Tobyhanna News

Pocono Mountain Regional Police Officers arrested Henry "Bang" Koroma Jr., 20, at his residence in A Pocono Country Place, Tobyhanna on Friday in connection with armed theft of a bookbag.

Police in Monroe County say a man behind a violent holdup is now behind bars. They say Henry Bang Koroma, Jr held up a 15 year old girl at gunpoint and stole her Louis Vuitton bag in Tobyhanna Township yesterday.

A man accused of shooting four people outside a party in northeastern Pennsylvania has been ordered to stand trial on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and other counts.

As a suspect awaited his preliminary hearing Thursday on charges of shooting four people outside a house party, drama unfolded in the court parking lot, where his friend was arrested in connection with the case and his angry mother began yelling at police.

The Head Start program in Tobyhanna hosted an open house on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009.

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A Barrett Township man charged with drug possession says his girlfriend and co-defendant, a Pocono Mountain School District teacher, should not be charged because none of the drugs are hers.

A 20-year-old Long Pond man was jailed Tuesday on resisting arrest and firearm charges after allegedly reaching for a rifle when police approached his car during a traffic stop in Tobyhanna Township.

The Commonwealth Financing Authority has awarded a $1,312,500 state grant to rehabilitate the Stillwater Lake Dam in Tobyhanna Township, Monroe County, which serves the Minsi Trails Boy Scouts and plays a key role in regional flood control.

The following cases appeared before Tannersville Magisterial District Judge Thomas Olsen.

Democrat Claudette Segear convincingly won her sixth four-year term as Monroe County treasurer, defeating Republican Maureen Christy 9,621 to 7,373, according to unofficial returns Tuesday.

After a trial that lasted less than a day, followed by an hour-long deliberation, a jury today convicted sex offender Alfred Borges, 50, of Blakeslee, of failing to follow Megan's Law registration requirements.

The second phase of changes in economic development in Tobyhanna Township from the 1930 to 1940s to today is being shown in the display cabinet of the Historical Association of Tobyhanna Township at Clymer Library, on Firehouse Road in Pocono Pines.

Police in the Poconos are investigating two shootings in two days in one community in Monroe County.

Some Halloween party. Four people were shot and a man is behind bars after a fight broke out in Long Pond.

Sunday's early-morning shootings outside a house party proved the old saying about one bad apple spoiling it for the rest.

Big deal....a bat at a a Halloween party. But this one was of the "baseball" variety.

Four people were sent to the hospital early Sunday morning with gunshot wounds - and a man was charged with attempted murder - after a party in Monroe County turned violent.

Four people were were shot during a Halloween night fight at a party in Tunkhannock Township, Pocono Mountain Regional police said.

Four people were shot and four others arrested after a party Halloween night in Monroe County.