- A Warminster man has admitted to a judge that he downloaded child porn onto his computer, phillyburbs.com reports. Carl Essig, 42, pleaded guilty to the crime and will wait 90 days for his sentencing, following a Megan's Law assessment. He faces more than a year in prison for possessing child pornography and criminal use of a communications device.
- The Horsham Land Reuse Authority will on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Horsham Township community center to discuss the future of the Willow Grove air base's runway. If there is time, the committee will also vote on the resubmission of the Shenandoah Woods project.
- Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick will representatives of four major energy industries at Bucks County Community College to discuss the future of American energy, oil dependency and new technology. The school will be holding its first ever energy conference, titled America's Energy Future, at its Lower Bucks Campus in Bristol on Thursday from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
- E-book sales topped paperbacks in February, CNN reports. E-book sales totaled $90.3 million in February, up 202% compared to the same month a year earlier, according to a study from the Association of American Publishers. That put e-books at No. 1 "among all categories of trade publishing" that month -- the first time e-books have beaten out traditional publishing formats.
- On this day, April 19, 1987: The Simpsons debuts as a short cartoon shown on the Tracy Ullman Show on Fox.
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