Nesquehoning News

Two residents of an apartment house, including a Jim Thorpe resident who had served several years on its school board, died in a fire early this morning in the same neighborhood where a fire critically injured another woman two days ago.

Storm made it difficult for rescuers to reach the twin home, which burned to the ground.

Legend has it that Conrad Weiser, Indian agent-interpreter, and Chief Shikellamy both had a dream.

Firetruck manufacturer Kovatch Mobile Equipment of Nesquehoning has been awarded a $1.5 million state bond to help finance renovations and expansion of their facilities, officials announced Wednesday.

Schuylkill County emergency workers spent about four hours Sunday morning searching the area near a motor vehicle wreck on Route 54, fearing the driver might have wandered off after being hurt and disoriented.

Flames shoot into the air from a gas cylinder that hit the ground following a collision between two trucks on Tuesday shortly before noon on Route 202-31 in front of Cinema Plaza, south of Flemington.

Twenty-five voters from Carbon County were inducted Thursday into the Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame in Nesquehoning.

WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP Crash kills Nesquehoning man, injures driver and three others A 22-year-old Nesquehoning was killed early Sunday when a vehicle in which he was riding crashed into a ditch off Route 22.

Fire protection in Haldimand and Norfolk took on some added muscle recently with the arrival of a 100-foot aerial pumper in Jarvis.

A Nesquehoning man was killed early today in a single-vehicle crash on the ramp leading from Route 22 to Route 145 North in Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania State Police in Bethlehem report.

TIMES NEWS FILE PHOTO The Allentown Diocese wants the fair market value of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Nesquehoning, reduced to $80,000 from Carbon County's assessment of $281,205. The amount of first-time tax revenue that would come to Carbon County municipalities and school districts from closed Catholic churches and their attached ...

Along the road to college admissions, the Class of 2013 was often flattened into statistics.

Prosecutors have sufficient evidence, albeit circumstantial, to send homicide and related charges against a Lansford man accused of killing his wife to Carbon County Court, District Judge Casimir Kosciolek ruled Tuesday.

Flames can be seen through the windows of the former Welsh Congregational Church in Lansford.

AMY ZUBEK/TIMES NEWS U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, center, and state Speaker of the House Keith McCall, right, listen as Carbon County Commissioner William O'Gurek, chairman, briefly explains about the project at Packerton Yards.

A man threatening suicide inside a house in Carbon County last night surrendered to police after about three hours.

LARRY NEFF/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS A member of the elite state police Special Emergency Response Team positions himself during a standoff in Nesquehoning Tuesday evening.

A police standoff created quite a stir in the Carbon County community of Nesquehoning.

Ron Gower/TIMES NEWS Adult beagles look out for two puppies in a cage after their abandonment along a back road in Mahoning Township.

LARRY NEFF/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS A 17-year-old girl was struck and critically injured by this vehicle in an accident along Rt.