State police at the Fern Ridge barracks are investigating the theft of a 2004 Dodge Durango vehicle that was stolen Wednesday at 2:30 a.m. when its owner left the vehicle running while he entered a st...
Carbon County is providing a Lehighton-based company with tax relief on a Palmerton plant that it hopes to convert into a 100-plus-acre high tech office park.
During the county commissioners' meeting ...
Dear Editor:
This is a story my daughter wrote in 2001 when she was 13 while attending St.Joseph's grammar school in Jim Thorpe.THE CHRISTMAS LAMBIt was late in December about two thousand years ago. ...
By JIM ZBICK
jzbick@tnonline.comTwo days before Christmas in 1909 Tamaqua lost one of its most distinguished citizens in Mrs. Sarah Wolmelsdorf Souder.Sarah was a direct descendant of Conrad Weiser, t...
It is an image that could well have been one of those Norman Rockwell covers from the "Saturday Evening Post" in the mid-1960s.
Burrowing their way through a briar patch, bodies hidden - save for tail...
Dear Editor:
While I was watching T.V. news they showed a segment that had a statue of Jesus holding a shotgun with Santa dead at his feet.Is this what we want our kids to see ? Isn't there enough vio...
Carbon County's new third judge will have to wait until mid February to use his courtroom.
During the county commissioners' meeting on Thursday, the board announced that the new deadline for construct...
In an attempt to garner favorable public relations during the calm before the storm when the pricing cap on domestic electric power comes off on Dec. 31, PPL has made available a tool to help consumer...
By BOB URBAN
rurban@tnonline.comAnother Christmas has passed. This one was special as we got to celebrate it with our new grandson, who was born in late August. Of course, he doesn't understand the si...
Christopher R. Hans, 24, and Joseph J. Brennan II, 24, both of Ashland, have been charged by state police at the Frackville barracks with robbery, criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault and simple as...