HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s governor said Friday he was against a proposal to compensate victims of child sexual abuse by priests through a church-established fund, saying that lawmakers instead ...
HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania state lawmaker leading a push to give victims of child sexual abuse a way around time limits that prevent them from suing on Friday angrily rejected an alternative a...
A Carbon County man is facing charges following an incident on Saturday at 9:18 a.m.
State police at Lehighton said troopers responded to the unit block of Weeping Willow, in East Penn Township, for a...
As many children chatter excitedly about what Santa will bring them for Christmas, a 4-year-old boy lies in the pediatric intensive care unit at Lehigh Valley Children’s Hospital, Cedar Crest.
The lit...
The grandmother of an 8-year-old Tamaqua girl contacted police after learning about a “secret thing” involving her granddaughter and a 39-year-old Tamaqua man.
The child was worried about the possibil...
When our legislators enacted the death penalty, they had in mind the depraved type of person who killed with no regard for human life — a person like Jacob Sullivan, 46, who was sentenced to die last ...
State police at Lehighton reported troopers are investigating an allegation of child abuse.
Troopers said they received a report of suspected child abuse occurring at a location along Honeysuckle Lane...
State police at the Lehighton barracks are investigating a report of a suspected child abuse case that happened between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31, 2017, in Polk Township.
Police did not provide any details ...
State police at Lehighton reported they are investigating a reported child abuse incident in Carbon County but gave few details.
Troopers said the victim is a 7-year-old girl from Jim Thorpe and that ...
A lawsuit filed by a Lehigh County man last year who said he was abused by a Carbon County priest who was a known pedophile has been settled.
Contacted this morning, diocese spokesman Matt Kerr confir...