James Halpin

A Plymouth man convicted of possessing and sharing child sex images has been sentenced to up to 15 years in state prison, according to the Attorney General's Office.

A Hazleton man convicted at trial of raping an 11-year-old girl was deemed a sexually violent predator Thursday and ordered to serve over 43 years in state prison.

A Wilkes-Barre man who inadvertently killed a toddler by throwing the child against a wall because the boy wouldn't fall asleep after his first birthday party was sentenced Thursday to serve up to two years in jail after the defense asserted that his autistic condition contributed to the tragedy.

A Pittston man is jailed without bail on kidnapping charges after beating his wife and then loading family members into a minivan for a “vacation” during which he threatened to kill her, according to city police.

Nearly 20 years after her brother was brutally murdered in a shocking crime that made national news, Melody Kocis Bartusek still recalls talking to a state police investigator about the plea deal prosecutors had worked out with one of his killers.

A New York man being sought for passing counterfeit cash at a Wilkes-Barre convenience store pulled a gun on a city police officer and ran into an apartment in Sherman Hills before being captured over the weekend, according to court documents.

Luzerne County Council is planning to take up a resolution that would express disapproval of a burgeoning “surveillance state” created by the use of license-plate reading cameras by pledging not to allow such technology to be used on county-owned property.

Plymouth Borough police are investigating an apparently accidental shooting that injured a teenager over the weekend.

An upcoming murder trial and scores of other cases have been delayed due to the illness of a judge in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.

Three Wilkes-Barre men have been convicted at trial on federal drug-trafficking charges during an operation that resulted in the seizure of over 10 kilograms of fentanyl, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.