Jo Ciavaglia

5 days ago | phillyburbs.com | Jo Ciavaglia

Bucks County's sheriff is demanding the county commissioner chairman apologize for "repugnant" and "inexcusable" remarks he made about World War 2 and his concerns about what he sees as parallels between pre-war events in Germany and what is happening in the U.S. On the Sheriff's Facebook page, Fred Harran accused Bob Harvie of using his closing statement at the May 7 commissioner's meeting to "directly connect the law enforcement work of the Bucks County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Harran —...

6 days ago | phillyburbs.com | Jo Ciavaglia

Kelvontae Perry was sentenced to 21 ½ to 44 years for the third-degree murder of Shaquille Love. Love, an innocent bystander, was killed in a drive-by shooting stemming from a neighborhood feud. Perry's attorney said he hasn't cooperated with authorities because of threats against his family. Two days before Christmas in 2020, Shauna Love told her son that she loved him and to be careful, like she always did when Shaquille Love left the family’s Bristol Township home.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Jo Ciavaglia

Two days before Christmas in 2020, Shauna Love told her son that she loved him and to be careful, like she always did when Shaquille Love left the family’s Bristol Township home. But that day was the last time she’d see her 21 year-old son alive, she wrote in a victim impact statement read in Bucks County court Wednesday at the sentencing of her son’s killer. “The emotion I have of this tragedy happening to him is uncontrollable. It kills me that I was not able to do anything about this,” she said.

6 days ago | phillyburbs.com | Jo Ciavaglia

Lower Makefield police are investigating two reports that Pennsbury elementary school employees improperly restrained and pushed children in autism support programs in separate incidents this month. Lower Makefield Police Chief Joseph Kelly III confirmed Thursday that detectives were notified last week a staff member at Edgewood Elementary allegedly used an improper restraint to remove and escort a child off a school van.

6 days ago | phillyburbs.com | Jo Ciavaglia

The Centennial school board appears to be positioning itself to hire former Central Bucks School District Superintendent Abram Lucabaugh at its meeting later this month, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit announced Thursday. The board will vote on an employment contract for Lucabaugh, 52, of Quakertown, at its regular May 27 meeting, according to the IU. The district will hold a community forum to introduce Lucabaugh on May 22.