Archive for February 2019

Kenneth Walter Stankiewicz died from burn injures he suffered in a fire at 838-840 Ridge St., according to the Luzerne County Coroner’s office and borough police. Chief Deputy Coroner Daniel J. Hughes pronounced Stankiewicz dead at the scene at 9:45 a.m. Sunday. The death will be ruled accidental, according to Hughes.

According to PowerOutage.Us, The National Weather Service, which has issued a high wind warning through Monday afternoon, suggests checking the site to find out where live power outages have been reported. Across Pennsylvania, more than 83,000 Met-Ed customers are without power, the company says. The bulk of the outages are in western Pennsylvania. The hardest are…

8th and Laurel Street, at 2041hrs., while on patrol Chief J. Speziale observed a male matching the description of a person of interest in a Hazleton Investigation at the intersection of Cedar and Diamond Ave enter a taxi. Chief Speziale followed the taxi while other Hazleton units saturated the area and a traffic stop was…

Crews on scene of a devastating fire in Freeland that claimed one life. The fire broke out at 840 Ridge St., in Freeland around 7am. 9 people were in the double block home at the time of the fire. There are conflicting reports about how many people were injured at this time. We’ve heard reports…