Ashland News

Local police officers reacted cautiously, if at all, to the Dec. 15 announcement of the indictment of four Shenandoah policemen on federal charges.

Mrs. T's employees helped bring Christmas to a Schuylkill County family devastated by a fire this month.

Rifle, other items stolen from home Someone broke into a Hazle Township home between Tuesday night and Wednesday night and stole numerous items, state police at Hazleton said.

ITT Industries/Goulds Pumps is now Ashland Foundry and Machine Works following the sale of the plant that has employed local workers for more than a century.

As would be expected, Santa Claus didn't mind the cold temperatures Saturday evening in downtown Ashland, and neither did most people who came out for Old-Fashioned Christmas.

On the computer screen is a Microsoft Robotics program used to develop the software instructions to move the robot through a wireless controller.

The cause of a massive fire that damaged several homes and a business on Dec. 2 remains under investigation.

Dale Chubb spent four months pinned in at a bunker at Khe Sanh, the bloodiest battlefield in the Vietnam War.

A fast-moving fire Wednesday destroyed a borough business and seven homes and left at least eight people homeless.

At least one man was flown to the hospital after fire ripped through several buildings Wednesday morning in Ashland.

Firefighters are battling a fire in the 1300 block of Centre Street. As of noon, fire has destroyed five buildings and is threatening the Drunken Monkey Bar & Grill.

In this Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, photo, Michael Rader, of Ashland, Pa., looks over small electronics at Best Buy in Mechanicsburg, Pa.

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The state budget that took more than 100 days past its deadline to enact includes major cuts in funding to a key project-funding agency, the Department of Community and Economic Development.

Richard Earl Christensen, 78, passed away Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at Crystal Care Center of Ashland after a lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease.

Ralph S. Aucker Jr., 56, of 126 W. Broad St., Elizabethville, has been charged by Patrolman Mark Adams with driving under the influence of alcohol and traffic violations relating to a Sept.

OFFICE BASICS ACQUIRES TEAM OFFICE PRODUCTS Office Basics Inc. has acquired Team Office Products, creating the largest office product company in the Lehigh Valley area.

A Pennsylvania man charged in a hunting mishap that cost a Granby man part of his leg was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to felony aggravated assault.

Tyler Troutman doesn't always do what's expected of him. The 22-year-old from Ashland, Pa.

The Ashland Area Historic Preservation Society will host "Picnic in the Backyard" at 6 p.m. Wednesday at its headquarters, 316-318 Centre St.