Our lost immigrant child will spend the holiday with her father in a dangerous land she never really knew. Yet, the impact of her angelic sprit lives in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, among friends who love her in the town she called home for most of her life. Now living in Honduras with her father Concepción, who […]
When the White House approved my press credential request many of you expected me to personally cover President Donald Trump’s recent Northeastern Pennsylvania appearance at the Mt. Airy Casino Resort. Sorry to disappoint you. I never intended to subject myself to such a tawdry spectacle. I can get into a neo-nutsy Klan meeting without press […]
If crime never sleeps why didn’t anybody answer the telephone at Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce’s office when I called 570-825-1674 at 1:13 p.m. and 1:14 p.m. on Friday? I let the phone ring and ring and ring until the ringing automatically turned into a busy signal. Who knows what mayhem might have been […]
She’s gone but not forgotten. Or is she forever forsaken? I’ve asked several local Dunmore and state elected officials to help me locate our frightened 11-year-old after federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Oct. 29 apprehended the undocumented sixth grader and her father. Did federal agents deport her and her father back to […]
Imagine our lost immigrant child’s fear as the 11-year-old sixth grader realized no adult would save her. Dunmore police arrived Wednesday, Oct. 29, to take her away from teachers, friends and the safety of her elementary school. Within minutes local police rushed her into the police station and turned her over to federal Immigration and […]
