Eight teen crash victims buried in somber funeral
Elizabeth Mecca, 16, a Mid Valley High cheerleader, is laid to rest along with seven other students killed in a high speed crash. Students from Throop and Dickson City mourn as services honor the eight victims with caskets, prayers, and grief shared by families and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Singleton
Throop
UPI
Elizabeth Mecca
Mid Valley
Throop Municipal
Dickson City
Eugene Devitt
Miss Mecca
St. Bridget's Church
Devitt
Clear skies to ease tonight into Thursday with a shower chance Friday
The forecast calls for clearing conditions tonight and Thursday, with improving skies through the period. A new system may bring a chance of showers by Friday.
McCall charged in art theft case in 1970s
Lawrence J. McCall of Chester faced a federal grand jury indictment charging transporting 28 paintings from Deshong Museum to galleries in New York and New Jersey during 1978 and 1979. The paintings were part of over 400000 in art stolen from the museum between 1976 and 1979. Police and federal agents probed the case since 1979 after McCall's 1979 arrest on assault charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerry Oliver
Sity Times
Lawrence J. McCall
Chester
Deshong Museum
Widener University
U.S. Attorney’s Office
McCall
Kerlin Street
Grand
Deshong
New York
New Jersey
11Th Street
Avenue of the States
Widener
Philadelphia
Times Matches Cause Deadly Chester Fire
A fatal blaze at 1004 Harwich Street killed 6-year-old Kareem Bradley. City and state fire officials say children playing with matches sparked the fire, detected at 1:54 p.m. on Monday as firefighters arrived to a first floor inferno with a second floor victim found in a bedroom.
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Chester
Harwich Street
Kareem Bradley
Cinderella posters spark sex equity contest surprises
Philadelphia students in a Sex Equity Poster Contest show varied endings to fairy tales and jobs, from Cinderella starting glass slipper stores to a nurse Dracula and a mechanic Miss Muffet. Winners, announced at a ceremony, include tenth grader le Gogos depicting a football hopeful and Nelson Needale with a Roosevelt Grier lookalike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lesley Taylor
Philadelphia
UPI
Prince Charming
Cinderella
Glass Slippers
Sex Equity
Vera Demchenko
Ms. Demchenko
Mid-Atlantic Sex Equity
American University
Washington
Count Dracula
Eas
Little Miss Muffet
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
le Gogos
Elson ‘Needale
Roosevelt Grier
Teen killer charged with larceny and murder case
Curtis Gill Jr at 17 was found delinquent for theft alongside his murder conviction in the Johnson case. The Chester incident began Oct 25 when 14 year old Bernadette Johnson was killed after a strangling and blunt force attack in an alley behind Parker Street. Gill remained free on bail pending motions when rearrested Feb 22 for gas siphoning and related offenses, with bail later raised to 80 000 after Johnsons death.
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Vany Amt
Ola Whet
Curtis Gill J
Lasnth
Bernadette Johnson
Parker Street
Chester
Gill
Miss Johnson
Crozer-Chester Medical Center
Johnson
Delaware County
Chase
Brookhaven
Trimble Run
Dominic Jerome
District Attorney’s Office
War Board mania hits both Democrat and GOP camps
Trisha Cofieli reports Ridley Township GOP boss Nicholas Catania named publican candidate for Delaware County Council and triggers claims of a renewed War Board. Democrats plan an anti War Board straw poll while Springfield GOP leader Charles Sexton accuses Democrats of running a machine backing rubber stamped candidates. he cites the Lynch endorsement as example.
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Daily Times
Ridley Township
GOP
Nicholas Catania
Delaware County
Paul Revere
War Board
Springfield
Charles Sexton
Sexton
Democratic Party
Jon Auritt
Aware
Thomas J. Lynch
Small tavern owners push for relief from costs
Delaware County tavern owners face rising overhead, taxes, and insurance costs as inflation and regulation squeeze profits. Owners Nicholson Moleterri and Segich accuse current laws of unfairly burdening small, neighborhood bars while private clubs gain advantages. They seek looser Sunday food rules and license quota relief, noting the uneven local revenue from license fees and the ban on new licenses. Pace of Thornbury seeks special consideration to overturn quota limits, but courts find insufficient evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Keyser
Daily Times
Denny’s
M.line
Eee Park
Tavernet
John Moleterri
Crum Lynne
Moleterri
Moletteri, Nicholson
Segich
Delaware County Tavern Association
Chelson
Harrisburg
Commonwealth
Nicholason
Nicholson
State Liquor Control Board
LCB
Pace
Thornbury
Ted Pace
Oerts
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Mecca
David John Thomas
Thomas
Elmhurst
Today's Times
Il County News
Newnnee
Sex Equity Contest
Verna Demchenko
Affirmative Re Action
Teen Killer
By Marlene Digiacomo
Nails
Imac
Trisha Cofieli
Democrats
Sextori
Lynch
Yang Mei Ying
Tiral Show Bureau
Drexel University
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