Nanticoke News

The Nanticoke City Police Department is seeking the public's help in locating a man accused in a city burglary and suspected of using stolen credits cards in stores in Hazleton.

As part of a budget day extravaganza, the Senate gave final approval Tuesday to a county-option Marcellus Shale drilling impact fee that provides some revenue for statewide environmental programs and state review of local zoning rules.

Gov. Tom Corbett's proposals to cut state aid for higher education immediately hit a sour note with lawmakers of both parties.

Bob Kalinowski / The Citizens' Voice The state police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement cited Prospect Street Cafe in Nanticoke with six violations on Monday for incidents throughout the last year, including on New Year's Day, when a woman was severly slashed in the face and neck.

A bill that establishes a county-option Marcellus Shale drilling impact fee and provides some revenue for statewide environmental programs cleared a hurdle Monday with approval from a special legislative committee.

The exhibit "Colors of the Season" is on display at the Schulman Gallery of Luzerne County Community College, 1333 S. Prospect St., Nanticoke.

If the doorbell went unanswered, Chernowsky walked to a rear door, allegedly using a credit card to force it open.

A Nanticoke man admitted to police that he burglarized a home in the Ridgeview section of Newport Township and tried to rob several others.

The college, based in Nanticoke, is on probationary status over concerns expressed by accrediting body Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

The Dunmore School Board commended a young physics teacher for her acceptance in a National Science Teachers Association program at Wednesday's meeting.

A Nanticoke man arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct at a city bar left his children home alone, under "God's" supervision, police said.

The woman charged with two high-profile crimes in the last week - burglarizing a dead man's home and stealing a family's presents on Christmas Eve - agreed to plead guilty to one of the cases while in court Wednesday.

Kristen Mullen / The Citizens' Voice Students Ryan Little, left, of Lancaster, and Bob Venesky, of Carrolltown, stand with a group Wednesday near the Nittany Lion statue on the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus.

"Colors of the Season" is on display through Feb. 23 at Luzerne County Community College's Schulman Gallery in Nanticoke.

BARRE TWP. A man facing unrelated trespass and assault charges was arraigned Monday on allegations he threatened to stab a woman.

BARRE A second lawsuit has been filed against a Nanticoke bar and its owner in which a Mountain Top man says he was injured in a New Year's Eve incident that also resulted in the face of his friend being severely slashed.

Cara Asay, 29, and her boyfriend, Bradley A. Everett, 27, both of Nanticoke, were charged this morning in connection with a burglary at a Lee Park Avenue home.

BARRE Applicants seeking funding from a $2.15 million settlement resulting from the Luzerne County juvenile justice corruption case will come from a variety of agencies and organizations.

In another year, the sound of snowblowers might have been familiar in mid-January, but on Saturday morning the hum was remarkable.

On a frigid, snowy day, Mike Arnold had a pretty good reason to be standing in a vacant lot in the Crestwood Industrial Complex.