Shenandoah News

All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Dorsey's birthday today! Tommy Dorsey Trombonist Thomas 'Tommy" Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the younger brother of famed jazz clarinetist, Jimmy Dorsey.

At age 20, Joshua R. Ptaszkowski's craving for alcohol, which has plagued him since he was 14, has helped land him in prison.

Two nationally recognized poets, Jeanne Murray Walker and AV Christie , will read from their works Saturday night at 7 p.m. in a free-to-the-public performance of the Mad Poets Society at the Churchill Artisan Bakery and Chocolatier, 137 E. High St., Pottstown PA .

Nearly 20 years have passed since Glory, director Edward Zwick's treatment of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, made its debut in December 1989.

A man found dead after fire tore through two row homes in Shenandoah on Thursday night - leaving eight others homeless - has been identified as a 53-year-old Robert Specht.

A northeastern Pennsylvania man has been found dead in his home after a fire. The fire broke out Thursday night in two row houses in Shenandoah, about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

One person was killed in a fire that destroyed a double block home in Schuylkill County.

One person is dead and two homes are destroyed after a Schuylkill County fire. Schuylkill County Coroner Joseph Lipsett says a man believed to be in his 50s died in last night's fire.

Demolition has started on the first Lithuanian Catholic Church in the United States.

I would like to open by stating unequivocally that I believe CNN's heart is in the proverbial right place in their attempts to document the lives of Latinos living in the U.S. I say this, however, while acknowledging that the advertisements leading up to the debut this week might easily lead us to a starkly different conclusion.

A 37-year-old Schuylkill County woman was charged with stealing nearly $164,000 from an elderly woman she met in an assisted living home, District Attorney James P. Goodman announced today.

A 37-year-old Girardville woman was charged Tuesday with stealing more than $160,000 over a two-year period from an elderly woman she befriended.

A former worker at a nursing home in Schuylkill County is accused of stealing from the elderly.

The City of Hagerstown, which rents space on its police radio communications tower to a cell phone company, is considering a second lease.

HOG chapter plans poker run: The local Harley Owners Group will conduct a Fall Foliage poker run Sunday, beginning with registration at 11 a.m. at Shenandoah Harley-Davison/Buell, 213 Rolling Thunder Lane.

Trio robs pizza deliveryman Three men robbed a pizza deliveryman in the area of South Laurel and Birch streets in Hazleton on Wednesday night, city police said.

The teenage girl who says a man raped her in August in the borough said Wednesday there was no doubt what he wanted.

A security guard has been arrested after police say he threatened to create another "Virginia Tech situation." Carlos Cintron of Shenandoah is locked up on charges of making terroristic threats.

Police say they've foiled a threat to kill the principal at a Schuylkill County high school and an implied threat to go way beyond that.

An eastern Pennsylvania school security guard accused of threatening to kill the school principal and referring to a school massacre has been charged with felony terroristic threats.