WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A disgraced Pennsylvania judge who locked up thousands of juvenile offenders while he was taking kickbacks from the owner and builder of for-profit detention centers has...

DRUMS, Pa. (AP) — A man has been charged with criminal homicide in the death of a missing autistic woman after authorities said he told them where to find her body in northeastern...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — State and county officials have confirmed the voluntary closure of a for-profit juvenile detention center in northeastern Pennsylvania to which prosecutors said juvenile...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A man has been convicted of first-degree murder in a northeastern Pennsylvania slaying during a robbery two years ago that prosecutors allege was plotted in collaboration...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Opening statements are scheduled Monday in the northeastern Pennsylvania trial of a man accused of having killed a man in a robbery prosecutors allege was plotted in...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A defense attorney is seeking dismissal of a firearms count against a New York man charged in the shooting death of another man at a kindergarten graduation party the...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A former northeastern Pennsylvania police officer accused of using his badge to sexually assault eight women while on duty has been acquitted on all counts.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A mother and her son have been sentenced to prison terms in shots fired at another driver during what police characterized as road rage in northeastern Pennsylvania four...

Police officers who had been called to help a bleeding, disturbed Black man wandering along a road outside Atlantic City shot him to death after he ignored orders to drop a broken bottle, video...

A Pennsylvania hospital wants a judge to seal all records and issue a gag order in a long-running wrongful death suit that alleges hospital officials altered the medical records of a 44-year-old...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to 35 to 80 years after pleading guilty to participating in the murder of her grandfather last year.

JERSEY CITY, N..J (AP) — A man wanted in the death of a 17-year-old girl gunned down on a northern New Jersey street earlier this month was captured early Tuesday in Pennsylvania, authorities...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to charges that he firebombed a child welfare office during a custody dispute has been sentenced to 10 years in federal...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump is making his first visit this year to the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, in a town hall-style event hosted by Fox News in Scranton...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania pharmacist is suing the medical marijuana dispensary where she worked on allegations she was fired after refusing to illegally sample the shop’s...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Two men have been charged with killing a northeastern Pennsylvania man who disappeared about 4 1/2 years ago who authorities allege was then dismembered and his remains...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — State burglary and theft-related charges have been dropped against a northeastern Pennsylvania man awaiting sentencing on federal convictions of threatening President...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A judge has denied the appeal of a man convicted of a 1992 murder in northeastern Pennsylvania who challenged his life sentence on the grounds that he believes he was a...

WILKES- BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty to soliciting the homicide of her stepfather nearly five years ago in northeastern Pennsylvania.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities allege that a man charged in the death of his 91-year-old grandfather last week ingested LSD and exhibited “violent and erratic behavior" that prompted his...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they will not retry a former northeastern Pennsylvania judge on some charges thrown out by a federal appeals court in what authorities said were...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf said Friday that he will follow through on his plan to close another state prison, announced originally in August as a cost-cutting step amid a declining...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — An altercation over a man's refusal to remove a “Make America Great Again” hat triggered a recent active shooter scare at a Pennsylvania mall, police said.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — An Amazon delivery driver stole a package that was delivered earlier by UPS at a Pennsylvania home, police said.

A woman in Wilkes-Barre reported a package being...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A prosecutor says police were justified in shooting to death a suspect in the abduction of a teenage girl in northeastern Pennsylvania.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Police said a woman in northeastern Pennsylvania killed her 5-year-old daughter and then herself Friday.

Pennsylvania State Police found the victims Friday morning...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — People urging Gov. Tom Wolf's administration not to close Retreat State Prison will get a second chance to be heard after a microphone picked up Corrections Secretary John...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has once again declined to take up the case of a former northeastern Pennsylvania judge convicted in what prosecutors said were juveniles wrongly...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A teenage girl has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the death of her friend's grandfather earlier this year in northeastern Pennsylvania.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — More than 12 years since Jessica Miraglia completed the drug-treatment program of Luzerne County Treatment Court, the young lawyer has finally gathered the courage to...

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Secret-ballot voting for the Mohegan Tribe's governing council is set to end this weekend.

The Day newspaper reports four of the Mohegan Tribal Council's nine seats...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A federal jury has decided that Pennsylvania State Police troopers didn't use excessive force when they shot and killed a man in 2015.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say charges are planned against a juvenile accused of calling a Walmart in northeastern Pennsylvania and threatening to "shoot up the store."

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A man has been charged with breaking into a Planned Parenthood office in Pennsylvania, smashing glass doors and painting graffiti on the walls.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A former northeastern Pennsylvania police officer has been ordered to stand trial on charges of using his badge to sexually assault eight women while on duty.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A man convicted of a 1992 murder is challenging his life sentence on the grounds that he believes he was a minor at the time of the crime because the age of children is...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — The Times Leader newspaper in Wilkes-Barre has been sold to a North Carolina media company.

The newspaper reports that the Times Leader Media Group has been sold to...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Wilkes-Barre city officials have removed a public monument that included a recently added brick that was sponsored by a Ku Klux Klan affiliate.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's elected financial watchdog says a school district near Wilkes-Barre overpaid transportation vendors, including for an invoice that claimed a van was used 52...

A retired federal judge best known for sending two corrupt judges to prison for their role in a notorious Pennsylvania juvenile justice scandal has died.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors have refiled the most serious charges against a teenager following a judge's dismissal of them in the stabbing death of a northeastern Pennsylvania man earlier...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The man who's been serving as acting Pennsylvania State Police commissioner for more than a year is now in the job on a permanent basis.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A man accused of killing three children by setting fire to their northeastern Pennsylvania home faces a life term following conviction on second- and third-degree murder...

MOUNTAIN TOP, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say they have confirmed that a propane leak triggered a northeastern Pennsylvania house explosion last month that claimed the lives of a man and woman and sent...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Scores of people gathered in northeastern Pennsylvania over the weekend to remember the 92 miners killed in a mine tunnel disaster a century ago.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Opening statements are scheduled Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of killing three children by setting fire to their northeastern Pennsylvania home.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a Rottweiler puppy stolen from a Pennsylvania pet store by a man armed with a gun has been found safe.