NORRISTOWN — The top two leaders in the Montgomery County Public Defender’s Office were abruptly fired by county officials on Wednesday during a shakeup that sent shockwaves throughout the courthouse.
NORRISTOWN — A Souderton woman admitted she delivered a fatal mixture of fentanyl and heroin - bags stamped with “Danger” and a skull and bones insignia - to a Lansdale man who she claimed was a friend and who suffered a fatal overdose.
NORRISTOWN — A Norristown man convicted twice and sentenced to death three times for the alleged 1980 murder of his ex-girlfriend in Norristown says he wants "a fair” retrial now that a federal appellate judge overturned his previous conviction.
PHILADELPHIA — Faithful across the Archdiocese received blessed ashes on their foreheads, marked in the sign of a cross, reminding them to repent and believe in the Gospel as the 2020 Lenten Season begins.
UPPER MERION — And the winners are… On Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, the Upper Merion Township Public Library in King of Prussia, PA held a special Awards Ceremony in Freedom Hall at the Township Building. At this special event, the library honored all of the young authors who entered their 45th annual Write and Illustrate Your Own Book Contest. The contest was open to all students in Kindergarten through 8th grade. Book submissions were received from many different public and private schools in the area. Winners were chosen by a diverse and experienced panel of literary judges from the community. All winning books are bound, cataloged and included in the permanent Children’s Collection at the Upper Merion Township Library.
Students and staff at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School (PWHS), Colonial Middle School (CMS) and Conshohocken Elementary School (CE) participated in unity walks and assemblies on February 24. The events were held in recognition of Black History Month and in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s message of unity across all differences and walks of life. The initiative was led by the Black Cultural Awareness (BCA) clubs at PWHS and CMS.
UPPER MERION — The 134th edition of The Philadelphia Sportscard & Memorabilia Show — nicknamed The Philly Show — returns to Valley Forge Casino Resort from Feb. 28 through March 1.
EAST NORRITON — A preliminary plan for Scott Contractors of East Norriton to develop a two-story warehouse facility at 2945 Felton Road was approved at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.
LANSDALE — Several schools across the area participated in the Montgomery County and Bucks County Regional Unified Bocce Tournament at North Penn High School.
NORRISTOWN — Posing as a young female named “Sarah” in online dating apps, a West Pottsgrove man sent dozens of males, some seeking sexual encounters, to the Upper Merion residence of an unsuspecting couple he never met and who feared for their safety and saw their lives disrupted, according to authorities.
NORRISTOWN — An Ambler woman choked back tears as she admitted to fatally stabbing and beating her grandmother with a baseball bat, a “horrific” crime that occurred while she was suffering from a severe mental illness.
NORRISTOWN — A Whitpain Township man joined his girlfriend in admitting the couple conspired with a North Wales man to operate a gun trafficking network that prosecutors alleged profited by arming criminals.
NORRISTOWN — The next stop is prison for a Philadelphia man found possessing a backpack containing 800 packets of heroin as well as a cache of prescription medications as he traveled through Pennsburg and East Greenville.
BRIDGEPORT — Let the fastnacht frenzy begin.
The Friends of the Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library presented a check for $10,000 to library Executive Director Kathy Arnold-Yerger at its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 18.
Big changes to the way Pennsylvania has conducted elections and counted ballots for many decades are underway in county election offices throughout the commonwealth.
COLLEGEVILLE — Perkiomen Valley Middle School East students are proud to present the story of little orphan “Annie” from Feb. 28-March 1 in the Spahr Auditorium.
MIDDLETOWN — Students with a passion for community service are uniting this weekend for THON, the largest student-run philanthropy in the world.
NORRISTOWN — A Limerick woman acquitted of charges in 2013 that she was driving under the influence of prescription drugs when she struck and injured a man mowing his lawn faces new charges of DUI and illegally possessing drugs in the township.
