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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 […]

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. […]

Mueller reveals Trump’s attempts to choke off Russia probe

April 18, 2019 0

WASHINGTON — Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed to a waiting nation Thursday that President Donald Trump tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller’s removal to stop him […]

Man charged with killing wife last seen 4 decades ago

April 18, 2019 0

DOYLESTOWN — A man was charged Thursday with killing his wife nearly 40 years ago and plotting to murder a suburban Philadelphia police sergeant who investigated the case in the 1980s. William W. Korzon, of […]