Bullets rip through West Chester neighborhood

One 19-year-old critically injured, two 18-year-olds in custody By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times William Simpson, 18, of West Chester, has been charged for his role in a barrage of gunfire that erupted in a borough neighborhood Wednesday night and critically injured a West Chester man. On Wednesday about 9:50 p.m., shots rang out in a residential area of downtown West Chester, blocks...

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...