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timesleader.comWILKES-BARRE, PA ThuRSdAy, AuguST 15, 2013 50
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Dont press the like button:Facebook is a bummer thatmakes us feel worse aboutour lives, according to newresearch.
Facebook users in a study ledby the University of Michigan
wound up feeling worse aboutthemselves after two weeks,and their moment-to-momentmood darkened the more theybrowsed the social medium.It didnt seem to matter howbig their network was, howsupportive they thought theirfriends were, nor why theywent to Facebook in the firstplace, according to the study
published online Wednesdayin PLOS One.
We were able to show ona moment-to-moment basisthroughout the day how peo-ples mood fluctuated depend-ing on their Facebook usage,said University of Michigansocial psychologist EthanKross, lead author of thestudy.
We measured lots andlots of other personality andbehavioral dimensions, like,for example, frequency of
Facebook use, Kross said.But none of the factors thatwe assessed influenced theresults. The more you usedFacebook, the more yourmood dropped.
The study adds to a body ofwork examining social mediaseffect on well-being, much ofit offering mixed diagnoses.Looking at your own profilecan be self-affirming, accord-ing to a recent study. Anda survey of Facebook userssuggested that it modestly
increased life satisfaction,social trust, civic engagementand political participation.
But other studies have sug-gested Facebook can evokeenvy of others activitiesand profile, leaving userswith diminished self-images.Another study suggested thatpeople with low self-esteemdont reap a benefit fromtinkering with their onlineimage, either.
N one of those s tu di es ,however, followed people
over time. The University ofMichigan study involved 82college-aged volunteers a core demographic amongFacebooks nearly 700 mil-lion active daily users whoanswered questionnaires fivetimes a day for 14 days, andrated their well-being at thebeginning and end.
Worr y did not p re di ctchanges in Facebook use, butloneliness did, according to
WILKES-BARRE After weeks of pleanegotiations and years of a pending homicidecase, a teen charged in the December 2009shooting death of his great-grandfather haspleaded guilty to a homicide charge.
Cody Lee, 19, entered the plea to a third-degree murder charge Wednesday, and facesan agreed upon 14 to 28 years in prison,though the charge carries a maximum sen-tence of 20 to 40 years.
(Lee) stepped forward and acceptedresponsibility for his conduct, his attor-ney Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. said afterWednesdays hearing.
Its a difficult case for everyone. He regretswhat happened, Olszewski said. The (pleaagreement) gives everyone some closure andfinality.
Prosecutors say Lee was 16 years old whenhe shot and killed his 80-year-old great-grandfather, Herbert Lee, inside their Meeker
CodyLeepleads
guiltyThe 19-year-old faces14 to 28 years in prisonfor the shooting deathof his great-grandfather
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LikeFacebook?Thenyoumightnotlikelifesomuch,studyndsResearchers found users began to feelworse aboutthemselves as they browsed the social network
GEOFFREY MOHANLosAneles Times
Pete g.Wilcox potos |TeTimes Leaer
A memorial service for former Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton was held at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Scranton on Wednesday.
He loved his wife and family. He loved his country and he loved his home Scranton.
From coming within mereinches of qualifying for theU.S. Open in June to cruis-ing to a victory last weekat the 111th Patterson Cup,Brandon Matthews is on topof his game.
Probably the best everthis summer and its goingto continueto get bet-ter with thehelp of mycoach (BrianQ u i n n ) , the Dupontn a t i v esaid onWednesdayafter a come-from-behindvictory in the match playportion of the 113th U.S.Amateur Championshipat The Country Club inBrookline, Mass. Its notjust carrying momentum.Its just trusting my gameand me going out there andplaying the way that I knowI can play.
It sure looked likeMatthews, a sophomore atTemple, was full of momen-tum on Wednesday againstMatt P iniz zotto fromSalinas, Calif. After los-ing the par-4 No. 14 with abogey, Matthews fell downby two shots to his oppo-nent.
The 2012 Pittston Areagrad had to play flawlesslythe final four holes to earnthe win and advance totodays round of 32.
And he did just that.He birdied the par-4 No.
15 to pull within one ofPinizzotto then parred No.16 to stay there. He alsoreached par on the 17 and18 holes, while Pinizzottostruggled to do so, pavingthe way for the dramatic vic-tory.
It was a tough day today.Just keep grinding andnever give up, obviously,Matthews said. It justshows that when I was twodown with four to go that
Matthewsplayinglike a proat the USAmateurPittstonArea grad
came back from twostrokes down to advance
to todays round of 32
Farewell to
a true son of NEPA
SCRANTON William ScrantonIII said his father enjoyed Broadwaymusicals sometimes to the pointof embarrassment for his wife andfour children.
He couldnt just sit and listen,Scranton said during his eulogyof his late father, William WarrenScranton. He would often laughlouder and applaud longer thaneveryone else and even let go a Woohoo during performances.
When the family went to see AChorus Line on Broadway, Scrantonsang along to every number.
At the end of the show, the entirecast walked over to the side of thestage where we all were sitting andthey told my father they appreciatedhis assistance.
The large crowd, gathered insideCovenant Presbyterian Church onMadison Avenue in the city thatbears his familys name, laughedat the story. And there were morefunny stories told by a son about his
father in a way few really knew.There was the story of how
Scranton, while training pilots inReno, Nev., nearly fell out of an air-plane and how, on a hot July day inthe 1950s, the man who would go onto become congressman, governorand ambassador, stopped to fill hisgas tank and went to use the rest-room forgetting he wasnt wearingany pants.
With Gov. Tom Corbett, Lt. Gov.Jim Cawley, and former governorsEd Rendell, Tom Ridge, RichardSchweiker and Dick Thornburgh lis-tening, Scranton a former lieuten-ant governor painted a mosaic ofhis father through stories of humor,humility and service.
S cran ton d ied las t mo nt h
Former Gov. William
Warren Scrantonremembered at service
BILL [email protected]
A bouquet of flowers sent from the Pennsylvania State Senate to the Scranton family sits
outside the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Scranton on Wednesday during a memorialservice for former Gov. William W. Scranton.
City lists 51 rental
properties cited
by code enforcement
WILKES-BARRE A day after counciltook the first step to approve an amendmenttoughening the citys rental ordinance, thecode enforcement officelisted more than 50 cita-tions to property ownersover a four-month period.
More than half of the51 properties have out-of-town owners, a pointstressed by Mayor TomLeighton when he proposed the amendmentto crack down on problem properties contrib-uting to the rise in violent crime.
City spokeswoman Liza Prokop said the
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This man is soooold. (How old is he?)
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LUZERNE Borough Council heard
from concerned residents about a spateof vehicle break-ins within the commu-nity during Wednesday nights regularcouncil meeting.
Borough resident Frank Seris, ofWillard Street, said his car had beenvandalized and property had been sto-len from the cars of his neighbors.Themajority of the crimes he noticed seemto have been concentrated within the
alley between Willard and North streets.Serisraisedthe issue,he said,in hopes
of seeing a greater police presence in thearea as well as to call attention to it forthe safety of community members.
Maureen Gallagher, another residentof that area, claimed she too was a vic-tim of crime and shared her belief thatone person is responsible for the inci-dents.
A borough police officer said policewere aware of the crimes but have notyet made any arrests.
In other matters, the council approvedthe closure of Main Street from Kelly
Street toBennett Street on Sept. 14 from6 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the boroughs annualFall Festival.
The 6 a.m. start time is the earliestthe traffic restriction has been in placesince the festivals inception. It wasdeemed necessary so that the food andmerchandise vendors can safely set up inthe morning.
HAZLETON A city manwho was out on bail awaitingtrials in a bank robbery and abad-check case was arrestedTuesday afternoon after beatinghis mother and threatening to killher because she allowed his chil-dren to cry while he was upstairssleeping, police said.
