21+ hour, 38+ min ago   (274+ words) A Chester man accused in the 2024 gunshot slaying of 27-year-old Dontae Dickerson inside a city convenience store was formally arraigned in open court on criminal homicide and related charges. Haneef Melton, 21, is also charged with murder in the first and…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1146+ words) The Delaware County Republican Party is equating a $120 million county council-approved referendum to a tax increase and they’re advising voters to just say no while others are saying yes is the way to go. “Delaware County Council is trying to…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (96+ words) Upper Darby Township fire crews were dispatched Monday shortly after 6:20 p.m. for a house fire in the first block of College Avenue. Upon arrival, the report was for smoke showing from the roof line in a middle-of-the-row residence. According to further…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (424+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: Announcement was made yesterday from the offices of Robinson and Copay, local real estate dealers located at Sixth and Welsh streets, of the sale of the tract owned by George D. Armstrong, containing 57 acres in Chester Township…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (445+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: The change of the name of the Edgmont Theatre here to the Stanley Theatre of Chester, along with a complete new picture policy, to be inaugurated at the time of the fall opening of the theatre…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (175+ words) Delaware County Deputy District Attorney Shuaiyb Newton has resigned from his position effective Friday, District Attorney Tanner Rouse confirmed Wednesday. Newton joined the office as an assistant district attorney in September 2023 and had previously spent a decade as a prosecutor…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (162+ words) Two residents were taken to a hospital early Monday after a house fire in Upper Darby. Township fire stations were dispatched at 2:22 a.m. to the 100 block of Alverstone Road in the Primos section for a residential dwelling fire. Upper Darby Assistant…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (430+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: The Wilson Line will conduct a moonlight up the river Saturday at 9 o’clock. Two weeks ago, a number of guests of the company were aboard but many more remained away on account of the inclement weather....

3+ week, 2+ min ago   (430+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: Close to 50 complaints against the blockage of streets in the western part of the city by the paraphernalia of carnival companies that are now holding forth in that section. Have been registered with Charles W. Hopkins, president…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (441+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: Oil unfit for use and sediment in the bottom of two 50,000-gallon oil tanks, formerly used by the Crescent Pipe Line Company, in Marcus Hook, are being burned out today and producing great volumes of black…...