Easttown Police Monday released a sketch of a man involved in a possible child luring that took place Friday afternoon in Berwyn. Two 10-year-old girls told police they were walking home from a school bus stop along Bartholomew Road around 3:45 p.m. when a Jeep pulled up next to them, according to a police press release. A man seated in the passenger seat rolled the window down a quarter of the way and said, "Hi," and one of the girls responded, "Hi." The man then asked, "Hey, you want a ride?" Read the full story on TE Patch. Another possible child luring was reported May 13 in Berwyn, but …

Update 5/10/13 3:30pm: According to West Whiteland Police Sgt. Martin Malloy, the Community Day event has been postponed due to expected bad weather. The new date is Saturday, May 18, from noon to 3 p.m. Original story continues below West Whiteland Township will hold its annual Police and Fire Community Day on Saturday. The event will take place from noon to 3 p.m. at the township building, according to the township website: The Township’s newest police and fire vehicles will be on display with emergency services personnel on hand to discuss and demonstrate the uses and functions of their …

Robert Elwood Landis, 49, of West Chester, is facing homicide by vehicle charges following an accident on Route 202 that took the life of a motorcyclist in Westtown on April 26. Chester County District Attorney Thomas Hogan said Landis was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.28 percent, more than three times the legal limit at the time of the crash which killed 24-year-old Liam Crowley of Chesterbrook in Tredyffrin Township. "Anybody who drives drunk is in danger of killing another person. Getting behind the wheel of a pickup truck at night on the highway with this much alcohol in your …

Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced Thursday his office had filed corruption charges against a West Brandywine Township administrator who allegedly stole municipal funds. Township Manager Ronald Rambo, 59, is charged with stealing $456.30 in small increments by approving his own fraudulent reimbursement requests. In one example outlined by the district attorney's press release, Rambo repeatedly altered a medical receipt to receive multiple $15 reimbursements. Rambo, a Coatesville resident, has worked for West Brandywine Township for two decades and has previously been made to…

Radnor Patch has the scoop on a new app created by a Wayne software company that is designed to read your grocery list and find the lowest prices in local stores:  "Nobody had created a system to help the everyday consumer easily and painlessly save big money on groceries,” said Kevin Young, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of SaveOn!, an app that takes your grocery list and finds the lowest available prices in local stores. On Tuesday, the SaveOn app became available in Apple’s App Store. Currently grocery store data is limited to Acme, ShopRite and Wegmans stores in the King of …

Federal child pornography charges have been filed against former Phoenixville Middle School Principal Dr. Troy Czukoski, multiple outlets, including Media Patch, are reporting. Czukoski, 42, of Exton, was charged with one count of possession of child pornography, according to U.S. Attorney’s Office Public Affairs Specialist Patty Hartman. According to Media Patch: Czukoski possessed more than 150 but less than 300 images of children engaging in sexually explicit conduct, according to United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Czukoski, who left Phoenixville Area School District in July 2012 …

Tredyffrin Township police on Wednesday announced an arrest, and a confession, in the Jan. 20 robbery from a Girl Scout cookie sale at the Berwyn Pathmark. Jevon Michael Avis, 31, of Carlisle, and formerly of the 300 block of Beechwood Avenue in Berwyn, was arrested Tuesday evening. He admitted stealing from the scouts in an interview with a police detective, police say. Read the full story on TE Patch: Girl Scout Robbery Confession Made, Police Say

Tredyffrin-Easttown Patch is reporting that a Berwyn couple were attacked in their home Thursday night, Jan. 31. The home invasion then led to a jewelry store robbery: Information received by police was that a local resident, who had returned from work at approximately 7 PM, was accosted by three or four black male (masked) subjects armed with handguns who forced themselves into his home. Once inside, the actors bound both victims (husband and wife) and ransacked the home. The actors then took the male victim (in the victim’s white Volkswagen Passatt bearing PA registration plate DJM0696) to …

A 32-year-old bicyclist was hit and killed by a vehicle on Boot Road in West Goshen Township Monday morning, according to West Goshen Police. The accident happened around 6:44 a.m. near the intersection with Mary Jane Lane, just west of Route 202.  According to police, Kirsten Higley, of Exton, was struck by a vehicle driven by Susan McClain, 54, of Downingtown. Higley died a short time later at Paoli Hospital. Read the full story at West Chester Patch.

Tredyffrin Police are searching for a man who took money from a Girl Scout cookie sale booth at the Pathmark on Swedesford Road in Berwyn. Police say the strong-arm robbery occured just before 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon. According to police, a man approached the cookie booth and took an unknown amount of cash from the scouts. Read the full article, including a description of the suspect, at T-E Patch.

Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police have arrested a Philadelphia man for a Dec. 27, 2012, robbery outside the Wawa market on the 1500 block of Paoli Pike, just west of the Willistown border. According to police, Ryan Bailey Jr., 24, and two other men followed the victim from Harrah's casino in Chester Township. The adult male victim reported to police that as he exited the Wawa Store, and he was approached by a male who asked for directions.  As the victim provided the male with directions, the male announced that he had a gun and would shoot the victim unless the victim turned over his …

"Sunny High" at 298 South Aberdeen Avenue in Wayne is on the market for $3.95 million. The home sits on more than five acres and features six bedrooms, five fire places and an elevator. Read more about "Sunny High" and view more photos, here on Radnor Patch.        

The spotlight was on Linvilla Orchards in Media last Wednesday afternoon as a production crew filmed for a new Travel Channel show called Cross Country Christmas. The show, which will depict the best holiday events and traditions in America, won't air until next December so we have a bit of a wait but word is that there will be a viewer voting component too. Viewers will go online and vote for their favorite holiday event. Rob Ferber, Linvilla manager, said about a month ago they were contacted by Travel Channel which was looking for places that have Christmas events and things to do and …

Spring-Ford Area Senior High School is celebrating the fact that one of its students achieved the only perfect score on the Advance Placement (AP) psychology exam in the world when she took the test in spring 2012. High school senior Amanda Jurewicz took the exam during the 2011-12 school year as a culminating test for the AP psychology course. Advance Placement exams are based on a composite score of one to five, where a five is equivalent to an A in the corresponding college equivalency course. Amanda not only received the top score of five — ranking among 15.5 percent of students to fall …

One item in a recent West Whiteland Police blotter detailed an ineffective way to hide a shotgun, namely under a pile of clothes in an unlocked truck: A Remington shotgun was stolen from an unlocked pickup truck in the 1000 block over Cedarwood Avenue overnight Tuesday 12/4 – Wednesday 12/5/12.  The owner left the gun on the seat under some clothing and found it missing in the morning.  He drove the truck from the scene and reported the theft by phone later on.  The neighborhood was canvassed but no leads have been developed. 

The estate on the corner of Rt. 252/Newtown Street Road and Goshen Road in Newtown Square–owned by The Rouse Group–will soon be redeveloped into luxury homes by luxury home builder Toll Brothers. "We were just informed ... that Toll Brothers has partnered up with Rouse development to construct Ashford, which will be renamed to Liseter–Liseter is the farm that the du Pont family originally called the property," announced Newtown Township Manager Mike Trio at a supervisors meeting on Nov. 26. Read the full story, including a breakdown of what will be included at the site, at Marple Newtown …

Rather than Halloween, this year Phoenixville Area School District’s elementary school students will celebrate a “fall festival,” The Mercury is reporting. According to the paper, at Thursday’s school board meeting, superintendent Dr. Alan Fegley explained that the district decided to ditch the holiday for a host of reasons, among them a sensitivity to the diversity of its student body and the “controversy surrounding the religious connotations of Halloween.” Read the full article on Phoenixville Patch.

Azie Southeast has opened its doors in Edgmont Square Shopping Center in Newtown Square. The former Sang Kee Noodle Bowl has been revamped and the menu updated following the closing of Sang Kee in late August. The new menu offers small plates, Azie hoagies and, of course, Azie's signature fried rice. A few other menu items include: thai chicken wings, curry fries, pad thai, lo mein, wonton soup, filet tips and pork chops. A $10 lunch box is another option which includes a choice of soup, choice of chicken, filet tips, fish or tofu and rice and broccoli. (See the attached lunch menu). Azie …

Sang Kee Noodle Bowl, an Asian restaurant located a few minutes east of Willistown in Edgmont, will soon close its doors and reopen as Azie South East. Win Signature Restaurants—which operates restaurants throughout the region—will retain ownership during the change. The group owns Azie locations in Media and Villanova, as well as Teikoku in Willistown. Media Patch reports that the new restaurant will not offer sushi or sashimi, and other details: "We don't want to compete with Teikoku, which offers sushi, and is right down West Chester Pike," [General Manager Byung Lee] said. The area wasn't…

A Tredyffrin Township man and another man from Philadelphia are now in prison, after police confiscated $135,000 in cash and more than $2.5 million worth of marijuana in simultaneous raids in Tredyffrin Township and Philadelphia. According to Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan, a neighbor's report of an overwhelming smell of marijuana from the Philadelphia home of David Eisenstadt, 50. The complaint led to an investigation of Eisenstadt and his alleged accomplice, Devon resident James Lippert, 49, by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Chester County DA's drug unit, and the …