Otto C. McNab Jr., 38, facescharges of aggravated assault,simple assault, terroristic threatsand harassment afterthe incidentat the North Church Street homewhere McNab, his girlfriend and
their young chil-dren live withhis mother,Violet McNab.
Accordingto apolice affidavit,Violet McNab,whose age wasnot listed in
court documents, said she waswatching the children when theybegan to cry. She said her soncame running downstairs, yellingand accusing her of not properlycaring for the children.
Violet McNab told police herson grabbed her by the back ofthe neck and threw her downonto a couch. He then beganpunching her face and beatingher on the head with an unknownobject, she said. After that, hegrabbed her by the neck, threwher onto the ground and contin-
ued slapping and kicking her,while stomping on her foot, shesaid.
When shetried to grab hercell-phone to call for help, she said,her son twisted her arm to makeher drop the phone. After McNabfinally stopped beating her, shesaid, he warned her not to call
police or he would kill her.Violet McNab was able toleave the home, obtain a ride toHazleton General Hospital andcall police from there.
Police who interviewed thewoman at the hospital said theyobserved extensive swelling andbruising to her jaw and bothsides of her face, as well as redmarks on her neck and bruises onher legs, left foot, right arm andright hand.
McNab was arrested athis home later Tuesday and
arraigned before District JudgeJames Dixon. He was sent to theLuzerne County CorrectionalFacility in lieu of $50,000 bail.
McNab has been no stranger tothe law in recent years.
He is accused of robbing aSusquehanna Bank in Sugarloafon Aug. 22, 2011, telling the
teller he had a bomb and mak-ing off with $2,262. The moneywas recovered the same day. Agirlfriend waiting in the car forMcNab, then of Drums, toldpolice she had no idea he hadno active accounts at the bank,and thought he was withdrawingmoney to purchase a car, accord-ing to court records. Trial is setfor Oct. 21 in that case.
In lateDecember2011, McNaballegedlywrote morethan $3,000in bad checks drawn on a bankaccount belonging to his father,
Otto McNab Sr., knowing itdidnt have sufficient funds. Trialis set for Oct. 28 in that case.
McNab also faces sentencingOct. 28 in connection with guiltypleas in two other cases:
On Dec. 7, 2011, McNabclaimed his father assaulted himwith a knife. McNab later admit-
ted he stabbed himself becausehe was depressed and wanted toget his father in trouble, accord-ing to a police affidavit, andpleaded guilty to making a falsealarm.
On. Jan. 14, 2012, police weredispatched to a one-car crashin which McNab told police heswerved to avoid an oncomingvehicle. He later admitted hedeliberately drove his truck off aroad to make it look like an acci-dent. He pleaded guilty to tam-pering with evidence.
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HazletonmanaccusedinattackonmotherSuspect, 38, was out on
bail awaiting trial on
robbery, forgery cases
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Plymouths
Main StreetElementaryto be leveled
KINGSTON The end is near for MainStreet Elementary School in Plymouth.At Wednesday nights regular meeting,
the Wyoming Valley West School Boardvoted for three resolutions that will resultin the nearly 100-year-old building s demoli-tion.
The school, construc ted around 1913,first served as a highschool, then as a mid-dle school and finallyas an elementar yschool. The districtclosed the facility lastyear.
The district hasa ut ho ri ze d A +EGroup Inc. to pre-pare bid documentsfor the demolition.
Environmental Abatement Associates hasbeen authorized to prepare bids for theabatement and remediation of hazardousmaterials at the site.
There are no plans for a future use fo r thesite, said Business Manager Joe Rodriguez.
In other business, the board hired threeteachers and an assistant principal forthe middle school. Kristen Pechulis and
Tiffan y Swoboski were hired to teac hEnglish. Larry Little was hired as a spe-cial education teacher, and Jacob Sholtiswas hired as an assistant principal for themiddle school.
The board made minor changes to thetobacco-use policy for students. The policywill now include a ban on electronic ciga-rettes, vapor smoking devices and smoke-less tobacco.
The bo ard also changed the c onseque nces
for refusal to turn over an electronic device.According to the new policy, any studentwho refuses to turns over a device will incura one-day, out-of-school suspension forinsubordination.
The dress code has been changed torequire students who wear leggings to alsowear a tunic that meets the requirements forskirt length, which is between knee lengthand ankle length.
SUSAN DENNEYTimesLeaderCorrespondent
Police aware of spate of thefts from cars on and near Willard Street, ocer says
Luzerne residents bothered bybreak-ins
B. GARRET ROGANTimesLeaderCorrespondent
McNab
Aimee Dilger | TheTimes Leader
Laura Doherty, 27,of Shickshi nny, stands in the center of Main Street and Public Square with a sign and a folder full of resumes solicitingwork on Wednesday afternoon. Doherty, a Bloomsburg University graduate, had been seeking employment for two years with no success.She has a masters degree in education and school counseling and is willing to branch out to marketing jobs.
Wanted: A job. Willing to stand in trac
Correction
An article on page1A in Wednesdays edi-tion about the proposedamendment to Wilkes-Barres rental propertyordinance should havequoted Councilman
Tony George as saying,If its infringing on yourrights a little bit, so be it;but the people next doorto you, the people behindyou, the people in frontof you, they dont want
to live in that condition,and thats what wereconcerned about.
WyomingValley West board starts
demolition plans in motion
WHATSNExT?
The School Boardis scheduled tomeet at 7 p.m.Sept. 11 at themiddle school.
WHATS NExT?Luzerne Borough Council isscheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 11.
the study. Nonetheless, whenresearchers controlled for
loneliness, the relationshipbetween Facebook use andmood and satisfaction wereinsignificant, Kross said.
Loneli ness p redi ctedFacebook use, and lonelinessalso predicted how bad peoplefelt, Kross said. But the effectof Facebook on how people feltwas independent of loneliness.
On e o f t he t hi ngs wedont know is what aspect ofFacebook use is contributingto these results, Kross said.
Facebook and online socialnetworks more generally repre-sent a very new way in whichhuman beings are interacting,
and were really just beginningto scratch the surface as to howexactly these interactions workand how they influence us.
Catalina Toma, a Universityof Wisconsin communicationresearcher who found thatFacebook users could increasetheir self-esteem, said seem-ingly contradictory findingsamong studies reflect thecomplexity of the mediumand point out the need to drilldeeper into what people do
while on Facebook.I think whats happening,
honestly, is that Facebook issuch a gigantic space where
so many different activitiestake place, said Toma, whowas not involved in the study.So for us to be simply talkingabout Facebook use is an over-simplification. Facebook use isnot just one thing; it is many,many different things.
Kross and fellow researchersconducted an exploratory anal-ysis of the data that suggestsa linear relationship betweenonline communication andface-to-face interaction. As
both increase, feelings of well-being decline.
Th e negativ e effect of Facebook use on happiness
became more pronouncedthe more you interacted withother people within that timeframe, Kross said. Its verylikely that there are going tobe a multitude of mechanismsthat explain this effect.
Like other social media,Facebook affords people theopportunity to contemplate,edit and enhance their pre-sentation in ways that are dif-ficult if not impossible duringimpromptu social interactions
in the flesh. You can takehours to come up with a cleverresponse, whereas most peo-ple have long left the cocktail
party when they think of theperfect riposte.
Toma suggested that usersemotions and sense of worthmay be negatively influencedby the discord between tai-lored online images of othersand their unedited view ofthemselves.
Instead of doing a person-to-person profile, youre com-paring a profile and a person,
Toma said.
Facebook
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www.timesleader.com THE TIMES LEADER Thursday, August 15, 2013 PAGE 3A
Six executive secretariesin Luzerne Countys courtsystem have each received$3,704 pay increases, despitea countywide directive thatno non-union raises would begranted this year.
