West Norriton News

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 on identity theft charges filed against him by West Norriton police.

Montgomery County officials have announced the arrests of eight suspects on charges of conducting a cocaine trafficking organization.

Montgomery County security personnel were instrumental in the conviction of a Plymouth man for stealing downspouts and other pieces of metal from properties in the central part of the county and then selling them for scrap metal.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced today the approval of a grant totaling more than $1.8 million to elevate seven flood-prone homes in West Norriton, Montgomery County.

WEST NORRITON TWP., Pa. September 29, 2009 -- Pennsylvania's budget problem has created funding problems for new textbooks for private and parochial schools.

Authorities in Montgomery County have announced the arrest of a man involved in a deadly motorcycle accident in June.

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A man wanted for stalking a 19-year-old woman from a suburban Walmart to her home and then raping her has beeen arrested following a traffic stop in Nevada, officials said this morning.

Seth Griffin , 31, was on the run for two-and-a-half weeks. He followed a 19-year old woman home from the Wal-Mart on South Trooper Road in West Norriton Twp., on July 27, according to investigators.

The Fountain Beach Resort in Daytona Beach, Fla., bills itself as "your perfect getaway." But a former reservations employee at the resort did not get away with a major identity theft scam, thanks to the doggedness of a detective from Montgomery County.

Prosecutors say Carlos Roberts worked the reservation desk at the Fountain Beach Resort in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Investigators have identified the suspect as 33-year-old Seth Griffith of the 500 block of Haws Avenue in Norristown.

Authorities in Lower Providence , Pa. are looking for a "person of interest" whom they say followed a woman home from a Walmart store on Monday afternoon and then assaulted her.

Police are looking for "person of interest" who allegedly followed a woman home from a Wal-Mart in West Norriton Township and sexually assaulted her in her bedroom.

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.