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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011
Man charged in Calabro homicide Arthur F. Stoss accused of killing woman whose body was recovered Monday by river. By MATT HUGHES mhughes@timesleader.com
The Luzerne County District Attorney on Tuesday charged Arthur F. Stoss in the slaying of Lillian Calabro, the woman whose body authorities recovered from the First reported at bank of the Susquehanna River on 3:42 Monday. Police p.m. said Stoss’ own timesleader daughter led them .com to the alleged killer. According to an affidavit, Stoss’ daughter, Jennifer Milazzo, of Pittston, told investigators she spoke to To see her father at her additional residence in the photos and early-morning videos, visit www.times hours of March 12, leader.com and he told her he murdered someone. Milazzo said Stoss was wet from the waist down when he arrived. Amanda Smith said she was at Milazzo’s house when Stoss arrived, and added Stoss had cuts on his right arm and hand. Stoss told her he was involved in a drug deal gone bad that led him into a fist fight with a black male, Smith said. Smith said Stoss told her he “hit the guy with a rock so hard he heard the skull pop and was pretty sure the guy did not make it out and is still floating down the river.” Stoss told her “a perfect end to
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Spring storm projected to cover the region in white for yet another time. By EDWARD LEWIS elewis@timesleader.com
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Arthur Stoss, 48, of Pittston Township, is brought into District Judge Fred Pierantoni’s courtroom in Pittston on Tuesday to be arraigned on an open count of criminal homicide. Stoss is being held at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility and is ineligible for bail.
the night would be if it rains,” Smith added. Shortly after 9 a.m. March 12, Pittston police discovered a strip of blood and other evidence that a victim was assaulted and dragged into the river at Pittston’s Riverfront Park. The crime
scene prompted a search of the Susquehanna over nine days that ended Monday, when Calabro’s body was found on the bank of the Susquehanna River near Kirby Park in Wilkes-Barre. Following an autopsy at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital
on Tuesday, forensic pathologist Dr. Gary Ross ruled Calabro’s death a homicide with blunt force trauma to the head as the cause of death. An employee at Stephanie’s Bar in Pittston said she told police Calabro left the bar with
Stoss about 7 p.m. March 11. Another woman, Linda Redmon, told investigators that she saw Stoss pacing back and forth on March 12 and that when she See STOSS , Page 12A
Don’t put away those snow shovels and snow throwers. The calendar may say spring but a late winter storm has the potential of heavy snowfall through Thursday. It all depends on location, location, location. HigherelevationssuchasLaurel Run, Mountain Top and the Poconos may get up to 10 inches of snow with the valley receiving 6 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service in Binghamton, N.Y. A winter storm warning has been issued for Northeastern Pennsylvania through Thurs- INSIDE: For day morning. the weather Blizzard con- forecast from ditions may take WNEP’s Tom place as high Clark, see windsmaycause page 10B. poor visibility. “A band of heavy snow will set up tonight as precipitation spreads over the area after midnight. The snow will fall heavily at times through Wednesday, potentially accumulating as much as a foot across the Poconos region of Pennsylvania and the Catskill Mountains of New York.,” said Accuweather.com Meteorologist Brian Edwards. “Outside of the higher elevations, a general 3 to 6 inches of snow is expected across the southern tier of New York along with north-central and northeastern Pennsylvania,” Edwards said. Snow was expected to begin late Tuesday night into this morning and continue through the day. Temperatures are expected to remain around freezing, causing the snowfall to be wet and heavy. Sleet may mix in with the See SNOW, Page 12A
Victims of juvie crime can seek payments $500,000 in fund for victims of juveniles whose convictions were vacated due to scandal.
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By TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER tmorgan@timesleader.com
WILKES-BARRE – The Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office has begun accepting applications for a special fund set up to compensate victims of juveniles whose criminal convictions were vacated in response to the juvenile justice scandal. Senior Berks County Judge Arthur Grim and Luzerne County District Attorney Jacqueline Musto Carroll provided details of the application process at a press conference Tuesday. The $500,000 fund was established last year by the state Legislature to compensate juvenile crime victims
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Williams Field Services Co., LLC, plans facility about 1,800 feet from schools.
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Judge Arthur Grim discusses the fund for victims of juveniles whose convictions were vacated because of the justice scandal.
who were denied full restitution in light of the October 2009 state Supreme Court decision that vacated the convictions of thousands of juveniles who appeared before former Judge Mark Ciavarella. Grim, the special master appointed to review Ciavarella’s cases, determined the restitution orders in those cases
could not be enforced because the convictions no longer existed. He and Musto Carroll commended state legislators, including state Sen. Lisa Baker, R-Lehman Township, and former state Rep. John Yudichak, D-Plymouth Township, now a state senator, for their See FUND, Page 12A
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By SARAH HITE shite@timesleader.com
DALLAS TWP. – Township officials received an application Monday from the Milnes Companies on behalf of Williams Field Services Co., LLC, a subsidiary of Williams Gas Co., to build a metering station about 1,800 feet from the Dallas School District campus. This application comes just a month after Chief Gathering LLC submitted amended plans to build a metering facility of its own about 500 feet away from the proposed Williams site, according to township Zoning Officer Leonard Kozick.
The plan includes a metering facility and a 100-foot communications tower to be built on 2 of 4 acres of land owned by William and Priscilla Perry of Franklin Township. See STATION, Page 12A