Bangor News

The Bangor Area School Board tonight approved a random drug testing policy for all of its employees, but it won't go into effect unless the teachers union agrees to it.

Northampton County Democrats appear to have chosen Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan as their pick for the next county executive.

The Easton Area School District has chosen a retired school administrator to serve as its interim superintendent.

An Easton man was charged with disorderly conduct Wedensday morning after he allegedly exposed himself and cursed at police officers, urinated on police paperwork, and threatened a district judge.

According to an agenda released on the Easton Area School District's website, the board will vote Tuesday to appoint John Reinhart , a former Bangor Area School District superintendent, as its new interim superintendent.

It's taken a year to assemble all the exhibits, but the Slate Belt Heritage Center will reopen next week.

In response to a number of inquiries concerning the status of various projects, state Rep.

Bill Cohea, Columcille founder, with the May Queen and Bard at Thor's Gate during a Bealtainne Celebration at Columcille Megalith Park near Bangor.

A New Jersey businessman and a Pike County trucking company face charges of illegally dumping contaminated Bronx, N.Y., soil in two locations in Wind Gap and Bangor, Pennsylvania state authorities said.

A New Jersey man and three trucking companies are charged with illegally dumping contaminated soil in two Northampton County municipalities, Pennsylvania's attorney general announced today.

A Bangor Area School District maintenance worker accused of stealing from the district assaulted his wife on their way home from the attorney's office Monday, according to court records.

Bethlehem police called to a home Friday afternoon saw a 56-year-old hepatitis C-positive man sexually assault a 4-year-old child in a back yard, court records say.

The president of the Bangor Area School District teachers union says teachers appear receptive to an unprecedented proposal for random drug testing.