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President Joe Biden this week granted clemency to a former Luzerne County judge convicted in the infamous “kids for cash” scheme to send children to for-profit detention centers in exchange ...
Apr. 29—WILKES-BARRE — Chris Huntzinger, 117th District Committee Chair, has been elected temporary Chairman of the Republican Party of Luzerne County. The Luzerne County Republican Executive ...
Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations the 82-year-old lame-duck president granted in the ...
A message seeking comment was sent to an attorney who recently represented Conahan, the former president judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Conahan and Judge Mark Ciavarella shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from a ...
luzerne county – county seat: wilkes-barre Meanwhile, in Luzerne County, anchored by Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton , Republicans recently shocked observers in September by becoming a majority there.
Luzerne County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. According to the United States Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 906 square miles (2,350 km 2 ), of which 890 square miles (2,300 km 2 ) is land and 16 square miles (41 km 2 ) is water.
Oct. 25—WILKES-BARRE — A Luzerne County jury Thursday convicted a Wilkes-Barre man of touching a then 9-year-old girl for sexual gratification after attending a Godsmack concert at Montage in ...
Luzerne is a borough located 5 miles (8 km) north of Wilkes Barre in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,703 at the time of the 2020 census. [ 3 ]