Local/Regional

A man who was sentenced from 10 to 25 years in connection with shooting a hunter is appealing his sentence. 49-year-old, David Manilla turned himself in to authorities after shooting a hunter on a piece of land he owns in Richland Township, bucks county on November 10th  of last. Manilla contended that the incident was an accident, but failed to immediately report the shooting. Manilla was not only prohibited from owning firearms, due to prior brushes with the law, but the rifle he fired when he killed 52-year-old Barry Groh is prohibited in use for hunting. Groh, a father of two, was from Quakertown. Manilla’s new attorney, Norris Gelman filed an appeal with the state supreme court. Its not known what the appeal deals with in the case, but bucks county chief deputy district attorney, Robert James says, the appeal is focusing on Manilla’s sentence.  The Bucks County D-D-D-A’s office and FBI are trying to determine how Manilla obtained 100 guns. On July 8th, Manilla pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and related charges.

Despite the debt ceiling deal, the stock market took a dump on Tuesday. WNPV Market Analyst, George Toth says some disappointing economic reports trumped the debt deal on Wall Street.

 “We’ve got the debt talk sort off the table, Congress has left the city, the President has signed the bill and the residue here is the market is now saying wait a minute, the second half of this year could very well be sub-par growth.”

 The Dow Jones shed more 250 points in yesterday’s trading

Montgomery County continues to see a slow recovery from the economic downturn of 2008. This according to Univest's Phil Jackson, President of Cooperate Banking.

”There is good and bad news. The good news is we are not doing as poorly as the rest of the county. The Eastern part of Pennsylvania always does better than the national economies, but having said that, we haven’t seen the growth that we would liked to have seen at this stage. The economy is still suffering a little bit and that trickles down to all of the businesses in our community. So we’re not doing as well as we would like to be doing right now.”

Phil Jackson was a guest  Monday on WNPV’S talk program  Bux Mont Live

A 12-and-a half foot piece of steel from one of the Twin Towers, destroyed in the attacks on September 11th of 2001, is now on display in Whitpain Township. The second Alarmers Retrieval team arrived at hanger-17 in New York last Wednesday morning and returned late Wednesday afternoon with the 3,000  pound piece of steel. Executive
Director, Jamie Haddon says, the beam of steel, which will be made into a monument, has special significance.

“One of our brothers John Kulick, Hatboro Firefighter and career firefighter for Whitpain Township Fire Department enlisted in the military reserves after he saw everything we saw on September 11th and he was deployed to Iraq and unfortunately he lost his life. So bringing the monument back to the Montgomery County area and being able to put it as a new focal point to our new building, our new Whitpain Township that we’re fund raising for, it’s just a great opportunity for us to honor him and everyone else who allow us to enjoy the freedoms that we have.”


Haddon adds, 11-hundred other fire departments requested the piece of steel. The steel will eventually be placed outside the new Whitpain Township Emergency Services
Center. The Cost of the new facility is estimated at 1-million dollars Dollars. 500-grand has already been raised for the project. They hope to have the monument
finished by September 11th