East Stroudsburg News

Michael Millan of Hughesville was charged with public drunkenness early Sunday morning in the area of South Main and Ross streets.

Tomora Ellis, left, and her husband Dr. Garey Ellis, listen as Sharon Laverdure, superintendent of the East Stroudsburg Area School District answers one of their questions during an informal school budget workshop session held on Saturday at the district's Carl T. Secor Administrative Center in East Stroudsburg on Saturday, February 11, 2012.

Justin Ronney Burke, 20, was the passenger in a car stopped for suspected DUI on Crystal Street in East Stroudsburg.

Smithfield Township, PA - On January 27, a family cat named Mofu, from the Lake Vahala neighborhood near East Stroudsburg, escaped from his home.

Three men in a U-Haul were seen rooting around railroad tracks Wednesday afternoon on Forge Road in East Stroudsburg near Iridium Industries, Stroud Area Regional Police said.

Someone is attacking cats in the Poconos. Monroe County's Humane Officer is investigating at least four cat killings and a cat attack in Lake Valhalla.

A lone swan plies the waters of the Brodhead Creek near Mill Creek Road in East Stroudsburg on Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

Luzerne County Community College President Thomas P. Leary said the institution will do all it can to maintain tuition rates.

Governor Tom Corbett presented his state budget proposal in Harrisburg Tuesday, asking for cuts in state spending and no new taxes.

A little more than one year ago a young man`s dream went up in flames in the Poconos.

The humane officer of Monroe County began with an investigation of at least one case of animal abuse in a community near East Stroudsburg.

An East Strousburg man with an arrest warrant was taken into custody on Monday after a county detectice saw him walking down the street.

Zachary Dougher, 19, of Stroudsburg, was paroled Monday after pleading guilty to criminal mischief in the April arson fire that destroyed the Stroudsburg Little League field house in Stroud Township.

From left, East Stroudsburg South students and graduates Adela Torres, 17; Aliza Khawaja, 18; Shaiza Khawaja, 17; Atiba Khan, 19; Aalih Hussein, 18; and Adriana Torres, 16, will appear on a PBS documentary about the book 'Half the Sky' by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof.

Pocono children whose parents make the long commute to jobs in New York City often find themselves taking on adult responsibilities.

Loving all things New York Giants Robert and Sue Engle have been counting the days until the Super Bowl.

Paul Brandenburg, project manager for the new cancer center at Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg, takes a look out of the windows facing East Brown Street and the hospital connected by a pedestrian walkway on Friday.

Chef Dan Rothman, left, and culinary freelanceer Ivee Stephens work to teach kids at Smithfield Elementary about healthy eating on Jan.

* Jay Meyerhoff, 30, of Milford, to one to three years for trying to avoid payment on a dental service in Palmyra Township in April.

Already serving state prison time in two other cases, a former East Stroudsburg man pleaded guilty Tuesday to punching a Monroe County Correctional Facility guard and was immediately sentenced to six months to two years in state prison.