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Man pleads "no contest" in 2023 Kingston homicide

KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Luzerne County man faces decades in prison after pleading "no contest" to third degree murder. Prosecutors say Walter Zolner III, 33 bludgeoned to death 22-year-old Ryan Padovani in his Bennett Street, Kingston home in 2023. Zolner lived next to Padovani in the duplex home. At the time, Zolner claimed [...]