New Garden fire leaves 40 homeless

Starr Road blaze guts apartment building A Thursday morning fire gutted this Starr Road apartment building. Photo courtesy Avondale Fire Company. NEW GARDEN — A fast-moving blaze Thursday morning left about 40 people homeless as an eight-unit apartment building caught fire. Avondale Fire Company — along with West Grove and Hockessin, Del. fire companies were alerted to a house fire at 140 Starr...

Gang-related graffiti leads to 2 New Garden arrests

Kennett Square Police investigating belated report of identity theft New Garden Township Police said they recently took two men into custody after linking them to “gang-related graffiti.” Christopher Guzman-Torres, 20, of Kennett Square, and Manuel Bedolla, 19, of West Grove,  have been charged with criminal mischief and related offenses, police said. They were apprehended Dec. 6 following...