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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Budget amendment forwarded
A majority of Luzerne County Council on Monday advanced a 2012 budget amendment that raises taxes 2 percent and uses $1.4 million borrowed for capital projects to help repay debt.Dallas tabs new top coach
DALLAS TWP. – As Dallas High School parents, players and assistant coaches made one final appeal to keep Ted Jackson on Monday night, the man destined to replace one of the Wyoming Valley Conference’s most successful football coaches sat quietly.Shale affects homeless veterans
HARRISBURG – The ranks of homeless veterans are growing, and a state Senate committee Monday heard testimony that the Marcellus Shale industry is making the problem worse.Nanticoke bar cited with multiple violations
NANTICOKE – A tavern where police say a woman was slashed in the face early on New Year’s Day was cited with multiple violations by state police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement.Rodger Wesley Killian
Rodger Wesley Killian, of Shickshinny, went home to be with the Lord and his savior on Sunday, February 5, 2012 at Geisinger Hospital ICU, Danville. He was surrounded by his family and friends.FUNERALS
CHROPOWICKI – June, Mass of Christian Burial 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in Holy Rosary Church, Duryea. Friends may call 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Bernard J. Piontek Funeral Home Inc., 204 Main St., Duryea. Family and friends are asked to go directly to the church the morning of the funeral.Fickle finger of blame
NEW YORK — Less than a second stood between British singer M.I.A. giving the finger to 114 million people watching the Super Bowl halftime show and no one noticing at all.W-B Area to pick distinguished scholars
WILKES-BARRE – The era of multiple valedictorians in each high school of Wilkes-Barre Area is set to end, with the School Board planning a vote Wednesday on a new system that would name only one valedictorian and one salutatorian at each school, giving other high academic achievers the new title of “distinguished scholars.”Forty Fort mulls manager
FORTY FORT – Borough council on Monday voted to amend and re-advertise a proposed ordinance to create a borough manager position – a job for which the council president said he might or might not apply.Tilbury Terrace Road fate discussed
PLYMOUTH TWP.-- At Monday’s meeting, the Board of Supervisors discussed the fate of Tilbury Terrace Road, which was badly damaged by flooding.Swoyersville official is criticized
SWOYERSVILLE -- The maintenance and cleanup of a rental property on Main Street was once again a topic of discussion at borough council’s meeting on Monday Night.W-B Twp. extends pact with Trans-Med
WILKES-BARRE TWP. -- Council passed a resolution on Monday night to extend the township’s agreement with Trans-Med Ambulance Inc. for 72 months.Kingston gives authority to fire dept. to bill insurance providers
KINGSTON -- Council passed a measure Monday allowing the Kingston Municipal Fire Department, which shares responsibilities with the Forty Fort Borough Fire Department, to bill the insurance providers of individuals to recover costs for certain services.Click - Monday, February, 6, 2012
Ian Finnegan, 4, of Edwardsville, calls to a playmate Monday as he climbs on the bars at the playground at Kirby Park in Wilkes-Barre. Ian was enjoying another unseasonably warm winter day. Slightly colder temperatures are forecast for today with some light snow predicted for Wednesday. For weather details, see Page 10B.
County deputy sheriff denies charges
WILKES-BARRE – A Luzerne County deputy sheriff is denying charges that she threatened her former domestic partner at a tavern on Blackman Street.Dramatic cuts in Pa. state budget expected
HARRISBURG — Top state senators say they expect Gov. Tom Corbett to propose a budget plan today that relies on cuts in spending for education and social services to balance sluggish tax collections and the rising costs of pensions and debt.Woman charged in gun thefts, forgery captured
KINGSTON – A woman who eluded authorities for 18 months on charges she stole guns during a burglary and cashed forged checks was captured last week by state police in Northampton County.Man is sentenced on firearms charges
WILKES-BARRE – A White Haven man was sentenced Monday to two to six years in state prison on charges he attempted to sell several guns and participated in the burglary of a home to obtain guns that could be sold to support a heroin addiction.TV ad role for area man
New York Giants fullback Henry Hynoski and Chris Snee weren’t the only people connected to Northeastern Pennsylvania to have big days on Super Bowl Sunday.Conahan ruling is overturned
The state Superior Court has overturned a disgraced Luzerne County judge’s ruling regarding a controversial uninsured motorist arbitration case that resulted in a $500,000 award to a man who blamed a “phantom” vehicle for causing a car crash.New recycling system is hailed
WILKES-BARRE – Wilkes-Barre’s first day of “single-stream recycling” was a success, city spokesman Drew McLaughlin said, with residents “putting out a tremendous amount of materials they ordinarily didn’t put out.”Top court asked to hear issue on Banks
Prosecutors have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a court ruling that deemed mass murderer George Banks incompetent to be executed.W-B Twp. Fire Dept. gets deadline to release records
WILKES-BARRE TWP. – The township volunteer fire department has until the end of the month to release its financial records and any donations received from 2006, according to a ruling by the state Office of Open Records.Rohrer says he’s best choice for conservatives
What he lacks in money, U.S. Senate candidate Sam Rohrer says he makes up in enthusiasm among supporters and a grassroots campaign and track record that he believes make him best suited to defeat Sen. Bob Casey in the general election.Man pleads guilty to inappropriate contact
WILKES-BARRE – A Mocanaqua man pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he had inappropriate contact two young girls.Judge considers challenges to use of ’01 state legislative maps
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge is mulling challenges to the use of Pennsylvania’s 2001 legislative district maps in this year’s elections after the state Supreme Court rejected the state’s legislative redistricting plan.U.S. shutters embassy in Syria
BEIRUT — The U.S. closed its Syrian embassy Monday and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus in a dramatic escalation of Western pressure on President Bashar Assad to give up power, just days after diplomatic efforts at the United Nations to end the crisis collapsed.GOP votes today in Minn., Colo.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Sensing a possible threat, Mitt Romney criticized Rick Santorum’s time in the Senate as “not effective” because of his past support for spending on pork-barrel projects as he worked to fend off an unexpected challenge in the next states to vote.Iran’s Central Bank is sanctioned
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama levied tough new sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank on Monday amid increased tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program and the specter of an Israeli attack on the Islamic republic.Officials: Dad planned fire that killed boys
GRAHAM, Wash. — Josh Powell planned the house fire that killed him and his young sons for some time, dropping toys at a charity over the weekend and sending final emails to several acquaintances in the minutes before the blaze, authorities said Monday.Staff to be removed during probe at LA school
The Los Angeles school superintendent says the entire staff at an elementary school where two teachers were arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct will be removed while the school district investigates.
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