Woman jailed for selling drugs
MONTROSE - An Oakland woman was sentenced to serve up to four years in state prison for dealing heroin out of her home.
Police found 13 bricks and four bundles of heroin hidden in the home Shawna Whritenour, 30, shared with her husband, Steven. Both were charged with a slew of drug counts in July.
On Thursday, President Judge Kenneth Seamans sentenced her to serve 21 to 48 months in state prison, followed by five years of probation, for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.
In November, Mr. Whritenour was sentenced to serve five years in prison on a drug trafficking charge.
Rally organized for corrections cuts
PITTSTON - Federal corrections officers around the country have picketed in recent days to spotlight unsafe working conditions they say contributed to the death of corrections officers like Eric Williams of Nanticoke.
A similar gathering is coming here next week.
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-17, Moosic, is organizing what he calls a "protest rally" to take aim at the automatic spending cuts brought on by sequestration that some say may make corrections jobs more dangerous.
The rally is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday at Pittston Area High School.
Tax money coming to towns, schools
WILKES-BARRE - Municipalities and school districts still missing earned income tax revenue from the first half of 2012 should be made whole by Friday, said John DeRemer, a vice president at tax collection company H.A. Berkheimer.
Berkheimer has been in charge of distributing that money to the correct towns and schools in Luzerne County after the old collector, the Central Tax Bureau of Pennsylvania, better known as Centax or the Don Wilkinson Agency, went out of business.
Money supposed to be distributed months ago was sitting in an account until a forensic accounting company determined where it was supposed to go.