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Despite two Republican challengers, David Madeira took aim Tuesday at the top competition in the 10th U.S. Congressional District - incumbent Democrat U.S. Rep.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this The Municipality of Kingston reminds residents there will be no parking on the even numbered sides of streets from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and no parking on the odd numbered sides of the streets from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Gov. Edward Rendell has nominated two attorneys to serve as judges on the Luzerne County bench, Lewis Wood Wetzel of Dallas and Joseph Van Jura of Kingston.

WYOMING Wyoming Borough Mayor Robert Boyer said he knows the importance of mutual aid for West Side emergency agencies.

Five people are arrested in a Kingston operation after long surveillance. KINGSTON Undercover narcotic officers captured a Philadelphia man allegedly peddling heroin inside the jungle gym at a Hamilton Avenue playground.

Police on Friday charged a group of alleged Philadelphia-based drug dealers that controlled much of the heroin trade on the West Side of the Wyoming Valley and pushed their drugs in school zones or playgrounds.

A tentative trial date has been set for a northeastern Pennsylvania man whose property had as many as 12 bodies buried on it.

Armed police officers and police dogs entered a home following the arrests of five people suspected of dealing drugs at a playground.

After spending more than a year and a half in prison on charges he raped and impregnated a mentally challenged woman, Peter D. Flanagan walked out of the Luzerne County Correctional Facility on Wednesday as a free man.

Peter Flanagan speaks to reporters after the verdict. Bob Kalinowski / The Citizens' Voice Doctor testifies consent unlikely in rape case A Luzerne County jury has acquitted a Kingston man of allegations he sexually assaulted a mentally challenged woman in 2008.

The trial of a Kingston man accused of raping and impregnating a mentally challenged woman in 2008 may hinge on whether a jury believes she was capable of consenting to sex.

Closing arguments come Wednesday morning for a man on trial for raping and impregnating a mentally challenged woman in Luzerne County.

Council voted Monday to support a proposal that could help something positive eventually come from the long-abandoned West Side Landfill.

KINGSTON The Luzerne County Government Study Commission voted on Wednesday night to proceed with the development of a new county government charter that includes the position of an appointed manager to oversee operations.

KINGSTON A New York City man was arrested Saturday on heroin trafficking charges.

A Kingston man charged Friday with possessing dozens of sexually explicit images of children as young as 5 years old told investigators he adopted a "drug-like" addiction to child pornography after accidentally viewing images a few months ago and becoming "aroused." Christopher M. Hoyson, 25, of 257 Rutter Ave., is charged with 64 counts of ...

A robber got away with some cash from a clothing store in Luzerne County. Kingston police say the robber walked into Talbot's in the United Penn Plaza around 1 p.m. Friday and demanded money.

Frank Klug says his Kingston property is worth double what the county wants to pay him.

The Luzerne County Commissioners reappointed Timothy Ference of Conyngham and Stephen Urban of Wilkes-Barre to the Luzerne Conservation District Board of Directors.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] WILKES-BARRE Luzerne County commissioners voted today to hire Randi Audi-Davis as the director of human resources.