Palm News

Click on picture to enlarge. Reading Eagle: Abby Drey At a forum on health care Thursday night in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Reading are, from left, Dr.

With less than two weeks to go, there are still spots open for hands-on training classes at Firehouse Expo in Baltimore, Md.

Community efforts will continue Editor: I was disappointed to read Nicholas Amicone's letter condemning the community service by the Berks County Democratic Party .

Irene Kuper, 83, died in November -- six weeks after a fall that the family says was due to negligence on the part of the staff at Gracedale.

Johnny's Bar and Grille on Strawberry Hill Road in Sciota will host an event from 2 p.m. Saturday, July 11, to 2 a.m. Sunday, July 12, to benefit the widow and children of state Trooper Joshua Miller.

A Palmer Township man who says his co-workers didn't come to his aid when a bulldozer crushed his legs won a $16.2 million settlement Tuesday.

This photo shows Don Lynch holding two of his daughters. Lynch has not been seen since about 9:30 a.m. Monday in the Jim Thorpe area of Carbon County.

Among those buried at Horner's Cemetery, in East Allen Township, are: Jane Horner, for whom the cemetery was named, "suffered death by the hand of Savage Indians Oct.

A traffic cone marks the site of a large pothole in the road. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is planning work from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the following Northampton County routes and roads next week.

A proposed Route 33 interchange in the township appears to be a "done deal" paid for by a wealthy businessman, Tatamy resident John Pawlikowski said.

A meeting on the proposed Route 33 interchange in Palmer Township is scheduled for 7 tonight in the Charles Chrin Community Center, 4100 Green Pond Road.

A Northampton County judge has vacated the up-to-16-year sentence he gave a Palmer Township man who sent explicit videos to a state agent posing as an underage girl.

At first, Tracey Demaria thought the letter she received last week was a mistake.

Residents in the Fox Run Development received letters demanding nearly $1,000 each to pay for work done to their streets.

Attorney General Tom Corbett announced that over the past week agents from the Child Predator Unit have made arrests in Northumberland, Berks and Montgomery counties involving men accused of using the Internet to sexually proposition what they believed were 13 or 14-year old girls.

A source says Daniel Autenrieth's girlfriend bought the gun he used to kill Trooper Joshua Miller.

A portrait of fallen Pennsylvania State Trooper Joshua Miller is displayed in the rotunda of the Pittston Area High School.

Pennsylvania State Police troopers did not discover any weapons or ammunition during a search of Daniel Autenrieth's Northampton County home Monday.

A sea of police vehicles covered the parking areas and spilled onto the lawns around the 25-acre Pittston Area High School campus in Yatesville on Friday for state Trooper Joshua Miller's funeral.

Last fall, high-school senior Duane Wilson started getting D's on assignments in his Advanced Placement history, psychology and literature classes.