Laflin News

MARRIAGE LICENSES Gairon Segura and Ivelisse Rosado. Jeffrey Sod and Holly Hockenbury.

A man from Luzerne County will spend at least a year in prison after pleading guilty to hitting a man with his car and killing him, then leaving the scene.

Andrew B. Durako of Laflin was recently appointed executive director of Little Flower Manor and St.

John Walton, 58, calmly walked into the courtroom while being escorted by Luzerne County sheriff deputies, a stark contrast to when he refused to get out of a cruiser and had to be carried by officers in separate proceedings.

LAFLIN Borough officials advised a Manchester Drive resident Monday that there was no way that the municipality could take over the roadway at this time.

An Episcopalian church leader from Luzerne County was in court Thursday facing charges he endangered and threatened a group of people, including his own daughters.

Laflin police initially believed a Scranton man was armed when he allegedly torched a Ford van in front of a car dealership on Tuesday.

The outcome of a K-9 unit search and a "Code Red" emergency drill earlier this month brought praise for students and staff at West Side Career and Technology Center on Monday.

Police in Luzerne County are trying to figure out if the owner of a van was so burned up about something that he torched his own vehicle right in front of the dealership where he bought it just six months ago.

New jobs are expected to fly into the Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport.

LAFLIN Borough officials Thursday gave a first reading to a 2010 budget that holds taxes and fees at current levels but still spends $5,000 less this year's budget.

YATESVILLE Borough officials on Wednesday confirmed the receipt of a $25,000 state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources grant that will be used to create a concrete path to the borough's bocci courts, as well to do as other work in the park.

PITTSTON City officials voted Tuesday night to open a dialogue with neighboring Laflin about "cooperative projects" that might eventually lead to a sharing of municipal services.

Maxim W. Furek , director of Garden Walk Recovery, recently donated his book, "The Death Proclamation of Generation X: A Self Fulfilling Prophesy of Goth, Grunge and Heroin" to Luzerne County Community College .

LAKE TWP. Supervisors on Wednesday awarded a contract to resurface part of Loyalville Road and announced a new meeting schedule and office hours.

When a train derailment in 2002 forced the evacuation of hundreds of Laflin residents, emergency crews went up and down every street going door-to-door to notify residents.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] A health care agency founded by a controversial Episcopal "party priest" who formerly served at Dundaff is under investigation by the state Attorney General's office.

The Roman Catholic parishes of the Pittston Cluster, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel/St. Rocco's, Blessed Sacrament/St. Mary's and St.

PITTSTON Agents with the state Office of Attorney General's Insurance Fraud Division searched a specialty pharmacy on Tuesday run by Gregory Malia, a former priest with the Diocese of Bethlehem Episcopal Church.

The Pittston Catholic Youth Group composed of young adults 12 years old and older from the Roman Catholic parishes of the Pittston Cluster is being formed.