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A Pennsburg man who took jewelry from 26 customers of his two Doylestown jewelry stores, then sold much of it and kept the proceeds, was sentenced Monday to three years probation and ordered to repay all his ...

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William McAndrews Jr. is a lucky man.

Again.

Early Friday, the 23-year-old escaped a blazing fire that gutted the third floor of his family's Pennsburg home. And it wasn't the first instance of surviving despite the odds for McAndrews, who suffers from a hereditary kidney ailment.

''That's the second time he's cheated death,'' said William McAndrews Sr., who gave a kidney to his son to save him. ''You only have nine lives.''

A fire in the McAndrews' row house at 545 Main St. gutted the upstairs room where the son was staying, forcing him to leap from the window to the second-story awning about 2:30 a.m.

William McAndrews Jr. is a lucky man. Again. Early today, McAndrews, 23, was able to escape a fire that gutted the third floor of his family's Pennsburg home.

Firefighters rescued two people from the roof of a burning house in Montgomery County overnight.

The jury is still out in the trial of a Richland woman accused of attempted murder.

As the jury foreman read each verdict, Patricia Loy reacted with a soft cry. Her daughter Rochelle was found not guilty Monday of attempted criminal homicide and two counts of arson for trying to set fire to ...

Three days of testimony ended today in the trial of a Richland Township woman accused of trying to burn down her house with herself and her 4-year-old daughter in it.

FOUND Wheelchair: Bruce has a wheelchair he is willing to giv e to Kathy of Pennsburg.

The Montgomery County Community Revitalization Board is recommending that the county give grant funds to all but two of the 18 municipalities that applied for the funds this year.

A Montgomery County man is facing charges after police say he admitted to molesting two girls.

Pennsburg's former code enforcement officer said he will pay back the borough $18,500 after he undercharged some businesses for permits over a six-year period.

Joseph P. Chrisman said he only was trying to help the little guy when he billed some ''mom and pop'' stores residential, not commercial, rates for their construction permits.

''It was my way to help the owners, to get them started, to keep them going so they could thrive in business,'' said Chrisman, 52, of Lower Pottsgrove Township. ''Did I do the right thing? Possibly. Did I do the wrong thing? Possibly.''

Pennsburg's former code enforcement officer says he will pay back the Montgomery County borough $18,500 after he undercharged businesses for permits over a six-year period.

A Lehigh County man faces up to 20 years in a state prison after pleading guilty Monday to using a knife to rob a waitress at a popular East Rockhill breakfast spot. via PhillyBurbs.com

QUAKERTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, 50 E. Paletown Road, Richland Township, will host its 49th annual Country Auction and Fair 4-8 p.m. today and Saturday. via The Morning Call

“I want her in my family. She's my daughter. This is her family”

Teachers at a Montgomery County high school were devastated that one of their students could be deported. via NBC 10

THE PENNRIDGE CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL DRAMA CLUB will present ''High School Musical Junior,'' a one-act version of the popular musical comedy, at 7 p.m. today and Saturday in the Penn Central Middle School ... via The Morning Call

The principal of a Quakertown Community School District middle school has retired midyear, in a decision that came as administrators prepared to fire him, a school board member said Friday.

Richard A. Zinck, 54, who headed Richard E. Strayer Middle School in Richland Township for 19 years, announced he was leaving at a school assembly held March 19.

He has been replaced in the interim by Cindy Lapinski, one of two assistant principals at the school.

''We know that he resigned, and if he wouldn't resign he'd have been terminated,'' said Paul Stepanoff, a Quakertown school board member. ''We have to trust the administration that whatever happened rose to the level that they needed to fire him.'' Read more

Fifteen years ago, I was assigned my first school violence story. It involved 15-year-old Jason Michael Smith, a sophomore at Upper Perkiomen High School, Pennsburg, PA. via ADVANCE for LPNs

“None of those people [Wolf, Miller and Suny] came forward to claim their property.”

Three Hells Angels want their guns back. In fact, the Angels also want their framed poems, black leather vests, gun permits, drivers licenses, personal papers and biker memorabilia. via Daily News