A man from the Poconos was in court Monday on charges he drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl.

"The Vagina Monologues," the critically acclaimed play written by Eve Ensler, will be presented by students, faculty and staff members at East Stroudsburg University at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in the Abeloff Center for the Performing Arts.

An 18-year-old female cadet at Northwestern Academy has been charged by Coal Township police with breaking the nose of an academy employee, hitting another worker and spitting on a third staff member last month.

It wasn't exactly Moses parting the Red Sea, but to local sports enthusiasts, it's heaven-sent. A guardrail no longer blocks the entrance to one of the area's best-kept recreational secrets, the Levee Loop Trail on the Memorial Bridge linking Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg.

An organization in Monroe County that hundreds depend on for food opened its doors at a new, much larger location.

A furniture store building destroyed in an arson fire in November may have been started by three males seen running away as state police arrived, according to a notice from Monroe County Crime Stoppers.

There is a long distance in both time and place from the origins of fencing in ancient Egypt to the formalized art now practiced in the gym of the East Stroudsburg Salvation Army.

Pocono Business Journal, an award-winning voice of the local business community based in East Stroudsburg, will end its monthly publication with the February issue.

Q: About 20 years ago I stumbled on to a site in Bushkill, Lehman Township area, that was right out of a fairy tale or movie set.

In East Stroudsburg, Police say they arrested two men for robbery after a masked man driving a car aroused an officer's suspicions.

Toyota fans, don't fret. The news is not as dire as it sounds. Toyota Motor Sales USA suspended sales and production of some of its top-selling models to fix faulty gas pedals that could stick.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak is coming to East Stroudsburg tonight for a "kitchen call" event with the public.

The driver of a tractor trailer was killed Wednesday when his rig ran off the side of the highway, submerging the cab in a river.

Justin M. Ogle, no age or address given, is charged with using a fraudulent $20 bill to pay for a large, stuffed-crust cheese pizza Sunday at Pizza Hut in East Stroudsburg.

Judy Sutliff of East Stroudsburg Veterinary Hospital comforts Patrick, a 3-year-old orange tabby cat whose right rear foot was injured and needed to be amputated due to infection.

New home construction permits have dropped into the basement in Monroe County, as one might expect in a recession.

Chris Bower, a pipe foreman with LSR cuts an existing water main in order to attach a new section of pipe as they work toward completing a water main replacement project under Analomink Street in East Stroudsburg on Wednesday, Jan.

As help begins to arrive in earthquake-shaken Haiti, Pocono residents are getting word about their relatives.

Police need your help locating the man who shot a Westtown East Goshen police officer around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday night.

More than two years ago, allegations that a powerful East Stroudsburg University administrator had sexually assaulted a student landed on the desk of Arthur Breese.