Hazleton News

Hazleton native Joe Farley teamed up with fellow Harrisburg area resident Joe Farrell to write "Keystone Tombstones: Volume One" , a travelog detailing the grave sites of some of the state's most well-known people.

The Hershey Co. announced some good news for the environment today: three of its factories are now certified "Zero-Waste-to-Landfill" . The designation means routine manufacturing waste has been eliminated from landfill disposal, the company says.

Feb. 09 - With plastic pipe and heavy canvas, Paul Kattner is creating comfy beds for area shelter dogs.

BARRE A jury Thursday night found in favor of ZenoPharma Inc., allowing the pharmaceutical company to expand a quarry in Wisawe Township and increase the supply of algae used in revolutionary medical adhesive.

The Nanticoke City Police Department is seeking the public's help in locating a man accused in a city burglary and suspected of using stolen credits cards in stores in Hazleton.

Timothy C. Hillman, 38, of Bodle Road, Kingston Township, was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and terroristic threats.

Two men suspected in the robberies of several convenience stores in Schuylkill and Carbon counties were arrested Monday on unrelated charges stemming from a high-speed chase Sunday night.

Police in Schuylkill County are holding two 18-year-olds who they think may be able to help them solve a recent rash of market robberies.

ELLEN O'CONNELL / TIMES-SHAMROCK Casimiro De Cusatis, left and Domizio De Cusatis, members of the Italian Sister Cities delegation visiting the Hazleton area, look at the Stations of the Cross while touring St.

HAZLETON The theft of copper pipe during a break-in at a house at 70 Wilson Drive caused several thousand dollars in damage, police said.

Hazleton Boy Scout Troop 790 was supposed to go camping this weekend, but someone stole all of their equipment from a trailer parked on Cedar Street.

They responded to a newspaper and Internet advertising campaign launched by the city for filling the police chief's post, which officially opens when Robert Ferdinand retires on March 29.

Police said a "cutting instrument" was used during a fight in a lavatory at Hazleton Area's Ninth Grade Center just before noon Wednesday, sending one boy to a local hospital and another into police custody.

In the Diocese of Scranton, efforts are underway to turn a former church in Hazleton into something that will once again serve the... A former pastor is locked up in Monroe County, accused of killing his second wife and staging a car accident to cover his tracks.

Hazleton, Luzene County-- A woman whose home was stormed by three masked men,one carrying a gun, says she can't believe what Hazleton has come to.

Two "bartenders" face charges in connection with a Hazleton speakeasy that was raided in November by agents with the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement.

PLAINS TWP. Township police said they arrested Cory David Loftus, 19, on charges he assaulted his mother and brother in their residence on Rose Lane on Sunday.

George Irizarry gets more than strange looks when people see him carrying a gun in a holster on his hip in Hazleton.

ERIC CONOVER / times-shamrock U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Hazleton, talks about his first year in Washington, D.C., at his Hazleton office.

A man Hazleton police believe stabbed another on a city street with a kitchen knife early Saturday morning was arrested.