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Big Lots To Close 5 More Pennsylvania Stores
Things have gotten worse for the discount retailer Big Lots. The national chain was previously set to close approximately 300 stores, then they decided to close 40 more, but following a new filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission on Friday, Oct. 4, the impending closure of another 150 stores nationwide has been announced. The store closures are part Chapter 11 bankruptcy process. This latest round brings the total number of planned and completed closures to about 500. Big Lots had 73 stores located in the Keystone State when this process started, at the tim…
Lifestyle
Pennsylvania Lottery Player Wins Six-Figure Powerball Prize
A Pennsylvania Lottery player in Kennett Square picked up a six-figure prize from the Powerball over the weekend, according to state gaming officials. The lucky winner earned $150,000 by matching four of the five balls pulled in the Saturday, July 27 drawing, lotto reps said. The Market at Liberty Place, 148 West State St., will get a $500 bonus check for selling the ticket. Winners are not identified until they claim their prize and their ticket is validated. Powerball players have up to one year from the drawing date to claim their prize, and all winners should sign the b…
Sports
Cheer For These 35 Pennsylvania Athletes Representing Team USA At Paris Olympics
We're days away from the Paris Olympics, and several of Pennsylvania fittest and most athletic residents will be there. A whopping 35 athletes from Pennsylvania have qualified for the Olympics and are ready to make their run at the gold when events kick off Friday, July 26. They are: David Abrahams, of Havertown: Para Swimming Justin Best, of Kennett Square: Rowing Kahleah Copper, of Philadelphia: Basketball Emma Deberdine, of Millersville: Field Hockey Brooke Debredine, of Millersville: Field Hockey Casey Eichfeld, of Drums: Canoe/Kayak Phia Gladieux, of Oley: Field Hockey Michael G…
Police & Fire
Off-Duty PA Trooper Pleads Guilty To Firing Gun During Road Rage Incident: DA
A state police officer received two years of probation after pleading guilty in connection with a 2022 road rage incident in Chester County, according to the District Attorney's Office. David Levy of Kennett Square will also be required to take an anger management class, prosecutors said in a release. Authorities said Levy was off-duty and driving on Route 1 near Longwood Gardens on Dec. 28, 2022. He was "apparently upset with how the victim was driving" and "interacted aggressively," braking abruptly in front of their car and at one point forcing them off the roadway, according…
Police & Fire
Dad Shoots Wife, Daughter Dead: Chester County DA
A 76-year-old man has been arrested for killing his wife and daughter, the Chester County District Attorney’s Office and the Pennsylvania State Police Avondale announced on Friday afternoon. Roger Lee Hanks originally of Virginia most recently of Kennett Square is accused of shooting his wife and adult daughter during a dispute "in the early evening hours of April 25," as stated in the release. Hanks called someone he knew saying he "went crazy" and shot his wife Judith and daughter Emily, according to the affidavit of probable cause. That person called 911. Troopers were s…
Weather
Bright Green Fireball Blazes Across NJ, PA Skies
An earthquake, a total solar eclipse and now a fireball. What a week for weather in the Northeast. Dozens of residents across the region reported seeing a bright green fireball blaze across the sky on before dawn on Wednesday, April 10. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daily Voice NJ (@dailyvoicenewjersey) Linda Price-Heine captured a fireball in the sky Wednesday, April 10. Daily Voice Linda Price-Heine got a text from her neighbor, Joan Piney, in Wall Township this morning telling her to check her camera, she said…
Weather
Snow Emergencies Declared Across PA Ahead Of Storm
Officials are advising residents across southeastern and central Pennsylvania to take caution ahead of the snowstorm predicted for Friday, Jan. 19, according to National Weather Service meteorologists. Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia, and parts of lower Bucks and Montgomery counties are under a winter storm warning as of 5 p.m. Thursday. In Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Northampton, and upper Bucks and Montgomery counties, a winter weather advisory is in place. NWS's Mount Holly, New Jersey station says snow will begin to fall around 4 to 7 a.m. …
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Paramus Motor Cop's Viral Ride Revs TikTok
Don Lamborn and Brian Linden both thought they were good motorcycle riders — until they took a technical class. "I thought I had experience and knew how to ride," said Lamborn, who works at Colledge Tire & Auto in Kennett Square, PA. "Then I took a class and figured out I didn't really know how to ride all that well." "When I rode prior to going through advanced training, I thought I knew how to ride," Linden, a Paramus police lieutenant, said separately. "What I found out was that I knew next to nothing." Look at them now. Linden and Lamborn took home first place in the partner ride…
Police & Fire
Two More Danelo Cavalcante Sightings Confirmed, Search Throughout Longwood Gardens Continues
Two Danelo Cavalcante sightings were confirmed on Friday, Sept. 8, Pennsylvania State Police said. UPDATE: Danelo Cavalcante Captured On Neighborhood Porch Sporting New Look, And Now He Has A Car, Police Say Trooper James T. Grothey did not say where exactly the 34-year-old escaped killer was seen — only that the sightings were within the search area. Meanwhile, a group of police officers armed with long guns had gathered in an area of the northwest corner in the Longwood Gardens of Kennett Square that afternoon, 6abc reports. No breakthroughs in the manhunt had been announ…
