Wapwallopen News

Butler Twp. police allege man cut himself while breaking into Mary's Restaurant on Route 309.

Township police say they captured a man suspected in burglarizing a restaurant sitting in the middle of North Hunter Highway waving a white towel Wednesday night.

Police in Luzerne County caught a burglary suspect less than five hours after it happened.

When the sawdust settled, Luzerne County's Dennis Beach and his partner from Mississippi had bested 16 other competitors in the sixth annual Husky Cup chain saw carving competition, held May 29-June 1 in Dresden, Germany.

The casino and racetrack was the venue for the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute's 17th annual Cancer Survivors Celebration.

DORRANCE TWP. A representative of Phillips Landscaping reported that a 1996 New Holland Skid Steer Loader was stolen sometime in February from its job site on Sandwedge Drive in Alberdeen Acres, according to state police The Wapwallopen company also reported that various landscaping tools were stolen from the site, state police reported.

Vineyards and wineries are fast becoming part of the landscape from the Delaware River west to the Susquehanna and beyond.

Anglers, canoeists and kayakers congregating around a dirt road near the Susquehanna River gave Shickshinny Mayor Beverly Moore the idea for putting in a better boat launch.

A 20-year-old Wapwallopen man led a winding, high-speed chase through the streets and woods of Newport Twp.

Ice blamed in crash Joshua Gerner, 30, of Ithaca, N.Y., escaped injury when he lost control of his car on Interstate 81 in Butler Township, Schuylkill County, after sliding on a patch of ice and striking a ...

The 9-week-old puppy boldly barked at the older dogs which towered over her while happily wagging her tiny tail.