Plymouth News

DAVE SCHERBENCO / THE CITIZENS' VOICE Martin Green, 23, of Plymouth is led out of his arraignment Sunday in Plymouth.

A 23-year-old Plymouth man faces charges in the shooting death of a 44-year-old Plymouth man he called "dad," and drugs may have played a role, according to investigators.

Police have arrested and charged 23-year-old Martin Green with an open count of homicide in the Saturday night shooting death of David J. Gerson, of 111 Center Ave., Plymouth.

A dead body was taken from an apartment at 15 Shawnee Avenue Sunday, and the district attorney's office is investigating the death, along with state police.

MOCANAQUA State police say they are investigating a standoff that occurred near Columbia County Friday afternoon.

The kitchen in the basement of Forty Fort's United Methodist Church on Thursday was under the command of Jim Biehl.

PLAINS TWP. Township police charged a Plymouth man with giving a false name and date of birth to an officer during a traffic stop in May.

BARRE TWP. Central Culinary Enterprises Inc., doing business as Colarusso's Pizza, 300 Wilkes-Barre Township Blvd., was recently cited with operating a licensed business without a valid health permit that expired on Dec.

A bar locked up by prosecutors last week in Luzerne County will now stay closed for at least a year.

A 2000 Ford operated by Lauren Wheately of Westminster, Md., collided with a 2003 Suzuki operated by Kevin Krzysko of Hanover.

The Bull Run is done. In response to a spate of ongoing trouble, authorities today shut down the embattled Plymouth bar known until recently as the Bull Run Tavern.

Wyoming Valley West School District Superintendent Chuck Suppon is asking that any parent of Main Street students able to pick up their children do so at the district high school gymnasium.

Main Street Elementary School in Plymouth was evacuated this morning after a small but smoky fire.

Students at an elementary school in the Wyoming Valley West school district were forced to leave their building Monday after officials said a student set a fire at the school.

City police arrested a man for public drunkenness Wednesday and discovered he was a fugitive from Jamaica, Queens, N.Y. Police responded to the area of Salerno's Bar on Carey Avenue on a report of a fight in progress around 1:24 a.m. Two men squared off to fight, but fled when Officer James Fisher turned on the police cruiser's lights.

Steve Klingaman is a nonprofit development consultant and nonfiction writer living in Minneapolis.

Friends of Donald Skiff holding fundraiser/benefit concert on Nov. 13 at club. PLYMOUTH Friends and family of homicide victim Donald Skiff are hosting a benefit concert to support a music scholarship in his name.

Rosemary T. Brozena, who realized a life dream of earning a college degree when she was in her 50s, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at Oak Crest Village retirement community.

Two men are charged with kidnapping a store security officer who attempted to stop them from stealing seafood and meat on Tuesday.

The donations were meant to help the family of slain Trooper Joshua Miller. PLAINS TWP.