Suspended police officer remains jailed despite effort to modify bail
WILKES-BARRE A suspended Hanover Township police officer will remain jailed as efforts to modify his bail were unsuccessful Friday.
Man, 29, accused of sexually touching teenage girl
PITTSTON City police arrested a Hughestown man on allegations he molested a teenage girl.
Man sentenced for nearly severing woman’s finger
WILKES-BARRE A Hanover Township man who township police accused of using a serrated kitchen knife to partially severe his fiancee s finger during a violent domestic dispute was sentenced in Luzerne
Hanover Township man sentenced over child sexual abuse materials
WILKES-BARRE A Hanover Township man was sentenced Thursday for possessing and sharing child sexual abuse materials.
Probation for Laflin woman in boathouse stabbing
WILKES-BARRE A Laflin woman who did not contest charges she stabbed an ex-boyfriend at a Harveys Lake boathouse was sentenced to a restrictive probation program on Thursday.
Illegal firearms seller sentenced under state’s Brad Fox Law
WILKES-BARRE A Hazleton man who profited from legally purchasing firearms earning double illegally when he sold the weapons to others was sentenced under the state s Brad Fox Law.
Plea deadline set in Wilkes-Barre Township stabbing case
WILKES-BARRE A Wilkes-Barre man has until Aug. 10 to accept a plea agreement with prosecutors on charges he attempted to kill an ex-girlfriend inside a Wilkes-Barre Township hotel.
Abduction suspect Watson relents, gives DNA sample
PLAINS TWP. Surrounded by several detectives and police officers, John Vincent Watson eventually submitted to providing his saliva when given a search warrant for a DNA sample on Wednesday.
Dallas Township man charged with initiating pursuit
PITTSTON TWP. Days after pleading guilty to drug driving and impersonating a firefighter, a Dallas Township man was arraigned on allegations he initiated a pursuit with Pittston Township police afte
DA: No prosecutorial misconduct in Ashton homicide investigation
WILKES-BARRE Luzerne County prosecutors vigorously denied any misconduct in the homicide investigation of Cindy Lou Ashton in their efforts to restore critical evidence against the suspect, Anthony
Police: Man ran over ex-girlfriend with van
WILKES-BARRE A city man surrendered Tuesday on an arrest warrant charging him with assaulting his ex-girlfriend with his van last month.
Woman charged with escape for alleged probation violation
WILKES-BARRE A Noxen woman facing another jail sentence on allegations she violated probation for a 2010 fatal crash was arraigned Tuesday on an escape charge.
DA not using police questioning of homicide suspect
WILKES-BARRE Any statements Jayshawn Johnson gave to detectives about a shooting that left two men dead and another man permanently injured outside a lounge on South Main Street in Wilkes-Barre are
Look Back: Cross town rivalry for ‘Old Bunty’
Long before rivalries among high school sports teams began to take shape in the 1920s and 1930s, there was one faction between the boys of Forty Fort, Wyoming and Wilkesbarre involving a 1779 cannon.
Police arrest pair for assaulting officers in Edwardsville
EDWARDSVILLE Borough police arrested two people who they say were hallucinating, repeatedly banged their heads and spat at officers during a violent disturbance on East Grove Street.
Swoyersville man charged with straw purchase of firearms
PITTSTON Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce announced the arrest of Stephen Lamoreaux, 32, on allegations he lawfully purchased firearms but then used them to pay off a drug debt.
Wilkes-Barre moving company owner pleads guilty to failing to pay payroll taxes
SCRANTON U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam announced in a news release that Jason T. Cawley, 44, owner of J Cawley Moving, pleaded guilty to failing to collect and pay federal payroll taxes for a number
Jury convicts Exeter Township man, 77, with committing child sex offenses
WILKES-BARRE A Luzerne County jury deliberated for about one hour before finding an Exeter Township man guilty of sexually assaulting three girls for a number of years.
Dallas Township man charged with ransacking vehicles, stealing iPads from office
DALLAS TWP. A man township police say they charged with ransacking vehicles in his neighborhood was free on bail on allegations he swiped several Apple iPads and Apple pencils while cleaning an offi
Northampton County man pleads guilty to corrupting child in Shickshinny
WILKES-BARRE Once claiming charges filed against him were false, a man from Bath in Northampton County admitted to corrupting a 17-year-old girl in Shickshinny.