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07/19/11 LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne has made another preseason award watch list as the junior has been named a candidate for the Jim Thorpe Award, which goes annually to college football's most outstanding defensive back.
07/15/11 By M. CRAIG MCDONALD/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS Bun and Jan McCole of Penn Forest Streams, Penn Forest Township look over the adjacent lot and home at 64 Wild Creek Drive, Jim Thorpe The home was abandoned by neglectful tenants in January and when the snow cleared in the spring debris and rubbish compounded with warm weather brought rodents and health hazards into the area until the Penn Forest ...
07/12/11 Roger Behrens represented the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma in the Jim Thorpe Native American All Star Game at North Texas University in Denton, Texas. Behrens was selected as the MVP offensive playe...
07/12/11 Let's delve a bit deeper into the Big Ten secondaries by breaking down the league's top cornerbacks entering 2011. This group could be one of the league's best, as it features a nice mix of established veterans and budding young players. Only two Big Ten cornerbacks -- Nebraska's Alfonzo Dennard and Wisconsin's Antonio Fenelus -- made the preseason watch list for the Jim Thorpe Award , but I ...
07/11/11 JIM THORPE - A Carbon County judge has denied the appeal of a Jim Thorpe man concerning his request for public records on the Packerton Yards business park project.Robert P. Dages filed the appeal on the Pennsylvania Right to Know Law ruling that denied
07/11/11 Another day, another Georgia Bulldogs player on a college football award watch list. Brandon Boykin adds his name to yet another, joining 36 other players on the Jim Thorpe Award list , which goes to the nation's best defensive back. The SEC leads the way with 10, followed by the ACC's seven. Both Alabama and Florida State have multiple representatives, while Tennessee probably would've if ...
07/09/11 AL ZAGOFSKY/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS At the Mountain Laurel Autoharp Gathering in Newport, Pennsylvania, an event that drew nearly 300 autoharp performers, Amy Clarke of Jim Thorpe was selected by the audience as the Favorite Open Stage Performer.
07/09/11 Ron Gower/TIMES NEWS Members of the Tamaqua Blue, which won the District 18 9-10 year old Little League championship last night in Jim Thorpe, stand behind championship banner.
07/07/11 AL ZAGOFSKY/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS Looking over the 25 duplicate medals of Jim Thorpe's pre-Olympic victories are, from left, Anne Marie Fitzpatrick of the Jim Thorpe Birthday Weekend Committee; Chuck Gentile, sports director at the U.S. Army War College at the Carlisle Barracks, and his wife, Wanda Gentile; Craig Zurn, president of the Jim Thorpe National Bank; and Raymond Brader of the Jim ...
06/23/11 TEE #1 9:35: Dick Mast - Forest, VA Jim Rutledge - Victoria, Canada Jim Roy - Syracuse, NY 9:45: Roger Chapman - Ascot, England Morris Hatalsky - Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Steve Lowery - Birmingham, AL 9:55: Tom Purtzer - Scottsdale, AZ Tommy Armour III - Las Colinas, TX Chien Soon Lu - Taipei, Taiwan 10:05: Jim Thorpe - Heathrow, FL Fulton Allem - Orlando, FL Hal Sutton - Shreveport, LA 10:15: Tim ...
06/21/11 LARRY NEFF/TIMES NEWS A female hiker is loaded onto an ambulance gurney after sustaining a fall at Glen Onoko Falls in Jim Thorpe, yesterday afternoon. By the time the rescue of the girl was complete, there were a total of three injuries including a firefighter involved in the rescue.
06/13/11 Gail Maholick/TIMES NEWS Makenzie Baird, 9, of Jim Thorpe, shows off some of her souvenirs she collected while on a trip to Florida, sponsored by Dream Come True, Blue Ridge Chapter.
06/10/11 Booker T. Washington lineman Derrick Alexander is among the area seniors who will participate in this weekend's Jim Thorpe All-Star Football Game.
06/09/11 The Colorado football program practically had enough talent in 1994 to compete in the AFC West. The list of future NFL players starring for the Buffs that season included Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam, Jim Thorpe Award winner Chris Hudson, and Butkus Award runner-up Ted Johnson.
05/23/11 After weeks of dreary, cloudy skies, the spirit of Jim Thorpe must have been smiling down upon the town that bears his name Saturday as beautiful crisp, clear, sunny blue skies greeted all who gathered at his earthly resting place to honor him for his 123rd birthday by unveiling and dedicating a larger than life bronze statue.
05/21/11 JIM THORPE - Standing 8 feet tall, the newest statue of Jim Thorpe shows the sports legend with his right arm extended and his fingers stretched across a discus.The bronze tribute was unveiled Saturday - the day set aside in Pennsylvania as "James Franc
05/19/11 A -- Allen; B -- Bangor; BC -- Bethlehem Catholic; C -- Catasauqua; CC -- Central Catholic; D -- Dieruff; E -- Easton; Em -- Emmaus; ESN -- East Stroudsburg North; ESS -- East Stroudsburg South; F -- Freedom; JT -- Jim Thorpe; L -- Liberty; Leh -- Lehighton; MA -- Mahanoy Area; MC -- Marian Catholic; M -- Minersville; MoA -- Moravian Academy; Naz -- Nazareth; No -- Northampton; NL -- Northern ...
05/14/11 The Carbon County Area Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame will induct its 2011 class at a banquet on Sunday, May 29 at Memorial Hall in Jim Thorpe.
05/13/11 When Whitesnake, the power-ballad rockers who sold 11 million copies of their late 1980s albums and had chart-toppers with the songs "Is This Love" and "Here I Go" play at Penn's Peak near Jim Thorpe on Sunday, it may give guitarist Doug Aldrich a chance to take care of some unfinished business.
05/11/11 STATE COLLEGE (AP) - A new statue of sports great Jim Thorpe is going up in the Carbon County town that bears his name, while two of Thorpe's sons have joined a federal lawsuit demanding his remains b
05/11/11 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - For the first time in his young career, sophomore Sean Reilly (LaGrangeville, N.Y.) has been named Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week, via a personal-best performance in the high jump at last weekend's Jim Thorpe Open at Nittany Lion Track. | 
