A Monroe county home was destroyed by fire Sunday morning in Hamilton Township. Passersby noticed the flames leaping form a vacant home set in a heavy wooded area just off Shiffer Road near Shafer Roa...
The boxes at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic School are filling up quickly. The boxes are being used by the school to collect used children's shoes in conjunction with the Blue Ridge TV13's "Let Them Walk...
When Christina Tomsic's husband told her she had won first prize in the Carbon County Fair Hershey Cocoa Classic Baking Contest, the Palmerton woman told him to "shut up."
Not in a nasty, rude way. It...
West Penn Township police are investigating a string of burglaries which have occurred over the past several weeks. The most recent being early Friday morning at the Calabria Italian Restaurant along ...
A Monroe County service station was robbed by a suspect who displayed a handgun and was wearing a Halloween mask.
State police at Lehighton said the incident occurred at Borger's Service Station, 51 O...
Bishop John Barres, the newly-installed Bishop of Allentown, celebrated Mass for the Carbon Deanery and its parishioners recently at St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church, Lansford. Among those on hand...
Sherry Ambrose, principal of SS. Peter and Paul School, Lehighton announces September Students of the Month. They are, early childhood, Guadalupe Gonzalez; preschool, Brenna Hunt; kindergarten, Sawyer...
Television and peers can trump parents when it comes to influencing what children eat, but that doesn't mean families can't fight back.
A Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study found th...
Jimmy Clausen, held out of most of the second half due to turf toe injury, came in the final series and led the Irish to a come-from-behind 24-21 win of Purdue last week. That is the plus side of the ...
both Coaldale and Lansford borough councils are beginning to craft 2010 budgets.
In Coaldale, the current spending plan is at $1.225 million.As council embarks on a new one, it must keep in mind that ...