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Sunday News Dealer (Wilkes-Barre) (1833–1898) [281] Der Susquehanna Beobachter, und Luzerne und Columbia Caunty Advertiser (Wilkesbarre) (1826–1830) [ 282 ] Times (State College) (1898–1932) [ 283 ]
Wilkes-Barre (/ ˈ w ɪ l k s b ɛər i / WILKS-bair-ee) is a city in and the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania , it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census.
The Luzerne County Sheriff's Office operates out of Wilkes-Barre's Luzerne County Courthouse. The sheriff is an official who is responsible for keeping the peace and enforcing the law throughout the county. [102] After Luzerne County adopted a home rule charter, the office of sheriff became an appointed position (and was no longer an elected one).
The newspaper was founded in 1978 by striking employees of the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company, which published the Times Leader.Established on October 9 of that year, The Citizens' Voice was initially a "strike newspaper" published by the local Newspaper Guild, but quickly grew to become a direct competitor to the Times Leader.
Mark Arthur Ciavarella Jr. (born March 3, 1950) is an American convicted felon and former President Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, who was involved, along with fellow judge Michael Conahan, in the "kids for cash" scandal in 2008, [4] for which he was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison in 2011.
Forty Fort is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,233 at the 2020 census. [4] Its neighbors are Wyoming (to the north), Plains Township (to the east), Kingston (to the south), and Swoyersville (to the west). The Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport and the Wyoming Seminary Lower School are both located ...
Apr. 29—WILKES-BARRE — Chris Huntzinger, 117th District Committee Chair, has been elected temporary Chairman of the Republican Party of Luzerne County. The Luzerne County Republican Executive ...
In 1806, a large portion of the territory broke away from the township to form the borough of Wilkes-Barre. Today, the township of Wilkes-Barre occupies a 1-by-3-mile (1.6 by 4.8 km) strip of land adjacent to the southeast border of what is now the city of Wilkes-Barre. Coal mining was a prominent industry in and around Wilkes-Barre Township in ...