Mount Pocono News

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Will $25,701 in unpaid property taxes get paid today or will Great Bear Golf Course be sold for taxes on Sept.

Pocono Mountain Regional Police responded to the Mount Pocono carnival on Monday night for two incidents, one involving a fight and the other involving an unruly crowd, arresting a total of seven people.

The 82nd Annual Pocono Mountain Carnival will run each evening this week with contests, games, rides and food.

An apparent early morning road rage incident on Route 611 in Mount Pocono netted a large load of suspected crack cocaine.

PennDOT reports lane restrictions on the following roads in Monroe County: Fairview Avenue in Mount Pocono, between Routes 611 and 314, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 14-18 for drainage.

Jessica Amarose, 11, of Mount Pocono, donated her hair to Locks of Love for the third time recently.

Few celebrities, living or dead, enjoy the fame and adulation of Frank Sinatra, whose singing has influenced generations of performers.

St. Mary of the Mount in Mount Pocono held a Mass and prayer service Saturday dedicated to Michael Lacey, the Tobyhanna teen who was killed in an automobile accident in Pocono Pines last August.

Police have charged Raymond Bender, 67, of Mount Pocono with four counts of indecent assault and four counts of harassment following a seven-month investigation.

The following appeared before Stroudsburg Magisterial District Judge Kristina Anzini and will head to Monroe County Court: David Hall, 28, of East Stroudsburg, and Kadias Lamont Murdaugh, 31, of Mount Pocono, ...

Luddites or heroes? Folks in Mount Pocono stopped phase two of a plan to improve traffic flow through the Five Points intersection there.

Pocono Mountain Regional police had their hands full with shoplifters over the holiday weekend at the Mount Pocono Wal-Mart and K-Mart stores on opposite sides of Route 940.

Repeated calls on a cell phone led Pocono Mountain Regional Police to charge an Allentown man for arranging to sell crack cocaine.

A black and yellow 1999 Suzuki GS 500E motorcycle, VIN JS1GM51A3X2100173, was reported stolen June 30 from a driveway on Hickory Valley Road in Hamilton Township.

There are Monroe County residents suffering from mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

STROUDSBURG &#8212 Former Monroe County Correctional Facility guard Dana Simpson, 35, of Tobyhanna, was sentenced Thursday to a year's probation after pleading guilty to a contraband charge .

Salvatore Cottone, 23, of Mount Pocono, will be cited after being found with marijuana June 23 on Route 940 in Mount Pocono.

People in the Poconos are looking for a cheaper way to spend time with the family this summer, and that's great news for a Monroe County charity.

Romero Mclain, 22, of Tobyhanna, charged June 15 with simple assault and harassment in connection with a domestic incident.