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Pa. flood victims are mourned as search for missing children is set to ‘scale down’

Bucks County officials said their search for two children missing after the weekend flooding in Upper Makefield Township continued to turn up empty, as the community mourns the loss of five people who died in the swells.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Fatalities And Missing Persons Reported After Severe Floods Hit Philadelphia

Severe flooding claims lives in Philadelphia area as search continues for missing family members

Zenger

Mike Sielski: Manny London is 91. He and his friends are still tearing it up on the softball field.

PHILADELPHIA — Manny London isn’t playing as much softball as he once did. There was a time when he was a member of three different leagues — one in Montgomery County, one in Bucks County, one that had him traveling on weekends to tournaments as far away as Las Vegas…

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Seven kids found living in filthy trailer with rats, snakes and padlocked fridge

A family with seven children in West Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania were found living in a trailer with faeces all over, as well as rats, snakes, and even maggots

Daily Mirror

Suspect in the killing of a Temple officer made bomb threats to a Bucks County high school, police say

PHILADELPHIA — Last February, Miles Pfeffer was arrested for sending anonymous threats to a Bucks County high school, according to three law enforcement sources.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Skull found to belong to man believed murdered nearly 40 years ago after DNA test

Richard Thomas Alt, 31, disappeared in 1984 along with his girlfriend and a skull found in the Delaware River, Pennsylvania, has now been found to be his thanks to DNA testing

Daily Mirror

Doug Mastriano wants to classify drag shows like strip clubs and adult bookstores because of a Pa. ‘queer prom’

PHILADELPHIA — A prom for LGBTQ youth in Doylestown sponsored by a state senator is drawing online attacks — and inspiring legislation from former GOP gubernatorial nominee State Sen. Doug Mastriano.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Husband admits to strangling wife after he searched ‘how to get away with murder’ on Google

‘My beautiful mother is gone from this world. She made me who I am. She touched so many people,’ daughter writes

The Independent UK

Mom who faked her own kidnapping and went to Disney World is now facing fraud charges

PHILADELPHIA — A former Bucks County woman who sparked national outrage 13 years ago by falsely claiming she had been kidnapped when she had actually gone to Walt Disney World, is back in trouble with the law.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Paintings made during a lengthy hospitalization bring a boy with autism new audience

PHILADELPHIA -- A year ago, painting watercolors was just another way to give a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, boy with autism periods of peace during a long, difficult hospitalization.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

In Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano has the fervent base. But Mehmet Oz is trying to reach swing voters

PHILADELPHIA — When Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz held a rally in Bucks County, he brought in Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, a fairly traditional Republican who laces his political attacks with a Southern drawl and comic delivery.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

A Pa. Capitol rioter who said she wanted to shoot Pelosi just won an election. Now, she’s headed to prison

The former owner of a Bucks County CrossFit gym who recorded herself during the storming of the Capitol saying she was looking for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “to shoot her in the friggin’ brain” was sentenced to 60 days incarceration on Thursday.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Used-car buyers in Pa. will have protections under a new lemon law — but dealers may not know what's expected of them yet

With its clusters of used-car dealerships along Lincoln Highway and Route 13 in Lower Bucks, Doylestown and Quakertown, Bucks County has passed Pennsylvania's first county-level used-car lemon law. The new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, offers minimum guarantees to consumers who purchase used vehicles over seven model years old…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: The planet’s alarm clock is blaring but Pa. politicians hit the snooze button

A defining feature of American politics in the 21st century is the ability to be both shocked and unsurprised at the same time. That was certainly how it felt last month when I ventured out to the Newtown Athletic Club in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to hear many of the Republican…

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Jan. 6 hearings remind some voters of Watergate, Iran-Contra

Bucks County, a suburb near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has an ample supply of swing voters — they've sent Republicans and Democrats to Congress

The Philadelphia Inquirer

People in the Philly region are ‘still reeling’ emotionally from Hurricane Ida. Now, more rain is coming

Driving home from work, Kristin Herman was gripping her steering wheel hard. It was mid-April, and one of the region’s heaviest rainstorms since Hurricane Ida was hurtling through Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: Who is Kathy Barnette, and can Pa. figure it out before she wins the GOP Senate nod?

For about an hour Wednesday night, the crunchy green artificial turf of the big indoor practice field at Newtown Athletic Club in Bucks County offered a kind of a safe space for Kathy Barnette to revel in her new status as sudden-shock co-front-runner in Pennsylvania’s GOP U.S. Senate primary, in…

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The Pa. woman who killed her sons had planned the shooting in advance, prosecutors say

A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, woman who police say shot her two sons in the head as they slept was charged with first-degree murder on Monday.

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Two Pa. boys whose mother shot shot them as they slept have died, police say. She will face murder charges

A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, woman accused of shooting her two sons in the head as they slept is expected to be charged with murder, authorities said Monday.

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A Pa. school district dropped its diversity program. Black families say the district isn’t acknowledging racism

Jeneal Hobbs can rattle off the stories her children tell her about their days in the Pennridge School District: the white student holding cotton and yelling in the hallway, “Hey everyone, I’m Black.” A school bus accident in which the police were called and a white child told one of…

The Independent UK

Small plane crashes in residential neighbourhood in Pennsylvania

Resident says ‘house shook’ after the crash in Bucks County

Tribune News Service

Teen traveled to Philly to get vaccinated against his parents’ wishes

High school junior Nicolas Montero stays busy. He runs track, works night and weekend shifts at Burger King, and keeps on top of his schoolwork at Neshaminy High School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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