Searchers announced Thursday they've discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong's plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin, and the nonprofit World War II historical preservation group Pacific Wrecks announced in March they were launching a joint search for Bong's Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter. Bong nicknamed the plane “Marge” after his girlfriend, Marge Vattendahl.
May 23—KINGSTON — Police in Kingston along with the Luzerne County Drug Task Force with assistance from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives served multiple arrest warrants Thursday targeting alleged illicit drug street dealers after a year-long investigation. Authorities began serving arrest warrants just after 7 a.m. and by early afternoon, 12 suspected sellers of ...
May 23—WILKES-BARRE — A Luzerne County jury took their time Wednesday before convicting Jack P. Covert II of having child sexual abuse materials. The jury deliberated for about six hours before reaching a verdict convicting Covert, 65, formerly of Second Street, Dallas Township, on six counts of child pornography and a single count of criminal use of communication facility. Covert faced a ...