Schuylkill Haven News

After a historic six months, the county commissioners plan to stick around for the long haul.

The Schuylkill County coroner said Friday police have a suspect in the death of a 13-year-old boy and expect to make an arrest in a few weeks.

The Schuylkill County coroner has ruled the death of a Schuylkill County boy a homicide.

The death of a boy who disappeared Aug. 21, 1985, after riding his bicycle in his hometown of Schuylkill Haven was a homicide, Schuylkill County's coroner has ruled.

A fire that destroyed a shed Monday night in South Lebanon Township remains under investigation.

A plan to build a convenience store, gas pumps, car wash and fast food restaurant in the Hometown area of Rush Township has gotten the approval of the township Zoning Hearing Board.

Electricity customers worried about skyrocketing rates when price caps expire starting in 2010 for PPL Corp. and other utilities only have to look at a handful of neighboring communities to see what it's like to deal with hefty increases.

For people who live in Lehighton, Quakertown, Perkasie, Kutztown, Lansdale, Weatherly, Hatfield, Schuylkill Haven and St. Clair -- all of which have municipal-run electric utilities from which they use profits to fund borough operations -- hefty increases are already a fact of life.

BUTLER TWP. Township police arrested a 45-year-old McAdoo man while he was attempting to purchase a firearm on Saturday, according to a police news release.

By Bud Angst A Schuylkill County jury - ' six men, six women - ' took two hours last Thursday to acquit a Pine Grove man who exercised control of his girl friend by wrapping her up head-to-toe "like a mummy" in ...

With the annual Fourth of July celebration fast approaching, Jim Thorpe has completed almost $80,000 in renovations to the pavilion at its Memorial Park and will spend $14,450 for a new gazebo there.

Rush Township supervisors have agreed to abandon part of a street, enabling a developer to tear down an old warehouse and build a convenience store, restaurant and car wash near Routes 54 and 309.

By Bud Angst Despite strong opposition from residents of the area in or near the flight path, developers are proceeding with plans to construct a so-called "cargo airport" in the Hazleton area.

By L.A. TARONE Staff Writer The Hazleton City Authority will vigorously oppose a planned extension of Route 424 into the Humboldt Industrial Park if the road takes either of two proposed routes that run through ...

Investigators talk with personnel at a Turkey Hill convenience store in Mount Carmel, the site of an armed robbery Tuesday evening.

By Bud Angst The Schuylkill County Salary Board's meeting of last week featured a clash between former Sheriff, now- Commissioner Frank McAndrew and Controller Melinda Kantner over the lack of a "chief deputy" ...

As the Call & Press-Herald went to press this week, the Schuylkill County commissioners were set to approve grant applications for well over $3-million in federal funds for STS, the Schuylkill Transportation ...

The start of the school day was delayed Friday for hundreds of students in Schuylkill County.

A Schuylkill County developer hopes to turn a former trucking facility and warehouse at the busy Hometown crossroads of Routes 309 and 54 in Rush Township into a combination gas service station, restaurant and ...

Vandalism to school buses caused a pair of school delays Friday morning. State police from Schuylkill Haven said someone let the air out of 17 tires on 10 buses.

By Bud Angst Schuylkill County taxpayers will pay an estimated $15,000 to repair an Ashland property damaged during the County's demolition of an adjacent property.