Tunkhannock News

Many have had to do just that in a trailer community built by the Federal Government and although families are grateful for the help their lives have been turned upside down.

State police at Tunkhannock said a father and his 3-year-old daughter were killed in a two vehicle crash on West Nicholson Road, Wyoming County, Wednesday morning.

Many students at the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus Tuesday didn't know about the potential effect Gov.

Gathering to discuss Mended Hearts Inc.'s 16th annual dinner-dance, scheduled Saturday, Feb.

A 50-year-old Tunkhannock man faces a maximum of 60 years in prison and a $120,000 fine after pleading guilty Friday in Wyoming County Court to stalking and making terroristic threats against a former girlfriend.

His 32 calves had a chance to survive. His historic barn did not. Fighting heavy smoke and spreading fire, the 61-year-old rushed into the burning barn to unleash each calf from its stall, one by one.

The oft-delayed trial of murder defendant Hugo Selenski is off again, postponed until Sept.

The District 9 PA Trappers Association Coyote Hunt kicked off Friday with hunters in the region taking to the woods hoping to bag a coyote.

The state Department of Environmental Protection filed a "Notice of Violation" recently against the Tunkhannock Municipal Authority for allowing a petroleum product to enter the borough's sewage treatment collection system.

A 50-year-old Tunkhannock man faces a maximum of 60 years in prison and a $120,000 fine after pleading guilty Friday in Wyoming County Court to stalking and making terroristic threats against a former girlfriend.

In a move officials hope will improve physician recruitment and patient service, eight hospitals owned by Community Health Services Inc.

LANDLORDS HELPING LANDLORDS: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Ramada Inn on Public Square, Wilkes-Barre. Speaker Barry Williams will discuss changes in tax law for the upcoming filing season as it relates to landlords and real estate investors.

A new Habitat for Humanity home for a family in Wyoming County is finally finished after building was delayed by flooding in September.

The state Department of Transportation will continue to repair flood-damaged roads in Wyoming County from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday next week.

The FBI and state police in Tunkhannock are investigating an armed robbery at First Liberty Bank & Trust at Routes 309 and 29 around 5:50 p.m. Friday.

After she watched a feisty maid give a mean-spirited society woman her comeuppance in "The Help," Yvonne Cooper of Tunkhannock walked out of the theater feeling certain.

Brian Wrightson, emergency services director of the Red Cross of Lackawanna County, said it was not clear whether the man had been living in the old Lithia Valley Hotel on Route 6, which went up in flames shortly after midnight.

Jackson Township Board of Supervisors chairman Jack Rader Jr. has announced he will be a candidate to take over the 176th District House of Representatives.

Tunkhannock Middle School student Daniel Shannon likes video games, reality T.V. game shows, action figures, swimming and playing piano.

SUGAR: A Borrowed Landscape , the PopUp Studio's premier event, Saturday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m. at The Connell Building, 129 Washington Ave., Scranton.