Long Pond News

With supplies of donated blood running low this summer, the Red Cross is looking to the people of Monroe County to help refill supplies during a difficult donation season.

Thirty-six years ago, the country was embroiled in the Watergate scandal, Tony Orlando and Dawn topped the charts, and Michael Jackson played a concert in the Poconos.

Two men are behind bars in Monroe County after cops say they found heroin in their car during a traffic stop.

TOBYHANNA Alleged stalker jailed after ex-girlfriend reports assault A Monroe County man out on bail for stalking his ex-girlfriend was sent to jail Thursday on additional charges alleging he broke into her home and put a knife to her throat Thursday.

NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton addressed the media about double-file restarts at Pocono Raceway on Friday.

Police have charged a 24-year-old man with statutory sexual assault for allegedly impregnating a 15-year-old girl in 2008 when he was 23 years old.

It just isn't safe for man or beast anymore. Pocono Mountain Regional Police responded to a report of two beavers attempting to attack dogs living at a Kuhenbeaker Road in Long Pond home Saturday morning.

Monroe County Habitat for Humanity will celebrate the launch of its 13th home today.

Three months after busting an underage drinking party in Long Pond, police have charged two men for hosting the party and providing alcohol to minors.

Despite the economy, or maybe because of the economy, the movie business is doing well.

Monroe County's program to save land from development is running out of money. The original $25 million bond plus a $3.9 million supplement have been used to protect more than 12,000 acres.

Road rage doesn't begin to describe it. A crazed driver hit Joseph Percoco, flipping him onto the hood and speeding around the FedEx parking lot near Mount Pocono on Thursday morning.

Kareem Edward Haskins, 21, of Long Pond was arrested for Robbery, Firearms not to be carried w/o license, Theft, Receiving Stolen Property, Simple Assault, Conspiracy, Possessing instruments of crime, and Terroristic Threats on On Contribued photo March 28, 2009 Charged with robbing Tannersville and Pocono Summit convenience stores during the night ...

One man is going to jail and another is lucky to be alive after what police say was attempted murder by vehicle this morning.

A chunk of concrete that crashed through the windshield of a car on the Turnpike in Carbon County on Friday, killing the Monroe County man who was driving, was kicked up from a damaged part of the road, police said Tuesday.

Pennsylvania State Police say the chunk of concrete that went through a windshield last week in the Poconos, killing a driver, didn't come from a bridge.

A 13-inch chunk of concrete that flew Friday through the windshield of a car being driven by a Monroe County man on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Carbon County , killing him, was kicked up out of damage in the ...

A piece of concrete penetrated the windshield of car driven by Pierre Louverture, 48, of Long Pond, resulting in his death Friday morning, about a mile north of the Mahoning Valley Interchange.

A Monroe County man was killed in a freak accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Carbon County.

Pierre Louverture, 48, of Long Pond was killed when a chunk of concrete crashed through his window on the turnpike.