Saturday, April 13, 2013
Drug ring takedown and donut quest also made headlines.
Check out some of Patch's biggest stories from the past week in eastern Pennsylvania: Three men—including a volunteer firefighter—were charged with arson and related offenses in connection with an arson that took place at the Croydon Mansion in Bensalem in February, according to police. Two Berks County brothers are charged with kidnapping, torturing and killing 26-year-old Jennifer Velez-Negron, whose burned body was found dumped in Salisbury Township two days after Christmas. Velez-Negron's torture was recorded on a cellphone, according to court records. The brothers also are charged with killing an Easton grad and another man in Reading on Dec 4. The former finance director for Lower Southampton, Robert S. Butts, 53, surrendered to …
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Woman scammed out of $11,000 in Walmart parking lot and armed robberies in Norristown also make headlines.
Check out some of Patch's biggest stories from the past week in eastern Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Eagles are flying the Lehigh Valley coop. After 17 years, the training camp will no longer be held at Lehigh University, the team announced on its website Friday. Federal charges have been filed against Springton Lake Middle School Principal Dr. Troy Czukoski. Czukoski, 42, of Exton, was charged with one count of possession of child pornography, according to U.S. Attorney’s Office Public Affairs Specialist Patty Hartman. The Samuel Adams brewery in Lehigh County will manufacture its famed Boston Lager beer in cans, for the first time. Boston Beer Company Senior Public Relations Manager Jessica Paar said the company will produce the lager…
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Deadly industrial accident and man accused of robbing nine banks also made headlines.
Check out some of Patch's biggest stories from the past week in eastern Pennsylvania: A 21-year-old Hatfield, Montgomery County, man taunted police on the Montgomeryville-Lansdale Patch Facebook page while a warrant was out for his arrest, authorities say. Francisco Miranda—one of Pennsylvania's most wanted—has been arrested, accused of a fatal stabbing that happened in 1994 in Bethlehem, Northampton County. A 50-year-old New Jersey man was killed in an industrial accident in Falls Township, Bucks County, on Monday. Police say the man is responsible for nine bank robberies in Philadelphia, Montgomery and Delaware counties the past three weeks. A Lehigh County woman died from complications caused by a gunshot wound during a robbery in …
Saturday, February 23, 2013
A fire that killed two dogs in Newtown Square and the ongoing search for answers around a young woman's death also made headlines.
An 89-year-old neighbor of the man involved in a shootout with police at a Warminster apartment complex Tuesday evening was killed in the crossfire, officials said. David Martinez, the 20-year-old labeled a “serial rapist” by the Northampton County district attorney, faced a fifth set of charges Thursday in yet another case involving a teenage girl that police said he contacted through Facebook. A fund has been established to help cover $3,000 in emergency veterinary care needed to save a cockapoo named Oreo attacked by a pit bull in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County. Two dogs were reported killed in a Newtown Square fire that started in the woods and ended in the destruction of a barn. Investigators still aren't certain how an Ambler …
