David Krape News Today

The Tamaqua borough council hired David Krape, right, as a full-time police officer during its Tuesday meeting. He will begin his employment on Oct. 30. With him is Tamaqua Police Chief Michael Hobbs....

CATAWISSA — Borough police Ptlm. David Krape crawled past a man he had in custody to the front door of the police station to unlock it. He’d rapidly become sick from contact with his prisoner’s confiscated methamphetamine. Krape had just opened a brown paper evidence bag to process drugs inside it when he began to feel off, he said. The drugs, Krape said, were “jostled” after

Faced with two organizations seeking approval to hold separate Independence Day parades, Wright Twp. supervisors last week put off a decision on the requests and urged the organizations to try