Two people are dead following a four-vehicle crash on Interstate 476 early Friday morning, Marple Newtown Patch is reporting. According to Pennsylvania State Police-Media Barracks, a man from Philadelphia and a man from Delaware City, Del. are dead, however, their names are being withheld until next of kin is notified. All lanes of the highway were closed for several hours, from Exit 5 (U.S. Route 1) to Exit 9 (Broomall), while crews cleared the crash and it reopened around 7 a.m. Friday, according to NBCPhiladelphia.com. Read the full story here.

Local chef John Mims has officially reopened Carmine's Creole Cafe, which left Narberth Borough in 2006. The restaurant focuses on Creole and Cajun fare, and most entrees are between $18 and $25.  Among the menu items: Pan-roasted pork loin topped with mole sauce over mashed sweet potatoes ($15) and the Butter-Roasted Chilean Sea Bass and Crispy Coconut Shrimp, tossed with mango curry butter sauce over Jasmati rice ($27). Find out more about the restaurant, and see more of the menu, on Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch.

In case you missed it: John Mims, the current owner of Phoenixville's Daddy Mims, is bringing his Creole cooking about 20 miles closer to home. Mims will reopen Carmine's Creole Cafe at 232 Woodbine Ave. in Narberth in just a few weeks. Carmine's Creole Cafe, which centers on cajun fare, opened in Havertown in 1998. It moved to Narberth in 2004, before relocating to Bryn Mawr in 2006 and heading away from the Main Line, to Phoenixville, a few years later.  Read the full article on Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch.

The Center City Philadelphia restaurant Honeygrow opened a Bala Cynwyd location on Thursday, serving what a manager called "healthy fast food" and filling the last hole in the Bala Cynwyd Shopping Center's City Avenue-side expansion. Manager Wolf Williams said the focus is on stir-fry dishes, salads and other healthy fast food, made fresh while customers wait. Read more about Honeygrow on Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch.

A Gladwyne bat captured at a home on the 700 block of Mill Creek Road tested positive for rabies, according to a Tuesday press release from Lower Merion Township. Bats can bite when you are asleep and leave hardly any telltale signs of a bite, the release states. Read the full article on Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch.

A bust of Benjamin Franklin, estimated to be worth more than $3 million, was discovered missing from a Bryn Mawr home on Friday afternoon, according to a release issued by the Lower Merion Police Department. Police have identified 46-year-old Andrea Lawton, a Philadelphia resident, as a suspect in connection with the theft. Police are still looking for the missing bust, the release states. Read the full article on Bryn Mawr Patch.

On Tuesday, Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan will make a campaign stop at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester. Mitt Romney announced last week that Ryan would be his running mate. Read the full story on West Chester Patch.

1:40 p.m. update: The man has been found and returned to the hospital, Lower Merion Police Superintendent Michael McGrath told Patch. Radnor police found him on Bryn Mawr Avenue near Sproul Road.  12 p.m.: A 72-year-old Narberth man with dementia went missing from his Bryn Mawr Hospital room Wednesday morning, Lower Merion police said. Read the rest of the story on Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch.

A 90-year-old woman was injured when someone attempted to grab her purse in the Gladwyne Super Fresh parking lot on Tuesday afternoon, Lower Merion police said. The woman was in the parking lot on her way into the store about 12:45 p.m. when another woman, described as in her 20s and wearing shorts, grabbed the victim's purse and began to struggle with the victim, police said. Visit Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch for the full story.

Mitt Romney, after easily winning the state Republican primary last week, will be in Bryn Mawr for a private fundraiser on Tuesday. The event will be hosted by real estate developer Mitchell Morgan and his wife, Hilarie, according to Philly.com. "The invite list reads like a who’s who of the area’s GOP dignitaries," according to Philly.com. "Top Republican fundraiser Robert B. Asher, former Gov. Tom Ridge and Patrick O’Connor, vice chairman of the Cozen O’Connor law firm, all made the list." Read more on Bryn Mawr Patch, where the story is being updated as more information becomes available.

