Effort News

In 2009, an explosion at Pazzazz Pet Boarding Kennel in Lehighton claimed the lives of 15 dogs.

A 27-year-old Effort woman was sent to Northampton County Prison today on charges she tried to obtain more than a hundred oxycodone pills from a local Wal-Mart with a fake prescription, police said.

The American chestnut once ranked as the most important wildlife plant in the eastern United States.

"I walked right by that boy," the Monroe County coroner said of last Sunday morning, when he was called to the area where rescuers found the remains of Corey Aaron Costenbader, 19, of Effort.

Two days before a state trooper found him submerged in 2 feet of water on Sunday in a drainage ditch along the southbound side of Route 33 in Hamilton Twp., Mr.

State police said they cited a city man for failing to drive at a safe speed in a two-vehicle crash along Route 322 south of the city that sent four people to the hospital Monday morning.

An autopsy is scheduled Monday on a teenager's body found along Route 33 here, submerged in a drainage ditch.

The body of a 19-year-old Effort man who fled after being struck by a vehicle on Route 33 in Hamilton Township Friday was found early Sunday in a nearby drainage ditch, said Monroe County Coroner Bob Allen.