James Halpin

Tools and Twisted Teas were stolen during a burglary of a garage reported in Slocum Twp. last week, according to state police at Shickshinny.

Two senior administrators who were fired from Luzerne County Community College have sued over allegations that they were improperly denied their retirement pensions.

A Wilkes-Barre man accused of causing the death of a 9-year-old girl who ate a piece of fentanyl-laced cake was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on manslaughter charges.

Two Luzerne County residents sustained minor injuries when their small airplane crashed and clipped a house in rural Ohio on Monday afternoon, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

A Dallas man accused of using a machete to slash a man who came pounding on his door during the night has pleaded no contest to a charge of simple assault.

Attorneys have reached a confidential mid-trial settlement in a lawsuit alleging that negligence on the part of Uber Eats and DoorDash contributed to a crash that injured a Luzerne County woman who was shopping in Wilkes-Barre Twp.

A Scranton man convicted of murdering a teen in Wilkes-Barre over two decades ago will face a new sentencing hearing in December following his recent guilty plea to drug-trafficking charges, a judge ordered Wednesday.

A Plymouth man who grew irate while trying to find an e-bike terrorized a woman in her own home for over two minutes as he held a knife to her throat and repeatedly threatened to kill her, according to borough police.

A Wilkes-Barre woman previously convicted of killing a man in a drunken-driving crash was sentenced in two unrelated cases Thursday, receiving a stiff warning from a Luzerne County judge before being granted parole.

A two-time Monroe County sex offender was ordered Thursday to register as a sex offender for life in a third case after he admitted trying to set up a sexual liaison with two purported 13-year-old girls in Luzerne County.