Chester County News

Allegations that a trooper stomped on the head of a Chester County man as he lay facedown on a tile floor in handcuffs are under investigation, state police said this week.

The leading regional planner for southeastern Pennsylvania thinks that tolling U.S. Route 422 to generate highway funding is good for starters.

Two teenagers were killed and five others were hurt in an accident in Chester County last night.

A 16-year-old Barto boy and a 17-year-old Pottstown boy were killed when a sport utility vehicle driven by another teen crashed and rolled on Route 724 before colliding with a sedan in Chester County, authorities said Tuesday.

Pennsylvania Department of Welfare officials said they'll investigate a report that an 18-year-old Chester County woman was locked in a closet at a group home for troubled youths in Pittsburgh.

Jack McLaughlin is a bright, articulate Lionville Middle School sixth grader whose main mission these days, along with schoolwork, is keeping his blood sugar under control.

A Gap woman was killed when her car struck a tractor-trailer head-on Thursday afternoon on Route 30 in Gap, police reported.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 7:10 pm US/Eastern WEST CHESTER, Pa. A former assistant fire chief accused of setting two small fires in an arson-plagued steel town near Philadelphia has worked out a plea bargain freeing him from jail.

The superintendent of high schools for the New York City public school system has a new job in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Chester County announced yesterday that it would offer free swine flu vaccine next week to people in priority groups at three all-day clinics in West Chester.

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Chester County received three AAA bond ratings last week, the commissioners said Friday in a news release.

What goes around comes around, at least when talking about the revolutions of a Ferris wheel.

It was a short day for some students in part of Chester County, after a bomb threat on Wednesday morning.

Two schools in the western part of Chester County are on lockdown after a bomb threat.

State Police are on the scene of a fataltiy in Sadsbury Township in remote eastern Lancaster County near the Chester County line.

On an evening in March 2008 some 30 guests arrived at the home of Tony and Neely Young -- a 14,000-square-foot Tudor-style mansion overlooking 57 acres in Chester County, Pa.

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DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. - October 31, 2009 -- Firefighters in Chester County are battled a multiple alarm at a tire business.

A Philadelphia commuter train caught fire Wednesday, complicating the morning rush already hampered by the city's transit strike.