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Plymouth Twp. man pleads guilty to sister’s stabbing death

WILKES-BARRE — More than two years after Rebecca Getz’s death, her brother, Eric Nelson Getz, pleaded guilty to her murder on Thursday, and will spend at least a decade in prison. Getz, 41, entered a […]

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PA’s unemployment rate at record low 3.9 percent; lowest since 1976

April 19, 2019 0

WILKES-BARRE — Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate is at a record low — 3.9 percent — the lowest since 1976. And jobs numbers hit another record high — the biggest gain coming in professional and business services […]

Police searching for vehicle suspected in shooting

April 19, 2019 0

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Township police released video of a white vehicle they suspect was involved in the shooting of two men on Casey Avenue Wednesday morning. A surveillance camera recorded the white vehicle police said […]

Crestwood moves toward new bus contract

April 19, 2019 0

WRIGHT TWP. — The Crestwood Area School Board voted Thursday night to enter into a possible contract with the Davis Transportation Inc. of Hunlock Creek to provide transportation services for the school year of 2019-2020, […]

Servants to one another

April 19, 2019 0

WILKES-BARRE — Mass at Saint Mary’s Church of the Immaculate Conception on South Washington Street included an extra ritual on Thursday evening: Foot washing. The annual tradition, observed annually by Catholics worldwide — usually including […]

Amid razor wire and prison blocks, advocates push for more early education money

April 18, 2019 0

JACKSON TWP. — With perimeter cameras peering down and razor wire piled high behind them, advocates pushed Thursday for an increase in state funding for early childhood education, repeating the well-documented evidence that money spent […]

Redactions heavier on Russian meddling than on obstruction

April 18, 2019 0

WASHINGTON — Across nearly 450 pages, blocks of black interrupt parts of Robert Mueller’s careful, dry narrative recounting Russian election meddling and President Donald Trump’s fear and ire. Most often, the Justice Department redactions mask […]

Beleaguered Trump feared ‘the end of my presidency’

April 18, 2019 0

WASHINGTON — At the moment two years ago when Donald Trump learned a special counsel had been appointed to investigate his campaign and Russia, the president responded with profane fury — and something resembling panic. […]