Frackville News

POTTSVILLE, Pa., July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Schuylkill County residents now have access to the Internet, e-mail and other data on their laptops at faster speeds and can download music, watch videos, play 3D games ...

A veterinarian testified in district court on Tuesday that seven beagles whose owner is accused of neglect were healthy and well-cared for despite injuries from a kennel fire.

At the same hearing, a state dog warden testified he approved Schuylkill County breeder John Yagielinskie's plan to keep the dogs in a temporary shelter. That housing was described as a $12,000, state-of-the-art, custom-made ''rolling kennel'' cooled by battery-operated fans and equipped with 25-pound steel water dishes designed to prevent tipping.

Guilty. That's the decision in a high-profile animal cruelty case in Schuylkill County.

Other Rails-to-Trails pathways are in the planning stages in Columbia and Montour counties and Northumberland County.

By peter e. bortner Staff Writer Joseph A. Cress will spend 100 to 200 months in state prison for killing Roseann D. Barrett in June 2007 in Butler Township, a Schuylkill County judge ruled Friday - a decision ...

The Schuylkill County Drug Task Force seized 21 bags of "crack," 2 bags of heroin, and $580 in cash and arrested an Allentown-area man and a juvenile in a drug raid on a Frackville motel last Thursday, July 3. ...

A fire that destroyed a shed Monday night in South Lebanon Township remains under investigation.

Some big improvements are coming to a small community in Schuylkill County. The state handed over a $50,000 grant to the borough of Frackville Tuesday morning.

Recent meetings of the Schuylkill County Commissioners that have featured clashes between the Commissioner Chair Mantura Gallagher and County Adminsitrator Darlene Dolzania on one side and Controller Melinda ...

A man assigned to help out a student in school found himself in handcuffs Monday.

Proud graduates shared the stage in Schuylkill County as people young and old received their high school diplomas.

As a volunteer firefighter for 28 years with the Kemptville Fire Department, Doug Barnett has pulled his share of people out of wrecked vehicles.

By PETER E. BORTNER Staff Writer The North Schuylkill School Board unlawfully voted May 8 to close Ringtown Elementary School, 10 parents alleged Friday in a Schuylkill County Court lawsuit seeking to keep it ...

Six Sundays left. Many Schuylkill County attending Sunday Mass learned that July 15 will be a sad day as 32 churches close across the county and 21 priests are reassigned, retire or go on leave.

From staff reports Uni-Mart LLC, which operates a chain of convenience stores and gas stations in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.

EAST UNION TWP. A Hazleton woman was injured Wednesday after state police said she failed to come to a complete stop before entering Green Mountain Road from the Office Max Warehouse parking lot in Schuylkill ...

A Schuylkill County man who fatally ran over a woman with his pickup truck after she rejected his sexual advances kept changing his story as state troopers interviewed him, according to testimony Tuesday in Schuylkill County Court.

Joseph A. Cress first told investigators he knew the victim, Roseann D. Barrett, 45, of Girardville, as ''Ruth'' and had met her two weeks before her June 15, 2007 death.

Then he told a trooper he met Barrett at a Girardville bar, parked along a road near the small town, kissed her and put his hand up her shirt. He said Barrett smacked his face and left the truck, and he put the vehicle in reverse, heard a thump and left thinking he had hit a tree.

A man who police said kidnapped his mother from a nursing home is now charged with being responsible for her death.

Trying to balance a budget that has a half-million-dollar shortfall, Tamaqua Area School Board will require athletes to pay $10 a year for each scholastic sport in which they participate, and will not fund a ...

With a $50,000 state grant, tourism bureaus representing four counties -- Berks, Lehigh, Northampton and Schuylkill -- have hired a consultant to help them develop a brand name, according to Mark T. Major, ...