A man, arrested after a cyber tip led state police to a Lansford home, was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months to four years in state prison. Cody Girard Broad, 32, of Lansford, pleaded guilty on July 21 ...

The Concourse Club of Palmerton is holding the first open meeting of their club year at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Aquashicola Volunteer Fire Company, 270 Little Gap Road, Palmerton. The program will ...

St. John Lutheran Church, 200 E. Mauch Chunk St., Tamaqua, is holding a pumpkin roll sale for Thanksgiving. Deadline to order is Nov. 8. Pick up is Nov. 22 between 3 and 5 p.m. For more information ...

The Carbon Career & Technical Institute is on a two-hour delay today due to the Route 209 road closure. The highway is expected to remain closed for the next six to eight weeks, and students ...

Reading & Northern has temporarily moved its Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway operation to Nesquehoning due to the rock slide on Route 209 that impacted the railroad west of Jim Thorpe. Trains ...

Fire, ambulance and rescue units from Walker and West Penn townships and Tamaqua responded to a crash Monday afternoon in Walker Township. The crash occurred just after noon at the intersection of ...

In two days, residents can finally open their mailboxes without a flood of political flyers tumbling out. The television ads will give way to Medicare pitches and Christmas toy commercials. But ...

A special presentation was made recently to honor veterans at Brookmont Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Effort. Members of the Pocono Mountain Chapter 88526 Quilts of Valor presented quilts ...

Author Lori Floyd of Weatherly has released her third children’s picture book. “The Adventures of the Explorers’ Club in Delaware” is the third book in the series for young explorers emphasizing fun, ...

Some are made with bits of colored paper. Others include magazine cutouts or photographs spliced between a found object here, and another there. Each one on exhibit at Stonehedge Gardens in South ...

The Penn Kidder PTA held a Pumpkin Palooza in the school’s cafeteria last week. Thirty kids signed up to join in the fun to paint pumpkins and eat sweet treats. Five members of the PTA came together ...