by Jim Halpin | Oct 5, 2018
WILKES-BARRE — The 2000s brought about major news stories, both on the world stage and at the local level. The decade experienced the most devastating terrorist attack in world history and a global economic depression, and saw the emergence of one of Luzerne County’s...
by Jim Halpin | Jun 23, 2018
FREELAND — Inside a nondescript home on Chestnut Street, the living space has been transformed into a shrine to a mother’s grief, a constant reminder that Nikki Lee Bertolette died hiding a terrible secret. Dozens of smiling pictures of Bertolette form a makeshift...
by Jim Halpin | Jun 23, 2018
WILKES-BARRE — After Carol Coolbaugh’s son died of an overdose in 2009, she tried attending bereavement meetings to help with her grief. But listening to others talk about loved ones dying of natural causes or accidents or illnesses didn’t strike the right chord for...
by Jim Halpin | Jun 17, 2018
WILKES-BARRE — Most everyone agrees that Luzerne County is in the grip of a deadly opioid epidemic that is killing off residents by the dozens. But when it comes to treating the very people who are dying, most everyone wants that care to happen somewhere other than...
