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LUZERNE — A Pittston man is facing resisting arrest charges after police said he warned officers he was armed and threatened to commit “suicide by cop.” Brett Dyanick, 30, is accused of telling police he had a gun and a knife during a standoff Monday even

WILKES-BARRE — A Wilkes-Barre man accused of gunning a man down at the Sherman Hills apartments pleaded guilty Monday to a count of third-degree murder. Dominic Jaquariuspa Ray, 25, was in court for what was supposed to be a pre-trial conference ahead of

The 72nd annual Back Mountain Memorial Library auction will be held next month and organizers held a kickoff dinner to gear up for the event Monday. The dinner, held at Apple Tree Terrace in Dallas, featured a basket raffle, silent auction and a mini auct

Police seized guns, money and drugs from a Hazleton home Monday morning after people jumped from a second-story window to escape officers, court papers say. Hazleton police said they were initially dispatched to a second-floor apartment inside 127 E. Mapl

Three lawsuits that seek to hold the parents of convicted cop killer Eric Matthew Frein liable for his 2014 sniper attack that killed a state trooper and wounded another can proceed, a Lackawanna County judge ruled. Judge Terrence Nealon said Tiffany Dick

WILKES-BARRE — Two cats are dead after a city man threw them out of an eighth-floor window of the high-rise building at the Sherman Hills apartments, according to police. Tyquan L. Hinds, 22, of 332 Parkview Circle, is facing two counts of aggravated crue

EXETER TWP. — Township residents came out in force on Monday to oppose a planned drug treatment center at a former elementary school, but the board of supervisors told them the zoning hearing board is the proper venue to air their concerns. Dozens of resi

Frank Carlucci III, a Scranton native and longtime federal official who as “flood czar” helped the Wyoming Valley recover and rebuild after the devastating Agnes Flood, died Sunday at the age of 87. Born Oct. 18, 1930, Carlucci graduated from Wyoming Semi

The Pennsylvania Democratic Party filed a complaint Monday morning against U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta for using footage of himself speaking on the House floor in his campaign for U.S. Senate. By the afternoon, the Pennsylvania Republican Party filed a similar

HANOVER TWP. — Two men accused in a robbery and burglary spree were hit Monday with new charges alleging they burgled a township home prior to a high-profile bank heist last month. Gerald Paul Pambianco, 29, of Plains Twp., and Derek Lee Spaide, 26, of Ha