This is part of a series the Associated Press is doing leading up to the 250th anniversary celebration of the United States.

Fancy hats, the bigger the better, looked like a wave of colors at Nick’s Lake House Kentucky Derby party. The 156th Derby ...

More than 150 children were expected to take part in the 5th Annual Hunter Wolfe & Rug McArdle Fishing Derby, held Saturday ...

Jason Johnson, 41, of Long Pond, was charged with assault-bodily injury after an incident at 9:39 p.m. on April 25 in East Allen Township, police said. State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported ...

Lehighton Area School District’s board of directors voted unanimously last week to approve job descriptions for two separate positions: a head competitive cheerleading coach and a sideline ...

A struggling single mom stands at the local grocery store checkout, benefits card in her hand. The teenager working the cash register dutifully scans each item. Milk … bread … eggs … ...

Lehighton captures two firsts, as does Palmerton’s Jim Hay at the 24th Emrey Relays at Lehigh University’s Saucon Valley field. Rich Hunsicker and Andy Homyak are part of both Indian ...

Often, Weatherly’s Ian McKeegan was the smallest player on the floor during a Wreckers basketball game. But many times, he ...

Rylee Rath knew the number. The Pleasant Valley senior knew how close she was, how many she needed, and what it would mean.

How many of us remember the 1968 Sixers-Knicks semifinal playoff series? With the Sixers and Knicks beginning an Eastern Conference semifinal series tonight in New York, many prognosticators believe ...

Fire companies from several Schuylkill County communities responded to a working dwelling fire Sunday afternoon in the village of Deer Lake. The blaze was reported just after 1 p.m. at 408 Willow St.

Sunday morning emergency personnel were dispatched to a reported of a man struck by a truck in East Penn Township. The report ...