Luzerne County News

Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County- What reportedly started as a sluggish website issue quickly spun into a giant technological meltdown for workers and managers with the county's bureau of elections.

Historian William C. Kashatus was both surprised and encouraged when area high school students doing research projects called or emailed him for information on local history after reading one of his bi-weekly history columns in the newspaper.

ERIC CONOVER / Times-shamrock Mary Semuta of Hazleton casts her votes Tuesday in the Fourth Ward at the Southside Station in Hazleton during the primary election.

Nadine Knepper of Hazleton planned her day around voting in the primary election but left the poll Tuesday morning without casting a vote.

Erica Ann Sadowski, daughter of Edward and Nancy Sadowski of Hunlock Creek, was named Northwest Area's Student of the Month for May.

Absentee ballots counted late Tuesday night sent Republican Paul DeFabo to a 23-vote lead over Alex Milanes for the fifth and final spot on the party's Luzerne County Council slate.

Voters in the Pittston area are poised to elect a new magisterial district judge this election season for the first time in more than 20 years.

The county's only storm-water pump system not owned by Luzerne County is to get an overhaul this year to relieve some of the rental costs that started flowing in after the borough's pumps went down in 2006.

"We're not alleging anything criminal," said Tim Potts of Democracy Rising PA. "Only failures of ethics, leadership and competence." They specifically take issue with his support of what they call an unconstitutional law that brought gaming to Pennsylvania.

Voter turnout in Luzerne County will probably be slightly below average, a member of the county board of elections predicts.

Their incumbent is under arrest. Their challenger isn't saying much about it. Today, Luzerne County Republicans will decide who stays in the race.

Daniel Antonini spent 17 days in prison last year after being arrested for helping power-wash a vehicle driven in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Pittston Township on Sept.

After about 15 years-what an official called "an eternity" in the technology world-Nazareth area schools are getting a new telephone system.

The committee for "Market on the Pond", the Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center's Auxiliary's largest fundraiser, is planning for the annual event, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 15 on the center grounds, 4 E. Center Hill Road, Dallas.

A man who covered up evidence in a deadly hit and run in Luzerne County was sentenced to time already served.

Scranton, Lackawanna County- People gathered in Scranton this weekend to help raise money for a proposed 9/11 Memorial to an Electric City native.

There will be a single lane closure on I-81 North and South from 8 p.m. tonight to 6 a.m. tomorrow morning between Exit 170B and Exit 178 .

Lehman Township supervisors, hearing on zoning ordinance at 6:30 p.m. with meeting to follow at 7 p.m., municipal building, Old Route 115.

Thousands of high school seniors throughout Pennsylvania are about to have the common experience of receiving a high school diploma.

Former Luzerne County sheriff Carl Zawatski, a popular law enforcement veteran also known for his assistance in local election campaigns, died last Thursday of cancer.