HAZLETON — Tim “Kiko” Barletta, the boys’ varsity basketball coach at Hazleton Area High School, has been suspended with pay from his job as a school district courier after text messages that he purportedly sent to a 15-year-old girl became public, three school officials said when speaking off the record.
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