Brian Gallagher

Eli Calero, already awaiting trial on charges of distributing methamphetamine, is charged with homicide for beating Michael Jones Jr. to death in a prison cell. Jones, convicted at a trial, was awaiting sentencing in federal court for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, fentanyl and methamphetamine and other counts.

Police have charged Michael Willie Marquis Woods with stabbing three women, killing two and critically injuring the other. Lackawanna County District Brian Gallagher has called the attack 'pure evil.'

City police captured a suspect in the stabbing deaths of two women and wounding of another inside the Hotel Jermyn Apartments on Tuesday in downtown Scranton. Police say Michael Willie Marquis Woods, 38, also killed a service dog belonging to one of the dead women.

For the first time, Lackawanna County will contribute to the cost of having local police patrol the airport. Previously, Luzerne County split the cost with the airport after federal funding to pay the officers expired.

Lackawanna County Detective Colleen Catanese charged Kathie Sico and her son, Michael Sico, with writing on ballots so she could get election judge of elections.

Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher said the office is investigating whether a judge of elections wrote her name on paper ballots handed to voters to win re-election to the job.

Former state Rep. Thom Welby, a Democrat, easily defeated two challengers to win the right to finish out the term of former Commissioner Matt McGloin.

Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher plans to delay refiling charges against five current and former county Office of Youth and Family Services employees until the state Supreme Court decides their appeal of a lower court ruling that allows him to refile.

Aiden Deininger pleaded guilty Monday in Lackawanna County Court to shooting Scranton Police Det. Kyle Gilmartin in West Scranton on Jan. 11, 2024. His friend, Jeremiah Cleveland, pleaded to a role in the shooting and other crimes they committed the same night.

An accused drug dealer was charged Monday with killing a convicted drug dealer in the Lackawanna County Prison three weeks ago. The motive wasn't drugs, police say, but access to newspapers. Eli Calero is charged with beating Michael Jones Jr. to death on Sept. 9.