Police say Eileen Dougherty stabbed her fiance three times with a butcher knife after an argument. Author: Elizabeth Worthington Updated: 4:20 PM EST March 5, 2021
SCRANTON, Pa. The woman police say was involved in the deadly stabbing of her fiancé is now charged with homicide.
Eileen Dougherty, 40, is now charged with criminal homicide after a fight with her fiancé in their Scranton home late Wednesday night turned deadly.
Investigators say Dougherty stabbed George Shencavitz, 31, three times with a butcher knife.
Dougherty was charged with aggravated assault on Thursday. Those charges were upgraded Friday morning to include criminal homicide.
According to court papers, Dougherty told police she and her fiancé had been fighting all day. She says she grabbed a butcher knife, Shencavitz punched her in the face, and then she stabbed him twice. When Shencavitz ran to the bathroom and called 911, Dougherty followed him and stabbed him a third
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Another local medical provider is offering an intravenous antibody therapy that may help COVID-19 patients avoid hospital stays and recover more quickly with fewer complications.
The Wright Center for Community Health is now operating a Scranton outpatient infusion clinic administering the monoclonal antibody bamlanivimab, which received emergency use authorization as a COVID-19 treatment in November.
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The death of a 28-year-old Scranton firefighter was caused by multiple pulmonary embolisms from COVID-19, Lackawanna County Coroner Tim Rowland announced Wednesday.
Stephen Sunday, who died Tuesday, previously tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus and was in quarantine at home when he became critically ill and was hospitalized, Rowland said.
A pulmonary embolism is a blockage in one of the pulmonary arteries in the lungs.
A firefighter since January, Sunday died at Geisinger Community Medical Center.
As of Dec. 16, the city said 14 firefighters had tested positive for COVID-19 and another six were in quarantine, bringing the number of personnel out to 20 in a department with 135 firefighters.