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PLAINS TWP. — A former Mohegan Sun Pocono boss accused of conspiracy in a rigged Easter egg drawing in exchange for a cut of the winnings was arraigned on felony charges Wednesday. Robert Joseph Pellegrini, 52, the former vice president of player developm

Dinners For Kids held its annual dinner Wednesday at Misericordia University in Dallas. The event honored Lynn Evans Biga, executive director of Luzerne County Head Start; and United Way of Wyoming Valley president and CEO Bill Jones. Dinners for Kids was

The Victims Resource Center, in cooperation with Wilkes University and King’s College, sponsored its annual Victims Rights Week march and rally Wednesday at Victims Resource Center. The event was held in observance of National Crime Victims Rights Week. T

WILKES-BARRE — One of the beautiful, enduring symbols of hockey is a flowing head full of hockey hair. It’s the name for a long haircut visible behind a player’s helmet. Search online for “Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team” to see some spec

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Mohegan Sun Arena cannot impose sweeping bans on vulgarity or voice amplification on protesters, nor can it confine leafletters to barricaded areas, a federal judge ordered Tuesday in siding with an animal rights-group that sued the Lu

WILKES-BARRE — Two women accused of robbing a food delivery worker in Kingston have been deemed incompetent to stand trial. Jonasha Moore, 21, and Julisa Moore, 21, both of Edwardsville, are accused along with an unidentified juvenile with spraying a man

WILKES-BARRE — About 140 Luzerne County employees of court-related departments will receive raises of at least 2 percent under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that county council approved Tuesday. The four-year agreement will be in effect f

The Game Chateau in Plains Twp. was among the businesses across the country that marked Equal Pay Day on Tuesday. The board game cafe highlighted pay gap statistics on coffee sleeves and napkins that focused on the importance of equal pay and paid leave.

WILKES-BARRE — State Sen. John Yudichak plans to start hiking all 165 miles of the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Trail on May 8 — something he said he would do if the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl in February. He’ll start his journey in B

It’s time to showcase the beauty and grandeur of the restored Luzerne County Courthouse. The first in a series of guided tours took place Tuesday afternoon, with longtime courthouse worker and judicial aide Sean Duesler playing tour guide. He showed them

WILKES-BARRE — As Ashley Fetko was on her mail route Tuesday in South Wilkes-Barre, a big Husky-type dog running loose came close to her before passing. Last week, she wasn’t so lucky, as a dog bit her on the backside at a home on Grebe Street — the third

DALLAS — Two borough residents are accused of operating a methamphetamine lab after police say they found meth waste in the trash and vessels actively cooking the drug Monday. Joseph Francis Smith, 37, and Kristy Noel Mendygral, 34, are accused of making

HAZLETON — A Hazleton man who shot at a city police officer and then killed himself inside his home during a roughly four-hour police standoff also sent pornographic images to minors, police say. Multiple law enforcement agencies in six states contacted H

WILKES-BARRE — As Luzerne County detective Chaz Balogh was driving from his office in Hanover Twp. to the courthouse, he saw a fight on Main Street in Ashley. “I couldn’t just drive by,” he said. He got out of his car and stopped the fight. A bystander ca

Wilkes-Barre has filed a suit in Luzerne County court, seeking to stop the county redevelopment authority from distributing nearly $3 million left over from a 20-year-old tax increment financing plan to the county, Wilkes-Barre Twp. and Wilkes-Barre Area

NEWPORT TWP. — A prisoner at State Correctional Institution at Retreat has been charged for exposing himself to a female staff member, state police at Shickshinny said. Lamont Pough, 45, is charged with one count of indecent exposure, police said. Police

WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Marshals on Tuesday captured a man in the city who was wanted for murder stemming from an Easter Sunday shooting at a strip club in New Jersey. Sharif Robinson, 27, of Jersey City, was captured without incident at a home at the corner

WILKES-BARRE — A Hazle Twp. man convicted of attempted murder for blasting a man in the face with a shotgun to settle a dispute about a woman was sentenced Tuesday to serve up to 40 years in prison. George Joseph Salata, 60, was convicted at trial in Febr

FAIRVIEW TWP. — A group of roughly 50 Crestwood School District residents met Tuesday night to organize opposition to attempts to furlough teachers, eliminate education courses and reconfigure elementary schools. Because of a projected budget shortfall, s

JACKSON TWP. — A State Correctional Institution Dallas inmate was arraigned Tuesday on charges that he smuggled drugs into the prison via a kiss from his girlfriend. Fernando Luis Rios, 36, is accused of accepting two packages of Suboxone and synthetic ma