Swiftwater News

So officials are saying an immunization campaign to protect against the swine flu pandemic could involve as many as 600 million doses of vaccine.

A fundraiser is underway Monday in the Poconos for the family of a fallen state trooper.

Armed robberies, assaults, drug deals, fights, loitering and harassing passers-by. These are ways in which gangs negatively impact a community's quality of life.

A thief at a local wedding apparently thought it was better to receive than give.

A slice of pizza with anchovies and a diet Pepsi topped off with a splash of Cherry Pepsi.

The family of State Police Trooper Joshua Miller issued a statement Wednesday to thank everyone for their support.

A fire marshal is at the scene of a basement fire that happened last night in Courthouse Square.

A routine traffic stop in the Poconos turned into a drug bust after police pulled over a car for driving too close to another.

Two men are behind bars in Monroe County after cops say they found heroin in their car during a traffic stop.

Pennsylvania State Police Troopers stand at attention as the casket of Trooper Joshua Miller is carried into Pittston Area High School.

A robber with a box-cutter knife attempted to rob a gas station on Route 209 in Monroe County this morning, according to state police at Swiftwater.

Light raindrops fell as hundreds of people began lining up Thursday outside Pittston Area High School for the viewing of Trooper Joshua Miller.

Pocono Mountain Charter School serves as a million-dollar profit center for its chief, a school district attorney argued Wednesday night at a hearing into revoking the charter for the school.

Police arrested an East Stroudsburg man and charged him with using a box cutter to rob a Stroudsburg gas station on Tuesday morning.

How did the man killed in Sunday night's shootout with state troopers in Tobyhanna get a handgun when he wasn't supposed to have any weapons with a protection from abuse order filed against him? After his wife filed a May 18 PFA against him, Daniel Autenrieth, 31, of Palmer Township, threatened her at gunpoint Sunday, kidnapped their 9-year-old son ...

SWIFTWATER, PA Captain James Murtin looks on solemnly as Colonel Frank Pawlowski, commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, addresses the press regarding the death of State Trooper Joshua Miller after a 40-mile car chase Sunday night that ended with a gunfight on Route 611 in Coolbaugh Township.

A police chase in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains ended Sunday evening with a shootout that left a suspect dead and two state troopers wounded, police said.

SWIFTWATER, Pa. ??? A man who kidnapped his 9-year-old son in northeastern Pennsylvania led police on a 40-mile chase that ended in a crash and an exchange of gunfire that killed him and a state trooper, state police said today.

Police officers in northeastern Pennsylvania rescued a 9-year-old boy who had been kidnapped by his father as a fatal gun battle erupted between the man and state troopers, authorities said Monday.

Pocono Mountain Regional Police Chief Harry Lewis has confirmed that a male suspect has been fatally wounded, following a high-speed chase that originated in Nazareth borough and ended in Tobyhanna.