Drums News

PennDOT is repaving section of Route 309 in the Hazleton area after receiving complaints that the road gets slippery.

A Drums man who had asked to be banned from the state's casinos was arrested Sunday afternoon after he was found on the Mount Airy casino floor.

Relieved adults soothed screaming, crying children getting the H1N1 vaccination at a clinic at the Laurel Mall on Friday.

Two businesses owned by Luzerne County corruption figure Robert J. Powell must secure new representation within 20 days or face default if Stephen A. Seach is allowed to withdraw as attorney of record in a series of kids-for-cash civil lawsuits, attorneys for the plaintiffs said Thursday.

A specially-designed truck rolled into the WalMart near Hazleton Thursday, filled with cats and dogs available for adoption.

At a Special Meeting this week, the Wright Township Planning Commission will consider granting final approval to a local townhouse project with a history of links to several figures in the ongoing Luzerne County corruption scandal.

BUTLER TWP. Township police are investigating the theft of a Bobcat construction machine from Highway Equipment and Supply Co.

CRAFT MAINTENANCE TRAINING: Tues.-Thurs., Northeastern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center, 75 Young St, Hanover Industrial Estates, Hanover Township.

JAMIE PESOTINE/Staff Photographer A member of the Scranton Police Hazardous Devices Unit carries a box containing an object thought to be a bomb that was found outside an Alter Street residence on Wednesday night.

BARRE Two city men were arrested after they allegedly assaulted and robbed a man in the men's room at Denny's Restaurant on Scott Street on Tuesday.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] A threat was found on a bathroom stall at the Drums Elementary/Middle School on Tuesday morning, Butler Township police said.

How does a carmaker get a young audience to sniff around its cool, new, youth-targeted vehicle? By luring them to a weekend-long festival of free music , art, video and more.

"Culture Warrior" by Tim Weaver is one of the artworks in "A Second Life," to be presented Saturday at The Artist Studio in Drums.

Rex Rutkoski can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4664. For the next two weekends, history's window opens yet again to one of Western Pennsylvania's most colorful periods.

FORKLIFT TRAIN THE TRAINER: Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Top of the 80's, Hazleton. This is the classroom instruction session.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Sharkey Dr. Ki Bum Lee couldn't win. The judge in the medical malpractice case kept denying his pre-trial motions, including one asking to move the trial to another county.

The event Saturday and Sunday at Zanolini Nursery & Country Shop in Drums, Luzerne County, will feature a hot pepper eating contest at 1 p.m. Saturday and a raw garlic eating contest noon-1 p.m. Sunday.

Program for sixth-graders aims to discourage growth of gangs in area. HAZLETON City police are boosting efforts to combat the growth of gangs in the area with an expanded gang resistance program at all Hazleton Area elementary schools.

A box truck is pulled up an embankment along the northbound shoulder of the Turnpike's Northeast Extension in Carbon County following a crash Thursday night.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this Butler Township police lodged 50 counts of sexual abuse of children and 13 other related charges against a former Drums man.