Police: Juvenile, 17, used Taser in attempted car theft
HANOVER TWP. Township police said they arrested a 17-year-old boy after he allegedly used a Taser in an attempt to steal a vehicle on Sans Souci Parkway on Tuesday.
State police: Man rammed vehicle occupied by two children
SUGARLOAF TWP. State police arrested a man from Huntingdon County on allegations he endangered a woman and two children by ramming their vehicle multiple times late Monday night.
Police: Marijuana and gun found in woman’s vehicle
DALLAS A woman from Hanover Township was arraigned Tuesday after borough police say they found a stolen firearm and marijuana joints inside her vehicle during a traffic stop.
Police: Money bag stolen from cab driver
WILKES-BARRE City police are investigating a robbery of a cab driver in the Sherman Hills apartment complex early Tuesday morning.
State police charge Richard Walski with wife’s death in Larksville
WYOMING State police have charged Richard John Walski in the fatal shooting of his wife whose body was found inside the couple s Larksville residence two weeks after investigators believed she was k
Hanover Township man sentenced for drug trafficking
SCRANTON A Hanover Township man was sentenced earlier this month to more than 16 years in federal prison on a drug trafficking offense.
Police seek man caught on camera smashing store window
HANOVER TWP. Township police released surveillance footage of an unknown man who intentionally smashed a window at Pantry Quik over the weekend.
Look Back: Wilkes-Barre woman celebrated 50th year at Boston Store in 1937
Employees at the Boston Store on South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, were assembled on the street floor for a dedication of a bronze tablet on Sept. 27, 1929.
Look Back: 10 miners killed at Auchincloss shaft in Nanticoke
Engineer Jacob W. Fine was working his 14th hour at the Auchincloss No. 1 shaft in Nanticoke when 10 miners were killed the morning of Nov. 2, 1904.
Man arrested after police find handgun, ecstasy pills
WILKES-BARRE City police investigating a fight at a residence on Horton Street arrested a man after allegedly finding a handgun and more than 100 ecstasy pills in his pockets on Thursday.
Man robbed by another man during initial sex meet
WRIGHT TWP. Township police arrested a man they say robbed another man during what was described as a meeting for sex on Thursday.
Wilkes-Barre homicide suspect captured in March remains jailed in New York City
Homicide suspect Jeremy Gittens, accused of fatally shooting a man and injuring a woman in Wilkes-Barre more than nine months ago, remains jailed at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York
Nanticoke police arrest man on burglary, drug possession charges
NANTICOKE City police arrested Jason Joseph Wojciechowski, 21, on charges he burglarized and ransacked a business and trespassed at another business on Tuesday.
Homicide suspect seeks review by state Supreme Court
Attorneys for Anthony Shaw, accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend in Wilkes-Barre Township in 2018, have filed a petition requesting the state Supreme Court to review the case.
Juvenile charged as an adult in armed sneaker theft
WILKES-BARRE A 17-year-old boy from New Jersey was arraigned as an adult Monday for his alleged role in an armed robbery of two pairs of high-priced sneakers last month.
Two fugitives captured by Plains Township police
PLAINS TWP. Two men wanted by separate law enforcement agencies were captured by township police while investigating a noise complaint at the Red Roof Inn on Route 315.
Look Back: Bennett Block in Wilkes-Barre
Decades before the Sheraton Crossgates Hotel and a parking garage were constructed at Public Square and North Main Street in Wilkes-Barre in 1979, the north side of Public Square - between North Main
COVID violation dismissed against fitness center owner
KINGSTON TWP. A magisterial district judge on Wednesday dismissed a summary count of violating the state s disease prevention and control act against the owner of Danko s All American Fitness.
Magisterial district courts closed until Nov. 30; jury trials postponed through January 2021
WILKES-BARRE Substantial rises in positive COVID-19 cases in the region has prompted Luzerne County President Judge Michael T. Vough to postpone jury trials through January 2021 and close magisteria
West Wyoming police charge woman with abandoning dog
WEST WYOMING A woman from Wilkes-Barre is facing animal cruelty charges alleging she abandoned a 6-year-old Boxer/Pit Bull mix on the side of West Eighth Street earlier this week.