Ex-prosecutor honored for decades of child advocacy

Former deputy district attorney lauded by Crime Victims’ Center, commissioners By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Former Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll (right), now a Crime Victims’ Center board member, tells Elizabeth B. Pitts why she was selected to receive the 2013 John J. Crane Award as attorney Dawson R. “Rich” Muth smiles in agreement. Many...

Inaugural Veterans Court graduation draws crowd

‘It saved my life,’ a graduate of the new diversionary program said By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times State Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery, (left) who served in the Marines and Air Force, and lawyer James E. McErlane, a Navy veteran, chat with officials after the program. The Vietnam veteran warned the audience in advance that he wasn’t “an elegant speaker,”...