TOP LOCAL News
By TAPINTO DOYLESTOWN STAFF
January 13, 2025
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Warrington police arrested a man after he allegedly jumped on the hood of a school bus and urinated in public.Police were sent to the area of Street Road and Valley Road after receiving a call from a school bus driver. The caller said that a man had jumped on the hood of the ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Warrington police said that a “melee” at the BJ’s Wholesale Club on Easton Road led to the arrest of two men and several people being injured.On Saturday, Jan. 11, officers were sent to the discount store for a report of multiple people fighting. Witnesses told police that ...
NEW HOPE, PA—The bridge between New Hope and Lambertville will be closed for two weeks starting Monday, Jan. 13, for repairs.The 120-year-old bridge, which is officially known as the New Hope-Lambertville Toll-Supported Bridge, will be closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic in both directions.
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Surgeons at Doylestown Hospital recently performed the health system’s 1,000th transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a procedure that helps patients suffering from chest pain and other symptoms.The procedure is a less invasive way to treat stenosis of the aorta than ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Here's a look at road closings and slowdowns in the Doylestown area for the week of Jan. 11, 2025.In Buckingham Township, Cold Spring Creamery Road North between Marlard Lane and Burnt House Hill Road will have a single-lane closure for a utility installation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
DOYLESTOWN, PA—An annual concert that brings together professional musicians and students from Central Bucks schools makes its return to Holicong Middle School for three shows Jan. 24-25.The 22nd Save the Music Concert is a national event that raises money to fund music education in a different ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Central Bucks School District is rolling out a virtual reality program to help teachers to take a more empathic approach to students with dyslexia, ADHD, depression and anxiety experience.The program, EmpathED, uses a virtual reality simulation to give users an idea of how these ...
BUCKINGHAM TOWNSHIP, PA—A Buckingham man was arrested on Wednesday morning and charged with firing a gun inside a Montgomery Township restaurant last month and assaulting the same person.Montgomery Township police said that on Dec. 8 at about 2 a.m., they arrived at the Boca Del Mar restaurant on ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—At a special reorganization meeting of Doylestown Township’s Board of Supervisors, the body elected its leadership for 2025 and passed two resolutions encouraging state lawmakers to take action on tax rebates and protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community.At Monday night’s ...
BENSALEM, PA—The Bensalem Driver’s Center will hold a “REAL ID Day” next week to help Pennsylvanians update their driver’s license to a form of identification they can use in airports.The event, which will take place on Monday, Jan. 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will open the driver’s center for REAL ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A Doylestown organization has given nearly $170,000 in grants to help community organizations in Bucks County.The Foundations Community Partnership gave out two types of grants in its latest wave of funding. The group’s Bucks Innovation and Improvement Grants (BIIGs) target ...
LAHASKA, PA—Peddler’s Village is bringing back its annual event featuring fire artistry and ice sculpting over the next two weekends.On Jan. 10-11 and Jan. 17-18, the shopping area will hold its Fire & Frost Fun festival. From 4-8 p.m. on all four days, Peddler’s Village will feature dozens of ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—A 2022 overdose in Bucks County has led to the closure of a website that Warrington police said was illegally selling narcotics.In April of 2022, a Bucks County EMS first responder died from a fatal drug overdose. The next day, a FedEx package was delivered to the victim’s ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—It wasn’t exactly the storm of the century, but a fast-moving snowstorm that left less than two inches of snow on Monday closed schools and left area roads largely empty for much of the day.A longish list of closures included the Dart shuttle bus and the free library. Kids Castle in ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Central Bucks School District will be closed on Monday, Jan. 6, due to a snowstorm that’s expected to drop 1” to 3” of snow on the area.The school district made the announcement shortly before 8 p.m. on Sunday night. All after-school events are also canceled.It’s the first snow ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—While the surge in cases of the norovirus is making the news, officials from Doylestown Health say the stomach bug appears to be running a fairly typical course and isn’t generating unusually high numbers of hospitalizations for this time of the year. They offered some tips on what ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Here's a look at road closings and slowdowns in the Doylestown area for the week of Jan. 4, 2025.In Buckingham Township, Cold Spring Creamery Road North between Marlard Lane and Burnt House Hill Road will have a single-lane closure for a utility installation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Warrington police arrested three teenagers in a car this week that had been stolen in Trenton in the parking lot of the Home Depot on Easton Road.On Dec. 31, 2024, police on a routine patrol at the store noticed three males behaving suspiciously as they got out of a vehicle.
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Warrington police this week arrested two juveniles they say were entering unlocked vehicles in the parking lot of an apartment complex and stealing items.On Jan. 1 at about 3:25 p.m., police were called to the Park at Westminster Apartments near Street and Valley roads. They ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Warrington police caught up with a man they say caused $4,000 in damage to a car wash vacuum when he stole a few dollars of coins from the machine earlier last year.The police said that back in March of 2024, 48-year-old Hatboro resident Richard Roy Jones stole coins from ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Warrington police announced last week that they recently arrested one of two women wanted for a wallet snatching from a township restaurant.Police said that in May of 2024, they received a report from a woman who was sitting at the bar at the Gran Rodeo restaurant in the ...
OTTSVILLE, PA—An employee of the Penn Jersey Food Mart at 7693 Easton Road in Ottsville has been charged with stealing more than $200,000.On Dec. 30, Tinicum Township police received a report that employee Sukhwinder Singh had stolen the amount from the convenience store/gas station. Police ...
NEW HOPE, PA—The bridge between New Hope and Lambertville will see several closures in the new year to give workers time and space they need to make critical repairs.The 120-year-old bridge, which is officially known as the New Hope-Lambertville Toll-Supported Bridge, has been closed to traffic ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Two Doylestown police officers received a commendation for their efforts to track down a man who was stalking an ex-girlfriend from 20 years ago by leaving dead animals in her yard and leaving a rifle round on the hood of her car.In August of this year, the victim submitted a report ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A local group formed to help breast cancer patients in Bucks County has raised $155,000 that will go to help those people.The money was raised by Main St. through a series of partnerships with businesses in Bucks County during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Every ...
SOLEBURY TOWNSHIP, PA—Police are blaming the death of a 76-year-old woman from carbon monoxide poisoning last week in Solebury Township on a faulty flue and exhaust pipe on a gas heating system in the house where she was staying.On Friday, Dayle Haddon of New York City died in a house in the 6900 ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Here's a look at road closings and slowdowns in the Doylestown area for the week of Dec. 29, 2024.In Buckingham Township, Cold Spring Creamery Road North between Marlard Lane and Burnt House Hill Road will have a single-lane closure for a utility installation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A fire the day after Christmas destroyed a home’s detached garage on the 400 block of Swamp Road in Doylestown Township.At about 12:45 p.m., crews from Doylestown Fire Company No 1’s 19 and 79 stations were sent to the fire. Crews spent about two and a half hours extinguishing the ...
SOLEBURY TOWNSHIP, PA—A woman is dead and several people were hospitalized after carbon monoxide gas was discovered in a Solebury Township carriage house on Friday morning.Emergency officials received a call at about 6:30 a.m. that someone had found a man who had passed out in the house on the 6900 ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Five area police officers were recognized for their role in saving the life of a motorist who experienced a heart attack while driving.At the township’s December Board of Supervisors meeting, Chief of Police Charles Zeigler described the events that occurred on Nov. 16, 2024:A man ...