Swoyersville News

A new ordinance in Luzerne is on the books to stop people from talking on the mobile devices while driving.

An ambulance services saga continued at Monday night's borough council meeting. Jennifer Mooney and Ed Connor from the Swoyersville Ambulance Association criticized the response times of Trans-Med Ambulance services in Kingston.

Crestwood School District is the latest district whose records have been investigated in the ongoing school corruption probe throughout the county.

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October 29 will be a special day in the Forty Fort home of Connie and Bill Bookwalter.

Abbie Heller is the new Miss York County. Heller, of York, was crowned Saturday night at a pageant at York Suburban Middle School.

Pasonick Prominent Wilkes-Barre engineer Michael J. Pasonick Jr. allegedly paid the bribe that led to charges against two Luzerne County Housing Authority board members, an attorney for one of the board members said Thursday.

Wilkes-Barre Area School Board President Frank Pizzella Jr. attended Tuesday's board work session, his first appearance with the board since being charged with facilitating a bribe to a board member before Pizzella got on the board.

Things are getting pretty strange in Swoyersville. A castle has appeared out of nowhere, foreboding yet oddly welcoming all at the same time.

If you were to stop by Lisa Hampton's Swoyersville home and mistake it for a gift shop, that would be understandable.

Harveys Lake resident Richard Emanski has agreed to plead guilty to supplying and installing free carpeting in the home of a Wilkes-Barre Area School Board member in exchange for a contract benefiting his business, federal authorities announced Thursday.

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With eye on supply, price, more area municipalities, entities join state program.

The Kiwanis Club of Swoyersville held its family picnic recently at the home of Jane and Frank Aritz in Swoyersville.

Controversial levy on ticket sales in arts community has been reported 'dead' as a budget proposal.

Officials in one Luzerne County community honored a police officer for his actions that they say helped solve a string of daytime burglaries.

Ex-Kingston officer facing firearms violation, impersonating charge. Attorneys for a former Kingston detective charged with possessing a firearm without a license say Wilkes-Barre police did not have a valid reason to search a vehicle in which a loaded pistol was found.

State police say man shouted at District Judge Malast after being found guilty of summary offenses.

Swoyersville men allegedly broke into six houses in their hometown since August.

Police in one Luzerne County community are stepping up the search for some broad daylight burglars and people living in that community say they are starting to worry their homes could be next.