Luzerne County

A federal prosecutor’s description of nine “discarded” military ballots found in the trash at a northeastern Pennsylvania elections office has been seized on by President Donald Trump and his supporters, despite any public evidence they were handled with nefarious intent

The small number of mishandled military ballots at a Pennsylvania elections board that sparked a federal inquiry and allegations from the Trump campaign that Democrats were “trying to steal the election” were actually “incorrectly” tossed by a temp, a county official said Friday. In a press release, Luzerne County Manager David Pedri said a “temporary seasonal independent contractor” who started…

The president of a Pennsylvania school board whose district had warned parents behind on school lunch bills that their children could end up in foster care has apologized to parents and said he will accept a company CEO’s offer to cover the unpaid bills after initially rejecting it.

U.S. Marshals, the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service have been searching for 27-year-old Shawn Christy of McAdoo for more than two months.

Republican U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, who is challenging incumbent Democrat Bob Casey for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat in November, needed President Trump’s visit to Wilkes-Barre to breathe life into his campaign.

Pennsylvania convenience stores are installing blue lights to discourage opioid use in bathroom stalls.

Police arrested a group of men accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a boy while dressed up as “furries” in Bucks County.