Nanticoke News

NANTICOKE Thanksgiving is taking on a new whole meaning for some in the wake of the death last week of U.S. Naval Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian M. Patton.

BUTLER TWP. Township police said they recovered what they believe to be stolen merchandise from a house where a man allegedly held a teen girl hostage on Sunday.

A sailor from Luzerne County is dead, killed this week in the Middle East while serving his country.

A man wanted by city police was arrested Saturday morning for allegedly breaking into a vehicle for the second time in one week.

A former Luzerne County correctional officer who was sentenced last month for stealing a pair of women's underwear has been charged with selling prescription painkillers.

Police say they've seized more than 1,000 marijuana plants, three pounds of processed marijuana and about $100,000 in cash in a bust in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

CAROLYN KASTER/Associated Press A detail of a map showing the Interstate 80 preliminary toll locations is on display during a news conference at the Capitol in Harrisburg in August 2008.

Could the Luzerne County corruption scandal be working in favor of some criminals? That is the question after a sentencing controversy.

A man from Luzerne County is going to prison for a fight that killed a man in Wilkes-Barre. Zireek Gardner of Nanticoke was sentenced Tuesday morning to two to four years in prison.

Ryan Verazin, a district graduate, will serve as school board member through 2011.

As Reading seeks state protection as a distressed city, leaders of communities now in the program say it does help.

Now serving a 14-to-28-year sentence, Joseph Eckrote admits to taking fuel. WILKES-BARRE A Nanticoke man convicted of kidnapping and rape charges who entered a guilty plea to an unrelated theft case was sentenced Tuesday to one to two years in state prison.

J. Toure McCluskey resigned recently. Commissioners are seeking applicants. NANTICOKE The relocation of a Luzerne County Community College Board of Trustees member has opened a seat on the body that makes policy for the college.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Walter L. Griffith Jr. After years of being a citizen watchdog and critic of local government spending, Walter L. Griffith Jr.

The Greater Nanticoke Area School District began providing free H1N1 vaccine Friday to its students in an attempt to ward off a major swine flu outbreak.

Democrat Dottie "Stanky" Stankovic has apparently won her fifth term as Luzerne County register of wills, according to unofficial results from Tuesday's election.

Downtown buildings begin to fall to make room for LCCC's Culinary Arts Institute.

But don't let that fool you Vice, a 20-month-old German Shepherd, is not a warm and cuddly puppy.

A liquor control enforcement officer was suspended without pay on Friday when he was accused of giving a Plymouth Township tavern information about an impending raid.

Just in time for Halloween, I discovered my own grave today. Apparently I died in November 1918, age 31, and am buried in some little town in Pennsylvania.