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19 hrs ago | AllAccess.com

10 Nassau Stations Go To NB Broadcasting LLC

Ten NASSAU BROADCASTING stations in NEW JERSEY and PENNSYLVANIA are being sold in bankruptcy to NB BROADCASTING LLC, headed by DOUGLAS A. PLUSS, for a credit bid of $38.7 million plus $1,633,890 for administrative costs and assumption of liabilities.

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Sat May 26, 2012

Customer Interaction Solutions

BRIEF: Husband, wife found dead in home

May 27, 2012 -- State police at Lehighton said the deaths of a Nesquehoning couple at their 144 W. Railroad St.

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Pocono Record

Route 33 north closed; other Pocono roads experiencing flash flooding -

Route 33 North is closed from mile marker 23 to mile marker 25, between the Snydersville and Lehighton exits, due to severe flooding Saturday afternoon.

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Pocono Record

Assault suspect dives into Lehigh River to escape arrest, police say -

A Lehigh Township man assaulted his girlfriend Thursday morning on a Route 248 drive from Weissport to East Penn Township, police said.

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Times News

The 2012 Senior Games experience

The word "stamina" is defined as Staying Power; endurance. During the 2012 senior games in Lehighton these past two weeks this word took on a form of its own as I watched seniors participate outside on a raw, cloudy ominous morning last Monday.

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Fri May 25, 2012

WNEP-TV Moosic

Parking Warning at Beltzville

We found state workers busy at the state park near Lehighton. People were trimming trees, loading the limbs and even cutting the grass.

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Wed May 23, 2012

Times News

Lehighton man gets jail time for...

A Lehighton man was sentenced to a Carbon County jail term on Tuesday for beating to death a dog and then threatening a person who witnessed the act.

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Tue May 22, 2012

Pocono Record

Three injured in Ross Township crash

The crash happened at around 4:30 p.m. State police at Lehighton said the driver of a Subaru Impreza - Emilia Valente, 19, of Kresgeville - failed to negotiate a curve while driving eastbound on Kunkletown Road.

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Times News

Lehighton borough workers move judges...

Lehighton Borough workers moved the stand Monday morning to the corner of Iron and Eighth streets, from its former location along Seventh Street.

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Sat May 19, 2012

WFMZ

Woman rescued from state park

According to crews at the scene, the woman was climbing the falls when she fell and needed to be rescued.

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Times News

Americanism essays recognized in...

Gail Maholick/TIMES NEWS Lehighton area students were recognized for winning first place in their age category in the Shoemaker-Haydt American Legion Auxiliary Unit 314, Lehighton, Americanism essay contest.

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Times News

Community Days kick off

Lehighton Community Days opened Friday night with a special presentation to Jacob Vargson, for his winning design on the back of the Lehighton Bike Night T-shirt. Vargson, a student at Carbon Career and Technical Institute and Lehighton Area High School, was awarded $100 by the Lehighton Downtown Initiative Committee.

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Fri May 18, 2012

Times News

Six placed in probation program

Six first time offenders in the criminal justice system were placed in Carbon County's Accelerated Rehabiliation Disposition probation progam on Thursday morning by Judge Steven R. Serfass.

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Thu May 17, 2012

Times News

Carbon Bar Assoc. begins referral...

STACEY SOLT/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS The Carbon County Bar Association recently launched a lawyer referral service and Modest Means Program to help local residents in need of legal services.

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Wed May 16, 2012

Times News

Carbon County property transfers

Carolyn S. Henry to Carolyn S. Henry, 67 Berwick St., P.O. Box 217, Beaver Meadows, property at 65-67 Berwick St., $1. Kenneth J. Clark to Vincent P. Stasik, 465 Lower Nis Hollow Drive, Lehighton, property at 465 Lower Nis Hollow Drive, $174,000. Robert A. Slaw Jr.

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Sat May 12, 2012

Patch.com

Details of Post-Dorney Park School Bus Crash Released

State police from the Fogelsville barracks have released details of a crash involving a Pennridge Regional School District bus and a sedan at Hamilton Boulevard/Route 222 and the onramp to Interstate 78 in Lower Macungie Township Friday.

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Tue May 08, 2012

Times News

Busy trial week

Joseph W. Oliver Jr., 38, of Jim Thorpe, charged by state police at Lehighton with three counts of sexual abuse of children - possession Bruce Lee Hawk Jr., 41, of Ashfield, is facing charges of aggravated and simple assault and driving under the influence of a controlled substance filed by state police at Lehighton.

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Sun May 06, 2012

WNEP-TV Moosic

Landmark Hotel Closing For Good

The owner of the Hotel Jonas in Monroe County says due to the tough financial times, he has no choice but to shutter the more than one hundred year old building.

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Sat May 05, 2012

Times News

No one dies alone - Jim Thorpe couple...

It was the heartbreaking loss of a little granddaughter that eventually led Betty and John Power to devote their time and care to bringing human warmth and comfort to people who are dying without family or friends to through the final hours.

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New Jersey Herald

2 killed in 1-car crash in eastern Pennsylvania

The Pocono Record says two males - a driver and his passenger - were killed when the car crashed into a tree near Borger's Speedway.

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