Monroe County News

An Allentown man is in critical condition after being stabbed at a convenience store at 15th and Gordon streets early this morning, according to police.

It sounded like the sort of referendum anyone could support: a modest tax increase -- $30 a year -- to help build a community college campus that would serve today's students and the work force of the future.

An old Monroe County eyesore has become a thing of the past. What used to be the abandoned truck stop in Bartonsville has officially opened as a new Giant Food store.

Monroe County voters yesterday told Northampton Community College they're not interested in paying for a new campus in Tannersville.

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

Charged with lying about being raped at East Stroudsburg University, former student Laura Gruver, 22, of Bethlehem, waived her right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge Michael Muth and will head to Monroe County Court.

Police in the Poconos are investigating a shooting in Monroe County. Investigators confirm a 17-year-old boy has been shot in the Emerald Lakes development near Long Pond.

No matter how you look at it Christmas is just around the corner. Yes, Thanksgiving has not gotten here yet but every store you walk into will have all their Christmas items out for display.

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.

Sunday should have been race day at Borger's Speedway in Saylorsburg. Instead, employees of the track and garage watched as two state police fire marshals sifted through the charred debris left after a devastating fire destroyed the garage late Saturday afternoon.

Is this hazing? A practical joke? Just people being silly? East Stroudsburg University thinks it's hazing and has scuttled the field hockey team's post season.

TOBYHANNA As house burns to the ground, owner lies dead outside When police arrived at a Tobyhanna home Friday morning, the two-story structure was engulfed in flames and David Hicks was lying dead outside.

Matthew Katona, left, and Heath Zachary were arrested Saturday for allegedly carjacking a homeless man outside the Wal-Mart in East Stroudsburg.

A Monroe County landmark is destroyed by fire. The fire broke out around 2:30 this morning at the Dansbury Depot on Crystal Street in East Stroudsburg.

A Monroe County race track will stay silent for the rest of the year, after an explosive fire Saturday evening.

The fire scene at Borger's garage and speedway in Saylorsburg. October 24, 2009 Emergency crews are on the scene of a fire at Borger's Garage and Blue Mountain Speedway in Saylorsburg.

Emergency officials are tending to the aftermath of a fire this evening at Borger's Speedway in Saylorsburg, Monroe County.

Investigators in Monroe County are looking for answers after a man's body was found outside his burning home Friday morning.

A Monroe County drug enterprise came to a sad conclusion for an Easton man Thursday.

An attempted armed robbery of a gas station and a home invasion robbery of two college students were reported about an hour apart Saturday night to the Stroud Area Regional Police Department.