Tobyhanna News

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.

A multi-vehicle crash sent a vehicle into the deck of a Paradise Township home Wednesday morning, state police said.

Pennsylvania's fiscal watchdog is questioning the financial relationship between a charter school in the Poconos and the church that founded it.

Two men are charged in a string of copper thefts and with marijuana possession after being caught burglarizing a Canadensis home Thursday, Barrett Township police said.

Tobyhanna Army Depot on Friday opened a new $25 million facility to overhaul communications shelters.

The new facility has been built to move certain operations from one building to the more modern one on Squier Street in the industrial area of the property.

Pocono Mountain Regional Police said they responded to a Tunkhannock Township domestic assault call Friday and charged a 19-year-old man after finding marijuana in his children's Gerber baby back pack and a loaded gun.

After years of lobbying by advocates, the FBI recently approved a new, more inclusive federal definition of rape, which could encourage more victims to come forward.

A former manager of the St. James Gate Irish Pub at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem , who is accused of stealing almost $20,000 from the eatery, waived his right to a preliminary hearing today, court records state Benjamin C. Paterson , 41, of Tobyhanna in Monroe County, voided checks and pocketed the money from March 3 through Nov.

Last year the airport served 464,560 passengers, the highest number since 1999 and an increase of more than 7 percent over 2010.

Whether coming into Scranton on the McDade Expressway or down Mulberry Street, visitors and customers of the Tobyhanna Federal Credit Union have no problem catching sight of the financial institution's new building.

The fire started in a paint room shortly before 9:40 p.m. and was knocked down quickly by firefighters at the 100 W. Hersheypark Drive building, according to initial dispatch reports.

Some school districts in Monroe County are looking for ways to reduce budget deficits and address shrinking enrollment.

Echo Lake Road was closed Wednesday evening in the area of Lake Road in Coolbaugh Township following a fatal one-vehicle crash.

Pocono Mountain Regional Police cited Christopher Polanco and Tawn Smith, both 19 of Scranton, for underage consumption of alcohol after a reported Saturday fight on Boardwalk Drive in Tobyhanna.

A Tobyhanna woman was charged Saturday with marijuana possession, then cited hours later for theft of services for allegedly having no money to pay the cab driver taking her home from the police station.

After police charged a karate teacher in the Poconos with raping a young student the owner of the karate school in Monroe County and those who attend it are coming together to raise awareness for child sex abuse.