Pennsylvania State Police

Federal prosecutors have filed child pornography charges against Destin Petrides, 20, of Monroe County.

Troopers said the case started with Scranton Police investigating a burglary in which Christian Santiago allegedly stole a rifle from a relative's home. Lackawanna County Coroner Tim Rowland said Santiago died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Since 1995, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has provided hundreds of thousands books to children. Local interest in the program has grown since the legendary singer's passing.

Wade Louis Rickard, 36, of Honesdale, is being held in the Wayne County Prison in lieu of $6 million bail, court records show.

The federal civil suit, filed in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, names truck driver Michael Bon as a defendant, as well as Alabama-based Augustin Freight Services and Texas-based SNK Logistics.

The Thatcher family will be laid to rest this weekend following funeral services at their church in Tunkhannock.

Troopers say four members of a family from Tunkhannock were found dead inside a car that crashed down an embankment off Rock Mountain Drive in Gibson Twp.

Aaron McCarter, investigator-in-charge with the National Transportation Safety Board, called the recovery of the cards “very good news from a data standpoint,” during a media briefing Friday morning.

A state trooper from Moosic was one of two troopers injured in a helicopter crash this week, and the Wright Center opens a new location in Carbondale.

Jason Mills, one of the Pennsylvania State Police troopers injured in Wednesday night’s helicopter crash, has deep roots in Northeast Pennsylvania.