Mock crash: sobering reality check for teens
D.A. wishes every high school would present similar program
By Kathleen Brady, Managing Editor, The Times
As the Rustin High student body watches, first-responders work to extricate the students trapped in the vehicle during the mock crash exercise.
The two blood-splattered Bayard Rustin High student drivers managed to crawl from the wreckage of their two-car crash behind the school, but several...
5 Chester men charged in W. Chester murder
D.A.: ‘The drug game always ends with prison or an early grave’
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Jamal A. Scott was gunned down on Jan. 25 in West Chester; five men from Chester have been charged with his homicide, District Attorney Tom Hogan said Tuesday.
Authorities called the robbery plot common: Target a drug-dealer who won’t be inclined to go to police.
But in this...
Supervisor at driver’s license center convicted
Jury said he issued licenses to known criminals, using other people’s data
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Khalif Abdullah Ali was convicted by a Chester County jury of identity theft, tampering with public records, and related offenses.
A Philadelphia man accused of fraudulently issuing driver’s licenses at a Chester County Drivers’ License Center was convicted...
Oxford father accused of scalding colicky infant
1-month-old girl in critical condition with severe burns
Jorge Luis Colon is charged with aggravated assault, recklessly endangering a child and related offenses.
Chester County authorities today reported what one veteran police officer called “one of the worst cases of child abuse” he’d ever seen.
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced the arrest of Jorge Luis Colon, 20, of Oxford,...
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,”...
