Yeadon News

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.

Detectives in Upper Darby, Pa. are pleading for the public's cooperation as they look for two men wanted in connection with separate shootings on a neighborhood playground, one of which turned fatal last weekend.

HGI Skydyne, the Port Jervis company that designs and manufactures custom cases and food service products, was acquired earlier this month by The Jenard Company, a custom manufacturer of vinyl products and custom vinyl packaging based in Yeadon, Pa.

The headline in the Inquirer needed but a single word to sink the hook: Horror! Eight persons lured one by one to a barn and then killed with an ax: a father, mother, four children, family friend, visiting aunt.

Zuri Duckett, a 9-year-old resident on Yeadon, Pa., is one of six lucky kids who will take the stage when the children's classic "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" opens Tuesday, April 7, at the Academy of Music.

As a corporal in the Philadelphia police radio room, Viola Leigertwood is surrounded daily by the sound of violence.

As Gov. Rendell and Pennsylvania Senate Republicans spar over control of an estimated $16 billion in federal stimulus dollars, economically challenged suburbs like Upper Darby, Lansdowne and Yeadon are clamoring for their fare share.

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Tucked between a Chinese restaurant and a tutoring agency in a Delaware County shopping center is a new tenant offering a service not typically found in such a commercial setting.

Officers throughout the region faced down danger in the line of duty this weekend.

Lindsey Ellen Aaron, a resident and student at the University of Virginia, hopes to organize a community cleanup day in the borough this spring.

Looking for a positive slant on homicides is like looking for a positive side to the war in Iraq.

Eight people were displaced by a fast-moving fire that gutted two twin homes in the 400 block of Ellis Avenue Sunday night, fire officials said.

With eight kids of his own back in Liberia, Henry Gbokoloi was used to the company of children.

A man enraged by a noisy family sitting near him in a movie theater on Christmas night shot the father of the family in the arm, police said.

A man enraged by a noisy family sitting near him in a movie theater on Christmas night threw popcorn at the son and later shot the father in the arm, police charged.

The Upper Darby Police Department has taken a hard stand against witnesses who do not cooperate with police.