Owner’s Dog Dies in Taylor Fire
TAYLOR — A dog was killed when fire ripped through a home in Lackawanna County Tuesday. The fire started around noon in the home on Tamworth Drive in the Maple Manor mobile home park off Oak Street in...
View ArticleElite Motors Sued by Pennsylvania Attorney General
PLAINS TOWNSHIP — A Newswatch 16 investigation looks at a local used car dealer with a trail of angry customers. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office now says Elite Motors at its two locations in...
View ArticleLast Day of Novena Begins in Scranton
TAYLOR — A religious tradition going strong in our area Tuesday morning. It’s the last day of Saint Ann’s Novena in Scranton. Some members walk to the final day of services and devotion. Newswatch 16...
View ArticleTwo Thrown from Utility Vehicle in Lackawanna County Crash
TAYLOR — Two people were taken to the hospital after a crash Friday morning in Lackawanna County. Police say two people were thrown from a utility vehicle when it rolled on South Main Avenue in Taylor...
View ArticleMissing Your Masks? Bag Found in Taylor
TAYLOR — Police want to find the owner of a bag full of masks dumped in Lackawanna County. Everything from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Captain America was found at the intersection of Davis and...
View ArticleCops: Man Took 300,000 Pennies from Workplace
TAYLOR — 300,000 pennies — that’s how much police say a man stole this week from his employer in Lackawanna County. Officers tell us Robert Napolitan, 34, of Scott Township took a steel drum containing...
View ArticlePolice Looking to Identify Suspected Razor Thief
TAYLOR — Police in Lackawanna County are looking for help identifying a suspected thief. Officers in Taylor say a man grabbed nearly $300 worth of Gillette Fusion razors from Price Chopper on Monday....
View ArticleTaylor Police Looking for Mini Mart Burglar
TAYLOR – Police are trying to find the burglar of a store in Taylor. It happened around 2 a.m. Sunday at the Taylor Mini Mart on South Main Street in Taylor. Security camera images show a man in a...
View ArticleWWII Veteran Surprised With High School Diploma 70 Years After Leaving School
TAYLOR — It’s not quite the time of year for graduation, but a man in Lackawanna County finally got his high school diploma more than 70 years after he left school. A World War II veteran received that...
View ArticlePaving Project to Slow Lackawanna County Drivers
OLD FORGE — A big paving project is underway, slowing drivers in part of Lackawanna County. Crews are milling Main Street in preparation for the repaving that will stretch through Taylor and Old Forge....
View ArticleGetting Real World Experience at Special Needs Job Fair
TAYLOR — High school students are preparing for life after graduation whether it be more schooling or the workforce. With graduation day just months away, Scranton High School senior Amina Durant...
View ArticleBrothers Suspected In Drive-by Shooting
TAYLOR — Police in Taylor have identified two brothers as suspects in a drive-by shooting. According to authorities, Luis Luna-Torres fired shots along Loomis Avenue on the 3rd of October. Officials...
View ArticleFire Crews Called to Home in Taylor
TAYLOR — Firefighters were called to a home in Lackawanna County Saturday night. Crews were called to the home on Loomis Avenue in Taylor around 9 p.m. Smoke could be seen coming out of the windows and...
View Article‘That’s it, he probably killed her,’– Taylor Neighbors Stunned by Death
TAYLOR — Neighbors are telling us more about what may have led a man to kill his wife and then call 911 to report the death himself. Robert Sanchuk of Taylor is being held without bail. So far, he has...
View ArticleHusband to be Charged with Homicide in Taylor Death
SCRANTON — The Lackawanna County district attorney held a news conference Thursday morning, providing more details on the killing of a woman in Taylor and the arrest of her husband. The D.A. and police...
View ArticleTaylor Police Assemble ‘Active Shooter Bags’
TAYLOR — Two Taylor Police officers came to their chief a few weeks ago with an idea. The department needed to improve its first aid. “We carried first aid kits, Band-Aids, ice packs, the basics. Now...
View ArticleTaylor Man Charged with Rape of Teen Girl
TAYLOR — A man from Taylor is facing rape charges in Lackawanna County. Michael Gonzalez, 22, of Taylor, admitted to having sex with a 15-year-old girl in November. Police charged Gonzalez with rape,...
View ArticleRiverside Community Remembering Former Football Player, Former Coach
TAYLOR — A school district in Lackawanna County is mourning the loss of a former student and stand-out football player. Jim Pietrowski, who graduated from Riverside High School in 2008, died suddenly...
View ArticleUPDATE: Standoff Ends with Man in Custody
TAYLOR — A standoff at a shopping center in Taylor has come to an end. It ended with a flash grenade being shot into the truck in a parking lot in Taylor just before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. The situation...
View ArticleHusband Charged in Taylor Death Deemed Incompetent to Stand Trial
TAYLOR — A man from Lackawanna County accused in connection with the death of his wife is incompetent to stand trial. Police found Jill Sanchuk, 80, beaten to death inside her home in Taylor in...
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