Sheena Delazio

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sdelazio@timesleader.com

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Sheena has been working at the TL since 2005 and graduated from Luzerne County Community College with an associates degree in journalism and King's College with a bachelors degree in mass communications. Sheena started here as an intern, and has done everything from obits to archiving and reporting, and now covers the Luzerne County Courthouse for the TL.

Sheena also writes a regular blog for timesleader.com. Click here to check it out.

Latest Articles by Sheena Delazio

November 20, 2009

Jury finds attackers guilty

WILKES-BARRE – Martha and Nicholas Caputo sat just a few feet away from the men they say attacked them in their Hazleton home just over one year ago and listened as a jury foreman read a verdict of guilty for each of the eight counts brought against the attackers.

November 20, 2009

Judge’s bias alleged in bid to overturn award

WILKES-BARRE – Attorneys for a Hazleton-based law firm said in court papers filed this week that a former county judge was biased when he presided over a legal malpractice trial that awarded the plaintiffs $3.4 million.

November 20, 2009

Guilty verdict in Hazleton home invasion

Daniel Pinkney, 22, of West Hazleton, and Kevin Fisher, 27, of Hazleton, were both found guilty on eight counts including aggravted assault, robbery and burglary in a Hazleton home invasion case from November 5, 2008.

November 19, 2009

Jury will decide in Hazleton beating

WILKES-BARRE – A Luzerne County jury today will begin deliberating the fate of two men prosecutors say assaulted a prominent elderly Hazleton couple in their home last year.

November 19, 2009

Local man ‘guilty’ of child rape

WILKES-BARRE – A Kingston man was found guilty Thursday of raping a 12-year-old girl last August.

November 18, 2009

Woman tells of home ‘nightmare’

WILKES-BARRE – Martha Caputo took the witness stand Wednesday and talked about the nightmare she and her husband experienced at their Hazleton home just over a year ago.

November 17, 2009

Prosecutor: Home was violated

WILKES-BARRE – Home will never feel the same for a Hazleton couple beaten in a home invasion, Luzerne County Deputy District Attorney David Pedri said Tuesday during his opening statement at the trial of the alleged assailants.

November 17, 2009

Expunged record lessens penalty in death

WILKES-BARRE – A Nanticoke man who was sentenced Tuesday to two to four years in state prison on a charge of involuntary manslaughter and an unrelated drug charge could have faced a harsher sentence had his juvenile record not been expunged.

November 16, 2009

Up to 6 1/2 years for robbing store

WILKES-BARRE – A Kingston man was sentenced Monday to up to 6 1/2 years in state prison on charges he robbed a local convenience store at knife point in January.

November 16, 2009

Girl again testifies that man raped her last year

WILKES-BARRE – A 13-year-old girl testified Monday that she would tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth – again – about the night that then 24-year-old Jerome Windley allegedly raped her.