Minersville News

Details are sketchy of his service in the Civil War, but Edward G. Savage served in Company B of the 9 Pennsylvania.

State police are reminding motorists that there will be extra enforcement efforts during the Fourth of July holiday period.

PHOENIX PARK, Jun 28, 2009 -- Circuit problems caused phone outages for about 200 Verizon customers Saturday in Branch Township, in the villages of Llewellyn and Phoenix Park, but technicians were able to restore service by 10:45 p.m., according to Verizon spokesman Lee Gierczynski.

Hearing to focus on $3.5M defamation verdict against Citizens' Voice in 2006. ALLENTOWN A Lehigh County judge has ordered reputed mob boss William "Billy" D'Elia to testify at a hearing next week that will determine whether a $3.5 million defamation verdict against the Citizens' Voice newspaper should be overturned.

I am a family researcher doing the families of Jarinko-Skorinko-Manzick-Barkasi. Jarinko and Skorinko were from Walnutport Carbon Co.

A crash involving an all-terrain vehicle in Schuylkill County killed a man from Pottsville.

As a 12-year old, Sharon Tell was part of a devout Catholic family that routinley attended Mass at Notre Dame Church in Bethlehem.

A Schuylkill County family is heartbroken -- not knowing if they're any closer to getting their loved one back home.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Middle Apr. 26--MINERSVILLE -- An arsonist struck a fire company president's home early Saturday morning, causing more than $40,000 in damage, according to state police.

Two years after his conviction, former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio reported to a federal prison in Pennsylvania on Tuesday to start a six-year sentence for insider trading while he appeals his conviction to the Supreme Court.

It's moving day for an animal shelter in chuylkill County. Officials believe they can offer better services for abandoned and abused animals and the people who adopt them.

A budget for operating two vocational technical schools in Schuylkill County for the school term of 2009/2010 was adopted by the Schuylkill Intermediate Unit 29 School Board at its monthly meeting Monday evening at the Maple Avenue Campus in Norwegian Township.

Two men seeking nomination to the Tamaqua Area School Board have withdrawn petitions to have their names appear on the Democratic ballot in the May primary.

A school district in Schuylkill County has suspended a bus driver after a 7-year-old student was left on the driver's bus.

It's the perfect time to get married in the honeymoon world. Due to the nation's economic crisis, newly married couples can travel to just about anywhere at a deep discount.

Postal carrier has fond memories "My Annie was my buddy," said Cheryl Newton, 47, of Minersville, Schuylkill County, a U.S. postal carrier working out of the Wyomissing Post Office, who met the late Annie J. ...

SPCA officials were rounding up cats Tuesday in what they called a death trap near Pine Grove.

Pine Grove police this week rescued dozens of malnourished cats from an animal sanctuary but could do nothing for the several that had died after the woman running the site "started selling the cat food for ...

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A committee to preserve the history of St. Kieran Church has gotten one step closer to its goal.