Beaver Meadows News

HAZLE TWP. State police at Hazleton said they captured a fugitive from Maryland while investigating a vehicle crash on Airport Roadway on Tuesday.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] The owner of a Swoyersville carpeting company has agreed to plead guilty to installing carpeting in the home of a Wilkes-Barre Area School board member in return for the member's support in securing a school district contract, federal prosecutors announced today.

ELLEN O'CONNELL/Staff Photographer Beaver Meadows Police Chief Michael Morresi looks over documents confiscated during a routine traffic stop with Ambrosio Perez-Vasquez and Jose Savel Torres-Yanez. Beaver Meadows Police Chief Michael Morresi takes his job seriously.

The old house recently demolished in Beaver Meadows was built in 1846 by the son of a War of 1812 veteran, according to an ancestor who now owns the property.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] The illegal immigrant who Beaver Meadows police learned had been using a fake driver's license and Social Security number when his vehicle was stopped in July is free on bail.