Weissport News

Contracts may soon be awarded for five Community Development Block Grant projects throughout Carbon County.

Democratic and Republican nominations for offices of mayor, council and supervisor in six municipalities that comprise Lehighton area municipalities were decided on Tuesday when voters participated in Primary Election 2009.

All six municipalities that comprise the Lehighton Area School District have Primary Election contests on Tuesday, May 19.

Blaine and Norma Klotz of Lehighton celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on April 6. They were married by the Rev.

A Weissport resident said Monday night that walking through sewage for a whole month is a bit ridiculous.

A man from Carbon County admitted Tuesday to stabbing another man to death. Michael Mokshefski of Lehighton pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of George McClure of Weissport.

A Lehighton man is scheduled to enter a guilty plea in a fatal stabbing case that is more than three years old.

A man charged with fatally stabbing a Lehighton man in a 2006 street fight -- one of only two homicides the borough has seen in more than 25 years -- has agreed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

AL ZAGOFSKY/TIMES NEWS Scott Everett, trails manager for the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Inc., checks his plans for the construction of the new Weissport Trail Head due to open in June, while Craig Floyd, left, and Jerry Kulp of Krager Hawk Industries of Quakertown, far left, work on the pavilion, and Denny Bauchspies of the Lehigh ...

LARRY NEFF/TIMES NEWS High winds contributed to this raging barn fire in West Penn Township.

I t's so hard to understand. We let our small children play with loaded pistols all the time and nothing ever went wrong .

A Pennsylvania law regulating animal cruelty is so confusing and ambiguous that owners cannot be prosecuted for shooting and killing their dogs or cats, a state appeals court ruled Friday.