Local News

Two persons were killed a woman and a male juvenile and three others, including an infant female, were seriously injured in a one-vehicle crash that occurred along Interstate 80 in Kidder Township, Carbon County.

State police at Fern Ridge said the crash occurred about 4 p.m. on Tuesday in the eastbound lanes.

Troopers said a GMC envoy was eastbound near mile marker 279.6 when the driver lost control due to driving at an unsafe speed for existing conditions. The road conditions were slush and ice-covered at the time in both travel lanes, troopers said.

Recently councilman Frank DiMiceli initiated a fund drive for the Nesquehoning Police Department. Letters went out to businesses asking for their donations to purchase mobile video units for the police cars. Two units will be purchased, one for day shift and one for night shift. Redner's donated $2,000 to help purchase the units and hopefully other Nesquehoning businesses will support the worthwhile cause.

The Borough of Tamaqua will continue snow removal operations this week. Work will begin at 12:01 a.m. Thursday and Friday mornings. All vehicles must be removed from the posted streets at least two hours prior to the start of operations.

Streets scheduled to be cleaned on Thursday include: Mahanoy, Hunter to Coal; Biddle, Greenwood to end

Friday's schedule will include: Vine, Pine to Lincoln; Mountain Avenue, Greenwood to federal; and Nescopec, Mahanoy to Van Gelder.

Snow removal will then continue as needed. The schedule is subject to change.

The death of a Rush Township man, whose body was found at the Mahanoy City Little League field on Tuesday, is being investigated and is being called suspicious.

Mark Ketusky, 52, of Barnesville, was reported missing by his family to Rush Township police on Monday about 5 p.m.

At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday his body was found at the Little League field by borough police.

He was pronounced dead at the scene about 2 p.m. by a deputy coroner.