Terrie Morgan-Besecker

Terrie Morgan-Besecker covers City News for the Times Leader. Reach her at (570) 970-7179 or tmorgan@timesleader.com.

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Terrie Morgan-Besecker / City News

LCCC contractor did work for Skrepenak

    Post a Comment - 10/7/2008 1:00 AM EDT

    The president of a company awarded a $1.6 million contract to oversee Luzerne County Community College’s construction projects acknowledged he remodeled a room in Luzerne County Commissioner Greg Skrepenak’s home several years ago, but insisted he and Skrepenak are not friends.

Recent Columns

  • LCCC construction company not formed when pact signed - 10/5/2008 1:00 AM EDT
    The contract Luzerne County Community College signed with Precept Associates LLC to oversee $20 million in construction projects was inked before the firm was legally recognized as a company, state records show.

  • LCCC pact called ‘open checkbook’ - 10/4/2008 1:00 AM EDT
    The no-bid contract Luzerne County Community College awarded to a company overseeing $20 million in construction projects allows for the firm to collect a fee that is four times the amount charged by firms that recently signed contracts for similar-sized projects in the county.

  • Ex-guard’s disability claim dropped - 10/2/2008 1:00 AM EDT
    WILKES-BARRE – A federal judge has dismissed a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act that was filed by a former Luzerne County prison guard who was fired after he allegedly showed up for work intoxicated.

  • Powell brothers verdict upheld - 10/1/2008 1:00 AM EDT
    WILKES-BARRE – While acknowledging that the 1991 trial of two brothers convicted of a Luzerne County murder was “bungled in more ways than one,” a federal judge has nonetheless upheld the convictions.

  • Judge rules gender discrimination suit should continue - 09/30/2008 1:00 AM EDT
    SCRANTON – A federal judge has denied a motion filed by glass manufacturer Schott North America that sought the dismissal of a gender discrimination suit filed by six women who were laid off in 2004.

  • Judge: Women must stop ‘paper terrorism’ - 09/27/2008 1:00 AM EDT
    WILKES-BARRE – Two Scranton women who were upset with rulings made by a local magistrate and a Dauphin County Court judge utilized the Luzerne County Recorder of Deeds office to effectuate a form of “paper terrorism” against the judges, the jurists say in a complaint.

  • Kingston law firm sues Internet company - 09/26/2008 1:00 AM EDT
    KINGSTON – The law firm of Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn, P.C. has filed a federal lawsuit against a company that registers Internet domain names, alleging the company has registered names that are deceptively similar to the law firm’s trademark.

  • Councilman wants Crime Watch help - 09/26/2008 1:00 AM EDT
    WILKES-BARRE – A rash of shootings and reports of shots being fired in the city has prompted Councilman Bill Barrett to call upon police and the city’s Crime Watch Coalition to make a renewed effort to repair their fractured relationship.

  • Court upholds $3.4M judgment - 09/26/2008 1:00 AM EDT
    WILKES-BARRE – A judge has denied a Hazleton law firm’s attempt to overturn a $3.4 million judgment entered against it in a legal malpractice case that included allegations of bias against Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella.


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