The raises, which totala combined $22,221, willincrease the secretariessalaries from $42,000 to$45,703.57.
The six secretaries JulieBerry, Nancy Biscontini, Gina
Bowen, Joann Elko, RebeccaMadden and Nicole Marek were hired last year to work
for newly appointed judges,officials said.
County Manager RobertLawton said he cant stop thepay increases because courtofficials have budgeted fundsto cover the expense and theadministration has no say incourt personnel actions. Themanager handles personneldecisions in all county depart-ments except court branchesand the district attorney andcontroller offices.
County officialsgave $1,000bonuses this year to severalhundred non-union employ-ees who have gone five yearswithout pay increases andpromised to develop a per-formance evaluation systemand review of appropriate pay
scales for the future award-ing of pay raises if moneybecomes available.
CountyCourt AdministratorMichael Shucosky said court
officials agreed to start the sixsecretaries at lower probation-ary salaries last year to assistwith the countys request forbudget cutbacks.
The county was so desper-ate for money last year. Westarted them at a lower rateto try to save money for thecounty, he said.
Shucosky said he made itclear the salaries of the sixmust be bumped up after ayear, and the cost of the raiseswas included in the courts2013 budget. All 10 judgesmust be treated equally underthe judicial code, whichextends to compensation fortheir staff, he said.
The arrangement was thatafter one year, the six secre-taries would get parity with
secretaries for other judgeswho are doing the same job,
Shucosky said.Shucosky said the six secre-taries did not receive $1,000bonuses, and no other raisesfor non-union court employ-ees will be granted this year.
Salariesfor thesame countyposition vary widely depend-ing on the department andemployee seniority. Thecounty employs 110 secretar-ies, administrative assistantsand executive secretaries. Ofthat, 53 are paid $30,000 to$39,999, 32 receive $40,000to $49,999 and four have sal-aries of more than $50,000.
Shucosky believes the sala-ries for judicial executive sec-retaries are fair and appropri-
ate based on their workloadsand handling of sensitive andconfidential material.
Court officials have com-pleted job descriptions and
condu cted p er formancereviews of all employees intheir branches, includingsupervisors, last year, andanother round of evaluationsis slated for next month, hesaid. The court also is con-ducting its own salary studyto determine if county com-pensation is in line with payfor court employees in simi-larly sized counties, he said.
Shu cosky sai d h e w il lagain request funding fornon-union pay raises in thecourts 2014 budget pro-posal. A recent performanceaudit in the courts domesticrelations division identified
union salaries exceedingmanagement salaries as aproblem, he said.
EXETER
Strike imminent
at Wyoming AreaCalling contract talks held Tuesday
unproductive, Wyoming AreaSchool District teacher union presi-dent Melissa Dolman issued a state-ment saying a strike set for Sept. 3 isimminent.
The unio n cont ract expi red Aug.31, 2010, which means negotiationsbegan months earlier and are in theirfourth year. The union formally noti-fied the district of a planned Sept. 3strike in July, long before the 48-hournotice required by state law.
At the time, Dolman said the unionhoped the early notice would helpog negotiations. But Tuesday after-
noon she sent out a statement say-ing negotiations had been held at theschool district but the teachers are
disappointed with the school boardsposture.
We have repeatedly made it clearto the school board that we are will-ing to bend but we will not break,the statement said. Unfortunately,at this time it appears that the strikeset for Sept. 3 is imminent.
WILKES-BARRE
Overdose victims
to be memorializedCarol Coolbaugh, local chapter
leader for Grief Recovery AfterSubstance Passing, or GRASP, is
holding a memorial from 1 to 4 p.m.Aug. 31 in Kirby Park to rememberthose who died after drug overdoses.
Coolbaughs son, Erik, died in2009 from an overdose. She hopes toeducate people that drug addiction isa disease, not necessarily a sign ofimmorality or a degenerate lifestyle,she said.
Luzerne County District AttorneyStephanie Salavantis is scheduled tospeak at the event, which is beingheld on International OverdoseAwareness Day, and others have beeninvited, Coolbaugh said.
TOBYHANNA
Depot furloughscoming to an end
The Tobyhann a Army Depo t,the regions largest employer, hasinformed its 3,500 civilian employ-ees that the 11-day furlough insti-tuted last month has been reduced tosix. This Friday will be the sixth andfinal furlough day.
The furlo ughs were a resul t ofsequestration, automatic budget cutsthat went into effect earlier this year.To adhere to budget requirements,the Department of Defense insti-tuted an 11-day furlough for about650,000 department civilian employ-ees. Tobyhanna shut down most
operations for the past four Fridaysand will do so for the last time thisFriday.
Depot Commander Col. GerhardP.R. Schroter said normal operat-ing hours will be restored beginningMonday.
WILKES-BARRE
Resolving conicts
focus of workshopThe Father Jame s J. Doyle
Community Mediation Institute,with the Peace and Justice Center,has announced a community-cen-
tered conflict-resolution workshopfor individuals and organizationsinterested in non-violence.
The 24-h our train ing focu ses onthe skills of conflict resolution medi-ation and also on the improvementof the participants existing abilities.The workshop touches upon the the-ories of more traditional mediationtraining but the CMI approach isespecially for those looking to workfor the common good.
The train ing is highl y part icip ato-ry, drawing upon the wisdom, experi-ence and talents of all in attendance.Mutual learning will occur throughstorytelling and peace-building exer-cises. The group will create and com-mit to a concrete project for change.
The workshop runs Aug. 29through Sept. 1 at Kings College.Space is limited and scholarships areavailable upon request. To registeror for more information, contact Rodat [email protected] or 570-823-
SixcourtsecretariesgetpayraisesIncreases, which total$22,221, were budgeted
by county court ofcials
JENNIFERLEARN-ANDES
Judgehearsairportdispute
SCRANTON Lawyersfor the Wilkes-Barre/ScrantonInternational Airport onWednesday tried to convince a
judge to deny a request by SakerAviation the airports fixedbase operator for a preliminaryinjunction to prevent the airportfrom awarding the FBO contractto a different company until a dis-pute over Sakers contract can bedecided at trial.
Saker Aviation, which has alease contract with the airportto provide ground services suchas the fueling and maintenanceof aircraft, sued Luzerne andLackawanna counties and the bi-county board that oversees the air-port after that board voted in Julyto negotiate a contract with anoth-er FBO Aviation Technologies.
Saker is seeking unspecifiedmonetary damages, claiming thatthe board breached its contract bynot allowing Saker to extend its10-year contract, which expiresAug. 31, another five years andmatch terms offered by Aviation
Technologies.Airport Executive Director
Barry Centini was first to testifybefore Lackawanna County SeniorJudge Peter J. OBrien, answeringquestions first fromSaker attorney
Brett A. Datto and then from air-port attorney Nick Kravitz.Centini said talks with Saker
officials about extending the con-tract began in July 2012 and con-tinued through March. He saidhe told Saker CEO Ron Ricciardion March 18 that airport officialsdecided to seek proposals fromother companies because wewere looking at a longer-termagreement and wanted to see whoelse was out there.
Asked about a clause in Sakerscontract guaranteeing that no air-port facilities would be offered forfixed based operations to a thirdparty without first offering themto Saker on the same terms andconditions, Centini said that sec-
tion referred to operations duringthe 10-year term of the lease if theairport wanted to bring in anothercompany to operate at the sametime.
Responding to questions fromKravitz, Centini said federal lawprohibits the airport from offer-ing a company exclusive rightsto operate there. He also said theairport would have to close downif no FBO was in place on Sept. 1.
Saker Aviation CEO RonRicciardi testified that,in laymansterms, the contract clause in ques-tion guarantees Saker the right offirst refusal to terms of a contractproposed by any another FBOcompany.
