Community Corner

Five Things for October 21

What's going on around town today.

  • After months of planning, preparation and construction, the new Costco store opens today at 8 a.m. at the corner of Street and Jacksonville roads.
  • A 14-year-old Hatboro boy is detained in the Montgomery County Youth Center in connection with an alleged stabbing incident which police said happened at a borough home, Hatboro-Horsham Patch .
  • The National Weather Service says it's going to be partly sunny today, with a high near 59.
  • Two men implicated in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States have been indicted, the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office told CNN. An arraignment for Manssor Arbabsiar is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. October 24 before U.S. District Judge John Keenan in New York. His co-defendant, Gholam Shakuri, remains at large, according to U.S. Attorney Preet Bahara.
  • On this day, October 21, 1861, Conferderate armies defeat the Union force at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in Virginia.


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