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As a sandwich-obsessed region with a significant Jewish community, the Philadelphia area is full of excellent Jewish delis. Two of the best are close to home in Montgomery County, writes Maddy Sweitzer-Lammé for Philadelphia Magazine. Hymie’s Deli in Merion Station offers all the classic Jewish deli staples,...

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ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Police in Allentown are investigating a shooting that left a man seriously injured. It happened just after 5:30 p.m. Thursday when police were dispatched to the area of 7th and Chew streets for a reported shooting. "What I know so far is that someone was shot, a...

MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. -- Police in Muhlenberg Township are investigating an alleged assault that happened Thursday. It happened in the 2100 block of Kutztown Road. A press release from police reports a large group of people were fighting in the street and on the sidewalk. Officials say that bladed and baton-type...

WEATHERLY, CARBON COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — We are learning more tonight about the investigation into a Carbon County couple who a Federal Grand Jury indicted after allegedly stealing more than one million dollars from the estate of a 93-year-old woman. 40-year-old Christen Lee Cosgrove and 37-year-old Brian Cosgrove from...

Police in Bensalem Township are urging residents to rely on law enforcement rather than taking matters into their own hands, following an incident in which an internet-based vigilante group lured a suspected child predator to a local apartment complex, resulting in his arrest.

A person was arrested Saturday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in a Central Bucks County township park. According to Plumstead Township Police Chief David Mettin, the arrest was made at the Joseph E. Hanusey III Community Park located at 4757 Gordon Road, behind The Overlook at Carriage Hill...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — A former supervisory engineer at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been sentenced to 64 months in federal prison for orchestrating a years-long scheme that defrauded the Department of Veterans Affairs of more than $500,000. Ahmed Hassan, 71, of Collegeville, was sentenced Tuesday...

NAZARETH, Pa. — Sammy Sasso, a former Nazareth Area High School and Ohio State University champion wrestler, is accused of carrying unlicensed guns and a controlled substance during a traffic stop in Nazareth. Sasso, 25, of Upper Nazareth Township, was charged Wednesday with four counts of firearms not to...

An appeals court has upheld an April 2023 lower court ruling finding that Bucks County acted in “bad faith” when it refused to turn over documents to a resident who’d won access in open records cases. The case dates back to the Covid-19 pandemic when Megan Brock,...