Ricciardi also said that if Saker
was not allowed to extend thecontract, the jobs of about 35local people would be terminatedand his publicly traded companywould suffer irreparable harmand lose business opportunity and
STEVEMOCARSKY
William Ruzzo will retire from the oce aer 20 years next week
WILKES-BARRE Anyone whotalks to attorney William Ruzzo can seehe loves his job as a part-time publicdefender.
He continually compliments his fel-low attorneys, talks of more than 20years worth of defending clients andis quick to thank former chief publicdefender Basil Russin for giving him achance.
Ruzzo, 71, of Wilkes-Barre, is retir-ing from the countys Public DefendersOffice next Thursday a decision notmade easily.
I started here in 1988 and I neverleft, Ruzzo said Wednesday. They
couldnt get rid of me.He will continue working with his pri-vate office, where he is currently han-dling a number of federal cases.
Ruzzo said his retirement is due, inpart, because his private office is busyand all of the homicide cases in thecounty are in very capable hands.
Ruzzo has mostly handled the officeshomicide or capital murder cases. Hesaid Wednesday that if the county wereto ask him to work on a capital murdercase in the future, he wouldnt turn itdown.
Ruzzo became a lawyer a little laterin life than most, first attending WilkesUniversity, where he majored in politi-cal science before becoming a teacherfor a few years.
It wasnt until 1984 that a woman he
was dating an attorney encour-aged him to attend law school.
He worked on the case of GeorgeBanks, who shot and killed 13 peopleon Sept. 25, 1982 in Wilkes-Barre andJenkins Township and continued to
level throughout the years.He also represented John Michaels
during his January 2005 trial. Michaelswas charged with setting a blaze thatkilled a woman. Prosecutors saidMichaels set the fire to get revenge onhis former landlord who evicted himfrom the building.
Michaels was acquitted of all chargesand released from the county prison.
(Fellow public defender John)Donovan did a magnificent job, Ruzzosaid of the attorney who he worked withon the case and who is still a publicdefender.
Ruzzocanremembernearlyeverycasehe has tried, the good and the bad, andis quick to refer to fellow public defend-
ers who have helped him along the way.Donovan, Ferris Webby, Jonathan
Blum, Joe Yeager, Tom Cometa and AlFlora, to name a few all the go-toguys for specialties and questions. Orjust some good-old Public Defenders
Ruzzo said thats what hell miss themost, but knows each of his fellowattorneys is available if he needs them.
Hell miss the endless trials, too,and the competitiveness, but not somecases that one can see still linger in theback of Ruzzos mind.
The case of Lamont Cherry, convict-ed of third-degree murder in the May2009 death of a 1-year-old girl and latersentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison, isone of them.
Hes one of the guys who is servingprison time who I think is innocent,Ruzzo said. That was my bitterestloss.
Ruzzo saidnow hell enjoy somedowntime, his longtime girlfriend, Janice
Dimirco, and their Golden Retriever.Ruzzo, who has two sons, one an
attorney, the other a sales rep, andone daughter, a tipstaff for a judgein Dallas, Texas, will likely stillattend many seminars on aspects of
State Police Capt. James Degnen instructs Dylan Winburn, 12, of Avoca, how to hold and shoot a 20-gauge shotgun Wednesday at StatePolice Camp Cadet in White Haven. More than 80 boys and girls ages 12 to 15 from Luzerne, Wyoming,Sullivan and Bradford counties attendthe weeklong police academy to learn about what troopers do every day.
Longtime public defender calling it quits
SHEENA DELAZIO
Clark Van Orden | The Times Leader
William Ruzzohas workedpart time forthe LuzerneCounty PublicDefendersOffice for 20years. He willretire from theoffice next weekbut will continuewith his privatepractice.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AUPS cargo plane crashed andburned Wednesday morn-ing on the outskirts of anAlabama airport, killing twocrew members and scatter-ing boxes and charred debrisacross a grassy field, officialssaid.
The pilot and co-pilot, theonly people on board the jet,were killed, said BirminghamFire Chief Ivor Brooks. Thecrash site burned beforethe blaze was extinguished,Brooks said.
The plane crashed in anopen field on the outskirts ofBirmingham-ShuttlesworthInternational Airport, saidToni Herrera-Bast, a spokes-
woman for the citys airportauthority. The crash had notaffected airport operations,but it knocked down powerlines in the area and appearedto have toppled at least onetree and utility pole.
Officials had released fewdetails on the crash or whatmight have caused it.
National TransportationSafety Board officials said aninvestigative team was on itsway to the scene. At 7 a.m.Wednesday, conditions inthe area were rainy with lowclouds.
The plane is in severalsections, said BirminghamMayor William Bell, who wasbriefed on the situation by thecitys fire chief. There weretwo to three small explosions,but we think that was related
to the aviation fuel.UPS spokesm an Jeff
Wafford said the plane wascarrying a variety of cargo,but he did not elaborate. Thenames and hometowns of thecrew members have not beenreleased.
Chunks of riveted metalthat appeared to be fromthe plane landed in the yardof Cornelius and BarbaraBenson, who live in a two-story, split-foyer house just ashort walk from the crash site.Barbara Benson, 72, said shewas awakened from sleep atthe time of the crash by thisbig sonic boom.
I saw a b ig red flashthrough my bedroom win-dow, she said.
As it got light, the couplewere able to see that the topsof trees around their prop-erty had been knocked ontothe ground and that theywere missing a piece of their
back deck.Cornelius Benson, 75, said
planes routinely fly so lowover his house that a few yearsago, the airport authority sentcrews to remove the tops fromtrees around his house.
The planes come so closesometimes Ive been able towave at the captains as theypass, Barbara Benson said.
It was just a matter of timebefore something happened,Cornelius Benson said.
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MUMBAI, IndIA
18 feared deadaer explosion
All 18 sailors aboard an Indian subma-rine hit Wednesday by twin explosionsand an intense fire are feared dead, anaval official said. The submarine hadalso been damaged in a deadly explosionin 2010 and had only recently returnedto service.
The official, speaking on conditionof anonymity because divers had yetto recover any bodies, said the navybelieved there was no way anyone couldhave survived the intensity of the blastsandfire, which occurred when the diesel-powered submarine was docked at aMumbai navy base.
Officialshad earliersaid that there hadbeen no contact withthe sailorssincetheexplosions, which lit up the sky abovethe base.
WASHInGTOn
Jackson Jr. gets2 1/2 years in jail
A federal judge has sentenced for-mer Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to 30 monthsin prison, after his guilty plea that heengaged in a scheme to spend $750,000in campaign funds on personal items.
U.S. District Court Judge AmyBerman Jackson said Wednesday that asa public official Jacksonwas supposedtolive up to a higher standard.
Jackson,48, theson of civil rights lead-er Jesse Jackson, had been a Democraticcongressman from Illinois from 1995until he resigned last November.
According to court papers in the case,he used campaign money to buy itemsincluding a $43,350 gold-plated mensRolex watch.
His wife, Sandi, was sentenced to oneyear for filing false tax returns.
FORTMYERS,FlA.
Gen. Lee portraitcausing an uproar
The Lee County chapter of theNAACP wants to hold demonstrationsbecause the county refuses to take down
a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee thathangs in the commissioners meetingchambers.
The group says the portrait of theConfederate general is a slap to the facefor local minorities.
A half-dozen or so supporters of theportrait mostly members of localConfederate historical groups talkedabout the painting during a CountyCommission meeting Tuesday night. Amember of the local Sons of ConfederateVeterans told commissioners the groupstrongly objects to attempts to removethe portrait.
JERUSAlEM
Peace talks kick o
in secret locationWith tensions high and expectations
low, Israeli and Palestinian negotiatorslaunched their first substantive roundof peace talks in nearly five years, hud-dling together at an undisclosed loca-tion Wednesday in search of an end todecades of conflict.
