31, 2009

PhillyBurbs.com

Pa. man spends year visiting barns, shooting stars

Levittown - Stars. Not hex signs, but stars.Patrick Donmoyer, 23, has spent more than a year documenting and photographing 400 examples of such celestial iconography, a form of folk art painted on Pennsylvania barns over the last three centuries.To Donmoyer, these stars matter as emblems of Pennsylvania German cultural identity.He is a true fan, ...

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

PhillyBurbs.com

Pa. renews push for federal approval to toll I-80

Levittown - Pennsylvania is making a new push to get federal approval for tolls on Interstate 80, the heavily used route that bisects the state for more than 300 miles, from Ohio to New Jersey.The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and state highway department submitted supplemental materials late Thursday to the Federal Highway Administration that ...

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

ClipSyndicate

School Performs 'Phillies Repeat Song'

Teacher Marc McFadden leads students and faculty at James Buchanan Elementary School in Levittown, Pa., in singing the "Repeat Phillies Song."

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PhillyBurbs.com

Pa. judge asked to spare historic summer cottage

Levittown - A western Pennsylvania judge has been asked to save a 121-year-old cottage believed to be the summer home of steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie.The Cresson Area Historical Association owns the Braemar-Jones cottage which Cresson Township officials want to demolish because it is in disrepair.

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