Sugar Notch man helps save family from fire
SUGAR NOTCH Suddenly awakened at 1:30 a.m. Friday, John Hassick heard screams through his apartment door to get out.
Look Back: Two Wilkes-Barre men killed when White Haven bridge collapsed in 1902
Passenger and freight railroad traffic was halted as heavy thunderstorms pounded the region causing landslides, flooded tracks and washed away many bridges the night of Feb. 27 into Feb. 28, 1902.
Firefighters battle blaze, weather in Sugar Notch
SUGAR NOTCH Several adults and children escaped a fire that destroyed a four-unit apartment building early Friday morning.
Exeter Township man charged with stealing tools, pizza
WEST PITTSTON A shoe and drywall dust inside a vehicle that crashed into a tombstone earlier this month resulted in borough police charging Eric Michael Sutter with burglarizing two businesses, stea
Man accused of ditching bag of guns arraigned
WILKES-BARRE One of two men accused by city police of discarding a bag filled with firearms on New Years Eve was arraigned Thursday.
Search warrant served at hospital after claims staff member choked 14-year-old patient
KINGSTON Kingston police served a search warrant at First Hospital for video surveillance related to an investigation that a staff member may have choked a 14-year-old boy in December.
Man, 27, charged with slapping 2-year-old boy in face
WILKES-BARRE City police charged a man from Philadelphia with slapping a 2-year-old boy who suffered a bruised face last year.
Firefighters battle blaze at four-unit apartment building in Hanover Township
HANOVER TWP. Six adults and two children escaped unharmed when a fire tore through a four-unit apartment building at 103-105 Regal Street late Tuesday morning.
Fire forces tenants from Sherman Hills apartment building
WILKES-BARRE City firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze that forced the evacuation of nearly 50 tenants from an apartment building at Sherman Hills on Tuesday.
Cause of fire that destroyed education center at The Lands at Hillside Farms ruled an accident
JACKSON TWP. A fire that destroyed the education center at The Lands at Hillside Farms early Tuesday morning was ruled an accident.
Hughestown police allege woman hid 83 bags of crack cocaine in body cavity
HUGHESTOWN A woman from Carbondale hid 83 packaged bags of suspected crack cocaine in a body cavity and another 10 bags inside her bra during a traffic stop for a faulty license plate light late Sat
Former Newport Twp. fire chief facing obstruction charges speaks out
PITTSTON TWP. Former Newport Township fire chief Daniel Kowalski, who is facing charges he obstructed firefighters at the scene of a three-alarm fire that damaged four structures last month, believe
Suspect arraigned in 2021 hit-run death of boy, 7
A Lenoxville man is being held in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility without bail in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a seven-year-old boy last year.
Pa. Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by convicted Curry Donuts robber
A Luzerne County jury s conviction of a Philadelphia who robbed a donut store in Wilkes-Barre was upheld when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court this week declined to hear an appeal.
Man charged in 2021 hit-run death of boy, 7
A Lenoxville man is being charged with vehicular homicide after police say they determined he was the driver in a hit-and-run crash that left a seven-year-old boy dead last year.
Trooper, police officer bitten by dogs during standoff arrest
ROSS TWP. Two dogs allegedly released by Robert Gerald Ball during a standoff with state police at Shickshinny and Lehman Township police bit a trooper and a police officer Thursday.
Hanover Township ‘prowler’ charged with damaging police property
HANOVER TWP. A Kingston man taken into custody after allegedly prowling outside a house ringing the doorbell damaged a desk and a door inside township police headquarters Thursday night.
Three men deemed sexually violent predators, get state prison time
WILKES-BARRE Paula Brust from the state s Sexual Offender Assessment Board had a busy day along with Luzerne County assistant district attorneys Shana Messinger and Carly Hislop.
Edwardsville man, former youth sports coach, sentenced 8-16 years on child sex offenses
WILKES-BARRE A former youth sports coach said he knew he had a problem in 1999 with having sexual urges toward children and wished he got caught sooner.
Renewed efforts to identify Baby Boy John Doe
HANOVER TWP. Below a tall tombstone dedicated to the deaths of unborn children in Saint John s Slovak Cemetery in Courtdale, Baby Boy John Doe was re-interred shortly after an exhumation to retrieve