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Mar. 26—WILKES-BARRE — A heavy police presence is on the scene along the North Cross Valley Expressway at Exit 1, Route 315, responding to a report of a body found in a wooded area behind the ...
Apr. 9—WILKES-BARRE — Five people were arrested for the kidnapping and brutal killing of a Michigan woman who was buried in a tarp and covered with moth balls and lime in the basement of a ...
May 22—WILKES-BARRE — A man with addresses in Connecticut and Hanover Township was arraigned Wednesday on allegations he initiated a pursuit on the North Cross Valley Expressway that ended in ...
The 1982 Wilkes-Barre shootings was a spree shooting which occurred in the United States on September 25, 1982, carried out by George Emil Banks, a former Camp Hill prison guard. Banks fatally shot 13 people in Wilkes-Barre and Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania. The victims included seven children – five being his own – their mothers, some of ...
The kids for cash scandal centered on judicial kickbacks to two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US. [1] In 2008, judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at a private prison operated ...
The Bufalino crime family, [5] also known as the Pittston crime family, [6] the Pittston–Scranton crime family, [7] the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre crime family, [6] the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, [8] the Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, [9] [10] or the Scranton Mafia, [11] was an Italian-American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the cities of ...
Apr. 12—SCRANTON — A state parolee who attempted to escape custody without wearing pants when agents with the state Office of Attorney General's Office, Wilkes-Barre police and U.S. Marshals ...
Mark Arthur Ciavarella Jr. (born March 3, 1950) is an American convicted felon and former President Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, who was involved, along with fellow judge Michael Conahan, in the "kids for cash" scandal in 2008, [4] for which he was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison in 2011.