CRIME & SAFETY
PD: Coroner responds to serious 3-vehicle crash in West Chester
WEST CHESTER (WXIX) - A serious three-vehicle crash with unknown injuries has shut down a main road in West Chester Sunday. A spokesperson from West Chester Police said that officers and medics responded to Cox Road between University Pointe and Service Drive shortly before 6:15 p.m. Cox Road is closed...
5 men impersonating police officers charged in 2006 kidnapping, murder
Federal prosecutors charged five men this week accused of impersonating Philadelphia police officers in the 2006 kidnapping and killing of a 38-year-old man. The indictment filed in the U.S. District Court in Eastern Pennsylvania alleges the men — while posing as police officers using fake badges, police lights, and firearms — kidnapped Shamari Taylor and his then-21-year-old girlfriend from West Philadelphia to rob him of cocaine and drug money. Kevin Holloway, 45; Mark Scott, 48; Linton Mathis, 50; Atiba Wicker, 47; and Kenneth Tuck, 51, were charged in federal court with conspiracy to commit kidnapping resulting in death, kidnapping resulting in death,...
'My kids are scared to come in the house': Pottstown mom calls out teens who shot her fiancé
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — They're bullets that came within inches of paralyzing or killing her 24-year-old fiancé — not to mention her kids. “It’s just a very traumatic experience, especially having my kids outside,” said Sierra Cumberbatch, of Pottstown. “Four other kids were in the house; two of them were downstairs watching TV while all of this was going on. What if the bullets would have hit them?”
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