Upland News

Gov. Rendell's nominee to the School Reform Commission was grilled for more than an hour yesterday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Education Committee about whether his work as a private lawyer would cause any conflict with or bias in his duties on the Philadelphia panel.

Chester Community Charter School, the state's largest charter, would be among the biggest losers if a Rendell administration proposal to change special-education funding for charter and cyber charter schools becomes law.

Taxes will increase by 5.1 percent for Bethlehem Area School District property owners in the coming school year, after the school board rejected a 6.3 percent hike Monday night.

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Rescuers have pulled 15 members of a Boy Scout troop from a rain-swollen river in suburban Philadelphia where they became trapped.

Work begins today to replace 1,365 curb ramps for the disabled in Delaware County.

Members of the Delaware Valley Finnish Americans on Sunday will honor their ancestors' first New World settlement 371 years ago.

As America was honoring its war dead last week, police in Delaware County were investigating a "parasite" who they say sank to a new low just to make a few bucks - by burglarizing the home of an ailing Vietnam veteran who had checked into the hospital.

A Dover man has been taken to a Pennsylvania burn hospital following a Saturday afternoon fire in the city.

Taxpayers in Monroe County will likely see their school property tax bills reduced by about the same dollar amount as last year, according to estimates released Friday by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Two Kulptown firefighters injured while burning leaves behind the fire company remained in the burn unit Saturday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Delaware County, officials said.

By Mari A. Schaefer Inquirer Staff Writer The 17-year-old Chester High School senior walked into the courtroom and listened as the charges against him were read.

Levittown - The state expects property tax reductions from slots revenue should be about the same this year as last year.

A motorist seriously injured in a one-car crash on South Delsea Drive early Wednesday morning died at a Pennsylvania hospital later in the morning.

You may have personally seen and even touched the TBM-3 Avenger that burned at Millville Municipal Airport Saturday.

Authorities have identified the pilot who safely landed a vintage aircraft at a New Jersey airport this weekend after it caught fire in midair.

A fundraiser will be held here Saturday to benefit the family of a critically burned Gloucester City man.

In Delaware County, residents of the Chester Upland School District - one of Pennsylvania's poorest and most academically challenged - pay more than $5,400 annually to attend their county community college full ...

West Chester, Pa. - February 19, 2009 -- About one in every 150 kids are now diagnosed with autism.

Upland Police tell Action News that just before 8:00 a.m. a woman driving an SUV struck a fire hydrant and then slammed into a telephone pole.