Yeadon News

YEADON, Pa. - October 30, 2009 -- Police are looking for the man who robbed a teenage girl at gunpoint while she was walking to school.

Assaults overnight left a man and teenage girl in critical condition, and Philadelphia police have made an arrest in one of Saturday's two slayings.

An Upper Darby man has been sentenced to life in prison in the robbery and beating death of his 85-year-old great-aunt last year.

YEADON, Pa. - September 23, 2009 -- Yeadon Police are warning residents to be on the lookout for suspicious individuals in the wake of two burglaries and one attempted burglary early this morning.

A pizza deliveryman was shot during an attempted robbery in North Philadelphia last night.

A former Yeadon Borough councilman pleaded guilty today to two counts of harassment against the borough's former finance director.

The Mayor of Darby Borough has had it with crime and wants change. A 9 p.m. curfew is now in effect for a small part of the borough, just west of the Philadelphia county line and south of Yeadon.

A $50,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest and a conviction in the 2008 murder of a Delaware County man, the Citizens Crime Commission announced today.

JAMES MILLER shows his form yesterday during a bikini car wash at North Bowl Lounge n Lanes, in Northern Liberties, to raise money for his friend Mary O'Malley, a server there who was recently hurt in a bike accident.

M. FALK / Staff photographer Tex, winged member of the Miller family, was taken during a burglary of their Northeast home almost six weeks ago.

Yeadon Borough, like other Delaware County municipalities that hug the Philadelphia border, is no stranger to cutthroat politics or the occasional out-of-control council meeting.

Yeadon is 1.6 square miles of political turmoil. A Borough Council member with a felony record has been removed from office by a judge.

A worker from the Fairmount Park Operations Division examines a fallen branch that killed Mary Katherine Ladany on August 5, 2009.

Yeadon is 1.6 square miles of political turmoil. A Borough Council member with a felony record has been removed from office by a judge.

Yeadon police are seeking the public's help in identifying two suspects in the armed robbery of a convenience store.

A Yeadon borough councilman who is a convicted felon is fighting to keep his seat, even though those convicted of an "infamous crime" cannot hold elected office in Pennsylvania.

Cynthia Thomas Jackson was honored by her family, colleagues and friends at a retirement party on June 18, at Galdoa s Caterers and Banquet Hall in South Philadelphia.

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

Deborah Robinson-Howell is a woman on a mission to make a difference in Yeadon, Delaware County, where many residents are dissatisfied with the present leadership.

A two-alarm fire ripped through a Delaware County home, leaving a family of five homeless.