Thursday, May 23, 2013


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Rotunda was place to be election night after county site crashes

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Site with tallies went down when too many tried to view it at the same time, officials say.
A Luzerne County website crash at the height of online primary election result reporting Tuesday was caused by an overload of computer users simultaneously accessing the site, county officials say.

Lottery Numbers

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MIDDAY DRAWINGDaily Number - 9-2-1Big Four - 9-9-0-5Quinto - 5-8-5-8-4Treasure Hunt06-11-20-26-27EVENING DRAWINGDaily Number – 9-0-8

DRC grads tout program success

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Fifty-two people complete county program aimed at helping some offenders turn around their lives.
WILKES-BARRE – Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said Wednesday she thought she would be the last person to be asked to speak at the county's Day Reporting Center graduation.
Paul Quick, vice president and general manager of Frontier Communications in Dallas, gives opening remarks Wednesday morning at a ceremony to honor the service men and women who lost their lives in service to their country. At left are representatives from the Dallas...

Frontier honors fallen soldiers

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Deputy Coroner Curt Swanson, front right, brings the body of Helen McNelis from the backyard of her East Hillside Street residence in Kingston Township on Wednesday afternoon. Swanson said McNelis, 85, fell into the swimming pool and drowned. She was pronounced dead at...

Kingston Twp. woman drowns in pool

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WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to...

IRS official takes the 5th

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Lois Lerner defends herself during a brief appearance before House committee.


Nation world briefs for Thursday

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ORLANDO, Fla. — A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot to death by authorities early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.

Man killed after attack on FBI questioner

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Chechen man with ties to Tsarnaev brothers shot after he lunged at an FBI agent.


MOORE, Okla. — The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and might have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.

Up to 13,000 homes damaged

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The Oklahoma twister’s monetary

damage could top $2 billion,

according to early estimates.


House panel moves to rein in military sexual assaults

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Proponents of bill hope to change culture, urge more victims to report incidents.


CEO pay hitting record levels

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Reeder


Business briefs for Thursday

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Bernanke signals stimulus continues

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Reeder


BEAR CREEK TWP. — A crash involving a car and a pickup on what some deem an unsafe road claimed the lives of two people on Wednesday.

Crash on Route 115 claims 2 lives

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Fatal wreck closes section of road in Bear Creek Twp.


Scholarship winners recognized by LIU

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This year’s winners were

Kassandra Edmonds, Hailey Ann Williams and Kyle Smith.


Dems nominate new mayors in Pa. primary

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Scranton, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg set to see changes in leadership in November.


SWARTHMORE, Pa. — In an effort to slow the pace of climate change, students at more than 200 colleges are asking their schools to stop investing in fossil fuel companies.

College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds

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Backers aim to make

companies’ stocks morally and financially unattractive.


Democratic Luzerne County controller nominee Michelle Bednar believes her primary opponent Stephen A. Urban — and many others — thought defeating her would be a “walk in the park.”

Bednar proves she's no pushover

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Controller candidate credits her win over political veteran to grassroots campaigning.


Police blotter

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Hazleton rejects customer-specific parking zones

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Certain council members raise concerns about plan’s impact on parking meter revenue.


Former Luzerne County Judge Arthur D. Dalessandro died Wednesday at age 86.

Ex-county Judge Dalessandro dies at 86

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Arrest made in Wash. state ricin letter scare, FBI says

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Matthew Ryan Buquet, 37,

accused of mailing death threat to a U.S. district judge.


Biden praises Jewish leaders

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Bids for Sterling solicited

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Proposals to raze landmark will be taken until June 18, when bids will be read aloud.


WILKES-BARRE — For nearly a dozen years, a local World War II veteran has been trying to get American flags flying in Wilkes-Barre. Today his star-spangled dream comes true.

Group makes sure flags will be flying

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U.S. American Flag Committee Fund will hang 34 flags along light poles on Market Street Bridge today.


WILKES-BARRE – A Luzerne County senior judge on Wednesday said an attorney representing his daughter in a fatal hit-and-run may continue to represent her, but cannot testify at her trial.

Dad to remain as attorney, cannot testify at daughter's trial

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Robert Panowicz to defend daughter Megan on charge from fatal hit-and-run.


Court brief

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Municipal Briefs

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Police Blotter

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Mr. Pizza's plans for hookah bar denied a 2nd time

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Among projects approved by W-B’s Zoning Hearing Board: ice cream stand, grocery, chapel.


BUTLER TWP.Drums woman dies in wreckA woman died from injuries she suffered in a crash Tuesday night on Interstate 80.State police at Hazleton identified her as Carolyn A. Dorneman, 56, of Drums.

3A briefs for Thursday

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WILKES-BARRE — Attorneys from both sides of the Dallas School District bus contract debate agreed Wednesday to continue a preliminary injunction hearing, resetting the case from Wednesday to May 30 at 9 a.m.

Hearing on Dallas bus pact continued

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For the record

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WRIGHT TWP. — A bag filled with 344 Ritalin tablets was confiscated by a Crestwood High School teacher, foiling a plan among three students to sell each pill for profit, township police said Wednesday.

Three students face drug charges

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Two current and one former Crestwood student planned to sell 344 Ritalin tablets.


The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins needed one period to put themselves in the AHL record book on Wednesday. With four goals in the second period, the Pens defeated the Providence Bruins 5-0 in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. After dropping the first three...

A Win for the Record Books

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Police: Man assaulted doctor in Hazleton emergency room

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