West Norriton News

A womana s body was fished out of the Schuylkill River Wednesday morning after she was thrown off a motorcycle during a crash, according to police.

Traveling in the large "Commonwealth One" government-on-wheels bus, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald L. Zahorchak Friday morning stopped in Bucks and Montgomery Counties to drum up support for the governor's 2009-10 spending plan for education.

Canceled that family vacation because of the economy? Un-cancel it. Your vacation has already been paid for - by you.

By Derrick Nunnally Inquirer Staff Writer Across from a neighborhood of bungalows and rowhouses along the Norristown-West Norriton border, Norristown State Hospital stretches for 225 rolling, tree-lined acres, awaiting its third life.

It took only one ballot for Montgomery County Republicans to agree on which seven candidates to endorse for judge.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri-Ferman, along with Norristown Police Chief Russell Bono, Pennsylvania State Police Captain Dave Young, West Norriton Police Chief Robert Adams, and Whitpain Police ...

Montgomery County, Pa. authorities are ready to play hardball with a former deputy constable from Lower Merion who resigned his position over a year ago after he was accused of overstepping his bounds.

The two University of Pennsylvania students hospitalized with meningitis are improving, a university spokesman said.

Celebrating a Century of Achievement Congressman Joe Sestak Speaks at Norristown NAACP's Black History Month Luncheon On Saturday, February 14, Congressman Joe Sestak spoke at the fifth annual Black History ...

Westbound Route 422 will be reduced from two lanes to one between Routes 23 and 363 in Upper Merion and West Norriton Townships Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. so that a new third lane can be opened, the ...

After a two-hour, 20-minute conditional use hearing Tuesday night before the West Norriton board of commissioners, township officials tabled action on an Upper Merion builder's request to drastically reduce the ...

A Philadelphia man this week learned the true meaning of "snooze and you lose." Emmett T. Bryant, 53, of the 200 block of Haines St., nodded off in a Montgomery County courtroom while awaiting a court hearing ...

A West Norriton woman apparently facing eviction from her apartment admitted she robbed a local bank in order to pay her rent.

That was prior to his swearing-in yesterday in the Hall of the Pennsylvania House as the 157th State House District's new Representative.

Authorities released details Monday of an investigation into a series of events that left two people dead in Montgomery County.

JOURNAL REGISTER NEWS SERVICE REPORT www.PhoenixvilleNews.com NORRISTOWN - While authorities have confirmed that a man jumped to his death from the Dannehower Bridge in an apparent suicide Saturday afternoon, ...

Montgomery County has hundreds of professionals available to help abused children.

For The Reporter A Philadelphia man who admitted robbing a man at gunpoint and pistol-whipping him inside a rented room at the Chateau Granieri motel in West Norriton has been sentenced to 2A1 2 to 5 years in ...

Two Madison Traditional models have price reductions up to $80,000 at the SouthView community in Lower Pottsgrove Township.

Investigators arrested a man they said may be responsible for dozens of burglaries across Montgomery County.