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WILKES-BARRE — A Pittston man received a reduction of time in state prison when he was resentenced Thursday for possessing child sexual abuse materials.

WILKES-BARRE — A man from Wright Township arrested during an undercover child solicitation sting was sentenced to spend up to five years in state prison on Thursday.

WILKES-BARRE — A man from Kingston who admitted to supplying fentanyl that led to a person’s overdose in Dallas Township was sentenced to state prison on Wednesday.

WILKES-BARRE — A West Pittston man was sentenced this week in Luzerne County Court for selling methamphetamine and stealing a vehicle.

WILKES-BARRE — A Lackawanna County man found wearing no clothing below his waist and performing a self-lewd act in front of a church pleaded guilty to open lewdness and disorderly conduct.

WEST HAZLETON — One man was arrested and another is being sought after they fired shots at each other with an innocent bystander suffering a gunshot wound on Wednesday, West Hazleton police reported.

WILKES-BARRE — Two forensic psychologists reached similar diagnoses of Hazle Township homicide suspect Reymer Gonzales who they say suffers from severe post traumatic stress and attention deficit disorders, but differ on how his criminal case should proceed.

FORTY FORT — A man wanted on allegations he skipped a sentencing hearing before a Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas judge in December was apprehended during a trespass investigation.

PITTSTON — The Northeast Pa. Quilts of Valor Chapter recently honored military veteran Sharon Griffin in a ceremony at Wesley Village Irene Raeder Center.

WILKES-BARRE — A woman from Hazle Township pleaded guilty in Luzerne County Court to pistol-whipping a man and in an unrelated case of setting shrubs on fire adjacent to her residence.