Americans are justly proud of all the men and women in uniform fighting to protect our freedoms.

The closest many of us will ever come to facing down a life-and-death domestic situation may be through a police reality television show like COPS.

In pro football terms you could say that Saturday's Iowa Straw Poll was similar to a pre-season scrimmage.

Recently, a friend of mine returned from a weeklong trip to India and when I asked how much of a cultural shock it was, his answer was not that sur

Some people refuse to accept the fact that things are different from what they were some years ago.

The newest term in the vocabulary of top officials of larger municipalities these days is "flash mob," whereby young criminals and hooligans can be

The fact that on Monday the Dow Jones industrial average lost 5.6 percent of its value and is off 2,000 points since April 29 is devastating enough

There's a special event being held in Carbon County next month. It's the 132nd annual convention and parade of the Pa.

The Weissport flood levee has been in the news several times lately.

Yesterday we had a report that there was an attempted child abduction in a local community. We called the respective police.

An interesting news item came across the wires yesterday. It was also broadcast on most of the TV networks.

It states:

Lehighton Borough Council had recently advertised for a borough manager and got nine applications.