Coaldale News

Heavy storms swept through parts of Schuylkill and Carbon counties Saturday afternoon bringing inches of rain and flooding some area roads.

Numerous charges are pending against two people who may have been under the influence when they crashed a half-loaded, 26-foot U-Haul truck into two utility poles and a flatbed trailer along Route 209 in Coaldale in the early hours of Saturday morning, then fled the scene.

Coaldale, Tamaqua and Lansford are suing a Lackawanna County firm that they say reneged on a deal that had promised substantial savings by leasing street lights from PPL and kept hundreds of thousands of dollars the struggling towns paid them up-front for the project.

Joseph W. Oliver Jr., 38, of Jim Thorpe, charged by state police at Lehighton with three counts of sexual abuse of children - possession Bruce Lee Hawk Jr., 41, of Ashfield, is facing charges of aggravated and simple assault and driving under the influence of a controlled substance filed by state police at Lehighton.

Dawn M. Schlein was granted a divorce from Robert H. Schlein III, both of Pine Grove.

Estate of Mildred Miller, by co-executors Robert and Virginia Allesch, of Hazleton, property at 29 Purnell Avenue, Hometown, Rush Township, $1 . Ronald and Virginia A. Matalock, New Philadelphia, to Gerald F. and Patricia A.Weiss, Wayne Township, Lot 440 in Lake Wynonah Subdivision, Wayne Township, $9,000. Samuel W. Geissinger Jr., Ryan Township, ... (more)