Smithfield News

A New Jersey man testified his eye was dislodged from its socket after he was kicked in the head outside a Fayette County bar, causing him to suffer permanent vision loss.

Lower Macungie officials for years have argued they've been able to spare residents a municipal property tax in part by relying on state police to patrol township roads.

But state police coverage would cost Lower Macungie nearly $2 million a year and North Whitehall nearly $1.5 million if a western Pennsylvania lawmaker gets his way.

Contending that those townships and others have been pushing their expenses onto the rest of the state, Rep. John E. Pallone, D-Westmoreland, is proposing a bill that would charge municipalities with more than 10,000 people $100 per resident per year for state police help.

About 40 people, including five Boy Scouts and their leaders, attended the tying of a ceremonial ribbon Thursday to symbolize the preservation and continued use of a 4,000-acre Resica Falls public area in ...

Aaron Wagle wanted to be a police officer as long as he can remember. "My mom would bring me to Monongahela to shop, and I wanted to be a Monongahela police officer," the Fallowfield Township Officer-in-Charge ...

A nonprofit Fayette County economic development agency is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the people responsible for stealing about 400 feet of steel rails from ...

Many who visit the Shawnee-Delaware area share a sense of awe and wonder for the natural beauty of our surroundings.

A Smithfield man this morning filed a federal lawsuit against Fayette County Children and Youth Services alleging that the agency removed his children from him -- and has forbidden contact with them for nearly ...

A Fayette County garbage collector who has been barred from seeing his children for more than a year for having a sexual tryst with their 16-year-old babysitter will have to wait at least another week for any ...

A Fayette County man who admits to consensual sex with his children's 16-year-old baby sitter has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit seeking to prevent the county Children and Youth Services from placing his ...

An estimated 5,000 fish were killed this week when a Franconia Township meat rendering plant accidentally discharged waste into Skippack Creek -- the latest in a string of environmental problems with the company, state regulators said.

A plugged line at Moyer Packing Co. resulted in a plume of rendering waste that stretched more than a mile downstream from the plant off Allentown Road, said Dennis Harney, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection.

About 20 to 30 gallons of waste a minute escaped into the creek for nearly 10 hours before the leak was discovered and crews were able to stanch it Tuesday morning, Harney said. Sunfish, smallmouth bass and bullheads were among the fish that died.

MINISINK HILLS &#8212 The public will get its first opportunity Wednesday to question the developer of a proposed 53-bed acute-care hospital in Smithfield Township.

The Smithfield Rotary Club will sponsor a health-awareness screening from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday at the community center on Water Street in Smithfield.

A senior project earned one Albert Gallatin Area High School graduate a top grade and resulted in a book she aspires to share with Fayette County foster children.

A Hopwood man was found guilty Wednesday by a Fayette County jury of third-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in the August 2005 death of 20-year-old April Lincoln.

So it's dampish this morning and you have to go back to work. Meanwhile we had the best three days of weather maybe in the last 10 years, the parade in Stroudsburg Monday was a lot of fund, and it was a pretty ...

The Marshalls Creek Bypass has two billboards with no road to call home. Two large signs built for motorists alongside the planned Marshalls Creek Bypass stand empty, off in the distance by Route 209.

A Fayette County man wanted for allegedly raping a woman in his Georges Township home surrendered to state police Tuesday.

State and federal regulators may let Middle Smithfield Township do along Pond Creek what it can't do in Bushkill: Expand sewage treatment capacity.

Governor Edward G. Rendell today released a list of the 1,145 state bridges that will be repaired under his Rebuild Pennsylvania initiative and urged the General Assembly to quickly approve his plan in order to ...

An 18-year-old driver was killed Tuesday when his car collided with a truck at 5:28 p.m. in Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, state police at Swiftwater said.