Wilkes-Barre News

Wilkes-Barre police are looking for the person who stabbed 18 year old Edward Maye in an alley near Slocum Hall on South River Street on the Wilkes University campus yesterday afternoon around 4:20. The Wilkes student encountered two men who asked the victim for money then stabbed him during a tussle.

Police say Harry Teel Jr. tried to kill a woman passenger by slamming his truck into a barrier.

Police in Wilkes-Barre are looking for two men after a Wilkes University student was stabbed late Thursday.

Cops: Public Square argument over quality of peaches results in charge. WILKES-BARRE A fruit farmer who got into a dispute with a customer over the quality of the farmer's peaches was found guilty of harassment following a hearing before a district judge last week.

At first trial, Jerome Windley found guilty of corruption of minor; rape charge: hung jury.

It was night of honors and recognition for the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce.

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Testimony offered in hearing to determine if Michael Bardo should get new trial.

Kingston man shot in elbow at Bradford Street apartment and then left trail of blood in neighborhood, police said.

Another public official has been caught in the federal corruption probe in Luzerne County.

Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge off recession, unemployment, Afghanistan and Glenn Beck.

Former Luzerne County Deputy Clerk William Brace has agreed to plead guilty to accepting a suit valued at $1,500 in exchange for helping a contractor obtain a contract with the county sometime between June 2007 and May 2008.

A United Nations special investigator who was blocked from visiting the US by the Bush administration has accused the American government of pouring billions of dollars into rescuing banks and big business while treating as "invisible" a deepening homeless crisis.

Authorities say a northeastern Pennsylvania barber was taking a little off the top at the county's expense.

Democrat Dottie "Stanky" Stankovic has apparently won her fifth term as Luzerne County register of wills, according to unofficial results from Tuesday's election.

Share + Nov 9, 2009 11:07 pm US/Eastern WILKES-BARRE, Pa. A panel investigating the "kids-for-cash" scandal in a northeastern Pennsylvania county is to hear from the current Luzerne County district attorney and her predecessor Tuesday.

Senior Bucks County Judge Arthur Grim tells a hearing near Wilkes-Barre, former judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan presideded over a juvenile justice system, "run amok." Judge Grim had been appointed special master over the investigation into the 'cash for kids,' scandal.

Give the city a beach and some palm trees and Wilkes-Barre becomes the new Florida! Well, not really.

The arrest of township fire Chief John Yuknavich in a Plains Township bar fight on Saturday isn't the first time he has made news for the wrong reasons.

Michael J. Vesek III, of Wilkes-Barre , unexpectedly died Thursday morning at his East South Street home.