Stroudsburg News

Students Shane Repsher, left, of Stroudsburg, and Mark Murmello of Effort pay close attention in the Business and Public Policy class on Thursday at Wilkes University in Bartonsville.

The jackpot for the Powerball lottery was $325 million on Saturday, and people around Monroe County who bought lottery tickets said that, if they won, they'd spend the money in various ways.

Area author Debbie Burke holds a copy of her book 'The Poconos in B Flat' following an interview at the Pocono Record in Stroudsburg on Wednesday, January 11, 2012.

Police have charged a Stroudsburg woman with arson after an explosion allegedly linked to meth making rocked her mother's Stroud Township home last month.

Salvator Facciponte III, Mike Hopkins, Andrew Larson, and Michael McGovern were all taken by a silent killer, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.

A Stroudsburg woman is being charged with arson after an explosion and fire on Jan.

The scene from the July 1 crash on Route 512 in East Bangor that killed two motorcyclists and injured four others is a haunting memory for an uninjured survivor of the crash, George Courtis.

The suspect entered the Shell Gas Station at the corner of North 5th Street and Oakwood Avenue in Stroudsburg at 7:05 p.m., according to police.

The Monroe County Chapter of the League of Women Voters will host an interactive forum to brief community members on local and state laws on Saturday, March 3. Called "Laws, Laws and More Laws," the forum will focus on the office of the commissioners, home schooling, public meetings and the Sunshine Law, voting and lection procedures, taxing and ... (more)

State police are warning residents to beware of a possible scam involving someone calling on the phone, pretending to be from an insurance company and asking for personal information.

A little more than one year ago a young man`s dream went up in flames in the Poconos.

J.M. Hill Elementary School holds 394 students in kindergarten through fifth grades.

Two women who tried to flee from Milford police after a toiletry-shoplifting spree in Pike and Monroe counties each face an additional charge of organized retail theft.

Zachary Dougher, 19, of Stroudsburg, was paroled Monday after pleading guilty to criminal mischief in the April arson fire that destroyed the Stroudsburg Little League field house in Stroud Township.

Families First director Frank Jones stands with, from left, state Rep. Marcia Hahn, board secretary Sandy Shriver and board President Jewel Williamson-Burns at a benefit event in January.

In 1983, witnesses said rain fell indoors and a man levitated. TV has dramatized it, researchers have tried to explain it.

Stroud Area Regional Police have released a surveillance photo of a person in connection with a theft of money from Siamsa Irish Pub located at 636 Main St., Stroudsburg.

Large-scale private community home construction, much of it sold to long-distance job commuters, might never return to the Poconos, even when the national housing recession ends, says a visiting fellow at a Washington, D.C., think tank.

Ricardo Rodriguez, 50, of Phyllis Court, is accused of making threatening comments by telephone to employees at the Wells Fargo on Route 209 at Rodenbach Lane.

It's the battle of Pennsylvania groundhogs today with Punxsutawney Phil and the Poconos' own Sammi offering diverging forecasts .