Last Updated: January 4, 2015 - 3:54pm
PLYMOUTH TWP. (AP) -- Police say they are investigating the death of a woman at a Luzerne County residence here as a homicide.
Pennsylvania State Police say troopers responded to a...
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Last Updated: January 2, 2015 - 1:40pm
BERWICK -- The driver of a U-Haul who crashed into a van and rammed a house Friday morning switched seats with his passenger to try to fool police, witnesses said.
Alan Kmietowicz, 59, of...
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Last Updated: January 2, 2015 - 10:34am
ELYSBURG -- Brett E. Siegel was the man who died in a crash near Elysburg early Thursday morning, the coroner says.
Siegel, 29, lived on Captain Bloom Road, Sunbury, and was a former...
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Last Updated: January 1, 2015 - 4:53pm
BERWICK -- A man raped a woman twice on New Year's Eve after she allowed him to visit but warned him, "We're not having sex," charges say.
Rakieem Harvey of Berwick later admitted the...
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Last Updated: January 1, 2015 - 6:10pm
Three men died in two separate accidents in our region over the past two days, officials say.
In the first wreck, a Benton man died in a collision Wednesday morning along Route 118 in...
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Last Updated: December 30, 2014 - 7:53pm
MONTOUR TWP. -- An SUV rammed another car with three young children inside on Route 11 here and then drove away Tuesday evening, police and witnesses said.
But police tracked down the...
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Last Updated: December 30, 2014 - 3:47pm
WASHINGTONVILLE -- The mother who was jailed for giving her teenage daughter abortion-inducing pills has been paroled after serving just three months of her nine-month sentence.
Jennifer...
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Last Updated: December 29, 2014 - 3:22pm
SALEM TWP. -- A restaurant employee was caught trying to smuggle two pork chops and a knife from the kitchen, police say.
Now Kim Yvonne Williams is facing charges.
Williams, 55, Plymouth...
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Last Updated: December 26, 2014 - 3:43pm
BERWICK -- A Berwick man whose mother allegedly stabbed him in the chest on Christmas Eve has been released from the hospital, a Geisinger nursing supervisor said Friday.
Mark Goodson, 22...
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Last Updated: December 24, 2014 - 2:14pm
BERWICK -- A bloodied man was rushed to the hospital with a collapsed lung, and his mother put into handcuffs after she stabbed him with a steak knife during a Wednesday-morning argument,...
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Last Updated: December 23, 2014 - 6:08pm
BERWICK -- A customer at the Sunoco mart here scratched off an instant lottery ticket today to find out he won $300,000, according to store owner Thakor Patel.
The man came into the store...
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Last Updated: December 23, 2014 - 11:33am
ALMEDIA -- Three armed men kicked in the front door of a home here, demanded guns and money, then beat three men inside while ransacking the place Monday night, authorities said.
The...
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Last Updated: December 22, 2014 - 5:24pm
SCOTT TWP. -- A judge found a man guilty of cruelty to animals for violently kicking a stray cat in November near his Rupert home.
But Randall Albertson's neighbors say some good has come...
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Last Updated: December 21, 2014 - 9:11pm
BRIAR CREEK -- A pickup veered out of its lane on Route 11 late Saturday and hit a minivan head-on, police said.
Rescuers had to cut off the minivan's roof to free its driver. They then...
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