Pottstown Mercury news

• Car goes off road, through billboard 3 killed June 2, 2012
  NEW PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a compact car went out of control on a rain-slicked road, went through a billboard and struck a tree, killing three people.State police in Schuylkill County say the 2006 Hyundai Tiburon was traveling too fast for conditions on Route 61 in Blythe Township and left the road at about 1:25 a.m. Satu […]
• Police blotter June 2, 2012
  EAST PIKELAND - A Pottstown woman was arrested for DUI the early morning hours of May 28.Sandra Arditi, 53, was allegedly observed driving at a high rate of speed and swerving over the yellow line on the 600 block of Schuylkill Road, according to a press release from East Pikeland police.Arditi was stopp and arrested around 2:45 a.m. She was processed and re […]
• 1,200 firefighters battle record New Mexico blaze June 2, 2012
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - More than 1,200 firefighters are battling the nation's largest wildfire that has charred acre after acre of timber and brush in rugged mountains and canyons of southwestern New Mexico, shrouding parts of the region in smoke.The blaze maintained its rapid growth Friday through what New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez termed "impossib […]
• Zimmerman credibility may be issue in Martin case June 2, 2012
  SANFORD, Fla. - The credibility of Trayvon Martin's shooter could be an issue at trial after a judge said that George Zimmerman and his wife lied to the court about their finances to obtain a bond, legal experts say.That's because the case hinges on jurors believing his account of what happened the night the 17-year-old was killed. Zimmerman wasn […]