Schuylkill County News

Bill Courtright has declared victory in the Democratic Race for Scranton Mayor. Courtright thanked the voters for their support.

Two incumbent directors and two political newcomers appear to have clinched the nomination of both parties for Hazleton Area School District board of education.

You can still find the calling cards of his crimes: a burned barn, the scorch marks on a one-room schoolhouse, and the recently refurbished barn which was destroyed by fire three years ago.

A borough man was jailed in Schuylkill County Prison after authorities said he tried to sell a stolen gun to a confidential informant.

After nine years, he did it again. Veteran driver Frank Cozze returned to Victory Lane at Big Diamond Speedway Friday night.

A crash on Route 61 in Schuylkill County yesterday claims the life of an East Stroudsburg woman.

Pottsville, Schuylkill County- Lisa Stephany added a choir boy, a frog, and a reindeer to the growing make-shift memorial on pierce street in Pottsville.

Pottsville, Schuylkill County- The make-shift memorial on Pierce Street continues to grow as the Pottsville community begins to heal.

A generous display of stuffed animals, sympathy cards, flowers and candles sit in front of 235 Pierce St.

A Springettsbury Township man and a Schuylkill County woman were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in connection with charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and filing false and fictitious federal income tax returns, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

The husband of a Minersville woman who alleges she was the victim of medical malpractice testified Monday in Schuylkill County Court that he feared she would die after she gave birth to their son in August 2009.

Work will begin Monday, May 20 to replace the structurally deficient PA 645 Bridge over Swatara Creek in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County.

Schuylkill County emergency dispatch supervisor Bill Lindenmuth says the fire broke out around 11:55 p.m. Sunday at a home in Pottsville and that firefighters later found the bodies inside.

Pottsville, Schuylkill County-Six victims became trapped in the raging house fire at 235 Pierce Street in Pottsville.

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Fire tore through a family's eastern Pennsylvania home on Mother's Day, authorities said, killing four young children, their father and another relative while their mother was across the street doing laundry at a friend's house.

POTTSVILLE, Pa. Four children and two adults were found dead in a house fire in eastern Pennsylvania early Monday morning and authorities were searching for the cause.

Two adults and four children are dead after fire tears through a Pottsville house overnight, according to the Schuylkill County Coroner.

Schuylkill County dispatcher Bill Lindenmuph told NBC10 that the fire broke out just before midnight at a home on the 200 block of Pierce Street in Pottsville, Pa Video shot by FireandFilm.com shows heavy flames shooting from the home as firefighters try to battle back the flames.

Six people died, including four children, in a fire that ripped through a single-family home in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, sometime around midnight Sunday.