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Scranton Times-Tribune
April 27, 2018
Jack L. Tully, 430 13th Ave., Scranton, and Kristine Nesko, 1242 Loomis Ave., Scranton, seeking in excess of the arbitration limits of this court, exclusive of interest and costs on two counts, for injuries suffered May 13, 2017, in an automobile accident on the Pa. Turnpike state Route 476, Lehigh County;Ãâà...
wnep.com
April 26, 2018
SCRANTON, Pa. -- A former Lackawanna County prison guard is heading to trial on sex charges. George Efthimiou was in court Wednesday for his preliminary hearing. Before that began, prosecutors withdrew his original charge of institutional sexual assault and added two new charges of involuntaryÃâà...
LancasterOnline
April 26, 2018
Ebony T. Morgan, of Scranton in Lackawanna County, for $2,921 in SNAP fraud and $2,659.49 in cash assistance fraud. Lashawn T. Roberts, of Sharon in Mercer County, for $3,000 in cash assistance fraud. Bethany K. Dorn, of New Brighton in Beaver County, for $3,701 in SNAP fraud and $1,179 in cashÃâà...
whnt.com
April 26, 2018
JESSUP, Pa. - A Pennsylvania couple brought their newborn baby to the Lackawanna County 911 Center to meet the woman who talked them through the delivery over the phone. That special meeting happened at the Lackawanna County 911 Center in Jessup, the same place dispatcher Katlynn AulisioÃâà...
PA home page
April 26, 2018
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)--Striking health professionals held a candlelight vigil at Lackawanna County Courthouse square in Scranton. Workers at first hospital in Kingston as well as Moses Taylor Hospital spent the day walking the picket lines. After months of failedÃâà...
wnep.com
April 26, 2018
DICKSON CITY, Pa. -- A man was taken to the hospital in Lackawanna County after a fall at a construction business. It happened around 10 a.m. Wednesday at Valvano Construction just off Main Street in Dickson City. Police have not released the man's name and they're not saying much about the fall.
wnep.com
April 19, 2018
SCRANTON, Pa. -- Surveillance video shows a man breaking into a convenience store in Scranton. The owner of the store along Davis Street says the crook broke in through a window around 4:30 in the morning on Thursday and made off with about 10 cartons of cigarettes, blunts and cigars. Police inÃâà...
wnep.com
April 18, 2018
SCRANTON, Pa. -- A proposal to raise money for road repairs in Lackawanna County was rejected before it even came up for a vote. The plan would have tacked on an extra $5 fee to vehicle registrations with the money being earmarked for road and bridge repairs. The motion died on Wednesday when itÃâà...
wnep.com
April 12, 2018
DICKSON CITY, Pa. -- An 75-year-old woman was robbed while loading groceries into her car at Wegmans in Dickson City. According to police, the woman was loading her car on Thursday afternoon when another woman driving a silver sedan approached her and asked to use her cell phone. Police sayÃâà...
CorrectionsOne
March 13, 2018
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — Lackawanna County officials are investigating how an inmate at the county prison obtained a cellphone, which he used to post selfies purportedly taken inside his prison cell to his Facebook page. Jeffrey Mattox, a federal prison inmate from Kentucky, brazenly uploaded dozens of photos inÃâà...
wnep.com
March 13, 2018
DICKSON CITY, Pa. — Police in Dickson City responded to a call by the owner of Legend's Saloon after they noticed the locks on the outdoor coolers were missing. Survellience video shows a man zigzagging through the parking lot checking door handles on cars and then swiping the padlocks from someÃâà...
PA home page
March 13, 2018
ELMHURST TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) - Lackawanna County is looking to create more recreational opportunities for its residents. County officials are considering whether to turn some empty land it owns into a public trail for runners and bikers. In 1980, Lackawanna CountyÃâà...
PA home page
March 11, 2018
DALTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) - Police in Lackawanna County are piecing together what caused a deadly crash Saturday afternoon. Dalton Police say a driver in a pick-up truck crossed the median on South Lackawanna Trail Highway just after 3:00p.m. on Saturday and hit another carÃâà...
wnep.com
March 10, 2018
JESSUP -- The DEP is investigating reports of a yellow plume of smoke coming from the site of a new power plant being built in Lackawanna County. The smoke was spotted Tuesday at the Lackawanna County Energy Center Project in Jessup. State officials tell Newswatch 16 air quality tests detectedÃâà...
wnep.com
March 1, 2018
... a crash in Lackawanna County on Wednesday. According to the coroner, a 38-year-old woman from Fell Township died after being thrown from her car. The accident happened around 3 p.m. on the Roosevelt Highway near Whites Crossing. Police are investigating the crash in Lackawanna County.
New York Times
February 16, 2018
Six correction officers and one former officer have been charged with sexually abusing female inmates, some for more than a decade, at a long-troubled county prison in Pennsylvania, the authorities said on Thursday. The seven men created a culture of fear and coerced sex inside the Lackawanna CountyÃâà...
wnep.com
December 31, 1999
DUNMORE, Pa. -- Over 2,000 people laced up their shoes with the hopes of raising awareness for sudden infant death syndrome. Sunday was the 4th annual Jog for Jude event held at the Dunmore Community Center in Lackawanna County. The event is held every year in memory of Jude Zayac whoÃâà...
Scranton Times-Tribune
December 31, 1999
Lackawanna County Court Notes 3/9/2018. Sponsored .... SCRANTON — United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania's plan to convert a landmark in South Scranton into its offices and an incubator for women-owned businesses remains a work in progress, representatives said. (read more).
wnep.com
December 31, 1999
SCRANTON -- Lackawanna County's commissioner confirms that six out of the seven corrections officers accused of sexually abusing female prisoners have been fired. The former corrections officers were charged last month after a grand jury investigation into the prison. Authorities have set up a hotline forÃâà...
PA home page
December 31, 1999
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNT (WBRE/WYOU) - Six Lackawanna County Prison guards, caught up in a sex scandal at the prison, are now former guards. After two days of administrative hearings, the sIx were terminated from the positions as corrections officers. Seven corrections officers wereÃâà...