The meeting was cloaked in secrecy,an attempt by both sides to preventleaks to the media and maintain trust.Officials would say only that the talkstook place in Jerusalem, and there wasno immediate comment from eitherside. The Israeli government released abrief video showingthe chief negotiatorsshaking hands as the talks continuedinto the evening.
Ahead of the meeting, there alreadywere signs of trouble. A new Israelipush to build hundreds of new homesin Jewish settlements and fresh fightingin the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip under-scored the tough road ahead.
AP photo
Fire crews investigate where a UPS cargo plane lies on a hill atBirmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport after crashing onapproach Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala.
AP photo
Backing protesting professors in BrazilA womanshowsher support from an apart-mentwindow as protestersmarchbelowher building Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.The demonstration was organizedandattended mainlyby universityprofessorswho protestedlow wagesand substandardfacilities.
UPScargojetcrashesinAla.,killing2Pilot, co-pilot die when plane goes downWednesday morning during rainy weather
JAYREEVES
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Militaryextendssame-sex
benefts
WASHINGTON Same-sexmilitary couples will qualify for fullbenefits, including government-provided health care and housingallowances, as long as they arelegally married, under new rulesannounced by the Pentagon.
The requirement for same-sex
couples to be married is a shift forthe Pentagon, which in Februaryannounced that full benefits wouldbe provided to members of the mili-tary and same-sex spouses if theyattested they were in a committedrelationship.
But Defense Secretary ChuckHagel said Wednesday that find-ing a way for unmarried, long-termcouples to qualify for benefits is nolonger necessary, since a SupremeCourt ruling in June striking downa federal law that barred marriedsame-sex couples from obtainingfederal benefits.
In addition to health care andhousing benefits, the new policywill allow same-sex couples to qual-ify for extra compensation when a
spouse in the military is deployedand unable to live at home. It willalso enable spouses of same-sexcouples access to base facilities,including post exchanges.
Hagel said in a memo that therequirement that same-sex couplesbe married was backed unani-mously by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.In theory, it will make it harder formilitary couples stationed in one ofthe 37 states where same-sex mar-riage is illegal to qualify forbenefits.
But service members who arestationed in those states will beoffered special leave so they cantravel to one of the 13 states, plusthe District of Columbia, that grantsame-sex marriage licenses, thememo said.
We recognizethat same-sexmili-tary couples who are not stationedin a jurisdiction that permits same-sex marriage would have to travelto another jurisdiction to marry.That is why the department willimplement policies to allowmilitarypersonnel in such a relationship leave for the purpose of travelingto a jurisdiction where such a mar-riage may occur, it said.
The benefit payments are retro-active to June 26, 2013, the date ofthe Supreme Courts ruling strikingdown the Defense of Marriage Act.
The extension of equal ben-efits for all legally married spouses,regardless of sexual orientation, isa huge step forward for our fami-lies who for far too long have beenexcluded and cut off from sup-port, said Stephen Peters, presi-dent of American Military PartnerAssociation, a group representingsame-sex military couples.
A valid marriage licensewill be required to receivemilitary health care andhousing allowances
David S. Cloud
TribuneWashingtonBureau(MCT)
Police storm 2 camps of supporters of ousted president
CAIRO Riot police backed byarmored vehicles, bulldozers and heli-copters Wednesday swept away twoencampments of supporters of oustedPresident Mohammed Morsi, sparkingrunning street battles elsewhere in Cairoand other Egyptian cities. At least 149
people were killed nationwide, many ofthem in the crackdown on the protestsites.
Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei,a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-reformleader in theinterimgovernment,resigned in protest over the assaults asthe military-backedleadershipimposedamonthlong state of emergency andnight-time curfew.
Clashes broke out elsewhere in thecapital and other provinces, injuringmore than 1,400 people nationwide, asIslamist anger spread over the dispersalof the 6-week-old sit-ins of Morsi sup-porters that divided the country. Policestations, government buildings and
Coptic Christian churches were attackedor set ablaze.
The violence drew condemnation fromother predominantly Muslim countries,but also from the U.N. and the UnitedStates, which said the crackdown willonly make it more difficult for Egypt tomove forward.
The assault to take control of the twosit-insites came after days of warnings bythe interim administration that replacedMorsi after he was ousted in a July 3coup. The camps on opposite sides ofthe Egyptian capital began in late June
to show support for Morsi. Protesters many from Morsis Muslim Brotherhood have demanded his reinstatement.
The smaller camp was cleared relative-ly quickly, but it took hours for police totake control of the main sit-in site, whichis near the Rabbah al-Adawiya Mosquethat has served as the epicenter of thepro-Morsi campaign.
Several senior leaders of the MuslimBrotherhood who were wanted by policewere detained after police stormed thecamp near the mosque, according tosecurity officials and state television.
AP photo
Supportersof ousted Islamist PresidentMohammedMorsishout Wednesday during clasheswith Egyptian policeat theRabaahAl-Adawiyaprotestcamp in Cairos Nasr City district.
At least 149 killed in EgyptHAMZA HENDAWI
and MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press
DoctorsWithout Borders leaves Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya Inannouncing a pullout fromSomalia after 22 years,Doctors Without Borders saidWednesday thatarmed groupsare killing and abducting aidworkers. And in a scathingindictment of Somalias lead-ership, the aid group accusedcivilian leaders of condon-ing or even supporting theattacks.
The pulloutgoes againstthenarrative of a Somalia emerg-ing from decades of anarchyand violence amid militarygains against Islamist insur-gents, but it underscores theviolence that persists. Abouttwo dozen local journalists
have been killed since thestart of 2012. In June, a truckbomb and gunfire attack onthe main U.N. compound inMogadishu killed eight U.N.employees and five Somalicivilians.
Doctors Without Borders,the winner of the 1999 NobelPeace Prize and known by itsFrench initialsas MSF, saidthepullout will cut off hundredsof thousands of Somali civil-ians from humanitarian aid.For example, in Mogadishu,MSF runs the only pediat-ric intensive care unit, whilein Jowhar, women will havenowhere to go for emergencyCaesarean sections.
The decision comes afterthe release from prison ofa Somali man convicted of
killing two MSF staff. InDecember 2011 a Somaliemployee of MSF who recent-ly learned his contract wouldnotbe renewed shot andkilleda Belgian and an Indonesianworker at an MSF compound.Though the shooter was con-victed and sentenced to 30years, authorities releasedhim from prison after onlythree months, MSF said.
Since 1991, dozens ofattacks resulted in the deathsof 16 Doctors WithoutBorders staff in Somalia. TwoMSF employees who werekidnapped in a Kenyan refu-gee camp near the border andheld in Somalia for almosttwo years were released lastmonth.
In a blunt statement, MSF
denounced extreme attackson its staff in an environmentwhere armed groups and civil-ian leaders increasingly sup-port, tolerate, or condone thekilling, assaulting, and abduct-ing of humanitarian aid work-ers.
In choosing to kill, attack,and abduct humanitarian aidworkers, these armed groups,and the civilian authoritieswho tolerate their actions,have sealed the fate of count-less lives in Somalia, saidDr. Unni Karunakara, MSFsinternational president.
At a Nairobi press confer-ence he did not elaborate onthe accusation or present evi-dence. Somali governmentleaders in Mogadishu declinedto comment.
JASON STRAZIUSO
Associated Press
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2 JOURNALISTS KILLED
A cameraman forBritishbroadcaster SkyNewsand a Dubai-based newspaperreporterwerekilled during violencein Egypt Wednesday, theiremployerssaid.
Skysaid MickDeane,61,was shotand woundedwhile covering the violent breakupof protestcampsin thecapital,Cairo.It said hewastreatedfor hisinjuriesbutdiedsoonafter.TherestoftheSky crew wasunhurt.
