Sellersville News

One unit of a six-unit apartment building on Main Street in Sellersville was heavily damaged by a fire Tuesday morning.

By CHRISTOPHER RUVO The Intelligencer Sellersville Fire Chief Harry McElhare said that a Tuesday morning fire that damaged three apartments at 63 N. Main St.

The goal of Penn Foundation's drug and alcohol recovery program is to help people get release from addiction.

To catch a Berks County man accused of trying to lure a 16-year-old girl into his truck on July 2, Perkasie police had to do a little luring of their own.

Officers spoke to employees at the Sellersville business where their chief suspect had parked his truck, got a phone number for a man the workers knew only as ''Devon,'' and enticed him back to the business where he had been foraging in a trash container for scrap metal.

When Lakeram Mohabeer returned to Sellersville, detectives confronted him and, according to charging papers, he admitted to twice asking the girl for cigarettes, offering her a ride, and telling her ''you are beautiful'' after running into her a third time.

The former manager of a Sellersville interior design firm, who stole more than $561,000 from the company to finance his lavish lifestyle, was sentenced in Bucks County court in Doylestown Wednesday to 111/2 to ...

Bucks and Montgomery counties are in line for new vet centers designed to help soldiers readjust to civilian life after serving in war zones.

The centers, operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and designed to be low-key and approachable, offer mental health counseling and other support services to combat veterans and their families.

''This is outstanding news,'' Bucks Veterans Affairs Director Dan Fraley said. ''We needed it. We have been lobbying for it. We have been seeing more Iraq veterans.''

Looking to wring every last drop from the Fourth of July weekend, an estimated 4,000 people came out for Sunday's 36th Annual Pennridge Community Day in Perkasie.

A man twice tried to lure a 16-year-old girl - at one point touching her - in Sellersville and Perkasie on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Police in Bucks and Montgomery counties are comparing notes today, trying to determine whether some recent incidents of attempted child lurings are related.

Although it's not too unusual for prayers to be offered up on the basketball court, it is unusual to hold a church service under the hoops.

A 12-year-old Philadelphia boy was listed in stable condition today at Lehigh Valley Hospital, two days after being hit by a car while bicycling across a Sellersville street.

Wilson Alequin was crossing Main Street at Park Avenue when he was hit about 3:25 p.m. Tuesday, police said. He was thrown from his bike, and suffered a large bump on the back of his head and many cuts , police said.

Perkasie Police Chief Joseph Gura said authorities have yet to determine who had the right-of-way at the intersection. The driver, Danica Schwegel, 34, of East Market St., Perkasie, has not been cited, he said.

When the teenage girl stepped out of the shower, the 55-year-old man slouched against the sink and leered at her.

Paul Rehrer can remember when gas was 7 cents a gallon. To him, America's been spoiled by relatively low prices, and the recent spike is just a catch-up. His wife, Marcella, isn't so easily appeased.

Pastor Butch Kuykendall and 15 members of his church went to Biloxi, Miss., last month to help Hurricane Katrina victims rebuild their lives.

A Souderton church complex was heavily damaged overnight by a fire that took more than four hours to get under control.

A Bucks County judge Tuesday refused to reduce the prison sentence of a Sellersville man who stabbed and choked a woman nearly to death in her own bed last year.

When two strange men in a white van asked the little girl in West Rockhill if she wanted a ride home, she took off running.

CAMELOT FOR CHILDREN seeks volunteers, minimum age 14, to work one-on-one with special-needs children and their siblings at Camelot's Day Camp.

Simultaneous, widely separated cuts in fiber optic cables caused many AT&T Wireless customers to be without cell phones for at least six hours Monday.

AT&T is reporting outages among its wireless phones in portions of southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware and southern New Jersey.