Lansford News

An eastern Pennsylvania man sentenced to death in the April 2003 shooting deaths of a local disc jockey and a friend in a botched robbery attempt has won a new trial.

A building which holds a lot of memories for some is coming down in Carbon County to make way for senior citizen housing.

A house in Schuylkill County was hit by fire Thursday morning. The blaze broke out around 5:30 a.m. at the home in the 100 block of Orwigsburg Street in Tamaqua.

An early-morning fire swept through three row homes in Tamaqua today. The fire was reported at 5:25 a.m. at 132 Orwigsburg St.

Visit the haunted No. 9 mine this weekend! © No. 9 Mine, 2009 In celebration of Halloween, members of the Panther Creek Valley Foundation are busy preparing for the first annual 'No. 9 Haunted Mine' tours on Saturday and Sunday October 17 and 18 in Lansford.

The Carbon/Schuylkill Community Theatre announces auditions for the November "Cabaret Evening" and the December holiday show, "Santa Goes Green." Needed for "Santa Goes Green" are children ages 8 and up who are not afraid to sing and dance, as well as teens and adults of any age, who will be singing, dancing, or "moving." The role of Santa is ...

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mantz on their wedding day. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mantz of Coaldale will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary on Sept.

A church built in 1850 by Welsh coal miners who settled in the USA has been badly damaged by fire.

FILE PHOTO The former St. Ann's convent and school in Lansford. Plans to convert a former Lansford Catholic school into apartments for low-income seniors and to tear down an adjacent Queen Anne Victorian-style convent moved forward on Tuesday.

An eastern Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on homicide charges in the 2007 disappearance of his wife.

Flames can be seen through the windows of the former Welsh Congregational Church in Lansford.

Yet another thread has unraveled in the complex weave of events surrounding a Lansford business services firm.

BOB FORD/TIMES NEWS A sign on the door of the former All Staffing Inc. in Lansford warns those not authorized by the new owners to stay out.

A Carbon County couple charged with defrauding more than a dozen companies out of millions of dollars is facing a lawsuit.

AMY ZUBEK/TIMES NEWS The former English Congregational Church, Lansford, has changed hands again, this time sold by the Missouri man who bought it at auction in June to a Coptic Christian organization led by Bishop Zakaria Botros.

CHRIS PARKER/TIMES NEWS A Lansford police cruiser turns onto Patterson Street from Coal Street.

CHRIS PARKER/TIMES NEWS Daniel Bird of Coaldale asks council to allow the formation of a Quick Response Service in the borough.

BOB FORD/TIMES NEWS Ernest Troy Freeby talks to reporters, with his mother, Patricia Joy Gordon, behind him at his arraignment Tuesday on a charge of homicide in the death of his wife, Edwina Atieno Onyango, in December 2007.

Soon after learning Ernest Troy Freeby's wife mysteriously disappeared, state police in January 2008 found fresh, stain-blocking green paint on top of blood spots in areas of the basement of his Lansford home .

Soon after learning Ernest Troy Freeby's wife mysteriously disappeared, state police in January 2008 found fresh, stain-blocking green paint on top of blood spots in areas of the basement of his Lansford home .