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Man sentenced for murder of Luzerne County woman

Anthony Shaw was found guilty and sentenced this week in Luzerne County.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A man convicted of stabbing a woman to death in Luzerne County will spend life in prison.

Anthony Shaw was found guilty in Luzerne County Court Wednesday of first-degree murder for the death of Cindy Ashton in Wilkes-Barre Township. He was immediately given a life sentence.

Ashton, 39, was found stabbed to death in the bathroom of her apartment on Nicholson Street in Wilkes-Barre Township in May of 2018.

Shaw, her former boyfriend, was arrested a few weeks later in New Jersey and brought back to Luzerne County.

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