West Chester News

Works from the art collection of the late Madeline Lamb, a lawyer and former board member of the Chester County Art Association, will be sold during CCAA's Renovation Sale from March 21-27.

WEST CHESTER When West Chester's Sankofa Academy opened in 2005, its founders touted it as an African American charter school where students would excel under a curriculum infused with their history and culture.

While small machinery remains impacted by the residential market, larger farm equipment is in heavy demand as most commodity prices have been strong.

A proposal that would allow West Chester University and other large schools to withdraw from the state's higher education system could hit students and parents in the pocketbook - and not in a good way, the system's chancellor warned Thursday.

MIREILLE FAVAREL, former principal dancer of the Milwaukee Ballet and currently associate director of Milwaukee Ballet II, will teach a day of master classes for the Brandywine Ballet on April 6, 2014 at The Dancer Center, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

A southeastern Pennsylvania man has been acquitted of charges in the death of a man killed while sitting in a vehicle in what authorities called a drug-related robbery.

Wesco Aircraft Holdings Inc. has closed on its acquisition of a supply-chain management firm serving the aerospace industry in a deal valued at $550 million.

Market Street in West Chester was largely clear by mid-morning Monday, but many sidestreets - particularly in the southern part of the county has slippery patches - as the turned out be less severe than originally forecast.

Chester County Sheriff Carolyn "Bunny" Welsh poses with the winner's of the black Lab, which came from Cedar Creek Farm in Nottingham: Jake Read , and his father, Matthew Read.

West Chester University is flourishing, with a growing student population. But that's not the case for most of the 13 other state-owned universities.

In honor of the 72nd annual "March is Red Cross Month," the American Red Cross Southeastern Pennsylvania will launch several initiatives, bask in the red glow of select Philadelphia landmarks, and host several events, including its signature Red Ball.

The acquisition of Haas was funded by a combination of a new $525 million term loan B facility that was added to the Company's existing senior secured credit facilities, a $40 million draw under Wesco's existing revolving credit facility and cash from the Company's balance sheet.

After spending their way through the post-recession years on a tide of cheap money, there are signs Canadians are rediscovering their long-forgotten frugality.

A bill in the works that might allow West Chester University to pull out of the financially struggling State System of Higher Education might come with a steep price of its own, the head of the university's faculty union warned Thursday.

Best Line Equipment, a regional rental, sales and service leader, is representing Bobcat in another market.

Meyers joined the company in 2012 in the role of Digital Manager at Greater Media-Philadelphia.

At this juncture, with a little more than a month before we hit the polls for the April primaries, allow me this: Washington could use Andy Shallal as its CEO.

An Indian man fatally stabbed his American wife before killing himself in Agra, the city that is home to the Taj Mahal and where the couple married in October, police said Saturday.

Operating on the premise that there's strength in numbers, a consortium of county departments and agencies has announced the spring schedule for post-adoption and grand-family support groups.

No kidding. Bloomberg reports : "The number of Americans getting divorced rose for the third year in a row to about 2.4 million in 2012, after plunging in the 18-month recession ended June 2009, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.