This time, police - and a pizza shop owner - were ready. A week earlier, a delivery call to an Upper Darby pizzeria had come from a blocked number, and the delivery man was robbed at gunpoint.

An armed suspected was shot in Delaware County after attempting to rob an undercover detective posing as a pizza deliveryman early Wednesday morning.

A man in his 30s was shot in the stomach and leg in West Oak Lane last night, police said.

The 266-year-old Darby Free Library, believed to be the oldest continuously operating public library in America, was in danger of closing at year's end due to a funding shortfall.

A Delaware County woman pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday in the beating death of an elderly Yeadon woman.

State representative Bryan Lentz is looking at a higher office: he has announced plans to run for Congress from the 7th District, hoping to succeed Joe Sestak, who is stepping down to challenge Arlen Specter for US Senate .

U.S. Marshals arrested murder suspect Sequoyah Hawkins, Tuesday morning as he walked along the street in Upper Darby, in Delaware County.

If not for the quick action of an Upper Darby police officer, a man who was stomped unconscious during a fight outside a bar early Saturday might not have survived, police said today.

If you want to make an all in one stop, 69th street in Upper Darby, PA would be a good place to go.

Photos: RON TARVER , JASON MELCHER / Staff photographers Sisters Alice and Napol Wills, both Central High students, carry their bikes down the school steps after being able to "valet park" them in the dance gym for the day.

A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, rests on the stairs leading to the banks of the River Ganges in Varanasi, India.

A former Liberty High School student admitted today to robbing four people in April on Lehigh University's campus.

By any external measure, change is knocking at the door of Delaware County's Republicans.

Democrats have made steady gains in the Pennsylvania suburbs, but Republicans still rule Delaware County.

As negotiations continued today between SEPTA and the union representing Philadelphia bus drivers, subway and trolley operators and mechanics, the transit agency told its riders to get ready for a strike.