In the last two weeks, multiple inmate deaths have occurred at the James V. Allred Unit off 369 in Wichita County. Since ...

Officials announced that a man has been sentenced for distributing fentanyl resulting in the death of of a woman in ...

Convicted violent sexual predator Jack Covert said he was "sorry for this whole mess" before he was sentenced to more than a century in state prison for committing "unspeakable" sexual crimes against ...

A Wilkes-Barre woman charged with spitting and kicking a police officer multiple times was sentenced to up to two years in prison but eligible for parole in two months.

One person has been arrested after a bank robbery Friday afternoon in Kingston. According to Chief Richard Kotchik, of the ...

A 27-year-old Milton area man has been charged with criminal homicide and jailed without bail for allegedly fatally shooting the boyfriend of a Sunbury woman. William H. Snyder, of Grange Hall Road, ...

A Jefferson County ... closed the cell door to avoid being hit with the stun gun and used his radio to notify others of the Code Blue. All deputies were put on standby while the jail’s Emergency ...

Investigators blame, in part, a chronic staff shortage going back at least five years that has impeded routine security checks at the Richland County jail and forced staff to monitor several units ...

Luzerne County Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved a new leader of the county’s human services division. Council unanimously approved the hiring of Megan Stone at a salary of $98,000.

WILKES-BARRE — Luzerne County Coroner Jill Matthews plans to resign and return to the Luzerne County District Attorneys Office. Matthews, a former prosecutor, recently penned a resignation ...

Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce said he was “thrilled” to have Matthews return to the DA’s office. “She is very experienced prosecutor,” Sanguedolce said.

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Members of a coalition group opposing the construction of a new prison in Franklin County took their concerns to the state capitol on Tuesday. The Franklin County and River ...