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Longwood Gardens Get Moment In The Sun Amid Search For Escaped Killer Danelo Cavalcante
Touted as some of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the world, the Longwood Gardens has found itself in the spotlight amid a search for Danelo Cavalcante. The gardens span more than 1,000 acres of Kennett Square, and have been closed as the 34-year-old fugitive was spotted along trail-cams. UPDATE: Danelo Cavalcante Captured On Neighborhood Porch Sporting New Look — And Now He Has A Car, Police Say The three beautiful Student Exhibition Gardens created and planted by our Professional Horticulture students are... Posted by Longwood Gardens on Saturday, August 26, 2023 While plent…
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Danelo Cavalcante Updates: Search Status, Latest Sightings Of Escaped Pennsylvania Killer
It's been over a week since convicted murderer, Danelo Cavalcante, escaped from a Pennsylvania Prison — now the state police are offering the public a hefty reward for your help. The original reward offered for details about the 34-year-old Royersford fugitive's whereabouts was a combined $10,000, by the US Marshals, local, and state law enforcement. On Sept. 7, that total was increased to $20,000, according to state police. The convicted killer has been spotted on trail cameras in the woods of Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square with a backpack and a grey hoodie, which led to school closu…
Police & Fire
Danelo Cavalcante: Schools Close For 2nd Day, Report Details How Killer May Have Escaped
Chester County schools are closed for the second day in a row as the search for killer fugitive Danelo Cavalcante continues. Both the Kennett Consolidated School District and Unionville-Chadds Ford School District will remain closed Wednesday, Sept. 6, more than a day after the 34-year-old convicted murderer was captured on a trail camera nearby. Citing a criminal complaint, 6abc says Cavalcante may have escaped the same way as Igor Bolte, another inmate in the county prison, did back in May. Bolte is believed to have scaled the wall near the exercise yard before climbing an exposed beam u…
Police & Fire
PA Home Health Aide, Man With Dementia Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide
A man and woman were found shot dead in what authorities believe to be an apparent murder-suicide in Chester County. First responders found a 65-year-old woman and an 87-year-old man dead from gunshot wounds inside his home on the 1000 block of Kaolin Road in Kennett Square around 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, according to the Chester County District Attorney's Office and the Kennett Township Police Department. A handgun was recovered at the scene and no one else was inside the home, authorities said. The man was being treated for dementia, and the woman was a home hea…
Police & Fire
Murder Suicide Leaves Philly Area Parents, 12-Year-Old Child Dead, Authorities Say
Philadelphia area parents and their 12-year-old child were found dead in what appeared to be a murder-suicide on Monday, April 25, authorities said. A 55-year-old man, a 50-year-old woman, and their 12-year-old child were found dead by East Marlborough Township police performing a welfare check at a home on Federal Walk in Kennett Square on Monday, April 25, Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan said Monday afternoon. A semi-automatic handgun on the floor near the man, and multiple cartridge casings were found at the scene, Ryan said. Detectives say there was a history of dom…
Police & Fire
Wilmington Man Busted With $520K Worth Of Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, Ghost Gun In PA, Delaware: DA
A 29-year-old man was caught with $520,000 worth of drugs, thousands in cash, and a ghost gun in Pennsylvania and Delaware, authorities in Chester County said. Artemio Garcia-Laniz, of Wilmington, DE, had three kilos of cocaine –worth an estimated $300,000 – and more than $1,100 in cash in his vehicle in Kennett Square, PA, they said. Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan said detectives with her office found the drugs during a warranted search on Thursday, March 10, after he tried to sell drugs to a confidential informant. Later that day, D…
News
Most Of America's Mushrooms Come From This Tiny Pennsylvania Town: Report
How much room does a mushroom need to party? As mushroom as possible! In a small eastern Pennsylvania town, however, the fungi have more than enough room to grow. More than 60 percent of America's mushrooms come from Kennett Square -- otherwise known as the "Mushroom Capital of the World," Business Insider reports. It's where farmers grow, harvest, and pack nearly 400 million mushrooms each year. 60% of America's mushrooms come from one small Pennsylvania town, Kennett SquareHead over to Business Insider's YouTube channel to watch the full video: https://t.co/7QkRMvE7Iz pic.twitter.c…
Police & Fire
Suburban Philly School Director Charged For Failing To Report Childcare Worker's Toddler Abuse
A 39-year-old executive director at a Suburban Philadelphia school was arrested Tuesday for failing to report one of her worker's abuse of multiple toddlers, authorities said. Tiffany Nichols, of Kennett Square, was charged with felony child endangerment and failure to report child abuse, according to the Chester County District Attorney's Office. Nichols was the executive director of the Malvern School in West Chester when she learned that one of her employees, Victoria Aronson, 36, of Brookhaven, was physically abusing several toddlers, authorities said. Victoria AronsonChester Count…
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