McAdoo News

Interstate 81 came to a grinding halt Sunday night after a pileup on a foggy stretch of the highway in Luzerne County.

Thomas A. Ward, 25, of Towanda Street, was charged with two counts of robbery and remains in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Property tax inequities in Hazleton Area School District will be the subject of a public hearing that the Senate Finance Committee will host in McAdoo Borough later this month.

Tamaqua bar cited by control board The state Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement cited a Tamaqua bar for serving an unlimited amount of alcoholic beverages for a set price in October, troopers said.

Warrant issued for McAdoo man McAdoo police said a warrant has been issued for James Doyle, 34, of East Blaine Street, on charges he beat Kristiann Gallagher, 40, his live-in girlfriend, during a domestic incident at midnight Nov.

Ellen O'Connell/Staff Photographer Kayla Perez, 12, above, receives a plate full of traditional Thanksgiving food provided by Commission on Economic Opportunities volunteers from left, Frank Diccicco, Sean Williams, Laure Hess and Renee Rutski on Thursday in St.

Hazleton Area School District received less than half of the federal stimulus funds that district officials anticipated receiving in February, with the bulk of its $2.5 million allocation reserved for an early childhood center, technology upgrades and capital improvement projects.

WEST HAZLETON A fire in the 200 block of Ridge Avenue on Saturday night that destroyed one residence and damaged another was intentionally set, said state police Fire Marshal David Klitsch.

Touted by the state as "showing sustained academic achievement," 35 local schools in 12 districts received Keystone Achievement Awards on Thursday.

The Rev. James Paisley, whose Christmas CD so far has raised more than $14,500 for the Wyoming Valley Children's Association, poses at the preschool with teacher Teresa Romano and some of the children who attend.

Three people were injured when a truck tractor and sport utility vehicle crashed on Route 443 near the West Penn-Walker township line Thursday afternoon.

The case of the missing McAdoo sewer bills may seem amusing to some, but not to the people who work at the sewer authority office or the U.S. Postal Service.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] The 65th anniversary reunion of the Hazleton High School Class of 1944 was held in October at the Valley Country Club with 42 classmates and guests in attendance.

Anthony ''Tony'' Locascio ended up in a remote area of Schuylkill County, left to die wearing only boxer shorts after being beaten and bloodied with metal baseball bats, because he was a snitch, a state police trooper testified Friday.

McAdoo has taken steps to lower garbage rates for the next two years starting in January.

Lehigh Valley residents now have answers to questions that have probably kept them awake through countless nights in deep contemplation: 1.) Yes! There is a Salt Institute.

The goal of a company in Carbon County is to preserve the environment a little piece at a time.

Hazleton Oil & Environmental Inc. will be giving out a free long-stemmed funnel to the first 200 people who bring in any of the three items between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Oct.

In time for Oil Recycling Day, a Hazleton company will be accepting used oil, antifreeze and car batteries at no charge next week.

Former Mountain View mayor Rosemary Stasek died Thursday in Kabul, Afghanistan, of cardiac arrest resulting from an illness, the city of Mountain View announced.