Plains News

Class of 1989 will hold its 20th reunion on Sept. 5 at The Caf in Plains Township.

Department of Public Works crews spent Sunday cleaning up what Saturday's rain left behind here.

BARRE A pursuit involving a stolen vehicle in West Pittston led police on a chase Tuesday through several municipalities on both sides of the Susquehanna River that ended in the area of East Linden Street, according to sources.

An autopsy is scheduled for tonight on a man who died after a shooting at a North Washington Street tavern early Tuesday morning.

Jevon Mark says Efrain Vendrell won't press charges, but friend claims he will. SWOYERSVILLE Jevon Mark said he will be cleared of allegedly stabbing a man inside a Plains Township home on Tuesday.

LUZERNE FOUNDATION ANNUAL MEETING: Thursday, 5:30-7:30 p.m., F.M. Kirby Center for Performing Arts, Public Square, Wilkes-Barre. Free, donations accepted.

LEHMAN TWP. A Dallas man died Saturday in a two-vehicle crash at 7:42 a.m. Police said 56-year-old Robert J. Sheridan, of 65 Oak Drive, was proceeding through the intersection at Idetown Road and Route 118 when a Ford F150 pick-up truck struck Sheridan's Chevrolet Cavalier in the driver's side door.

Mark Kneeream, CPA, and Peter A. Evanofski, CPA, have formed Kneeream & Evanofski.

PLAINS TWP. Mark Douglas Forman, 56, no known address, was charged with theft after he allegedly went behind the center bar of the casino at Mohegan Sun Pocono Downs at about 5:15 a.m. Sunday and was observed by security taking a bottle of DiSaronno liquor and then attempting to leave the casino, state police in Wyoming said.

BUCK TWP. An Albrightsville man was killed Sunday in an early-morning crash on state Route 115.

BARRE A man remains in critical condition after officials say he was assaulted in front of Schiels' Family Market on Thursday night.

BARRE City police reported the following: Police said a man claiming to be a law enforcement officer told a group of juveniles to leave the area of Division and Barney streets at 5:53 p.m. Sunday.

BARRE City police reported the following: A 15-year-old girl told police at 1:24 p.m. Sunday that a man tried to lure her into his vehicle on Rose Lane by offering her money.

Police were busy with the investigations after a man and a woman were allegedly busy pulling off robberies yesterday.

For the past five years, students, faculty and support staff at Solomon/Plains Memorial Elementary School conducted various drives to raise funds to purchase items for soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

People wanting to run for the study commission can get speeches taped and put online.

Annual Spaghetti Dinner from 4-8 p.m. today at American Legion Post 558, 99-101 E. Carey St., Plains Township.

PLAINS TWP. Police said they captured a fugitive who was charged with having pills without a prescription during a traffic stop on state Route 315 early Wednesday morning.

Class of 1969 is planning a class reunion for Nov. 28. A committee meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Feb.

BARRE City police, in conjunction with agents of the state Attorney General's Drug Task Force, executed a search warrant Saturday on a Susquehanna Street residence that resulted in the apprehension of three ...