TheGulf News, a state-backednewspaperin theUnitedArab Emirates, reportedon itswebsitethat journalist Habiba Ahmed AbdElaziz,26,was shotdead nearthe Rabaah al-Adawiyamosque inCairo as securityforces moved inon a sit-in bysupportersof ousted presidentMohammed Morsi.
Thenewspapersaid shehadbeenon annualleaveand was noton assignment atthe protest
forthe XPRESS,a sister publication thatshe worked for.
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BUT LER T WP. The board of super visorson Tuesday approved acontract with LuzerneCounty for a $100,000gra nt t o fi na nc e th edemolition of the formerShadyrest Senior CitizensCenter.
The actual date for thedismantling has yet tobe determined because
there are issues associ-ated with asbestos thathave to be resolved, saidSupervisor ChairmanBrian Kisenweather.
Advertising for demo-lition bids might be dis-cussed at the Septembermeeting, Kisenweathersaid.
In other matters, thesupervisors:
Approved the saleof equipment for $576 toJim Kurochock.
Accepted the dedica-
tion of Riccardi Drive inthe Edgewood Terracedevelopment.
Approved a publichearing at 6 p.m. Oct.8 to discuss proposedchanges to the subdivi-sion and land develop-ment ordinance. Thesechanges also will be sub-mitted for review by theLuzerne County PlanningCommission.
Approved the Rinaldisubdivision.
Approved the appli-
cat io ns o f t he NEPARampage and HazletonArea Little Cougars touse the community cen-ter after an adjustment infees.
Also, Kisenweathersaid that work has begunon traffic signals on stateRoute 309 at the entranceto the corporate park.The signa ls are part of aproject to create a magnetschool by the HazletonArea School District inthe park.
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Dupont to initiate comingled recyclingB. GARRETROGAN
Times LeaderCorrespondent
DUPONT BoroughCouncil unanimouslyagreed Tuesday to initi-ate single-stream recy-cling next year.
Every Wednesday,beginning Jan. 1, 2014,residents will be able toleave their recyclablesout for a single collectioneach week.
In other matters,Councilman StanleyGolembiewski agreedwith several residentscomplaints aboutthe recently openedContinental Bar and
Grille on Main Street.While some in atten-
dance claimed the baris a consistent sourceof noise each Saturday,many said noise levelsand customer behaviorwas excessive this pastSaturday.
Amaury Oliveira, theowner of the establish-ment, acknowledged thecomplaints and said hehas limited control overpatrons once they leavethe bars premises. Hedid, however, pledgeto increase security toensure the peace of thecommunity.
Mayor Daniel Lello
urged concerned resi-dents to call 911 whenthey are unable to con-tact borough police andsaid officers from neigh-boring municipalitieswill respond if Dupontofficers are detained.
Also on Tuesday, bor-ough officials remindedthe public of the bor-oughs annual Party in thePark, featuring refresh-ments and activities. Theparty will be 1 to 9 p.m.Aug.24 atthe park acrossfrom the borough build-ing on Chestnut Street.
The next council meet-ing is set for 7 p.m. Sept.10.
COURTBRIEFS
WILKES-BARRE ALuzerne County judge onWednesday denied a request
to reduce the prison sen-tence of a mother chargedwith covering up a deadlyshooting of a 14-year-old boy.
Angelina DeAbreu plead-ed guiltyto thethree charges all misdemeanors inMay in the middle of hertrial on four charges, whichincluded a corruption ofminors charge.
She was latersentenced tosix to 12 months in countyprison, and one year proba-tion.
DeAbreus son, ElijahYusuff, 14, was chargedin juvenile court in shoot-ing and killing his friendTyler Winstead, 14, inside
DeAbreus Hill Street,Wilkes-Barre home in April2012.
Prosecutors say DeAbreucleaned up blood stains,removed a gun and deletedcellphone material.
DeAbreus attorneys fileda request to reduce her sen-tence,basedon claimsthat itwas excessive. County JudgeDavid Lupas denied thatrequest Wednesday.
DeAbreu has 30 days toappeal Lupas ruling.
Gov.Corbett fails
to reportvacation
homepurchaseThe AssociatedPress
HARRISBURG Gov.Tom Corbett and his wifebought a $265,000 vacationhome withoutreporting thepurchase on the governorsannual financial disclosurestatement.
StateImpact/NPR report-ed Tuesday that publicrecords obtained throughan open-records requestshow the deed and mort-gage documents were filedin December for the condoin a beachfront resort com-munity in Hilton Head
Island, S.C.Corbett spokeswomanKelli Roberts initially saidthe governor was confusedby language on the report-ing form. She said the gov-ernors office will amendthe report.
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Street and Empire Street ledto a traffic stop at Park andLehigh on Tuesday.
An Edwardsville man,Rashon Whitest, 19, ofGreen Street, was processedand released pending a mis-demeanor marijuana pos-session charge, police said.
Williams was taken intocustody on an outstand-ing Philadelphia warrantand charged with posses-sion of heroin with intentto deliver, possession of asmall amount of marijuanaand providing false identifi-cation to a law enforcementofficer.
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He also was arrested inWilkes-Barre on Oct. 4,when he was a passenger ina vehicle that was stoppedon the South Street Bridge.Police said Williams used afalse name and was foundcarrying a small bagof mari-juana, according to a crimi-nal complaint in that case.
He is still awaiting trial incounty court in that case,records show.
After arraignment onthe latest charges beforeDistrict Judge Joseph D.Zola, Williams was sent tothe county prison, wherehe was unable to post bail.A preliminary hearing isscheduled for 10 a.m. Aug.22 before District JudgeMartin R. Kane.
County has plans for
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If the Luzerne CountyTreasurers Office startscollecting all county taxesnext year as planned,property owners will havea multitude of optionsto pay, county Manager
Robert Lawton told coun-cil Tuesday.
A council majority sup-ported the switch to in-house collection, arguingthe county will save anestimated $300,000 andhave greater control overreceipts by ending relianceon 69 elected collectors.
The Luzerne CountyTax Collectors Associationis challenging the legal-
ity of the decision and hasasked a judge to force thecounty to continue usingthe services of electedcollectors next year. Thecounty matter has no bear-ing on elected collectorsinvolvement in receivingschool and municipal prop-erty tax payments.
Lawton said the trea-surers office is developinga system allowing propertyowners to pay county taxesonline with a credit card,debit card or electroniccheck.
The office will provideevening hours at least oneday per week during rebateand face periods and at theend of December.
The two-month rebateperiod allows property
o wn ers t o receive a 2percent discount beforetaxes are owed at the fullamount, or face value, foranother two-month period.A 10 percent penalty isthen added to tax bills paidbefore the end of the year.
For example, someonewho owes $500 can pay$490 in rebate, $500 inface or $550 in penalty.
If county tax bills areissued Jan. 21 as expected,the rebate period will runthrough March 21, and theface period would end May21, said county TreasurersOffice Man ager/ TaxAdministrator Laura
Beers.In addition to collections
at the county TreasurersOffice on the first flooro f t he court ho use inWilkes-Barre, the officewill accept payment atsenior centers outside the
immediate Wilkes-Barrearea and a satellite officein space used by countyveteran affairs in the coun-ty-owned Broad StreetExchange building at 100W. Broad St. in Hazleton.
The schedule for thoselocations hasnt been set.
The office also willreceive payment s o nSaturdays during therebate and face periods onthe first floor of the coun-tys Penn Place Buildingat the corner of MarketStreet and PennsylvaniaAvenue. Taxpayers will bepermitted to park in thePenn Place lot on theseSaturdays. A drop-off boxalso will be available atPenn Place for check andmoney order payments
during county businesshours.
Lawton said he expectsto add three clerical work-ers to handle the increasedwork, and the $300,000estimated savings will besegregated so council candecide the best use for themoney.
