Schuylkill County News

A family in Schuylkill County has a special reason to celebrate the Fourth of July.

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.

Authorities are calling the 1985 death of a Schuylkill County boy a homicide after scientists re-examined his exhumed body.

Police have a suspect in the 1985 killing of a 13-year-old boy whose body was found in a thicket months after he left home on a bicycle, a coroner said Thursday.

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

A man from Schuylkill County is accused of swindling more than $300,000 from more than two dozen people.

A Berks County business is trying to pick up the pieces this morning after a fire leaves it with nothing.

Two men are charged with using heroin and cocaine in the men's room of the Hometown Wal-Mart and with stealing several digital cameras, Rush Township police said.

Police in Schuylkill County are looking for the person who held up Shafer's Pharmacy in Tamaqua.

A dog breeder at the center of an I-Team Investigation has closed. But it's critics don't believe that's the end of Bulldog Ravine.

The Hazleton Area School District approved a $105 million budget for the 2008-09 fiscal year at a special school board meeting on Friday night.

Tons of canned goods were strewn on the ground after the latest tractor- trailer crash in a Schuylkill County community.

A Tamaqua man who admitted using a digital camera to take videos and still photographs of a girl sexually exposed and engaged in sex acts, then downloading them to his home computer, was sentenced today to 12 ...

State Police in Schuylkill County are investigating the theft of a classic car. The car, a 1932 Ford Roadster, was taken sometime last week from a home on West Market Street in North Manheim Township.

From staff reports After a brief hearing Thursday afternoon at the Schuylkill County Courthouse, Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin granted an injunction sought by a group of Ringtown-area residents to force North ...

A district judge today dismissed conspiracy charges against two owners of a Schuylkill County coal mine where a 2006 explosion killed a miner, but ordered them and another miner to face county court action on ...

They don't make sludge like they used to. Since the dawn of agriculture, farmers have used human waste to fertilize their fields.

Posted by MARCUS SCHNECK, The Patriot-News June 08, 2008 18:31PM Clarks Valley between Dauphin in Dauphin County and Tower City in Schuylkill County is a riot of bright colors just now.

HARRISBURG An economic impact study on the proposed cargo airport near Hazleton recommends developer Gladstone Partners LP have a commitment from an anchor tenant before the state commits funding.

The state Legislature should impose conditions on providing $250 million in state money for a proposed cargo airport outside Hazleton, a consultant concluded in a state report released Wednesday.