Registration opens for Degville golf tournament

Registration is now underway for the Seventh Annual Madeline Degville Suicide Prevention Golf Tournament to be held Monday, August 14, 2017, at the top-rated Broad Run Golfer’s Club, located at 1520 Tattersall Way in West Chester. Proceeds from the event benefit The Crime Victims’ Center of Chester County, Inc. (CVC). The tournament – a Four-Person Scramble, 18 holes — will...

Alleged child molester apprehended in Texas

New Garden Township Police said he was on run for months By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Miguel Angel Vazquez, 33, of Kennett Square, is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania from Texas on child sex-assault charges, New Garden Township Police said. A Kennett Square fugitive wanted for the alleged sexual assault of a child was taken into custody in Texas on Monday, Nov. 4, New...

Phone call saves family from kidnapping

New Garden man alleged to have kidnapped family to N. Carolina; family rescued, man eludes capture NEW GARDEN — A phone call Tuesday morning to the Chester County Crime Victim’s (CVC) Center may have saved the life of a township woman and her two children, after her estranged husband kidnapped them and spirited them off to North Carolina. Police said that the CVC received a call from an unknown...