Beaver Meadows News

For about three-quarters of her young life, Kendra Moyer has needed a new liver.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Beaver Meadows - Ss. Peter and Paul Byzantine Catholic Church pirohi workers will make pirohi today at 9 a.m. New helpers are welcome.

Luzerne County officials had a conference Monday with representatives from five companies interested in providing a day-reporting center for prison inmates, County Manager/Chief Clerk Doug Pape said.

The cause of a fire that severely damaged an apartment building at the corner of North Lehigh Avenue and Spring Street on Saturday afternoon appears to be accidental, state and local fire officials determined.

If residents in Lehigh and Lausanne townships are concerned about coverage by the L&L Volunteer Fire Company, they should know that the firefighters in those areas are doing the best they can with the available manpower, a former fire company chief said.

Ellen O'Connell/Staff Photographer Kayla Perez, 12, above, receives a plate full of traditional Thanksgiving food provided by Commission on Economic Opportunities volunteers from left, Frank Diccicco, Sean Williams, Laure Hess and Renee Rutski on Thursday in St.

HAZLE TWP. State police at Hazleton said they captured a fugitive from Maryland while investigating a vehicle crash on Airport Roadway on Tuesday.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] The owner of a Swoyersville carpeting company has agreed to plead guilty to installing carpeting in the home of a Wilkes-Barre Area School board member in return for the member's support in securing a school district contract, federal prosecutors announced today.

ELLEN O'CONNELL/Staff Photographer Beaver Meadows Police Chief Michael Morresi looks over documents confiscated during a routine traffic stop with Ambrosio Perez-Vasquez and Jose Savel Torres-Yanez. Beaver Meadows Police Chief Michael Morresi takes his job seriously.

The old house recently demolished in Beaver Meadows was built in 1846 by the son of a War of 1812 veteran, according to an ancestor who now owns the property.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] The illegal immigrant who Beaver Meadows police learned had been using a fake driver's license and Social Security number when his vehicle was stopped in July is free on bail.