Levittown News

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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

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.