Kindergartners exhibit can-do attitude
Graystone Academy earns third-place finish in county contest
The Chester County Board of Commissioners announced the winners Thursday of the county’s Kindergartners Collect Cans Contest – honorees that included students at Graystone Academy in Coatesville.
The Graystone kindergartners were part of a three-way tie for third place with George Fox Friends School and Hillsdale Elementary. Bethany Christian...
Public’s help sought to locate missing 14-year-old
Police said girl was last seen Friday afternoon in Coatesville
Tiffany McDaniels, last seen by her family at 4 p.m. on Friday, is about 5-foot-5 and 105 pounds, police said.
The family of a missing 14-year-old girl is pleading for the public’s help to locate her, Coatesville police said Thursday.
Police said Tiffany McDaniels, who was reported missing on Saturday from her home in the unit block of...
PennDOT: Help first responders ID victims
Two free programs make emergency data more accessible to those who need it
The Yellow Dot and Emergency Contact Information (ECI) programs help first responders get contact and medical data for citizens involved in emergency situations
As national Emergency Medical Services Week winds down, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) wants to encourage residents to sign up for two free...
Court records: Murder victim repeatedly threatened
PFAs suggest decades-long history of domestic abuse
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Court records show that Jamica Woods, 37, of East Fallowfield Township, expressed repeated fears that Gregory A. Twyman, 44, her longtime boyfriend, would kill her.
On Tuesday, an East Fallowfield Township man made good on threats to kill his longtime girlfriend that date back more than a decade,...
Coatesville police report Wednesday night stabbing
Victim told police: Verbal argument turned violent
A verbal altercation Wednesday night escalated into a stabbing, Coatesville Police said Thursday.
Officer Brenden Boyle said police were dispatched to the unit block of South Fourth Avenue at 11:36 p.m., where officers found a man with puncture wound to the abdomen, which was not believed to be life-threatening.
The victim, who was not identified...
Few shakeups in county on Primary day
A handful of incumbents bounced at municipal level; county slates set
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Tuesday’s Primary election largely set up this November’s election slate — although in a handful of municipal races, incumbent supervisor candidates were knocked off their party’s ballot.
Turnout for the election was very light: just 10.45% of voters registered as Republican or Democrat turned...
D.A. calls East Fallowfield murder ‘an execution’
Defendant’s Facebook boast indicates he planned girlfriend’s shooting
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Authorities said Jamica Woods, 37, of East Fallowfield Township, was fatally shot Tuesday by Gregory A. Twyman, 44, her longtime boyfriend.
The homicide on Tuesday in East Fallowfield Township is being called “an execution” by Chester County District Attorney Tom...
Police investigate gunshot on Harmony Street
Witnesses say noise followed by unknown vehicle speeding away
On Tuesday at 11:23 p.m., police responded to the area of South Sixth Avenue and Harmony Street for a report of a gunshot, said Officer Jose Colon. Witnesses said they heard a single shot in the 600 block of Harmony Street and then saw an unknown make or model vehicle speed off, heading eastbound, police said. Officers checked the area on...
East Fallowfield man charged with homicide
Police said he fatally shot his longtime girlfriend
At approximately noon on Tuesday, a 44-year-old man fatally shot his longtime girlfriend at their East Fallowfield Township residence, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said.
Hogan said East Fallowfield Township Police Chief Chris Porter was one of the first officers on the scene in the unit block of Rokeby Road and took Gregory A. Twyman...
Another arrest for familiar Coatesville name
Richard Legree Jr. in custody for 9 traffic warrants, police said
A Coatesville man with an extended criminal past and a well-known family name interacted with police again Tuesday morning.
Richard Legree Jr., 34 – who spent two years in federal prison after a 2009 conviction for dealing crack-cocaine – was in a parked vehicle in the 300 block of East Chestnut Street at 1:11 a.m., police said....
