11+ hour, 52+ min ago  (414+ words) Today is Sunday, April 19, the 109th day of 2026. There are 256 days left in the year. On April 19, 1775, the American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord " the start of an eight-year armed conflict between American colonists and the…...

20+ hour, 50+ min ago  (193+ words) The Nesquehoning Historical Society announced "Carbon County's Lost Village of Lausanne," the second event in a series of Local History Presentations as part of Carbon County and Nesquehoning's America250 Celebration. Local historian and author Vince Hydro will present the program at…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (339+ words) Today is Saturday, April 11, the 101st day of 2026. There are 264 days left in the year. On April 11, 2012, George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. (He was acquitted at…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago  (835+ words) The maps show Harrisburg laid out along a bend in the river in shades of gray. A computer created them about 50 years ago using boxes of cards punched by Tony Kadysewski and his assistants at Penn State University. Kadysewski, who…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (368+ words) Today is Friday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2026. There are 272 days left in the year. In 1860, the first Pony Express mail delivery rides began, one heading west from St. Joseph, Missouri, and one heading east from Sacramento, California. In 1936, Bruno Richard…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (293+ words) Today is Monday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2026. There are 283 days left in the year. On March 23, 1942, the first Japanese Americans incarcerated by the U. S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp at Manzanar, California. In 1775, Patrick Henry delivered…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (243+ words) Today is Tuesday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2026. There are 282 days left in the year. On March 24, 1999, NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia in a campaign to stop ethnic cleansing, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it attacked a…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (291+ words) Today is Wednesday, March 18, the 77th day of 2026. There are 288 days left in the year. On March 18, 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether. In 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (374+ words) Today is Wednesday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2026. There are 302 days left in the year. On March 4, 1966, John Lennon of The Beatles was quoted in the London Evening Standard as saying, "We're more popular than Jesus now," a comment that caused…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago  (245+ words) Freeland Korean War veteran Joseph Barna, 95, was recently honored in a surprise gathering at the Freeland American Legion Post 473. In attendance were Post Commander Jerry Gaffney, the Post Honor Guard, post membership, people from the Freeland community, and Barna's family…...