Plainfield News

Police in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley say an elected official passed out drunk at a public meeting and was taken to a hospital in an ambulance.

The following reports were taken from information provided Friday by area law enforcement agencies: Chambersburg THEFTS: Chambersburg police are investigating a series of thefts from motor vehicles that took place Wednesday night into Thursday morning.

A Harrisburg man is accused of following children home and threatening to kill them in Cumberland County.

The Forks Township Planning Commission has recommended against levying an additional tax to help shield farmland and other open space from development, citing the rocky economy and little interest among the community's few remaining farmers.

WASHINGTON TWP. -- Catherine 'Ashley'' Borman of Long Valley exchanged marriage vows with Tyler Andrew Lebo of Plainfield, Pa.

A Plainfield Township man who used a fake British accent while robbing banks and convenience stores in the Lehigh Valley, Warren County and beyond was sentenced to 11 years and three months in federal prison.

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In October 2008, Treecycle owners Robert and Mary Taggart pledged to keep noise in check at their Plainfield Township manufacturing plant.

Tom Houser can spin history any way he wants. His attempt to lay the blame on a now-deceased attorney, James G. Kellar, as the responsible party for allowing the Chrin landfill to stop paying a business privilege tax in 1988 is feeble at best.

Tim Lubenesky, curator of Arms for the Pennsylvania Longrifle Museum of the Jacobsburg Historical Society, discusses rifle making.

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Richard and Robert Holland sit outside District Judge Adrian Masut's office after a preliminary hearing.

The civil lawsuit against Christopher Young, show here in 2003 with his dog Keno, has been dismissed, records say.

Brush cutting, drainage work and shoulder widening are planned in parts of Northampton County this week, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

Crews are working to upright at truck that overturned on Route 33 South this morning.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection understands this, too, but the state has had much more experience dealing with coal mines than slate quarries.

Police in Plainfield Township say six wrecks, albeit relatively minor, were reported this morning in a two-hour span during the beginning of the morning commute.

Opening arguments in the trial of alleged murderer Donald O'Grady are set to begin 9 a.m. Monday in state Superior Court.

A New Columbia man was killed in a one-vehicle crash that closed the left southbound land of Interstate 81 in Southmiddleton Township for more than three hours Sunday.

When Paul Wagner comes home each day from Northampton Area High School, he has to feed his steer.