LAS VEGAS (AP) - A 17-year-old aspiring politician from Nebraska captured the Miss America crown on Saturday after beating 52 other young women from across the United States.
Teresa Scanlan won a $50,...
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detector programThe Jim Thorpe Fire Department has free smoke detectors for Jim Thorpe Borough residents. Contact Fire Chief Bill Diehm at (570) 325-3890.No commercial properties please.Com...
State police at Fern Ridge reported on several crashes probed by troopers, all occurring in Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County.
A deer crashed into a state police cruiser about 4:13 p.m. on Saturday...
Representatives of a Philadelphia financial advising firm sat in on a meeting of the Carbon County Solid Waste Authority. Pat O'Connell and Gordon Walker of Butcher and Singer Inc. were instructed to ...
As we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, we are a nation still in shock and still mourning for those killed and wounded in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 8.
On a day set aside to remember a...
Keeping careful watch over cardiac patients at Blue Mountain Health System's Gnaden Huetten campus has always been close to the hearts of the staff there. Now, a new, wireless state-of-the-art monitor...
It might not have looked like it on paper, but Saturday's non-league boys basketball contest between Palmerton and Tamaqua was considered a "must" game.
Palmerton interim head coach Mark Maholick and ...
Blue Mountain Health System Women's Cancer Support Group meets for the first time in 2011 in the Community Room at the Gnaden Huetten site, 211 N. 12th St., Lehighton at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 18.
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ORWIGSBURG - Garth Lakitsky has yet to have a bout go the distance this season.
The Tamaqua senior 215 pounder notched three more pins Saturday, becoming the first Blue Raider wrestler to win three Sc...
Twenty-three area residents were among 44 who were arraigned on criminal charges in the district attorney's office at the Schuylkill County courthouse and all entered pleas of not guilty and requested...