Beers said t he planaddresses concerns aboutthe locations and timescounty staff will be avail-able to serve taxpayers inperson while offering the24-hour convenience ofonline payment.
The Treasurers Officeis confident in its ability to
effectively collect all countyproperty taxes beginning in2014, Beers said. We willbe prepared to assume thismajor responsibility, havingdeveloped a multi-facetedstrategy for tax seasonimplementation.
JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES
Property owners
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Alaska volcano spewslava, ash but no danger
ANCHORAGE, Alaska A remote Alaska volcano isagainoozing lava into itsice-
filled caldera, but the activ-ity is no cause for alarm fornearby villagers, scientistssaid Wednesday.
Seismic activity and sat-ellite imagery indicatedVeniaminof Volcano beganemitting a low-level lavaflow Sunday, after about aweek of quiet behavior, s aidGame McGimsey, a volca-nologist with the AlaskaVolcano Observatory inAnchorage.
The volcano also pro-duced an ash cloud of about
12,000 feet Monday, but itquickly dissipated. That wasthehighest of several plumessince the volcano began its
eruption in June, and thefirst since the activity settleddown earlier this month.
Veniaminof, pronouncedven-ee-ah-mean-off, has a 61/2-mile wide caldera, thelarge depression at a vol-canos center that usuallyis formed by the collapse ofland following an eruption.Protruding from the calderaiceis a central cindercone,McGimsey said.
Thats where all the activ-ity it taking place, he said.
The lava flows are notextensive, going down theside of the cone onto the iceon the caldera floor and nottraveling much beyond the
base of the cone, he said.This is,in noway, hazard-ous to anybody, any villagesor anything, McGimseysaid.
Cloud cover has obscuredthe observatorys webcam atVeniaminof, about 480 milessouthwest of Anchoragealong the Aleutian chain.
The closest community tothe volcano is Perryville, anAlutiiq subsistence villageof about 110 people. A statewebsite says the village wasfounded in 1912 as a refugefor Alutiiq people who weredriven from their homes bythe eruption of Novarupta,the largest volcanic erup-
tion of the 20th century. Theburst dumped ash still visibletoday along Alaskas Katmairegion.
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WILKES-BARRE AKings College adminis-trator waived 110 countsrelated to allegedly pos-sessing child pornogra-phy to LuzerneCounty Court onWednesday.
JamesA. Stewart,53,of Walden Drive,Wright Township,was scheduledto appear beforeDistrict JudgeRonald Swank on anumber of chargesrelating to allega-tions he had images of chil-dren engaged in sex acts on
a computer memory card.Stewart waived the 110
countsof child pornographyand dissemination of pho-tos. Prosecutors withdrew10 additional counts ofcriminal use of a communi-cation facility.
Stewart is next scheduledfor a formal arraignment incounty court on Oct. 25.
Court records indicateStewart is represented byattorney Nanda Palissery ofKingston.
Stewart is free on$75,000bail that was posted by bailbondsman Henry Maletshortly after Stewart wascharged.
Stewart has been sus-
pended without pay fromhis position at Kings
College in Wilkes-Barre,pending the outcome ofthe charges. Stewart worksat the college as a tutorialcoordinator and lectures onAfrican studies.
According to acriminal complaint,Luzerne Countydetectives andWright Townshippolice arrestedStewart in Juneafter an investiga-tion by the InternetCrimes AgainstChildren Task Forceand state police.
Police obtained a searchwarrant for Stewarts home,
where they found 10 videosof children engaged in sexacts, totaling more than 57minutes, according to courtpapers.
Stewart allegedly toldpolice he downloaded theimages a few weeks beforebeing arrested when hiswife was away. He said hehad a couple beers andwas curious, according tothe criminal complaint.
Stewart said he feltguilty and ashamed anddeleted the files from thecomputer before his wifereturned home. Police saidStewart had a computermemory card he kept in his
wallet.
Kings employeewaives child
porn chargesSHEENA DELAZIO
Stewart
ASHLEY There wasnothing unsafe about theboroughs municipal officebuilding, but police andadministrators couldnt usetwo-thirds of it and paid$7,500-per-month in thewinter to keep the placewarm. But thats soon tochange.
Borough Council onWednesday approved thepurchase of a new build-ing along West CemeteryStreet currently occupiedby Ehrlich pest controland Ameritech. The build-ing is being sold by JCEReal Estate LLC, accord-ing to Borough SecretaryChristine Casey.
The second and thirdfloors in the boroughs for-mer municipal buildingwere condemned whenrain
water and pigeons gettingin through a faulty roofcaused significant damage.
To get the building out ofits condemned status, fed-eral law states the boroughwould have to make it com-pliant with the Americanswith Disabilities Act stan-dards and install an eleva-tor. The elevator was goingto cost about $350,000,Gorham said.
The building was cleanedand the roof repaired, butthe cost to regain use of thewhole building exceededits value, Gorham said.The first floor is now usedfor the secretarys officeand round-the-clock policedepartment. Public meet-ings have to be held in thefire hall.
Gaming grants fromcasino taxes to the tuneof $400,000 will pay formost of the purchase, and
capital investment savingsthe borough has been set-ting aside for about fouryears will make up the restof the $550,000 purchaseprice, Gorham said. Moneyearmarked for design andrenovations will defray thecost to bring the new build-
ing up to date.The two tenants will stay
in the building and payrent to the borough, saidCouncil President Joe M.Gorham.
In essence, were look-ing to move into a newfacility with relatively no
cost to the taxpayers,Gorham said.
They hope to move allmunicipalfunctions, includ-ing the police department,meeting room and adminis-trative offices to the 8,000square feet available in thebuilding by winter to avoid
heating a drafty building atan exorbitant cost, Gorhamsaid.
The move is a signof great belt-tightening,Gorham said.
We were nearly bank-rupt four years ago. Weverun a completely disci-
plined borough and we arenow in the black. In a timewhen most municipalitiesare struggling, we havea surplus, Gorham said.(Moving in is) going to bea proud moment realizedfor the hard work by thecouncil.
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FRASQUIA, Bolivia If Bolivias public recordsare correct, Carmelo FloresLaura is the oldest livingperson ever documented.
They say he turned 123 amonth ago.
The native Aymara livesin a straw-roofed dirt-floorhut in an isolated hamlet
near Lake Titicaca at 13,100feet, is illiterate, speaks noSpanish and has no teeth.
He walks without a caneand doesnt wear glasses.And though he speaks theAymara languagewith a firmvoice, onemust speak direct-ly into his ear to be heard.
I see a bit dimly. I hadgood vision before. ButI sawyou coming, he tells a groupof Associated Press report-ers who drove from the capi-tal, La Paz, after a local TVreport about him.
Hobbling down a dirtpath, Flores greets themwith a raised arm, smilesand sits down on a rock to
chat. His gums bulge withcoca leaf, a mild stimulantthat staves off hunger that,like most Bolivian highlandspeasants, he has been chew-ing all his life.
Guinness World Recordssays the oldest living personverified by original proofof birth is Misao Okawa,a 115-year-old Japanesewoman, while the oldest ver-ified age on record was 122years and 164 days: JeanneCalment of France. She diedin 1997.
I should be about 100years old or more, Floressays.
But his memory is failing.
His 27-year-old grandson,Edwin, says he fought inthe 1933 Chaco war withParaguay, but Flores said heonly faintly remembers that.
The director of Boliviascivil registrar, EugenioCondori, showed the AP theregistry that lists Carmelo
Flores birthdate as July 16,1890.
Condori said there is nobirth certificate becausethey did not exist in Boliviauntil 1940. Before that,births were registered withbaptism certificates fromthe nearest Roman Catholicchurch, authenticated bytwo witnesses.
