Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this DUI checkpoints and roving DUI patrols are scheduled to take place through the Labor Day holiday weekend, area police and transportation officials said.

A war of words heated up this week between state Rep. Todd A. Eachus, D-116, and Hazleton Creek Properties officials over a controversial mine reclamation project in the city.

Ward ERIC CONOVER/Staff Photographer This year's incentive to donate to the United Way of Greater Hazleton's 2010 fund campaign is $6,000 toward the purchase of a vehicle, or a two-year lease on any vehicle from the Hazleton Auto Trades Association.

ERIC CONOVER/Staff Photographer A motorist comes to a stop at the intersection of East Holly and North Wyoming streets on Wednesday after city workers installed two new permanent stop signs at the intersection.

A 75-year-old Lebanon man was seriously injured when the motorcycle he was driving crashed Thursday afternoon in Ryan Township.

The Standard-Speaker received telephone calls from a number of parents who voiced dissatisfaction with the student placement system.

Man nabbed in strong-arm robbery Hazleton police arrested a York man after an attempted strong-arm robbery Wednesday.

A man will spend three to seven years in state prison in connection with a fatal drunken driving crash in October 2008 that killed a Philadelphia trucker on Route 924 near Hazleton.

The growing Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling industry is taking hold in Northeast Pennsylvania, but the state's newest economic player is not yet big enough in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton metro area to save the region from recording disappointing unemployment numbers in July.

Warren Ruda / The Citizens' Voice The last time the two men faced off, Kanjorski tied Barletta to then-President George W. Bush.

Better drag that sofa on the porch indoors if you live in one northeastern Pennsylvania city.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this Jackson Browne will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain, 1000 Montage Mountain Road, Scranton.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Antoinette Marchowsky and Robert Sisock Nancy and Wayne Marchowsky, Blackheath, announce the engagement of their daughter, Antoinette L., to Robert J. Sisock, Enola, son of Marylynn and Michael Sisock, Hazleton.

JAMIE PESOTINE/Staff Photographer Ann Marie Shelby voices her concerns regarding fill propsed to reclaim mine land in Hazleton during a meeting held Tuesday at Hazleton Area High School.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] A California man who formerly lived in Hazle Township was arraigned in federal court for allegedly receiving and distributing child pornography.

ASHLEY A man was arraigned Monday on charges he assaulted two people on Davis Street.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] A Hazleton Area School District teacher has resigned amid allegations of a relationship with an 18-year-old student, and a criminal investigation is under way, Superintendent Samuel A. Marolo said Tuesday.

The Hazleton Redevelopment Authority has authorized its solicitor to take the first steps to renovating and returning a North Locust Street home back to the tax rolls, the city's director of public works said.

Hazleton police arrest teen for alleged burglaries Hazleton police arrested a 16-year-old boy who allegedly burglarized a number of homes in the 700-block of Peace Street on Saturday morning.

Authority engineer John Synoski recently told the authority board it would receive a change order request for a roughly $129,000 mixing system for a new 2-million-gallon welded steel water storage tank being built at Eighth and McKinley streets.