A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Pennsylvania handed down a 48-count indictment against former Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella.

* Plains Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre is a city in the US state of Pennsylvania, the county seat of Luzerne County.

The project stretches approximately four blocks from the Luzerne County Courthouse to the intersection of S. River Street and W. South Street.

The completion of the James F. Conahan Intermodal Transportation Facility has added parking and moved Luzerne County Transportation Authority buses from their former Public Square staging locations, reducing congestion in the square.

Political corruption in Wilkes-Barre and Luzerne County became a major regional news story following nationwide publication of stories about the Kids for Cash scandal, a kickback scheme involving two local judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, charged with enriching themselves by investing in juvenile detention facilities to which they subsequently sentenced children under their judicial power.

In August 2010, former Luzerne County Commissioner Greg Skrepenak, a former professional football player and Wilkes-Barre native, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for accepting a bribe unrelated to his involvement with the for-profit juvenile detention center.

* Luzerne County Correctional Facility

* Luzerne County Courthouse

Luzerne County Courthouse seen from River Commons

Luzerne County senior judges are Hugh F. Mundy, and former President judges Joseph Augello, Chester Muroski, and Patrick Toole.

Throughout the city's history, the area has remained a hub for all of Luzerne County.

The tallest church in Luzerne County, St Nicholas Roman Catholic Church, dominates the South End skyline at nearly 200 '.

Public transportation is provided by the Luzerne County Transportation Authority.

* Luzerne County Museum

* Luzerne County Historical Society

* Luzerne County Community College, located on South Prospect Street in nearby Nanticoke

* Fairmount Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

* Hollywood, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

It was created in 1842 from part of Luzerne County.

* Luzerne County ( south )

Susquehanna County was created on February 21, 1810, from part of Luzerne County and named for the Susquehanna River.

* Luzerne County ( southeast )

It was presented to the Luzerne County Court for incorporation as the Borough of Winton in December 1876.

According to Samuel L. French, author of Reminiscences of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Penna., "... the present Borough of Plymouth was erected by decree of Honorable John N. Conyngham, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County, on the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1866, upon the recommendation of the Grand Jury ..."

In 1872, he was elected Register of Wills for Luzerne County, and in 1874, became the first clerk of the Orphans ' Court.

On April 1, 1970, Judge George Luzerne Hart, Jr., of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, ordered the Interior Department to not issue a construction permit for a section of the project that crossed one of the claims.

Ending four months of litigation and political turmoil on August 20, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, while castigating the Luzerne Common Pleas Court for marking ( perforating ) the ballots in the first place, upheld an earlier lower court ruling and declared that all 60, 000 perforated ballots were valid, thereby certifying Pinchot as the winner of the May 20 Republican primary.

During Wilkes-Barre's reign as an industrial and economic force in America, a number of franchises decided to plant their roots in the city, such as ; Woolworth's, Sterling Hotels, Planter's Peanuts, Miner's Bank, Bell Telephone, HBO, Luzerne National Bank, Stegmaier, and the demolished Old Fell House on Northampton St is believed to be the first place in the entire world Anthracite was burned for heat.

By 1813 the area once comprising the sprawling county of Northumberland had been divided over time and allotted to other counties such that lands once occupied by Old Northumberland at its greatest extent are now found in Centre, Columbia, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mifflin, Union, Clearfield, Clinton, Montour, Bradford, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Tioga, Potter, McKean, Warren, Venango, Snyder, and Schuylkill Counties and the current county is but a fraction of its former size.

Luzerne County is a county in northeastern Pennsylvania, with a total population of 320, 918 ( as of the 2010 census ).

Luzerne is infamous for being the last county whose sheriff legally formed a posse to restore order in a time of civil unrest.

Luzerne County is the only county in the United States with a plurality of citizens reporting Polish as their primary ancestry ; the majority of Pennsylvanians report German or Pennsylvania Dutch.

Luzerne County is governed by a board of 11 County Councilmembers.

It was created on August 13, 1878, from part of Luzerne County and is Pennsylvania's most recently established county.

Luzerne is a city in Benton County, Iowa, United States.

Luzerne is located at ( 41. 906212 ,-92. 180370 ).

* Luzerne is an unincorporated community on M-72 at.

Lake Luzerne is a town in southern Warren County, New York, United States.

Lake Luzerne is west of the city of Glens Falls.

The land, known as Veterans Field or the Northway Industrial Park, is on Veterans Road between Luzerne Road and Sherman Avenue and is just east of I-87.

The west town line is the border with the town of Lake Luzerne.

Perhaps the town's standout feature is the allee of American Elm trees along Luzerne Street, the last cathedral-arched boulevard left in the United States.

It is drained by the Lehigh River, which separates it from Luzerne County.

The 2000 US census shows that Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, is the only county to have a majority of Eastern Europeans in the United States Immigration to the United States.

Berwick is also home to a dedicated campus of Luzerne County Community College, located in the Eagles Building.

German Township is bordered on the north by Luzerne and Redstone Townships, on the northeast by Menallen Township, on the east by South Union Township, on the southeast by Georges Township, on the south by Nicholson Towship, and on the west by the Monongahela River and Greene County.

It is located in Luzerne Township.

Luzerne Township is a township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.