Pottstown Mercury news

• Chester County man arrested in slaying of longtime girlfriend May 22, 2013
  COATESVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Authorities say a man has been arrested in the shooting death of his longtime girlfriend at their Philadelphia-area home. Officials in Chester County said Jamica Woods was killed at about noon Tuesday in the East Fallowfield Township residence. Forty-four-year-old Gregory Twyman was charged with criminal homicide as well as first-, se […]
• Pa. Constitution Center to display Bill of Rights May 22, 2013
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) - One of the 12 surviving copies of the Bill of Rights is coming to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. The rare document is owned by The New York Public Library, which has made an unusual 100-year loan agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The New York Library acquired its Bill of Rights in 1896 as a donation from […]
• VIDEO: Motorcyclist killed in Amity May 22, 2013
  (UPDATED 8 p.m.) AMITY - A Perkiomenville man is dead after his motorcycle collided with a white SUV Tuesday night at the intersection of Old Airport Road and Magnolia Drive. Police Chief Kent Shuebrook said they are not releasing the name of the cyclist because they need to notify his family but he did say the man was not a teenager. Shuebrook said the oper […]
• Honey Brook man charged with homicide after fatal DUI crash May 22, 2013
  HONEY BROOK TOWNSHIP - A township man has been arrested after fleeing the scene of a crash that killed another man Sunday around 2:33 a.m. According to state police at the Embreeville barracks, John Eric Slaymaker, 43, was driving a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee south on Route 10/Compass Road, when he "failed to maintain his lane of travel" and left the […]