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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 double murder-suicide unfolded on the icy streets of a quiet community north of Wilkes-Barre Monday morning, while most East Coast residents were digging themselves out after the weekend’s ...
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was born on August 30, 1952, and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. [11] He married and had two children. [12] He was given a dishonorable discharge from the United States Army in July 1975, after being released from prison for his conviction of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in Stuttgart, West Germany, in April 1974. [13]
Nov. 10—WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Army Veteran Ronald Skamanich, volunteer curator of memorabilia at the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center, said veterans come up to him all the time and say they have ...
Jon Carman was born in December 1944 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to Jack and Loretta Carsman. By age eight, Carsman's parents approached Niccolo Cortiglia (1893–1982), a local artist and art instructor to provide lessons for their prodigious son. Cortiglia described the young Carsman as having, "golden fingers." [2] [1]
May 2—WILKES-BARRE — An autopsy was unable to reveal how Debra J. Fox, whose body was found in a wooded area near Exit 1 of the North Cross Valley Expressway on March 26, died. The 69-year-old ...
The Susquehanna River and Wilkes-Barre Downtown Wilkes-Barre at night The Stegmaier Federal Building Roth Residence Hall McClintock Hall, built in 1841 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2 ), of which 6.8 square miles (18 km 2 ) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2 ), or 4.60%, is water.
William H. Davis (1 August 1900 – 5 December 1955) was an American politician. William H. Davis was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 1 August 1900 to parents John Davis and Janet Owen. Upon graduating from James M. Coughlin High School , Davis enrolled at La Salle Extension University to study accounting.