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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania State Police are warning the public today as investigators search for a man wanted in connection with threatening communications directed at law enforcement, prompting a...

Gregg A. Henritzy, 78, of Walnutport, was pronounced dead in the Emergency Department at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 25, according to the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office. Henritzy died from multiple blunt force injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision, with the manner...

NESQUEHONING, CARBON CO. (WOLF) — A massive Christmas evening blaze damaged a home and forced several people and pets from their residences in Nesquehoning, officials said Thursday. The three-alarm fire broke out just after 5 p.m. on Christmas Day at a property on West Catawissa Street, drawing firefighters from...

Jaquere T. Johnson, 20, of Mount Laurel, NJ, was charged after an investigation into counterfeit currency passed at a Pennsylvania business, according to Lower Southampton Township Police. Police said the incident happened on Tuesday, Sept. 10, when officers responded to a report of non-genuine $50 bills used during...

Momentum to address Montgomery County’s joint housing and homelessness crises could be stymied with new federal grant distribution guidelines, officials are warning. Advocates in Bucks and Montgomery counties gathered Monday morning at the Warminster-based Access Services to raise the alarm about revisions to the...

HUNTERDON COUNTY, N.J. — Detectives from the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office, working alongside officers from the Lambertville, Clinton Township and Flemington Borough police departments, conducted proactive inspections of payment terminals at local businesses last week as part of an effort to prevent credit...

PHILLIPSBURG, N.J. (Warren County) — Police in Phillipsburg are investigating a shooting reported late Thursday on the 600 block of South Main Street, authorities said. In a statement posted on the Phillipsburg Police Department’s Facebook page at about 9:15 p.m., officials said the scene was secured and that there...

Nand Todi, left, touring the shelter with Montgomery County Commissioner Neil Makhija. The homeless shelter currently under construction in Lansdale has received a major boost with a $1 million commitment from an Ambler-based businessman, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY. Montgomery County officials had hoped to open the...

At least two people were killed and multiple others remained unaccounted for after an explosion rocked a Pennsylvania nursing home on Tuesday. In a statement from PECO Energy Company obtained by NBC Philadelphia, the utility said crews responded shortly after 2 p.m. to reports of a gas odor at the Bristol Health and...

Pittsburgh Regional Transit spokesman Adam Brandolph says, they are aware of the feeling by many who live in Allentown, who want the temporary service that has been serving that neighborhood since February to become permanent.