Inquirer Chester County NewsChester County news from the Inquirer.Millions from mystery donor begin raining on Erie- August 12, 2008 ERIE, Pa. - The first payments of a $100 million anonymous gift to 46 charitable groups in Erie have begun to arrive and the recipients must decide how to use their shares of the windfall, which they first learned of last summer.http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166801&44=26860509&32=3796&7=195387&... Fire company struggles with dwindling volunteers- August 12, 2008http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166801&44=26860514&32=3796&7=195387&... Pa. Republican leaves race- August 12, 2008 HARRISBURG - A state senator from Western Pennsylvania whose gun a teenage neighbor used in an apparent suicide has abandoned his campaign for a second term.http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166801&44=26860504&32=3796&7=195387&... Tot injured in father's drag race- August 11, 2008 A 3-year-old girl was seriously injured Saturday when her father crashed his car while drag-racing with a teenager in Lower Bucks County, police said.http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166801&44=26825049&32=3796&7=195387&... Valley Forge not alone in including private land- August 11, 2008 It seems like such a weird, geographical quirk: 78 acres of land that's privately owned, but situated largely within the boundaries of a national park.http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166801&44=26824724&32=3796&7=195387&... Shooter of Reading officer is convicted- August 10, 2008 READING - A man who said he had acted in self-defense when he fatally shot a Reading police officer was found guilty of first-degree murder Friday.http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166801&44=26481799&32=3796&7=195387&... Fuel costs are eating farmers' profits- August 10, 2008 HERMINIE, Pa. - For the last two years, cattle farmer Regina Carpenter said, she and her husband, Derwyn, absorbed the rising costs of fuel and feed, but they can no longer afford to hold the line.http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166801&44=26481789&32=3796&7=195387&... Chris Satullo: Love blossoms (again) in a very familiar setting- August 9, 2008 Let me tell you a story I've told often of late. It usually leads men to say, "How about that" and women to claim, "I have chills."http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166801&44=26467719&32=3796&7=195387&... "Witness tree" at Gettysburg damaged in storm- August 9, 2008 It was there when Pickett's soldiers made their famous charge. It was there when Lincoln gave his address. On Thursday afternoon, a honey locust tree that had stood as one of the last living testaments to the Battle of Gettysburg cracked in a storm and crashed to earth.http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166801&44=26467729&32=3796&7=195387&... Mourners gather for hit-and-run victim's funeral- August 9, 2008 Faith Margaret Sinclair touched a lot of people, and yesterday, many of them came to say goodbye to the teenager whose life was cut short by a hit-and-run driver.http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166801&44=26467724&32=3796&7=195387&... |