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Font size: [A] [A] [A] Fire destroyed an unoccupied single home at 227 Ridge Ave.

Deliberations start today in the case against 2 men in the home invasion beating of the Caputos.

Doug Richards, former Luzerne County director of human resources, won't get a $4,850.68 payment for unused vacation time until an internal investigation is completed, Solicitor Vito DeLuca said Thursday.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] MARK MORAN/Staff Photographer Nicholas and Martha Caputo leave the Luzerne County Courthouse on Thursday afternoon.

JAMIE PESOTINE/Staff File Photo Satellite dishes sit on rooftops along Carson Street in Hazleton in March.

PENNSYLVANIA STATE Trooper Andrea Young just wanted a promotion. So the 13-year veteran - her smarts already proved as a Mensa member - took the Pennsylvania State Police's promotions exam, scoring sixth out of 2,000 test-takers. But, despite her scores and an unblemished disciplinary record, her bosses passed her over for promotion.

HAZLE TWP. An Ebervale man was killed Tuesday night in a one-vehicle crash off Route 940, said state police at Hazleton .

NICK MEYER/Staff Photographer "The Butterfly Guy" Rick Mikula shows off his butterfly costume to kindergarteners at John S. Clarke Elementary School, Pottsville, in 2006.

An on-going project to refill an abandoned mine in Hazleton that has raised controversy over the years is back in the spotlight.

As the cloth was slowly pulled away, it revealed a symbol meant to encourage people not to forget the ultimate sacrifice some servicemen and women have made.

A fire that police are saying was deliberately set destroyed a building that was to open as a furniture store in Middle Smithfield Township.

Weatherly Area School District on Saturday will hold the first of three free H1N1 vaccination clinics in November.

Lewis E. Crawley had been the subject of a protection-from-abuse order and probation, records show.

Detective work began Tuesday when a girl at the Valley/Elementary Middle School showed an insect bite to the school nurse.

Any job that requires a permit in West Hazleton may cost a little more with borough council's adoption Tuesday of an updated permit fee schedule.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this A man smashed the front door of Puff & Stuff on North Fourth Street in West Hazleton on Tuesday morning and made off with cigarettes and cash, state police at Hazleton said.

A father in Luzerne County is upset after hearing what he calls offensive and violent language coming from his four year old son's toy.

The law firm of Robert J. Powell, who has pleaded guilty to paying $770,000 in kickbacks to two county judges in the kids-for-cash scandal, has been dropped from a civil-rights suit filed by hundreds of juveniles who served time in a detention center that he once owned.

Drivers will face fines if they are caught texting while driving under legislation introduced Monday that attempts to make highways safer.

A small, one story cabin in Lehigh Township, was destroyed by fire, late Saturday night.