Tremont News

Today: is the 286th day of 2009. There are 79 days left in the year. On this date In 1775, the U.S. Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.

The owner and foreman of a Schuylkill County coal mine where a 2006 explosion killed a worker have become the first people in the state to be successfully prosecuted in a mining death.

A Florida man charged in the Sept. 1 accident in Union Township that killed two men waived his preliminary hearing Thursday.

Two people were killed and three others injured in a violent three-vehicle accident Tuesday morning in Union Township.

Firefighters survey the damage to vehicles involved in a crash that killed two people and sent five others to the hospital this morning in Union Township.

The 28-year-old driver of a GMC Suburban that struck two other vehicles, killing two people Tuesday morning in Union Township, will face charges that include homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol, state police said Wednesday.

Pennsylvania State Police say a Florida man, 28 year old Richard James Finch, was behind the wheel and drunk when his 1989 GMC Suburban sideswiped one vehicle and hit another headonTuesday morning in along route 443 in Union Township, Lebanon County.

One man is killed in Rush Township just after 11:00 last night. Pennsylvania State Police say 47 year old Robin Lucas of Tremont was killed in the accident on Gold Mine Road in Dauphin County.

A crash in Lebanon County killed two men from Schuylkill County. The wreck happened just after 9 a.m. Tuesday on Route 443, west of Pine Grove.

Surveillance camera image of the suspect in a robbery of KreiserA A's Quick Stop on S. Tremont Street in Tremont on Monday.

A second person has died as a result of a one-vehicle crash that occurred about 6:15 p.m. Saturday near the Ravine exit of Interstate 81 in Tremont Township.

A man and woman were killed Saturday night in a crash in Schuylkill County. State police say a pickup truck crashed in heavy rain on Interstate 81, near the Ravine Exit in Tremont Township.

A 79-year-old North Heidelberg Township man on Wednesday watched his home go up in smoke for the second time in about 35 years.

A 56-year-old Palmyra woman was in fair condition last night with injuries she suffered in a motorcycle accident Sunday evening, a Hershey Medical Center spokeswoman said.

Involuntary manslaughter and other counts that a Schuylkill County judge in February dismissed against one of three men charged after an explosion killed a county coal miner have been refiled.