Suburbs
The Bucks Co. Bear and 4 Other Local Wild Animals of Note
Hide your honey, your porridge and (in reality) your bird feeders and your garbage cans. There’s a bear on the loose! Over the past week, […]
Pottstown Hotel Has Sneaky Plan to Profit from Oklahoma Tornado
A Comfort Inn & Suites in Pottstown has a plan to help out victims from the Oklahoma tornado: It’ll donate $1 to the Red Cross […]
Bryn Mawr Cleaning Lady Gets 6 Years in Jail for Stealing Ben Franklin Bust
The Bryn Mawr cleaning lady who stole a $3 million bust of Ben Franklin–sculpted during his lifetime–has been sentenced to six years in jail. A […]
PA Woman Missing Since 2002 Now in Jail
So much for the heartfelt reunion story she may have been hoping for. Brenda Heist, the Lancaster county woman who vanished from her home ten […]
Eastern PA University to Allow Guns On Campus
Yes, that’s right. Eastern PA, not Western PA. Stereotypes be damned, Kutztown University is allowing gun owners with “compelling” personal safety rationale to bring their […]
Radnor Rejects $200 Million Villanova Expansion
NIMBYism strikes in Radnor (and so do feral cats, apparently). The Township Planning Commission has rejected Villanova’s bid for a $200 million expansion that would […]
Alleged Cleveland Kidnapper Has Local Roots
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man charged with kidnapping and raping three women over the course of the last decade, reportedly grew up in Reading, PA. […]
Stray Cat Strife on the Main Line Over Radnor Ordinance
It’s been quite a month for our fine furry friends in the Philadelphia region. First there was the wild turkey who was running around West Philadelphia. […]
Kobe Bryant Countersues to Keep High School Jerseys
Last week, we learned that Kobe Bryant’s mom was trying to sell off her son’s old Lower Merion jerseys, among other memorabilia, in the hopes […]
Kobe Bryant and His Mom Are Fighting Over His Lower Merion Jerseys
Kobe Bryant’s mom wants to sell off a big collection of her son’s old jerseys so she can buy herself a new home in Nevada. […]
PA Woman Who Disappeared Mysteriously in 2002 Has Turned Up in Florida
In 2002, a Lancaster County woman named Brenda Heist dropped her two kids off at school and then went to a park, where she sat […]
Richard Branson Should Buy SEPTA
So SEPTA needs money. Lots of it. In fact, a recent report said that unless SEPTA gets more money, the system “… will be forced […]
Parent Accuses Pottsgrove French Teacher of Not Knowing French
This is probably a story we can all relate to on some level–the high school foreign language teacher who seems suspiciously inept at speaking said […]
Swarthmore Travel Agent Selling $200,000 Tickets to Space
Today marks the first rocket-powered test flight for SpaceShipTwo, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spacecraft that will take tourists up, up, and away into space–well, sub-orbital […]
Body Found in Water ID’d as Missing Bryn Mawr Man
The search for missing Brown University student and Radnor High School graduate Sunil Tripathi is over. Today, a medical examiner has confirmed that a body […]