WNEP-TV 16 says a man escaped a bear attack caught on video in Jim Thorpe with minor injuries, as an armed witness came to ...

A Jim Thorpe man had a close call after a bear attacked him Sunday morning. A quick-thinking neighbor shot the bear, perhaps ...

One of the great stories in American sports history - the real-life yarn of Jim Thorpe, the Indian athlete ... despair that gripped him following the death of their son and his subsequent ...

Thank you, Lynn, for accepting this medal on his behalf,” President Joe Biden said when he awarded Thorpe the medal. A little ...

A black bear attacked a man in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, but a neighbor armed with a gun intervened, police say. Screengrab from video by WBRE. A black bear attacked a man near his small-town ...

Crews are battling a house fire in Carbon County. Flames broke out along South Street in Jim Thorpe around 1 p.m. Friday.

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His final resting place is in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, which was renamed “Jim Thorpe” in 1954. After his death in 1953, most of his family requested for Thorpe to be buried in Oklahoma, his ...