BARRE — Luzerne County prosecutors withdrew a firearm charge against Luis Angel Soto Madera, who was acquitted by a jury in September of firing a shot at his stepdaughter and her boyfriend, an ...

A violent career criminal who was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1938 was identified as the suspect in the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl inside a church in Bucks County 63 years ago. Bucks County ...

Banks had been in prison since 1982 after shooting 14 people and killing 13, including his own children, during a rampage in ...

Fire breaks out at recycling center in Wilkes-Barre Twp.

Infamous mass murderer George Banks, who slaughtered 13 people in Luzerne County, including five of his own children, has ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — George Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the U.S., has died. Banks, 83, died Sunday ...

He fatally shot 13 people in Pennsylvania in September 1982 in what was then one of the nation’s worst mass shootings. Five of the victims were his own children.

Fair trade can help small family farmers and the consumers that buy their goods. That was the message state agriculture ...

Wilkes-Barre police are investigating the theft of a rent check that had been dropped in a collection box at the U.S. Postal ...