DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jimmy Garcia scoured the large all-purpose room at Neshaminy Manor, a senior living center in Doylestown Township, ready to spring into action.

He walked among the tables where 15 residents were seated, dipping brushes into watercolor paints.

If anyone needed ...

OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — A helicopter with a student pilot and an instructor aboard made a hard landing at a small airport in southern New Jersey, leaving both injured and the aircraft on its side.

The Federal Aviation Administration says the Robinson R22 helicopter ended up in a marsh area ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A U.S. Navy sailor from Pennsylvania has been killed in a training exercise.

Navy officials say 23-year-old Ensign Sarah Mitchell, of Feasterville, was injured during small boat training in the Red Sea Sunday.

Mitchell was taken to a hospital in Aqaba ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A teenager has been sentenced to more than six to 12 years in state prison in a suburban Philadelphia slaying that investigators said stemmed from a botched drug-related robbery.

The (Lansdale) Reporter

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The only defendant still charged in adult court in a suburban Philadelphia slaying that investigators said stemmed from a botched drug-related robbery has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

The (Doylestown) Intelligencer

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man diagnosed with schizophrenia has been sentenced to 10 to 40 years in the murder of his mother in their suburban Philadelphia home.

Thirty-two-year-old Zachary Cope pleaded guilty but mentally ill in January to third-degree murder and possession of an instrument ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania court official has ruled neither the biological parents nor the adoptive grandparents of a 14-year-old who prosecutors say was killed and dismembered by her adoptive mother can become administrators of the girl’s estate.

An attorney for Rose and Rodney ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A judge has ruled that one of four teenagers will be tried as an adult in a suburban Philadelphia slaying that authorities said stemmed from a botched drug-related robbery.

The (Doylestown) Intelligencer

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a contempt judgment against a Republican fundraiser who violated a court order barring her from contacting witnesses in a $20 million fraud case.

Seventy-year-old Claire Risoldi was found in contempt of court in 2016 and ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors have withdrawn a request to try a man and woman together in the rape and killing of her 14-year-old adopted daughter in Pennsylvania.

An attorney for 43-year-old Sara Packer says prosecutors’ decision Monday means that, absent a guilty plea, there will be ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man who was accused with others of assaulting a boy at parties for people dressed in animal costumes has been acquitted of all charges.

Kenneth Fenske, 57, of Quakertown, was cleared by a jury on Friday, almost a year after he was charged.

Prosecutors alleged ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Two people have been found dead in a home in Pennsylvania.

But authorities say it doesn’t appear that the deaths are the result of foul play.

The bodies of a 57-year-old woman and 66-year-old man were found Saturday in a home in Middletown, Bucks County. Police ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors have moved to hold onto their ability to seek the death penalty against two cousins in the deaths of four men found buried on a Philadelphia-area farm, although attorneys have said a deal with one defendant would take capital punishment off the table.

The ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia handyman accused of serial child rape, and who prosecutors said kept a “perverse shrine” and images and writings related to his crimes in his trailer home, has been sentenced to 60 to 120 years in prison.

William Charles Thomas, 59, pleaded no ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man who escaped from sheriff’s deputies and triggered a manhunt that shut down schools in suburban Philadelphia earlier this year has been sentenced to six to 23 months behind bars.

The (Doylestown) Intelligencer

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The wheelchair only made it so far along Ocean City’s sandy beach, but Odette Swan inhaled the salty air, fixed her gaze on the ocean and stood up, insisting she’d walk to get closer.

Guided by granddaughter Samantha Jonsson, Swan inched her way toward the ocean, ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A judge has knocked five years off the minimum prison term for a Pennsylvania man originally sentenced to at least 20 years for killing a homeowner’s dog during a botched robbery.

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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man convicted of killing a teenage girl when he was 17 has been resentenced.

The Bucks County Courier Times reports a judge resentenced 56-year-old John Lekka to 45 years to life on Thursday. Lekka had previously ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to 13.5 to 27 years in the killing of a suburban Philadelphia teenager more than three decades ago.

Fifty-seven-year-old Geneva resident George Shaw convicted in July of third-degree murder and attempted indecent assault but acquitted ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A lawyer for a man who sued a Pennsylvania county jail for posting his mug shot online says nearly 70,000 former inmates could have claims in a class-action lawsuit, though the county being sued disputes that.

Attorney Jonathan Shub represents Daryoush Taha, 46, a ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge has imposed a nine- to 23-month sentence on a woman in the theft of more than $80,000 from a bank she managed.

The Bucks County Courier Times (http://bit.ly/2xbQGSc ) reports that 40-year-old Christine Ann Bate ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman has acknowledged stealing over $200,000 from her 92-year-old neighbor in a credit card scheme.

Forty-seven-year-old Patricia Westerman, of Bensalem, pleaded guilty to identity theft, credit card fraud and theft counts on ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A retired New Jersey police chief has been ordered to pay back more than $28,000 after pleading no contest to scamming a 95-year-old Pennsylvania man.

Seventy-one-year-old Robert Ryan, the former chief in Garwood, entered the plea in court in Bucks County on Monday. ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police officers are on hand after a threat referencing Sept. 11 was found written in a bathroom stall in a Pennsylvania school.

Officers are patrolling Central Bucks West High School in Doylestown as a precaution Monday.

It’s not clear what the threat said. But ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Growing up in a Colonial home in Downingtown, Alessandro Cesario cultivated an interest in the family garden, trying to become “in tune” with plants and insects, and by the time he was 16, he knew he wanted to work with plants in his career. Specifically, one plant: ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — After months of telling her story over and over to police officers and lawyers, it was finally time for the 12-year-old Bucks County girl to walk into the courtroom and testify against her rapist.

She was petrified.

While she waited to be called into court, the ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man convicted in the slayings of two men in a home invasion robbery in suburban Philadelphia has been sentenced to life in prison.

A Bucks County judge sentenced 28-year-old Eric Dillard to serve two consecutive life terms instead of the death penalty.

Three ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a Pennsylvania nurse has pleaded guilty to secretly filming unclothed female patients as they underwent medical procedures.

Bucks County prosecutors say 45-year-old James Close admitted Friday that he videotaped the women, including a 17-year-old ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man is now facing a possible death penalty following conviction in the slayings of two men in a home invasion robbery in suburban Philadelphia three years ago.

The (Doylestown) Intelligencer (http://bit.ly/2ukxQ6c ) reports that ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A judge has convicted a Florida man of third-degree murder in the slaying of a 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl more than three decades ago.

Judge Wallace Bateman Jr. also convicted 57-year-old George Shaw of Geneva of attempted indecent assault but acquitted him of ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A judge says he’ll decide next week whether a Florida man is guilty in the rape and slaying of a 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl more than three decades ago.

Bucks County Judge Wallace Bateman Jr. heard six days of testimony before closing arguments in the case ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police in suburban Philadelphia are looking for a man who they say used two babies to help him steal about $1,000 worth of sunglasses.

The Newtown Township Police Department says the suspect came into a Design for Vision store on Wednesday carrying two babies in ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania appeals court has upheld a contempt judgment against a Republican fundraiser who violated a court order barring her from contacting witnesses in a $20 million fraud case.

Seventy-year-old Claire Risoldi was found in contempt of court last year and ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Trial has begun for a Florida man charged in the rape and slaying of a 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl more than three decades ago.

Bucks County prosecutors allege that 56-year-old George Shaw, of Geneva, drugged and suffocated Barbara Rowan in Bensalem in August 1984, ...