BMW announced this week it is recalling 1.3 million cars from model years 2003 and 2010 because of an battery-installation problem in some that could prevent ignition.Staff at BMW of the Main Line in Bala Cynwyd aren't sure how many cars from the dealership are affected, if any, sales manager Tony Lukanski told Patch. Customers are being notified by letter. Read the full story on Bala Cynwyd Patch.

  Wynnewood resident Gladys Saldana was one of more than 200 people to show up for Bryn Mawr Film Institute’s Oscar Party Sunday night. In honor of the Academy Award best picture winner “The Artist,” Saldana wore a lacey, 1940s dress and a headpiece, and a long string of pearls. “I love it,” Saldana said of the silent film.The event featured a silent auction and dinner, followed by a simulcast of the 84th Academy Awards on one of the institute’s theater screens. Read more about the event on Bryn Mawr Patch.

More aspiring Mawrters than ever before applied to Bryn Mawr College for the Class of 2016, according to the college. Bryn Mawr received more than 2,600 applications for a class of 365—the most ever. Read the full story here on the Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch. 

During a routine check for underage drinkers by police shortly after midnight on Feb. 3 at Kelly’s Pub in Bryn Mawr, officers encountered a Villanova student who tried to make a run for it then resisted arrest and attempted to strike a patrolman as she was being handcuffed, Lower Merion Police said Monday. Read the full story, and the rest of the week's Police Blotter, here on the Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch.

Villanova University is preparing to present its plan to build new housing for about 1,100 students and a bookstore, convenience store and eatery on its campus. The $200-million-plus project, that will be built on what is now two parking lots on Lancaster Avenue, could reduce the impact of students living in surrounding neighborhoods, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The school will go in front of Radnor Township's Board of Commissioners on February 13. The proposed plans for the area also include a parking structure to accomodate approximately 1,800 vehicles and a Performing Arts Center to…

The women's clothing store Annie Sez, on Montgomery Avenue in Penn Valley (across from Narberth) is closing within weeks, most likely at the end of February, store manager Marge Pinketti told Patch. The entire chain is reportedly in financial trouble, according to BusinessWeek.com. Read the full story here in the Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch. 

Ludington Library will now not reopen until at least April, according to township officials. Lower Merion Township’s flagship library and the busiest library in Montgomery County, Ludington closed in 2010 for a $9.1 million renovation. Issues with construction first delayed the project to fall of 2011, then to early 2012 and now to “the second quarter of 2012,” said Township Manager Doug Cleland. After construction is completed in the first quarter, it will take between six and 10 weeks to move in shelving, computers, books and reopen, he added. (For the full story, click here for the Bryn …

A group of more than 100 Aqua Pennsylvania union workers marched from Polo Field in Bryn Mawr to the Aqua America headquarters on Lancaster Avenue late Saturday morning to express their anger at what they say are unfair contracts. Members of 32BJ SEIU, in purple union T-shirts, marched together westbound on Lancaster Avenue/Route 30 from Penn Street to Aqua America headquarters at 762 W. Lancaster Ave. shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday. The large group marched in both lanes, backing up traffic. Once at headquarters, they crossed the street and stood in both eastbound lanes, saying "Corporate …

Three Gladwyne firefighters who'll receive township honors Feb. 1 recalled the stormy September night when they and many other emergency workers risked their lives to save six people from flooding in Whitemarsh Township. In December, Whitemarsh also honored the men. Just two weeks after Hurricane Irene, a storm hit the area where the ground was already saturated. It was the same night and early morning that Ardmore firefighters were hard at work at a water rescue in Haverford. Read the full story here on the Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch.

Rosemont College received a welcome surprise last week: an anonymous $5 million donation.  The gift—the second-largest in Rosemont College’s history—will be used to fund a new turf athletic field for soccer and lacrosse ($2 million) and a new campus community center ($3 million).  Read the full story here in the Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch.