Jim Thorpe News

Picking the right lottery numbers is the toughest step. But Steps 2 and 3 are just as important: Realizing you've won and filing a claim.

Tribute bands are hot and you can see three this weekend in the Lehigh Valley. Joshua Tree performs ''The U2 Experience'' Friday at the State Theatre Easton.

Jim Thorpe from around 1910, Anna Nicole Smith in 2006 and Soupy Sales in 2005. Bill White November 12, 2009 In my dream, Jim Thorpe Borough Council called the public hearing to order.

Near the site where Flight 93 crashed Sept. 11, 2001, relatives, local residents, and dignitaries gather to break ground for a national park in Shanksville, Pa.

The borough of Jim Thorpe is a big tourist attraction in the Poconos, because of its famous namesake.

The grave of Jim Thorpe located in a park of North Street on the east side of Jim Thorpe, shown in January, 2001.

Relatives of legendary American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe are ready to go federal court to win the return of his body to Oklahoma.

Relatives of famed American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe plan to go to court to win the return of his body from a Pennsylvania town that changed its name to provide him a final resting place - even though he never set foot there.

John Shambo of Catasauqua is looking for a recipe for Pumpkin Soup. FOUND Myrald Cantley of Jim Thorpe sent in a Pumpkin Roll recipe for Donna Kollar of Allentown.

With 60 percent of the vote, Republican Steven Serfass defeated Democrat Carole Wildoner Walbert Tuesday to become Carbon County judge, according to unofficial returns.

Her 15-year-old daughter, Hillary, had been charged with harassment for creating a fake MySpace page that mocked an assistant principal at her school.

David C. Keller and wife Pamela have been getting calls and letters about run-down homes for the past two years.

LOOKING FOR Shane Victorino bobblehead: Carole of Allentown is looking for a Shane Victorino bobblehead figure that was a giveaway item at an IronPigs game.

Emergency personnel in Carbon County are searching Mauch Chunk Lake this afternoon after an overturned boat was discovered on the lake and a vehicle was found in the parking lot.

A measure signed into law Tuesday in New Jersey carries fines for drivers who fail to clean snow and ice from their vehicles.

A Fogelsville man was found dead Thursday afternoon in Mauch Chunk Lake in Carbon County after police and divers investigated an overturned boat in the water, authorities said.

The change of seasons provides us with some of Pennsylvania's prettiest pictures.

FLYING LESSONS What: Gateway Aviation offers introductory flight lessons and air tours When: By appointment, any day of the week, including sunrise or sunset tours Where: Gateway Aviation, 1730 Vultee St., Queen City Airport How much: An introductory half-hour flight lesson is $84 . Air tours are $143 per hour plus tax and can be as short as 12 ...

The plane departed from Gateway Aviation, Queen City Airport on Vultee Street in Allentown on Thursday October 8, 2009 and headed North toward the Jim Thorpe area.

A 40-year-old Lehighton area man charged Wednesday with raping a child might have fled to South Carolina or Florida , state police at Lehighton say.