NORRISTOWN — A Norristown man awaiting trial for his alleged role in the 2018 overdose death of an Upper Merion man faces new charges he ran from the scene of a two-vehicle crash in the borough that killed a Hatfield motorcyclist.
Montgomery County voters will have several primary contests to decide this spring, according to candidate nominating petitions filed with the Pennsylvania Department of State.
WEST VINCENT — West Vincent Township has joined over 360 municipalities and 22 counties across Pennsylvania in passing a Fair Districts Resolution.
NORRISTOWN — The next Making History Greater Series of the Historical Society of Montgomery County will feature Carol Spacht presenting "Winning the Vote: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage."
A local magazine publisher has announced her candidacy to run as a Republican in the race for the 150th District seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
NORRISTOWN — Choking back tears, a Lansdale woman testified she believed she was going to die as her onetime paramour, a former Upper Gwynedd Township police officer, strangled her, impairing her ability to breath, during a violent domestic assault.
EAST NOTTINGHAM — Police are searching for a 31-year-old woman they say is missing and endangered.
POTTSTOWN — Trout Fishing in America will perform in Montgomery County Community College’s South Hall Community Room, West Campus, 101 College Drive, on Saturday, March 7, at 10 a.m.
As "telephone town halls" become increasingly popular among politicians, two local legislators are becoming part of the trend.
NORRISTOWN — A roughly $3.4 million contract for community behavioral health services across Montgomery County was unanimously approved by the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners.
LANSDALE — The February winner of Lansdale's Business of the Month award has turned a longtime borough landmark into a one-of-a-kind destination.
NORRISTOWN — A West Norriton man accused of sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint in Norristown Farm Park has lost his bid to reduce the bail that is keeping him in jail while he awaits trial.
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge has prescribed prison time for a former East Norriton doctor who admitted to illegally distributing opioid drugs.
LIMERICK — A former Limerick Township Police Department corporal is contesting his termination after he was fired in the wake of his arrest and trial in Ocean City, Md., last year.
LIMERICK — Construction of a new firehouse in Linfield will be the subject of a public hearing on March 2.
Cpl. Shawn Pancoast
ABINGTON — It’s a legacy worth sharing.
NORRISTOWN — Sheriff Sean Kilkenny and Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office sworn officers and office staff recently accepted formal recognition of re-accreditation from the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association at the county courthouse.
NORRISTOWN — A former teacher at the Coventry Christian School in Lower Pottsgrove faces about six years of court supervision on charges he had sexual contact with a teenage girl who attended the school.
NORRISTOWN — The man who was fatally shot after he reportedly forced his way into a Collegeville home over the weekend was identified as a Schwenksville resident.
NORRISTOWN — A Bucks County man was sent to prison after he admitted he was driving under the influence of drugs at the time he caused a two-vehicle crash in Hatfield Township that seriously injured occupants of the second vehicle.
PHILADELPHIA — A King of Prussia man who once was a teacher at Lower Merion and Harriton high schools is facing federal charges that he allegedly traveled to the Philippines to have sex with minors.
WHITEMARSH — The dresses and the glass slippers are ready for the ball.
The Special Olympics' Unified Sports movement is growing in Montgomery County as track coaches prepare to attend an upcoming training session at Upper Merion Area High School.
The Special Olympics' Unified Sports movement is growing in Montgomery County as track coaches prepare to attend an upcoming training session at Upper Merion Area High School.
Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, D-4th Dist., is warning constituents to be on the lookout for bogus U.S. Census forms.
AMBLER — It appears that the Wissahickon Educational Opportunities Foundation serves as Wissahickon School District’s unsung hero.
COLLEGEVILLE — A 55-year-old man was found shot to death inside a borough residence and authorities are treating the incident as a homicide investigation.
PLYMOUTH — The NAACP will wind down Black History Month with an ambitious celebration of black economics on Feb. 22.
NORRISTOWN — As Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Philadelphia prepares to shut down inpatient services, Mercy Life in Norristown looks ahead to continued growth.
