Bucks County Courier Times and The Intelligencer news staff members have won 12 awards from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Keystone Awards, including six for first place.
Staff members also won three second-place awards and three honorable mentions in the Keystones, presented annually by the PNA. The Courier Times and Intelligencer staff entries published in both papers and are listed under the Courier Times in Division II, which covers circulation from 20,000-49,999 with the PNA.
“Clearly 2020 presented many challenges and lots of news,” Executive Editor Shane Fitzgerald said. “I m extraordinarily proud of the work our staff did when readers needed us most. The awards are a nice tribute to that amazing effort our entire staff put forward in the most intense news year of my career.”
A 24-year-old Bristol Township man with a history of mental illness will stand trial for allegedly causing thousands of dollars in damages at a Bristol Township hospital and threatening to infect security guards after he tested positive for COVID-19 last year.
Dudly Ulysse, who has paranoid schizophrenia, had spent 14 days at the Lower Bucks Hospital mental crisis center waiting for a psychiatric hospital to accept him as an involuntary commitment when the alleged violent outburst happened last July.
Following a hearing Wednesday, Bristol Township District Judge Kevin Wagner held Ulysse on the original charges, which include multiple felony counts of aggravated assault and risking a catastrophe, as well as newly added ones.