19+ hour, 20+ min ago   (244+ words) pottsmerc.com The Greater Reading Chamber Alliance hosts “AI For Business: Get Started Before Your Competitors Do,” 12 to 1:30 p.m., Center for Business Excellence, 49 Commerce Drive, Wyomissing. In this session, see how AI handles every day work like customer emails,…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (535+ words) In the early 1970s, a new word appeared in the English language. It came from the world of horse racing and was a betting term for correctly picking the first, second, and third place finishers — in the correct order. The word…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (124+ words) A Norristown man was sent to prison after police found him illegally possessing a stolen handgun and he resisted arrest during a retail theft investigation in Plymouth Township. Section filling Schuylkill River Trail gap now complete Upper Pottsgrove officer charged…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (830+ words) LOWER MERION — A Philadelphia man is being held on $1 million bail after he was charged with participating in burglaries or attempted burglaries at three residences in Montgomery and Chester counties during which jewelry valued at nearly $800,000 and a home safe…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (458+ words) NORRISTOWN — A Pennsburg man is on his way to state prison for strangling a woman, his romantic partner at the time, on two occasions during a domestic incident at his home. Lawrence Joseph Bertolette, 52, of the 200 block of Main Street,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (418+ words) NORRISTOWN — A jury convicted a Norristown man of assault and gun-related charges for firing gunshots that struck a vehicle and a home during a disturbance along Chain Street. Derrick T. Duncan, 48, of the 300 block of East Marshall Street, was convicted…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (907+ words) NORTH COVENTRY — With a full house inside the meeting room, and at least as many outside it, the North Coventry supervisors Monday night voted unanimously to oppose a small-scale data center proposed for inside the former Coventry Mall. But the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (821+ words) NORRISTOWN — A former Abington Township man who targeted his onetime neighbors for a gunpoint home invasion robbery during which he used packing tape and a dog leash to restrain a woman and her adult son will spend at least two…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (871+ words) NORRISTOWN — A Norristown man, one of three males accused of taking part in the November 2025 gang-related gunshot slaying of a 19-year-old borough man, believes he should have a separate trial from his two alleged co-conspirators. Ziyker Evan Washington, 21, of the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (720+ words) The high school football season begins Friday night and as the new season begins, the teams to watch across the state look a lot like the teams that were in the spotlight last year. The 2025 state champions were La Salle…...