Dear Editor:
In light of the recent budget proposal by our Governor, I felt it was time to take action. Governor Corbett is proposing to balance our state budget on the back of our education system. A...
Last week, I was honored to speak about John "Sonny" Kovatch on the Senate floor as my colleagues and I presented a Senate resolution honoring his memory. It was a humbling experience to speak about t...
A woman's 12-year journey in support of her friend's Odyssey to save, adopt, nurture, and educate an abandoned handicapped Russian boy became the subject of an NBC Dateline episode titled The Boy From...
Just after 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, residents living in Dutch Hill section of Tamaqua heard a loud bang and then their power went off. When residents living near the Willing Street and North Columbia St...
A Carbon County business was the target of a burglary. The break-in is one of two probed by state police at Lehighton, who also reported on other incidents.
The BZ-Bee service station, located at 709 ...
The Borough Secretary will hold special office hours on Saturday, April 30th from 10 am until noon for property owners to pay their garbage bills.
Payments received after 5/1 are subject to a 10 perce...
Frances Galarza, 20, of 6 Main St., First Floor, Walnutport, was cited for disorderly conduct by Slatington police after they responded to a disturbance at 9:05 p.m. April 24.
The incident happened in...
The Carbon County Animal Response Team will hold an orientation on the group at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, at the Carbon County Emergency Management Agency, Nesquehoning. Joel Hersh, executive di...
State sentence
Admitting to staging a robbery of the Family Dollar Store in Pottsville proved costly to Jamie Torres-Dominguez, 44, as he was sentenced by Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin to serve four to ei...
In the Palmerton sports briefs section that ran in Wednesday's edition, it was incorrectly stated that school board Director Stuart Henritzy voted in favor of the extracurricular positions, and that D...