Blakeslee News

STROUDSBURG &#8212 A judge at the end of a Wednesday hearing found sufficient evidence to send a Blakeslee man to trial on charges of fatally shooting another Blakeslee man, an act the defendant said was done ...

Part of Interstate 80 is down to one lane after a tractor-trailer and a garbage truck crashed in Carbon County.

There are just two days until the checkered flag flies at the Pennsylvania 500 and the track is already packed.

The organizers of a West End crime watch group say the problem has become too large for citizens to remain on the sidelines in the battle against crime.

A 77-year-old grandmother from Monroe County is recovering at home after she pinned down a rabid fox that bit her, and held it until help arrived.

There has been an arrest in a homicide case. Police in Monroe County confirm that a suspect will be arraigned shortly for the homicide of Steven Santillo of Blakeslee.

The oldest section of Interstate 80 &#8212 the part that cuts through Monroe County &#8212 would get $267 million worth of repairs during the first 10 years of a plan proposed by the Pennsylvania Turnpike ...

A 77-year-old grandmother is recovering at home after she pinned down a rabid fox that bit her and held it until help arrived.

"Multiple gunshot wounds" are the cause and "homicide" is the manner of the death of Steven Richard Santillo, the Blakeslee man found dead Thursday morning in the middle of a remote intersection in Chestnuthill ...

A Monroe County man was slain and his body found sprawled in the middle of a remote road by a motorist driving to work in Chestnuthill Township Thursday morning, officials said.

The crime scene resembled a shooting, but officials would not comment on how Steven Richard Santillo, 46, of Blakeslee was killed.

The motorist found Santillo about 5:30 a.m. at the intersection of Hypsie Gap and Laurel roads, state police at Fern Ridge said.

The road was closed about four hours but after it was reopened there were more than a dozen small circles on the pavement, which typically indicate where bullet casings are found.

State Police say they're treating the death of a man in Monroe County as a case of criminal homicide.

An autopsy is planned on the body of a Blakeslee man found in a remote Monroe County intersection.

Outline of spot where Santillo's body was found on Hypsie Gap Road, Chestnuthill Township on Thursday morning, July 10.

Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a suspicious death in Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County.

Stratford Park doesn't have fields or a playground, but to its West Bethlehem neighbors, it's valued open space.

Four Pocono Mountain-area teenagers have been diagnosed with osteosarcoma since 2006 - and their families want to know if the cancers are a result of a cluster or a coincidence, The Times Tribune reported ...

The University of Scranton held graduation ceremonies in May. Lynn M. Stetler of Douglassville and Julie T. Spencer of Macungie both received doctorate degrees in physical therapy.

Burglars broke into McGinley's Trail Side Lodge on Route 115 in Blakeslee in the early morning hours of June 26.

The following appeared before Pocono Pines Magisterial District Judge Richard Claypool and will head to Monroe County Court: Michael Leroy Belanger, 19, of Long Pond, placed in Monroe County Correctional ...

PennDOT reports lane restrictions on the following roads in Carbon County: Blakeslee Boulevard in Mahoning Township, between Mill Road and Freddricks Grove Road, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 23-27. Lake Drive in ...