Wind Gap News

Whether he's playing to a crowd of 10 or 10,000, bluegrass band leader Louie Setzer always has one special audience member in mind.

State police said they arrested a suspect today in last month's killing of Patrick O'Brien, Nazareth's first homicide in three decades.

Plainfield Township's supervisor chairman has pleaded guilty to public drunkenness after police said he was found unconscious on the floor of the municipal building with a half-empty bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey nearby.

''Whiskey three oscar kilo, whiskey three oscar kilo,'' Jeff Welsh called into the ham radio microphone Sunday, the transmitting station set up almost literally in the middle of a field -- it was at the Plainfield Township Farmer's Grove, a well-kept picnic area off Route 191.

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LOOKING FOR Basketball pole and backboard: Dave of Coopersburg is seeking a basketball pole and a backboard.

Kelly Minner, left, a former contestant on the TV show "The Biggest Loser," sits next to the biggest winner at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for Performance Arts, Crista Woychowsky, of Wilson, a senior at the school.

Searching for room to grow and a business-friendly environment, Century Wire Products Corp.

Two men face charges after they stole more than $3,200 in cell phone accessories from a Wind Gap AT&T Wireless store, court records said.

John Snuggs, 41, of Plainfield Township, was charged with 10 robberies and attempted robberies in Northampton County over a six-month period.

A former candidate for Wind Gap council who used a fake British accent while robbing a string of banks and convenience stores during a six month crime spree was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.

Fire Marshal Michael Booke said he did not find any accelerants inside Nelson M. Tittle Jr.'s home, but other circumstances swayed him to call the house fire an arson.

Dawn Lynn Hogan's 17-year-old son Danny wouldn't listen, so the Bangor woman took drastic measures Monday night to get her point across, according to police.

Wind Gap and Pen Argyl fire departments sift through the damage at Nelson Tittle house's at 133 Lincoln St.

Wind Gap Blue Eagles Alumni perform at American Legion Post No. 724's World War II monument at Route 512 and Lehigh Street in Wind Gap during a Memorial Day ceremony.

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A 32-year-old East Stroudsburg man allegedly asked a woman in a Monroe County department store for directions to New Jersey on Thursday night then followed her to Wind Gap, trying multiple times to get her to pull off the road.

A Nazareth man was sentenced at federal court in Scranton on Thursday to more than 11 years in prison for armed robberies in three states between September 2007 and March 2008 - including several robberies in the Poconos.

A motorcycle ride turned tragic Friday afternoon when an Effort couple was killed in a collision with a cement truck at Bossardsville Road and Business Route 209 in Hamilton Township.

State police just released the name of a 19-year-old girl who died in a car crash near Wind Gap over the weekend.