Mother charged with neglecting to care for dependent daughter
WILKES-BARRE City police detectives Tuesday charged the mother with neglecting to provide care and services to her non-verbal daughter who suffers from spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy.
Kingston man, 19, charged with vehicular homicide
EDWARDSVILLE A Kingston man was arraigned over the weekend on vehicular homicide and drug driving charges following an investigation into a fatal crash last year.
‘I feel like I got convicted defending my life’
WILKES-BARRE Hours after Attorney Leonard M. Gryskewicz Jr. wearing protective gloves picked up the three-foot long metal pipe and slightly pounded it onto the prosecution s table during his closing
Jury convicts Turner of voluntary manslaughter in fatal Wilkes-Barre shooting
WILKES-BARRE Hours after Attorney Leonard M. Gryskewicz Jr., wearing protective gloves, picked up the three-foot long metal pipe and slightly pounded it onto the prosecution s table during his closi
Utility company files complaint to recoup money for repairs
WILKES-BARRE PPL Electric Utilities has filed a civil complaint in Luzerne County Court against a Wilkes-Barre man seeking to be reimbursed for repairs to two power boxes and a utility pole as a res
Homicide suspect describes victim as ‘angry bear’
WILKES-BARRE Homicide suspect Dazon Turner said there was no time to get into his 2004 Jeep to avoid what he described as an angry bear coming at him with a three-foot-long metal pipe.
Selenski associate federally charged with fentanyl distribution
SCRANTON A Dallas man on state parole after admitting he assisted Hugo Selenski in the killing of two men and burning their bodies in 2003 was federally charged with peddling fentanyl.
Convicted killer Mercado to be re-sentenced
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ordered convicted killer Reynaldo Mercado to be re-sentenced to fix a legal technicality.
Homicide trial postponed Tuesday due to power outage
WILKES-BARRE Electrical service has been restored to nearly 1,000 PPL customers in Wilkes-Barre after a power outage Tuesday morning that postponed a homicide trial at the Luzerne County Courthouse.
Wilkes-Barre homicide trial begins, attorneys argue different motives
WILKES-BARRE A metal pipe three feet in length and a breaker bar were shown to a Luzerne County jury Monday on the first day of homicide suspect Dazon Wykie Turner s trial before Judge David W. Lupa
State police: Homicide suspect, 17, got haircut after deadly shooting
BUTLER TWP. A 17-year-old boy from Sugarloaf was arrested at the rest stop in Rice Township along Interstate 81 hours after he allegedly shot and killed his 17-year-old girlfriend inside her residen
Look Back: Presumed dead at 15, young man returns home in 1922
Who was buried in Hanover Green Cemetery in Hanover Township on Sept. 9, 1918?
Exeter man pleads guilty to molesting girl
WILKES-BARRE A man who Wilkes-Barre police alleged inappropriately touched a girl pleaded guilty to an indecent assault charge.
Woman sentenced on child endangerment charges
WILKES-BARRE A woman charged with endangering three children by residing inside an apartment unfit for human habitation was sentenced in Luzerne County Court.
Uncle pleads guilty but mentally ill in death of nephew
WILKES-BARRE A Luzerne County jury trial for homicide suspect Milton Darius Clark was thwarted when he pled guilty but mentally ill Friday.
Woman sentenced in sex tape extortion case
WILKES-BARRE A woman who threatened to expose a self-made sex tape with an attorney unless she was paid money received a state prison sentence on Thursday.
Firearm charges added against Plymouth man
PLYMOUTH Borough police have added firearm offenses against Junior Amos McKoy, alleging he was in possession of a sawed-off shotgun and a handgun with altered serial numbers during a reported stand-
Man sentenced for child sexual assault offenses in Rice Township
WILKES-BARRE A former Rice Township man who did not contest charges he sexually assaulted a girl won t face additional time in state prison.
Gouldsboro man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting girl, 14, in Duryea
WILKES-BARRE A man from Gouldsboro could face more time in state prison after he pled guilty to sexual assault charges by Duryea police.