Pottstown Mercury news

• Phoenixville man allegedly used money meant for stocks on 4M beach house May 22, 2013
  PHOENIXVILLE - A borough businessman has been charged with mail, loan and wire fraud after he allegedly used funds given to him by investors seeking to purchase Facebook stock and purchased a $4 million home in Avalon, N.J., and a Conshohocken office building instead. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Timo […]
• Bank robber sentenced for two Chesco heists May 22, 2013
  WEST CHESTER - A Luzerne County man who pleaded guilty Wednesday to two bank robberies in Chester County Court told the judge sentencing him there was a simple, although not very commendable, reason why he had committed his crimes. "I was high on crack," said David Dallus Cunard before being sentenced to two-to-four years in state prison for the ro […]
• Former tornado sites Birmingham and Joplin rally around Oklahoma May 22, 2013
  Images of flattened homes and overturned cars, broadcast around the world Monday from a battered Oklahoma, hit especially hard in Joplin, Mo. "Before we experienced , it was abstract, even though we know we live in Tornado Alley," said Doreen Finnie, the development director of Rebuild Joplin. "But when your life is so impacted by it, when fri […]
• Upper Providence man jailed for Royersford road rage incident May 22, 2013
  NORRISTOWN - Jail is the next trip for an Upper Providence man who assaulted another driver during a "road rage" incident in Royersford. Luigi C. Sacchetti Jr., 23, of the 100 block of Ramsgate Drive, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court on Wednesday to 10 days to 23 months in the county jail, to be followed by one year of probation, after he p […]