Sam Sanguedolce

Police investigating the theft of two bodies from the condemned Good Shepherd Memorial Park mausoleum earlier this month found exposed human remains on the ground, according to a search warrant application filed in the case.

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.

Zhanae McClain, 20, was found unresponsive with a visible gunshot wound at a home on West Main Street in Glen Lyon Sunday evening, investigators say.

Luzerne County Manager Romilda Crocamo accused Lackawanna County Commissioner Bill Gaughan of 'grandstanding' and 'bush league' behavior in dispute about the counties paying for local police to supplement federal and airport security. Airport officials backed Gaughan.

The Immigration Rights Coalition announced its formation in a gathering behind the Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority facility in Forty Fort, where the Department of Homeland Security Investigations is leasing space.

'If our communities aren't safe then nothing else matters,' Sunday tells reporters following wide-ranging talk with DA Sanguedolce, elected officials.

State police and the Luzerne County District Attorney's office are investigating the death of an Avoca man.

DA Sanguedolce says case dealt with 'between 20 and 30' forms, not the thousands alleged.