Pottstown Mercury news

• State police looking for missing Skippack college student May 19, 2013
  SKIPPACK - Pennsylvania State Police out of Skippack as well as the Narragansett, R.I., Police are coordinating in the effort to locate a local college student who is missing after leaving the University of Rhode Island for his Skippack home. Matthew R. Royer, 21, reportedly left his apartment on campus around 5:50 p.m. to returnto his home with a Collegevil […]
• Earl Township motorcycle crash kills Pottstown man May 19, 2013
  EARL TWP - A Pottstown man who was not wearing a helmet was killed when his motorcycle crashed into a guard rail on Route 73 just before midnight Saturday. Emergency crews pronounced Gerald E. Moyer, 60, dead at the scene. According to the state police out of Reading, Moyer's 2004 Harley Davidson Ultra Classic sideswiped a guard rail on the south side o […]
• Man attempts robbery by pointing fingers like a gun May 19, 2013
  POTTSTOWN - A man reportedly pointed his fingers in the shape of a gun to start an alleged attempted robbery spree that ended with his arrest after a short pursuit on Route 100 Saturday, according to the Pottstown Police. Edward Grist, 22, of Royersford, was arrested through the cooperation of Pottstown and West Pottsgrove Police before noon. Originally, Pot […]
• A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back May 19, 2013
  By Connie CassAssociated Press WASHINGTON - The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute. Why were a diplomatic outpost and the visiting U.S. ambassador left so poorly protected? Shou […]