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WILKES-BARRE – Nearly 100 city residents on Thursday took the first step toward making Wilkes-Barre a better, safer place for children, teenagers and everyone else to live: They got …
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By STEVE MOCARSKY
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5/25/12
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WYOMING – Herbert Hall lived in harmony near the Wyoming Valley Airport for three decades, but an increasing number of low-flying aircraft over his neighborhood the last few years prompted him …
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By By JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES
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5/25/12
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SCRANTON – The owners of The Times Leader have filed a federal lawsuit against the media company’s former publisher and chief executive officer, Richard Connor, alleging he has failed to …
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By TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER
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5/25/12
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WILKES-BARRE – In an unusual twist to what, for most school boards, is often a formality, the Wilkes-Barre Area School Board unanimously rejected a preliminary budget that called for a 2.4 …
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By MARK GUYDISH
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5/25/12
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HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Corbett’s top aide is leaving his job as the first-term Republican battles criticism over his cost-cutting agenda and his ability to forge policy and broadcast a …
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By By MARC LEVY, Associated Press
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5/25/12
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WILKES-BARRE – A husband and wife charged over their alleged roles in manufacturing and trafficking methamphetamine in Luzerne and Columbia counties will stand trial on several related charges …
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By SHEENA DELAZIO
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5/25/12
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WILKES-BARRE – Attorneys for a teen charged in the December 2009 shooting death of his great-grandfather asked a judge in court papers Thursday to prevent prosecutors from performing a second …
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By SHEENA DELAZIO
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5/25/12
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HARRISBURG — Area businessman Louis DeNaples says a financing agreement should allow him to cut his ties to a casino that he built, but lost control of after being charged with perjury.
The …
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By The Associated Press
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5/25/12
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WILKES-BARRE – A Luzerne County judge on Thursday denied the county’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Chief Public Defender Al Flora.
In a one-page order, Senior Judge Joseph …
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By TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER
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5/25/12
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Luzerne County Councilman Stephen A. Urban said the county’s 2012 tax hike provides grounds to reject prison union pay raises this year.
Prison union head Tom Borum disagrees with the …
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By JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES
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5/25/12
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PITTSTON TWP. – Officials at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, having already saved more than $150,000 by rebidding a parking lot expansion project, have reduced the cost of the …
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By ANDREW M. SEDER
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5/25/12
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SHICKSHINNY – A Harveys Lake man having money problems robbed three banks in the area since November, two with a pellet gun and the other with a balloon filled with ammonia, according to …
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By EDWARD LEWIS
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5/25/12
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DUPONT – A woman was arraigned Thursday in Wilkes-Barre Central Court on charges she attempted to disarm a police officer investigating a disturbance on Main Street.
Tiffany Ann Horner, 33, …
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By EDWARD LEWIS
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5/25/12
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WILKES-BARRE – City council on Thursday agreed to extend the settlement date for the sale of the former Old River Road Bakery building until the middle of next month.
The original date of …
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By JERRY LYNOTT
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5/25/12
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An attorney for a shareholder who is suing First National Community Bancorp claims a committee the bank formed to investigate allegations against board members is flawed because it includes a person …
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By TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER
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5/24/12
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WILKES-BARRE TWP. -- All the graduates at the Luzerne County Community College commencement on Thursday night looked proud as they marched into the Mohegan Sun Arena, but nursing students stood out. …
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By SUSAN DENNEY Times Leader Correspondent
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5/24/12
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WILKES-BARRE – Fresh off a second-place finish in designing a Mars habitat from rolled up newspaper and plastic wrap, Hanover Area Junior/Senior High School’s “team 2” built …
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By MARK GUYDISH
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5/24/12
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WRIGHT TWP. -- The Crestwood School Board voted overwhelmingly before a packed house on Thursday to adopt a tentative 2012-2013 budget that includes faculty furloughs, program cuts and …
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By STEVEN FONDO Times Leader Correspondent
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5/24/12
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HUNLOCK TWP. – Who needs the fake catastrophes of a “Men in Black” sequel or “Avengers” blockbuster (both playing today, by the way)? Kim and Doug Barbachi faced the …
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By MARK GUYDISH
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5/24/12
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SHICKSHINNY – A Harveys Lake man having money problems robbed three banks in the area since November, two with a pellet gun and the other with a balloon filled with ammonia, according to charges filed.
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By EDWARD LEWIS
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5/24/12
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