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Doylestown women co-sponsoring tea party town hallBy: GARY WECKSELBLATT Bucks County Courier Times February 08, 2011 02:19 AM **SNIP** Confirmed panelists include Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Congressman Steve King of Iowa. Puig will also be on the panel. Paul and Bachmann began tea party caucuses in their respective chambers. "They wear it with honor, they're not running from it," Przybylski said of the panelists' affinity for the tea party movement. What makes tonight's town hall unique is the ability of people across the country to take part. The...

The town council's public safety committee voted against allowing hybrid vehicles to park for free. There will be no free parking in Doylestown for "green" vehicles. Doylestown Council's public safety committee unanimously voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to allow hybrid and electric vehicles to park in borough lots and at borough meters for free. Their vote was met with applause from the 15 business owners and residents who attended the meeting. The free parking program was proposed by Assistant Borough Manager Phil Ehlinger in an April 23 memo to council. He suggested allowing "green" vehicles to park for free...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - A would-be home buyer with less than a dollar in her bank account pleaded guilty to fraud in what prosecutors said was an attempt to steal an entire house. Wendy Jean-Francois, 44, of Morrisville, pleaded guilty Monday in Bucks County Court to multiple counts of fraud, forgery and related charges. Prosecutors said Jean-Francois had 97 cents in her bank account when she sat down Oct. 5 at a settlement table at Rainbow Assurance, a mortgage title firm in Falls. She used two checks totaling $63,000 and a letter vouching for them, purportedly from a Wachovia Bank manager,...

OYLESTOWN, PA (KYW) The man known as naked Zorro crossed the line in Bucks County with his antics. CBS 3 Reporter Lesley Van Arsdall reports that his antics are hitting a new low. Many thought that a man roaming the streets in only a mask was a joke, but police say the masked man is now targeting children. I just think it's funny a naked guy running around Doylestown, said Samantha Mogil of Doylestown. It sounds almost comical, an exhibitionist dressed only in a Zorro mask and white sneakers following women around the streets of Doylestown. It is not only...

I am giving a speech tomorrow and need to know how to pronounce "Czestochowa" as in, "The Shrine of the Czestochowa." The part of the speech is below. It's a great story that shows that the relationship between Poland and the US is indeed heartfelt:Born in Poland in 1860, the legendary pianist, composer, and one-time President of Poland, toured the United States several times during his life. And as in World War I, Paderewski stayed the United States to wait out the war in Europe. After arriving in the US in December 1940 at the age of 80, he performed...