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The county's policy is to pay employees for unused sick, vacation and personal time off in their final paycheck.

Hot country-pop singer Jessie James, who opened several dates for the Jonas Brothers on their world tour, will headline a free show Saturday to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza, Wilkes-Barre. James, 21, who canceled a show last month at Allentown's Crocodile Rock CafA© and much of the rest of her ...

A new ordinance in Luzerne is on the books to stop people from talking on the mobile devices while driving.

State Supreme Court today ordered a new trial in the case of Luzerne Countian Thomas Joseph against the Citizens Voice.

Judge Peter Paul Olszewski, seeking retention as Common Pleas Judge, was rejected by Luzerne County voters by nearly 10 percentage points.

KINGSTON Luzerne Intermediate Unit Executive Director Michael Ostrowski alternated between cracking his trademark corny jokes and choking back tears during a farewell at the board meeting Wednesday.

After only a few years of obscene dereliction of duty, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has put a Band-Aid on the malignant cancer it blithely let grow in Luzerne County.

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The Luzerne-Wyoming Counties Mental Health/Mental Retardation Program, together with the Intellectual Disabilities Training Council, recently held training on the prevention, detection and treatment of H1N1 swine flu virus.

Tina Polachek Gartley, judicial candidate in Luzerne County, talks to Corbett about her ideas to make the courts more accountable.

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Like the time a lifeguard ran over her while she tanned on a beach and doctors said she would never walk.

Sometimes crimes are so unconscionable that they beg the crucial question: How could this happen? In the notorious "kids for cash" scandal in Luzerne County, that question was posed last week in Harrisburg.

EDWARDSVILLE: The Family Caregivers Support Group will have its meeting from 1-3 p.m. today at the Edwardsville Senior Center, Russell Street.

Share + Oct 18, 2009 1:42 pm US/Eastern MARC LEVY, Associated Press Writer HARRISBURG, Pa.

BERWICK: The Berwick Area Chapter of AARP will meet Wednesday at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

The juvenile justice system in Luzerne County failed on many levels, leading to a scandal that resulted in two judges facing criminal charges for sending children to a detention facility in which they had a financial interest, the head of a commission reviewing the case said today.

A Luzerne County official who was expected to resign Tuesday has been suspended.

Associated Press File Angered by the prospect of disappearing paychecks, state workers protested in July on the steps on the Capitol in Harrisburg.