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UAE: 18 shops shut in Dubai for violating Covid rules Web report/Dubai Filed on January 18, 2021 | Last updated on January 18, 2021 at 10.29 am A Covid safety inspection in progress in Naif area in Dubai. KT Photo (for illustrative purpose only): Rahul Gajjar 45 outlets were given warnings to comply with safety measures. Authorities in Dubai are continuing to ramp up Covid safety inspections, as the UAE continued to record its highest numbers of new Covid cases yet this week. As many as...

Reply Draw the Lines PA is a nonpartisan civic education and engagement initiative focused on political redistricting and gerrymandering. (Shutterstock) MAIN LINE, PA — Several people from the Main Line have been recognized by an anti-gerrymandering initiative. Draw the Lines PA is a nonpartisan civic education and engagement initiative that seeks to help Pennsylvanians of all ages learn about and connect with the issue of political redistricting and gerrymandering. The group recently held a ...

UpdatedWed, Jan 6, 2021 at 11:05 am ET Replies(3) Chester County Health Department Director Jeanne Casner was on site for the first day of vaccines going to healthcare workers not affiliated with hospitals. (Marlene Lang) Gretchen Spino, RN, gives a COVID-19 vaccine to school nurse Margaret Rizzo, RN at the Chester County Government Services Center today. (Marlene Lang) EMS worker Brittany Ward was among the first to be vaccinated in Chester Countys Day 1 rollout of 2,000 doses of the COVID-19 ...

UpdatedTue, Dec 29, 2020 at 11:22 am ET Replies(2) From left, Chelsea Mitchell, a longtime employee of Newtown Book & Record Exchange; former employee Sara Lawton; Bobbie Lewis, the stores founder (Chelsea Mitchell) NEWTOWN, PA — Forty years is a good run for any business, let alone a book and record store, which is a dying breed in modern America where small business owners struggle to compete with retail giants like Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Bobbie Lewis, who opened the Newtown Book & Reco...

UpdatedTue, Dec 29, 2020 at 4:42 pm ET Replies(20) (Shutterstock) DOYLESTOWN, PA — A state superior court has ruled in favor of Acme Markets claim to a $4.15 million winning lottery ticket that went unsold before being purchased by a store employee after the winning numbers had already been announced. In a ruling issued Dec. 15, Judge Mary Jane Bowes dismissed an appeal filed by Beverlie Seltzer, a former longtime employee at the Doylestown Acme, who argued that she was the purchaser and ther...

UpdatedMon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:46 am ET Replies(3) Last weeks high-speed chase along U.S. 202 ended with an officer taking a shot into a van with a child passenger. The police-involved shooting incident will be reviewed. (Shutterstock) TREDYFFRIN TOWNSHIP, PA — A stolen U-Haul van fled state police at speeds of 100 miles per hour, and it took road spikes and a shot into the vehicle to halt the high-speed chase that ended in a heroin bust. There was a 10-year-old child in the van, authorities ...

Reply The borough Christmas tree at Bridge and Main streets in Phoenixville went down during a Christmas wind storm that brought wind gusts over 50 mph in the Philadelphia area. (Jared I. Greene ) PHOENIXVILLE, PA — More than 140 Chester County residents were still without power at noon on Monday, after heavy rain and winds hit the area hard right on Christmas, leaving thousands in the dark on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Phoenixvilles downtown Christmas tree toppled on Christmas Eve in...

Replies(68) HARRISBURG, PA — Pennsylvania has surpassed 15,000 coronavirus deaths, officials reported on Monday. The grim milestone was reached after there were 203 new coronavirus deaths reported over the weekend. There were 127 new deaths reported Saturday and 76 new deaths reported Sunday, state Health Secretary Rachel Levine said during a Monday update. The states coronavirus death toll now stands at 15,086. Subscribe Over the weekend, there was a two-day total of 8,663 cases: 3,779 cases...

UpdatedMon, Dec 28, 2020 at 3:39 pm ET Reply Phoenixvilles Fire Station project got another boost with a state redevelopment grant of $1.75 million. (Shutterstock) PHOENIXVILLE, PA — State funding for projects in Chester and Montgomery counties includes $1.75 million for the new Phoenixville Fire Station, $2 million for an emergency services facility in Upper Providence Township, and $1 million for a domestic shelter. The Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grants were announced this we...

UpdatedMon, Dec 28, 2020 at 2:15 pm ET Reply New COVID-19 cases were fewer in the last week counted, along with other measures in Chester County. (Shutterstock) CHESTER COUNTY, PA — In Chester County there were 463 fewer new COVID-19 cases reported in the week of Dec. 18-24 than there were in the week before, and the incidence rate also dropped in Chesco. The Pennsylvania Department of Health updated its information Dec. 25, reporting 1,444 new COVID-19 cases in Chester County for the week ...