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After a five-year hiatus, the Carbon County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, held its Law Day program on Thursday at the courthouse in Jim Thorpe. Students from Jim Thorpe, Lehighton, Palmerto...

A former Luzerne County attorney will spend between 3 and 6 years in state prison, pending appeal, related to a deadly 2018 crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Carbon County. Joseph Perisco, 73, of ...

A January 2024 study form the University of South Australia found that overweight baby boys born to obese moms are more likely to develop serious health issues, such as liver disease, diabetes and strokes, later in life.

JIM THORPE — A Carbon County jury deliberated for about a half hour on Wednesday afternoon before finding Shavertown attorney Joseph Persico guilty on all charges, including vehicular homicide, for

A Carbon County jury found a former Luzerne County attorney guilty of vehicular homicide while driving under the influence in a wrong-way crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that left a man dead. The j...

A former Luzerne County attorney faces a mandatory minimum of three years in prison after a Carbon County jury found him guilty Wednesday on multiple counts stemming from a deadly Pennsylvania Turnpik...

JIM THORPE — Prosecutors entered as evidence highway toll records, blood-alcohol results and the dash camera footage that captured the moment of the deadly impact as the vehicular homicide case

JIM THORPE — A Carbon County jury deliberated for about a half hour on Wednesday afternoon before finding Shavertown attorney Joseph Persico guilty on all charges, including vehicular homicide, for

JIM THORPE — A Carbon County jury deliberated for about a half hour on Wednesday afternoon before finding Shavertown attorney Joseph Persico guilty on all charges, including vehicular homicide, for

After two days of testimony and a half hour of deliberations, a Carbon County jury found Shavertown attorney Joseph Persico guilty on all charges in connection…