Police: Man initiates pursuit during response to gunfire
WILKES-BARRE City police say Stefon Taylor, age unknown, is facing charges he allegedly initiated a pursuit while officers responded to reports of gunfire in the first block of North Grant Street ea
Look Back: Railroad police detective killed by illegal hunter in 1910
Police with the Lehigh Valley Railroad stepped up patrols along rail routes from Plains to Scranton due to vandalism to train traffic signals in the latter half of 1910.
Ex-inmate: Stabbing victim was ‘purple like a smurf’
WILKES-BARRE A dispute about telephone privileges inside G-Block at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas was behind an inmate-on-inmate fight that led to a fatal stabbing earlier this year.
Kingston Township police charge familiar man with ransacking house
KINGSTON TWP. Township police obtained an arrest warrant for Scott Alan Bolton, 57, charging him with stealing items from a residence on Mount Olivet Road earlier this month.
Plymouth man charged with child pornography
PLYMOUTH A man from Plymouth was arrested Thursday on allegations he downloaded images and videos of children engaged in sex acts on his cell phone.
Former C&Y director pleads guilty to child endangerment, obstruction
HARRISBURG Former Luzerne County Children & Youth director Joanne Van Saun pleaded guilty to child endangerment and obstruction offenses related to failing to investigate hundreds of reports of chil
Dallas man sentenced on child pornography charges
WILKES-BARRE Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas ignored a request by a defense attorney for a sentence of 43 days of time already served for a Dallas man who admitted to viewing and sharing child p
Kingston police arrest man who threatened to kill mother, others in mass shooting
KINGSTON Police in Kingston say they thwarted a threat by a man who pledged to kill his mother and others in a mass shooting.
Attorneys for homicide suspect Kyon McDonald seek to dismiss case
WILKES-BARRE Depending how one reviews the calendar mixed with an emergency judicial declaration suspending defendants rights to a speedy trial a homicide case from Plymouth could be in jeopardy
Ex-WB police officer being sued for malicious prosecution
WILKES-BARRE A Wilkes-Barre Township woman cleared on child endangerment charges stemming from prescription pills found during a diaper change of her baby has filed a civil lawsuit against the arres
Wilkes-Barre man charged with rape
WILKES-BARRE City police arrested a man Wednesday on allegations from a woman claiming he sexually assaulted and raped her in September.
Theft of tractor from Dallas Township business
DALLAS TWP. Township police Tuesday released surveillance pictures hoping someone can identify the unknown person responsible for stealing a 2021 Kubota tractor and attachments from CH Waltz & Sons
Bridge near Sugar Notch fully reopens, completing lengthy rehabilitation project
SUGAR NOTCH Those five- to seven-minute traffic signals seemed like an eternity waiting to cross the single lane bridge near Sugar Notch.
NY man initiates two pursuits with park ranger
KINGSTON TWP. A man from New York was arrested over the weekend after he fled two traffic stops while being questioned by a state Department of Conservation and Natural Resource officer about a mari
Wilkes-Barre police investigating shootings
WILKES-BARRE City police say they are investigating several shootings in recent days:
Mountain Top man loses appeal on child pornography conviction
A state appellate court has upheld a decades-long state prison sentence for a Mountain Top man convicted by a Luzerne County jury of downloading and sharing images of child pornography.
Gang affiliation, self-defense claim argued in homicide case
WILKES-BARRE Prosecutors and defense lawyers for homicide suspect Kyon Dane McDonald engaged in conflicting arguments, sometimes talking over each other, during a tenacious motions hearing Thursday
Pittston police arrest man on arson charges
PITTSTON City police arrested a man they say set fire to his condemned house after he was released from a hospital Wednesday.
Look Back: Eight miners awarded heroic medals following 1911 explosion
Nearly 50 years before the Knox Mine disaster on Jan. 22, 1959, another mining catastrophe happened in the same area that claimed the life of three miners and injured four others on Jan. 10, 1911.
Selenski files notice of appeal in Superior Court
Convicted double murderer Hugo Selenski will take his chances again with the Pennsylvania Superior Court in hopes of a new trial in Luzerne County.