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Friday, April 17, 1998     Page: 2A

WILKES-BARRE – A Monroe Street man was severely injured after a group of
men beat him early Thursday on Carey Avenue, police said.
   
Ronald Kripp was found laying in the street at 1:40 a.m. after the fight,
police said.
    Witnesses told police he was attacked by about four or five men. The
suspects left before police arrived.
   
Kripp was taken to Mercy Hospital for head and facial injuries. He was
listed in critical condition.
   
Man arrested, charged with prowling
   
WILKES-BARRE – A 59-year-old man was arrested early Thursday and charged
with prowling at a woman’s Mill Street home, police said.
   
Norman Zalewska, of East Stanton Street, Plains, was standing on the front
porch of Lisa Oliver’s home about 1:30 a.m. when Oliver called authorities,
police said.
   
As police arrived, they spotted Zalewska running from the porch, across the
street and over a fence i