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A New York City man jailed in Lackawanna County for 16 months on allegations he assaulted a woman was expecting release this week after a judge sentenced him to the

“There’s relief and a little bit of dread,” said Kristina Androne, Hernandez's sister. “I wonder if we’ll have to come back, but I hope not.”

Philip Vonville's first retrial in the 2009 fatal stabbing of Christopher Hernandez ended in a mistrial after a juror looked up the case.

Jury selection is slated to begin Monday for a 19-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a teenager outside of a Spring Brook Twp. drinking party.

A Scranton man admitted Monday he shot and killed a teenager last year in Spring Brook Twp., averting a first-degree-murder trial at the last moment.

A handgun found by federal authorities in May during the arrest of a man wanted for a homicide in Scranton fired the kind of bullets used in the slaying, a

Convicted killer Roberto Torner, who was found guilty of conspiring to murder a man in Foster Twp. nearly eight years ago, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the

WILKES-BARRE — Convicted in the first-degree murder of his friend, Roberto Torner was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday.

SCRANTON — A Moosic man is guilty of third-degree murder for fatally shooting a Carbondale man, a Lackawanna County jury found Friday.

A key witness in a murder trial underway in Lackawanna County Court admitted Wednesday he lied to the police about details regarding what happened the night of the killing.