Hazleton News

A Luzerne County man who was convicted of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing a man at a busy Hazleton intersection in January 2011 was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole and another 20 to 40 years for conspiracy to commit homicide, city police said.

Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say they have confirmed that the shooting deaths of a man and woman over the weekend were a murder-suicide. State police in Carbon County said the bodies of 33-year-old Christopher Lewis and 31-year-old Dana Lewis were found in the Nesquehoning residence on Saturday morning.

Hazleton Standard Speaker File Aerial shot of the Luzerne County Industrial School for Boys in Drums.

LANDLORDS MEET: Tuesday, at 7:30 p.m., the Wyoming Valley Real Estate Investors Association meets at the Ramada Inn on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre. The speaker for this evening will be Ben Corby, an association board member.

Dwight Williams, 217 Eastview Drive, Wilkes-Barre, jailed for nine months for failure to pay $480 in support of two children; jailed for nine months for failure to pay $10,614 in support of one child.

Officers said Luis Gonzalez of Hazelton drove recklessly and was speeding when his car went off the road in Hazleton last October.

Hazleton, Luzerne County-Police continue to warn senior citizens to be on the lookout -after another purse snatching in Hazleton.

As local high schools and colleges begin to release students for summer vacation, police and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials temporarily seized Public Square on Tuesday to spread awareness of the newly revived "Click It or Ticket" program.

Nearly a dozen arsons are under investigation in Williamsport. Monday night the community came together to create a plan to stop it.

A man attacked her last Tuesday as she walked to her car in downtown Hazleton. Eyewitness News is not giving her last name for safety reasons.

One of the two Allentown brothers accused of burglarizing more than 100 businesses in five Pennsylvania counties pleaded guilty today in Lehigh County court.

The latest happened at about 7:35 a.m. Saturday, as a 67-year-old Hazleton woman was returning home from a bank in the area of South Laurel and Hemlock streets, city police said.

Hazleton, Luzerne County- Police are investigating an crash involving the Hazleton Police Chief.

A Nanuet landlord is accused of stealing nearly $7,000 from two tenants by taking tax refund checks from their mailbox and paying a tenant at a Pennsylvania property to cash the checks, according to Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe.

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On one side of the courtroom Thursday, a father said goodbye to his children. On the other side, a father mourned one of his.

Grand Central has closed its second location on Business Route 309 in Wilkes-Barre Twp.

A Nanticoke man has filed a civil lawsuit against the Hazleton Area School District, alleging he was passed over for a job because of his age.

At 1:56 a.m. on Tuesday, police responded to a call at 704 University Dr., where a Century safe had been burglarized from the residence.

ELLEN F. O'CONNELL / times-shamrock A motorist stops for gas Monday at the UniMart on South Church Street in Hazleton.