Waymart News

Wayne County Court notes run Tuesdays in The Times-Tribune. DIVORCES SOUGHT - Leonard Griffiths Jr., 382 Belmont St., Waymart, v. ElisaA beth Griffiths, 326 Sawmill Road, Hamlin; married May 7, 2005; Alfred Howell, attorney.

A traffic stop in Lackawanna County turned into a police chase that crossed county lines.

Reading Eagle A New York woman was sentenced Friday to 30 years in federal prison for letting a Brecknock Township man sexually assault her 2-year-old daughter.

In less than a week, 300-plus motorcyclists, many of them veterans, will usher in the arrival of a nearly life-size replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall and other displays of America's major conflicts along Route 6 through Honesdale and White Mills to their destination at Hawley's Bingham Park.

Annville Township police said they charged the following people during traffic stops at sobriety checkpoints last weekend.

The lure to get a role in a movie is powerful, especially when the movie is connected to Oscar nominees.

A section of the Casey Highway in Lackawanna County is closed after a three-vehicle crash.

A judge yesterday convicted a 26-year-old man on two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced him to life in prison for stabbing a fellow resident in a group home for the mentally ill, then strangling his prison cell mate.

The traditional Slovak Stations of the Cross, 'Krizova Cesta,' sponsored by the Slovak Heritage Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania will begin at 2 p.m. March 15 in the Sacred Heart Slovak Church, 601 N. Main ...

WAYMART, WAYNE COUNTY Workers at the State Correctional Institution at Waymart have collected boxes of personal care and entertainment items for troops serving in Iraq and Afgahanistan.

Gary and Kenneth Miller, shown in an undated family photo. A mentally ill man who fatally stabbed his 69-year-old father in Lehigh County in 2007 has received an 8- to 16-year state prison sentence and 24 years ...

A business in Wayne County went up in flames early Tuesday. Flames broke out at Paul's Garage on Canaan Road in Waymart around 2 a.m. Firefighters said there was an explosion to go along with the flames.

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services -- Unrestricted Middle The charred frames of a minivan and car still sat on the hydraulic lifts where employees last worked on them.

It was a sad sight for family members in Wayne County Tuesday after the business they spent three decades building came down in just minutes.

BARRE TWP. Joy Rehatchek really loves her house in Alden. Even after she put it on the market because it didn't have everything she wanted, she discovered she couldn't give it up.

A trust has been set up at PNC Bank to help the loved ones of a family killed in a Wayne County fire pay for funeral expenses.

Three people died this morning in a fire at an apartment building in Waymart, Wayne County.

An overnight tragedy in Waymart....a woman and two children are dead following an early-morning fire.

Authorities say a woman and two children are dead in an apartment fire in northeast Pennsylvania.

Three people are dead after an apartment fire early Wednesday in Wayne County. Emergency officials and firefighters on the scene tell us a mom and her two sons died in the fire in Waymart.