Monday, April 29, 2013
Bridge beams will be erected on the bridge that carries Sumneytown Pike over the turnpike in Towamencin Township.
Drivers of the Northeastern Extension will have to find detours between 12:01 a.m. and 6 a.m. Sunday. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission will close an 11-mile stretch of I-476 in both directions between Mid-County and Lansdale in order to erect steel girders for the Sumneytown Pike bridge spanning the turnpike in Towamencin Township. According to a press release, at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, southbound traffic will be diverted at the Lansdale exit. Northbound access to the Northeastern Extension from Mid-County will be prohibited. Commuters traveling north from Mid-County or from I-276 East or West will be directed to the Fort Washington Interchange of I-276 to return to I-476 at Lansdale. The PTC will close the left lane of the turnpike …
Monday, February 4, 2013
Ebony Slocum, 32, and Darrina Slocum, 34, were arrested after a three-year investigation for allegedly selling Oxycodone and Percocet from their homes in Lansdale, Towamencin and Norristown.
After a nearly three-year investigation, Lansdale Police and Towamencin Township Police have arrested and charged two sisters for allegedly dealing Oxycodone and Percocet from their Berwick Place home in Chatham Village in Towamencin. Darrina Slocum, 34, and Ebony Slocum, 32, of the 100 block of Berwick Place, face numerous felony drug dealing charges stemming from a November 2012 incident, police said. Darrina Slocum is free on $10,000 unsecured bail, set by District Judge Harold Borek, according to court records. Darrina has a preliminary hearing March 14 at 1:15 p.m. in Lansdale. Ebony Slocum remains incarcerated at Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $75,000 cash bail, according to court records. She has a preliminary …
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Lansdale Amusement Co. in Hatfield provided 40 VSPhoenix state-of-the-art dartboards at the inaugural three-day Phoenix Cup $22,000 tournament Friday at Holiday Inn in Towamencin
The inaugural Phoenix Cup at the Holiday Inn in Towamencin was a bullseye. The event saw Lansdale Amusement Co. in Hatfield providing 40 state-of-the-art Korean-made VSPhoenix dartboards for the $22,000 dart tournament Friday at the Sumneytown Pike hotel, according to The Reporter Online. The newspaper reports the digital dart machines have remote-play capabilities — you can challenge someone in another country from your neighborhood bar via a special online card — and are complete with surround sound speakers and 26-inch HD monitors. The tournament is sponsored by Phoenix Darts Co. and world champion dart master John Kuczynski, of Zion Grove, PA. You can find VSPhoenix dartboards locally at bars like Third and Walnut Lounge; Hattricks and…
This week's stories include a parking lot romance between two men leading to weapons charges, a man heading to prison for his PCP-fueled would-be crime spree and a sneaky elderly woman being charged with DUI.
Parking Lot Romance Leads to Weapons Charge: According to a report in the Lansdale Patch, a Quakertown man is facing weapons charges after an incident in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn in Towamencin. The report states that police were initially investigating a suspicious occupied vehicle in the rear parking lot, when they discovered two men allegedly engaged in a sexual activity. Later, a search of the vehicle uncovered a concealed weapon in the console. Read the full story here. Man Loses Gun During PCP-Fueled Crime Spree: According to a report in the Norristown Patch, a 21-year-old Philadelphia man testified that he was high on PCP the night he made several violent, but unsuccessful, robbery attempts in West Norriton and Norristown …
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Skeletal remains found by worker assisting with Turnpike expansion
Ann Knipfer
11:35 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
What about the doctor who prescribes and the pharmacies who fill these? You can't tell me that they are completely innocent in all of this. Three years? Really? Who takes that many pills anyway? You know they are just as guilty. Wonder if they got paid off? more ›