In tears, two students, along with their mothers, told a Bucks County judge on Monday how the actions of their former Palisades High School teacher left them devastated, distrustful and afraid to go back to school. Francis James Reppert Jr., who once taught math and coached tennis at the school,...

A New Jersey woman will spend 12 to 24 years in state prison for driving drunk into oncoming traffic on Interstate 95 in Bensalem in April, causing a crash that left three people dead. Priscilla Cortez, 34, of Camden, appeared before Common Pleas Judge C. Theodore Frisch Jr., who handed down the...

A Penndel Borough man already facing trial for sexually assaulting six boys between 1993 and 2010 was charged Monday with two counts of possession of child pornography. Louis Charles Aiello, 58, has been in Bucks County Correctional Facility since his arrest on June 16 in the first of two cases for...

A 22-year-old Bensalem man is being charged with killing Dr. James Sowa on Nov. 2 inside the chiropractor's home office in Bensalem, Bucks County, District Attorney Matt Weintraub announced Friday. Joseph O'Boyle, of Bensalem, was charged with one count of criminal homicide, burglary, criminal...

A man charged last month in the shooting death of his 2-year-old son in a Middletown Township apartment is now also facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Jorddan M. Thornton, 27, of Philadelphia, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child the day after the Dec. 2 shooting death of...