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- History's Headlines: Old Carbon County Jail: Doing time since 1871
As a native of Cleveland, Ohio, Betty Lou McBride did not grow up hearing tales of northeastern Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region’s Molly Maguires. But all that changed when she married her husband Tom who grew up in Hazleton. That knowledge took concrete reality in 1995 when the couple purchased the fortress-like old Carbon County jail from the county and converted it into a museum. The Old ...
July 27, 2013 - WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey - Pa. police chief stirs furor over abrasive videos
The police chief of a small town in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country who is an outspoken gun-rights advocate and is trying to organize an armed non-government group is making no apologies for online videos of his confrontational, profanity-laced tirades punctuated by his firing of automatic weapons.
July 24, 2013 - Boston Globe - Pa. police chief stirs furor over confrontational, profanity-laced videos of him firing guns
The police chief of a small town in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country who is an outspoken gun-rights advocate and is trying to organize an armed, non-government group says he loves his country and makes no apologies for posting online videos that boast his confrontational, profanity-laced tirades punctuated by his firing of automatic weapons.
July 24, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune