Kingston Township police arrest man - again - in online sex sting
KINGSTON TWP. Believing he is going to prison on allegations he solicited a 14-year-old boy for sex last year, Dustin Griffin took another chance at meeting up with another teenager for sex, accordi
Nanticoke man charged with endangerment by firing handgun
NANTICOKE City police filed charges against a man accused of discharging a round from a handgun while confronting a a group of people near his residence last month.
Prosecutors file petition to revoke bail of alleged child pornographer
WILKES-BARRE Prosecutors filed a petition seeking to revoke bail for David J. Fortin, 37, who was recently released from jail while facing hundreds of counts of possessing child sexual materials.
Sentencing hearing canceled in fatal DUI crash due to defendant’s death
WILKES-BARRE A sentencing hearing for a Berwick man who admitted to being under the influence of drugs and alcohol when he crashed head-on with another vehicle, killing a passenger, was canceled Thu
Guilty plea expected in death of infant
WILKES-BARRE A guilty plea hearing for Jeffrey Blake Hutcheson, accused of causing injuries that resulted in the death of his 11-week old son in 2019, was continued Tuesday.
Attorney challenges photo array used to identify juvenile in armed robbery of sneakers
WILKES-BARRE An attorney for Dwayne Quamir Johnson, charged for his role in an armed robbery of two pairs of high priced sneakers, is challenging a police photo array that was used to identify him b
Hearing continued for man accused with secretly recording buttocks inside courtroom
WILKES-BARRE A hearing on a request to dismiss charges against a Wilkes-Barre man, accused of secretly recording a woman s buttocks inside a courtroom, was continued due to scheduling issues with vi
Woman charged with trafficking illicit narcotics
PITTSTON A Pittston Township woman was arraigned Wednesday more than a year after authorities discovered a large amount of illicit narcotics inside her apartment.
Kingston Township police charge man with sexually, physically abusing child
KINGSTON TWP. Township police charged a man Wednesday on allegations he sexually and physically abused a child several years ago.
Hazleton man sentenced for peddling methamphetamine
SCRANTON A former Hazleton man was sentenced last week to federal prison on charges of trafficking methamphetamine.
Appellate court upholds terroristic threats sentence
The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Tuesday upheld a lengthy prison sentence for a Scranton man who was convicted by a Luzerne County jury of sending threatening communications to an ex-girlfriend and
Five NYC men charged in ‘grandparent’ mail fraud scheme
SCRANTON Five men from New York City have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their alleged participation in a mail fraud scheme that targeted senior citizens and fraudulently inducted them to
PA Supreme Court reinstates appellate rights for woman convicted in killing boyfriend
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ordered the reinstatement of appellate rights of Jessica Lynn Alinsky, who was convicted by a Luzerne County jury of killing her boyfriend.
What a sloppy mess!
Power outages are reported across the region as gusty winds nearing 40 mph knocked down trees and electrical lines Monday morning.
Look Back: Heatless Mondays began in 1918 to conserve fuel
Hundreds of manufacturing plants, industrial institutions, dry goods and clothing stores and theaters throughout the Wyoming Valley were under a different type of quarantine that began in January 1918
‘There should be no sympathy for a pedophile’
WILKES-BARRE Convicted by a Luzerne County jury of sexually abusing two girls, Bruce Joseph Panattieri formally maintained his innocence at his sentencing hearing Friday.
Police: Evicted tenant retaliates by turning off heat, electricity
NANTICOKE A woman was charged with endangering another person by turning off electrical service and furnace to an apartment.
Man, 31, arrested on child sex offenses
WILKES-BARRE City police arrested a 31-year-old man after investigating allegations he sexually assaulted a child for more than a year.
Fentanyl, crack cocaine found during strip search
WILKES-BARRE TWP. A woman taken to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility on a judge s warrant was allegedly found concealing fentanyl and crack cocaine.