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Hazle contractor ordered to clean up - Standard Speaker
Many chose to remain anonymous," Connolly said. "We did inspect the site earlier this week and took photos." If the company and property owner fail to comply with the DEP order, the financial penalties could be costly, Connolly said.
State police probing shooting by Wilkes-Barre cop - Standard Speaker
Several neighbors said they were awakened by a gunshot, and one man who refused to be named said he saw paramedics working on the man who was shot before police ordered him back in his house. He said he was relieved it had been police who fired the ...
Neighbors hope they don't lose buffer from noise after Heights land sale - Standard Speaker
A Heights resident who asked not to be named said a lawyer for the landowner denied that a trucking terminal will open but did not disclose plans for the lot during their telephone conversation. A new use of the lot, residents said, might subject them ...
Judge gave info on dad - Standard Speaker
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation by the US Secret Service and the state Attorney General's Office, confirmed that the case involves up to 80 victims and said it involves several million ...
Six months after Lee, not all is back to normal - Standard Speaker
One woman from Sleepy Hollow, who asked not to be named, remembers a knock on her door on Sept. 28. "We had to evacuate. There were no ifs, ands or buts," she said. She and her husband donned life jackets and took a five-minute cruise in a pontoon boat ...
City at plan B after top police chief candidate withdraws - Standard Speaker
The sources requested anonymity because they are not authorized to release confidential information related to the search for a police chief. Yannuzzi would not identify the candidate by name Monday, but said he will ask council members to approve his ...
Mayor to name new police chief Thursday; top candidate withdraws - Standard Speaker
The sources requested anonymity because they are not authorized to release confidential information related to the search for a police chief. Yannuzzi would not identify the candidate by name Monday, but said he will ask council members to approve his ...
Yannuzzi to tab new police chief Thursday after top candidate withdraws - Standard Speaker
The sources requested anonymity because they are not authorized to release confidential information related to the search for a police chief. Yannuzzi would not identify the candidate by name Monday, but said he will ask council members to approve his ...
MEM's lawyer gets a visit from Northampton County detectives - Standard Speaker
... the lawyer for Municipal Energy Managers - the Lackawanna County company whose principals are facing charges they swindled more than three-quarters of a million dollars from a suburb of Bethlehem in the Lehigh Valley, a source said Tuesday.
SUV rams city bus - Standard Speaker
The bus driver tapped the brakes, but the vehicle never stopped, said the man, who also declined to give his name. He had been traveling to the Laurel Mall and had just started riding the buses after his car broke down. Two witnesses sitting in a car ...
Five hurt when SUV hits Hazleton bus - Standard Speaker
The bus driver tapped the brakes, but the vehicle never stopped, said the man, who also declined to give his name. He had been traveling to the Laurel Mall and had just started riding the buses after his car broke down. Two witnesses sitting in a car ...
Police: Latest holdups likely tied to others - Standard Speaker
One of the carriers, who did not wish to be identified, said she and the other carrier were inside the store having a cup of coffee when the robber entered. She said he was wearing a red ski mask and baggy jeans and was "fairly tall.
Source: Paterno near death - Standard Speaker
Those close friends included a longtime Paterno confidante who arrived to the Mount Nittany Medical Center in tears, the source said. Paterno's children and members of his extended family were also summoned to the hospital. ...
Residents, store owners angry, undeterred after rash of robberies - Standard Speaker
A man who declined to give his name said the robberies scare him but he refuses to leave Hazleton because of it. He said he feels the entire town is being victimized by crime but it's not going to stop him from going about his life. ...
Residents, store owners say they're angry, not scared after rash of robberies - Standard Speaker
A man who declined to give his name said the robberies scare him but he refuses to leave Hazleton because of it. He said he feels the entire town is being victimized by crime but it's not going to stop him from going about his life. ...
Hazleton police remove armed man from home - Standard Speaker
A woman who lives in that home, who asked not to be identified, said she was alerted to the situation when she saw strobe lights flashing outside. "I looked out and saw police cars all over the street," she said. The woman said a police officer came to ...
City building condemned - Standard Speaker
The woman living in the apartment, who declined to give her name, stood outside shivering under two sweatshirts while holding her shivering pit bull on a leash as condemnation notices were posted on the building at about 2 pm She was not sure where she ...
Paterno has lung cancer - Standard Speaker
Paterno was treated at the hospital but not admitted, the source said. He left the hospital, Mount Nittany Medical Center, in the back of a sport utility vehicle, the source said, relaying details of a candid briefing from a worker at the hospital. ...
Paterno treated for medical issue - Standard Speaker
... football coach Joe Paterno, who battled a myriad of medical issues in his final years with the team, visited a campus infirmary and a local hospital Wednesday night for treatment of an undisclosed issue, a person familiar with the matter said. ...
Residents lament amid rush to find new homes - Standard Speaker
According to a White Owl employee who asked not to be identified, 15 people worked at the personal care home, including certified nursing assistants, maintenance and kitchen staff. Staff members at the scene Friday were visibly shaken by what had ...
Tamaqua approves district budget - Standard Speaker
Although the increase is on the books, District Superintendent Carol Makuta said a benefactor who has asked to remain anonymous has made a $10000 donation to the district for the purpose of helping students pay the sport participation costs. ...
Program ends as funding runs out - Standard Speaker
The demise of the adultBasic program came as two Corbett administration officials said the state can no longer sustain it because of a lack of revenues. Meanwhile, advocacy groups protested the program's termination in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. ...
Public sees '11 plan for dam Release dates - Standard Speaker
A man from Allentown who declined to give his name but fishes at the river suggested the level of water held in the dam should be increased from its present 1370 feet above sea level. He said he considers the location where the Lehigh and Bear Creek ...
Indictment of elected official expected today - Standard Speaker
The source spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the confidential nature of the investigation and declined to identify the official. ...
Number of Eachus flights questioned - Standard Speaker
One source who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Standard-Speaker on Thursday that Eachus was on the December flight. During a debate with Toohil ...