For thestate, thebaptismcertificate is valid because inthose days priests providedthem and they were liter-ate, Condori said. He saidhe could not show Floresbaptismcertificate to theAPbecause it is a private docu-ment.
The grandson says thefamily had to show the gov-ernment the baptism certifi-cate so Flores could qualifyfora monthly subsidyfor the
elderly.To what does Flores owe
his longevity?I walk a lot, thats all. I go
out with the animals, says
Flores, who long herdedcattle and sheep. I donteat noodles or rice, onlybarley. I used to grow pota-toes, beans, oca (an Andeantuber).
The water Flores drinksstreams down from thesnow-capped peak of
Illampu, one of Boliviashighest mountains.
He says he doesnt drinkalcohol, though did imbibesome in his youth.
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Bolivian man may beworlds oldest on recordDocuments
suggest Carmelo
Flores Laura was
born onJuly 16,
1890,which would
make him 123.
CARLOSVALDEZ
AssociatedPress
AP photo
Carmelo Flores Laura poses for a photo with his great-grand-children outside his home in the village of Frasquia, Bolivia, onTuesday.
Removal of turkeys frommental facility stirs angerTheAssocitaedPress
NEW YORK Theremoval of some turkeysfromthe grounds ofa StatenIsland mental health facilityhas somepeople crying foul.
The U.S. Departmentof Agricultures WildlifeServices division took anumber of the birds awayfrom the grounds of theSouth Beach PsychiatricCenter earlier this week,and they were taken toa food processing facil-ity and euthanized, WildlifeServices spokeswoman
Carol Bannerman said.Bannerman said the cull-
ing took place on Mondayand Tuesday. She didntknow how many birds hadbeen taken.
A spokesman for thestate Department of MentalHealth said the South BeachPsychiatric Center reachedout to the USDA for helpwith the bird population.The federal agency had
been granted a permit bythe state Department ofEnvironmentalConservationto undertake the removal.
Animal advocate DavidKaropkin of GooseWatchNYCwas among thosedecry-ing the killing of the birds.
For them to say therewas no alternative otherthan rounding them up andslaughtering them is outra-geous, he said.
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GIRARD JERRYMARTIN SCHMITT, 64, ofPlains Township, died Tuesday,Aug. 13, 2013, in the VeteransAffairs Medical Center, Plains
Township. Born in Scranton,he was a U.S. Army veteranand a two-time Purple Heartrecipient. Preceding him werebrothers, Chester Schmittand Glen Birch; sisters, MaryJones, Betty Birch and ShirleyVanKuren. Surviving are broth-ers, Robert Birch, Michigan;Frederick Schmitt Jr., Scranton;William Schmitt, Moosic; sis-ters, Dawn Sharer, Binghamton,N.Y.; Barbara Summa, Dunmore;Diane Summa, Olyphant; niecesand nephews.
Funeral 1 1 a .m.Saturday at Victor M.Ferri Funeral Home,522 Fallon St., Old
Forge. Friends may call 9 a.m.until service. To leave onlinecondolences, visit www.ferrifu-neralhome.com.
DANIEL W. SARANCHUK,80, of Moosic, died Tuesday,Aug. 13, 2013. Son of thelate Daniel B. and MargaretHailstone Saranchuk, he servedin the U.S. Navy. Preceding himwere an infant daughter, Debra;sister Sandra Hedges; grand-daughter, Laura; great-grand-child, Aubrey Snyder. Survivingare wife, Stell a SompelSaranchuk; children Robert,Daniel, Denise Zuzel, MicheleLokuta, Melanie Buldowski;brother, Barry; sister ElizabethGush; grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and neph-ews.
Funeral services9:15 a.m. Saturday at
Thomas P. KearneyFuneral Home Inc., 517
N. Main St., Old Forge. Mass ofChristian Burial 10 a.m. in St.Anns Basilica, West Scranton.Friends may call 2 to 8 p.m.Friday.
ROBERT LEE SURPLUS,35, of Rocky Glen Road, Avoca,died Wednesday. He was a son
of Ronald and Marie ThomasSurplus.Funeral arrangements
are pending from the YeosockFuneral Home, 40 S. Main St.,Plains Township. A completeobituary will appear in the news-paper at a later date.
OBITUARYPOLICYTheTimes Leaderpublishes freeobituaries,which have a 27-linelimit,and paid obituaries,which can run withaphotograph.A funeralhomerepresentative cancall theobituarydesk
at 570-829-7224,senda faxto 570-829-5537or email [email protected] you faxor email,please callto conrm.Obituariesmust besubmittedby 7:30 p.m.forpublicationin thenextedition.Obituariesmust be sent bya funeralhomeor crematory,ormust namewhoishandling arrangements,with address andphonenumber.
ofChristian Burial10a.m.in St.Michaels Byzantine CatholicChurch,205 N.Main St.,Pittston.Friendsmaycall5 to8 p.m.todayat thefuneralhome.OBOYLE - Margaret,friends maycall9 a.m.Friday inSt. CeciliasChurch,St. BarbarasParish,Exeter.Mass9:30 a.m.SCOTT - Katherine,funeral10a.m.todayat CorcoranFuneralHome Inc.,20 S.MainSt.,PlainsTownship.SMITH - Loretta,memorial service1 p.m.todayat JendrzejewskiFuneralHome,21 N.Meade St.,Wilkes-Barre.Friendsmay callnoonuntil service.WHEELER - Doris,friends maycall1 to 1:45p.m.today at Davis-DinelliFuneralHome,170 E.Broad St.,Nanticoke.Graveside service 2p.m.in EdgeHill Cemetery,WestNanticoke.ZASTAVNY - Victoria,funeral9a.m.Saturdayat George A.StrishInc.FuneralHome,211 W.MainSt.,GlenLyon.Massof ChristianBurial9:30a.m. inHoly Spirit Parish/St.AdalbertsChurch. Friendsmaycall 5 to8 p.m.Fridayand 8 a.m.until services Saturday.
ADAMS - Ethel,memorial service11 a.m.Saturday inLaurelRunPrimitive MethodistChurch.BUYDOS -Josephine, funeralvisitation10 a.m.Friday at theExaltationof theHoly CrossChurch,Buttonwood, HanoverTownship.Mass of ChristianBurialto follow.COLLURA - SamuelJr.,funeral11:15a.m. Fridayat SimonS.
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ALICE STANKUNASAug.14,2013
Alice Stankunas, 86, ofHanover Township, passed awayon Aug. 14, 2013, with her lov-ing family at her side.
She was born Aug. 6, 1927, inPlymouth, a devoted daughterof the late Frank and Mary DixieStankunas.
Alice was a graduate ofHanover High School, class of1945. She was a faithful mem-ber of the former St. CasimirsChurch, Lyndwood, Hanover
Township, and most recently ofSt. Robert Bellarmine Parish,Wilkes Barre.
At St. Casimirs Church shewas actively involved in manychurch functions, including aCCD teacher, bazaar worker anddonation tabulator.
She was employed by BellTelephone of Kingston as asupervisor for more than 30years. She also was a GeneralHospitalvolunteer and SalvationArmy bell ringer.
She loved to travel the worldwith her family and friends.
Alice is survived by her lov-ing and devoted sister IrenePstrak and her husband, Joseph,Hanover Township; her sisterEleanore Smith and her hus-band,Dr. JulianP.,Dallas, Texas;
brothers, Leonard Stankunas
and his wife, Betty, MountainTop, and Frank Stankunas andhis wife, Royciene, of West PalmBeach, Fla. She was a lovingaunt to many nieces and neph-ews.
Private funeral serviceswill be held from the S.J.Grontkowski Funeral Home, 530W. Main St., Plymouth, witha Mass of Christian Burial at10 a.m. Saturday at St. RobertBellarmine Parish, formerly St.AloysiusChurch,143
