Nescopeck News

A disabled man who needs his motorized bicycle to get around town has been left high and dry by thieves who cut through a heavy chain and stole the bike over the weekend.

Ned Henry Markle, 82, of 1909 Bloom Road, Danville, ended his journey through this life on Monday, Dec.

BARRE City police reported a 29-year-old woman from Parkview Circle said her husband punched her rear view mirror on her 1997 Honda breaking the mirror and smashing the windshield in the area of Coal Street on Thursday.

Ray Kapes fought the heat as he dragged his doe out of the woods near Nescopeck State Park on Monday morning.

On Monday, The Commonwealth Medical College announced Robert W. Naismith has been named chairman of the board of trustees of the school.

An 8.5-foot tall, white chicken statue has appeared on Third Street here, an unusual mascot for a new Laundromat.

Still, she says, the borough keeps citing her. "No matter what I say, no matter what I do, I'm always going to be in the wrong," she says.

A Nescopeck woman driving a Lexus sheared a utility pole, hit a parked car and flipped twice in the air Sunday along Route 11 near Park Road, witnesses said.

Proposed wind-driven turbine operations aren't progressing. Despite a recent report indicating Pennsylvania's significant growth in wind energy, local projects that once seemed imminent are all either dead or at a standstill.

On the Berwick end of the Berwick-Nescopeck bridge, traffic turning right onto Front Street gets its own lane once it gets off the bridge.

HAZLETON Four people were cited with disorderly conduct after they were found fighting at the West Broad Street Shopping Plaza on Saturday afternoon, police said.

Stepanski, 34, took the teenager shopping for clothes and then out to dinner before having sex with her for her first time, she said at a preliminary hearing on evidence.

Re-elect or reject? Luzerne County Judge Thomas Burke Jr.'s tenure on the bench has focused primarily on civil cases, with a more limited number of criminal trials.

Above: Harry Roinick checks out one of the many pumpkins in his pick-your-own patch at Pumpkin Hill Produce Farms in Nescopeck.

"I love it," said the Nescopeck woman. "This is one of those places you'll never see built in this era, with all the granite and other materials." One century.

A 38-year-old man was jailed after allegedly beating his 3-year-old son so badly the boy was hospitalized.

A policeman spotted drugs and a glass pipe in plain view in a parked car here, and that's all he needed to begin a criminal investigation, court papers say.

A drunken man spat on and kicked police officers who were called to break up a fight at the Cobblestone Inn late Friday, court papers say.

Buddy Lee Stepanski, the Nescopeck councilman charged with sex crimes, asked a 15-year old girl three times to have sex before she consented, police say.

NESCOPECK Buddy Lee Stepanski of 214 E. Broad St. in Nescopeck was arrested Friday by state police at Shickshinny on a felony warrant alleging he sexually assaulted a teenager.