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By 2012, table games could increase Pennsylvania's annual casino-gambling revenue 30 percent, or $976 million, spur nearly $1 billion in economic impact, and create more than 16,000 jobs, according to a report presented yesterday to state lawmakers.

JOE PLASKO/TIMES NEWS Summerfest goers flocked to the Tamaqua Historical Society Museum at 118 West Broad Street to view exhibits such as this one which recreates the look of a general store.

It was a case of cultural differences. But a stabbing in this country, for whatever reason, is still against the law.

A third suspect allegedly involved in a break-in at an elderly woman's home in April was nabbed Tuesday outside a Denver hotel.

The owners of the Park Place Diner, formally Zinn's Diner, want the statue of an Amish Man, Amos, returned to Denver, Lancaster County.

Meifung Trinh is a combination of two qualities not always found in the same person.

Between 2000 and 2008, fares at Pittsburgh International Airport dropped from an average of $430.42 to $327.34, or nearly 24 percent, one of the biggest declines in the country.

A Lancaster County man admitted to police that he used heroin a short time before the pickup truck he was driving hit and killed a pedestrian on the Fifth Street Highway in Muhlenberg Township, according to testimony at his preliminary hearing Thursday.

Freeman's will be busy next week with two catalog sales: one devoted to rare books, maps, prints, and autographs; the next for a private collection that will partly benefit the Fox Chase Cancer Center.

State police in DuBois reported a fatal accident that occurred on Friday night on US Route 322.

Four people were injured about 2 p.m. Friday when the vehicle they were riding in rolled over in the 900 block of Smokestown Road in East Cocalico Township, according to a news release by East Cocalico police.

Two red cross volunteers are shipping off, heading to West Virginia to help flood victims.

A man driving his pickup truck the wrong way on Route 222 in Spring Township caused a head-on collision that sent three people to Reading Hospital, police said Saturday.

An Arkansas-based telecom giant has agreed to buy D&E Communications for $330 million, it was announced today.

Dan Morphy has come full circle and bought back the operating assets of Morphy Auctions.

A Mt. Pleasant Township woman whose DNA was used to identify her as the driver in a fatal drunken-driving accident entered into a plea bargain Thursday that spares her a three-year mandatory sentence, but she still faces at least 90 days in jail.

The former Silk City Diner, 1640 N. Reading Road, Denver, is on track to reopen in early June as Kyma Seafood Grill.

What it means, and why it's a good thing: In its simplest form, transit-oriented development means that if you want to build up neighborhoods and businesses, you have to recognize transit as a key element.

Reading Eagle A Lancaster County man has pleaded guilty to charges he robbed several stores and restaurants in Berks, Lancaster and Schuylkill counties after he was kicked out of a drug rehabilitation program.

A Denver man told a Lancaster County Judge Tuesday that his drug addiction led to a "nasty downward spiral" of robbery, theft and high-speed flights from police.