Community Corner

Five Things for May 12

What's going on around town today.

  • Willard Miller, 28, of Media pleaded guilty yesterday in Bucks County Court in Doylestown to raping an 8-year-old Warminster girl, phillyburbs.com reports. The crimes began in 2003 and continued until 2006. Miller was 19 when it started. The victim came forward to police last year after confiding in an adult.
  • The Warminster board of supervisors meet tonight at the Township Building at 7 p.m. On the agenda is consideration of management proposals for Five POnds Golf Club and the appointment of new labor counsel to replace David Truelove.
  • The Warminster Parks and Rec summer production of Aladdin is holding another round of auditions at the WREC Center on May 24 at 7 p.m. Children from ages 12-18 are encouraged to tryout.
  • CNN reports that the number of arrests of people trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally has decreased sharply in the last five years, according to federal statistics. In fiscal year 2006 there were 1,071,972 arrests of undocumented immigrants in the multi-state border area, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The number had fallen to 705,005 in 2008, and last year's figure was 447,731, CBP data shows. Those figures represent a 58% decrease from 2006 to 2010.
  • On this day, May 12, 1932, a few weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, N.J., just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.


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