Universities partner to help Marywood nursing students finish degree
Marywood University's third-year nursing students will have an option to finish their degree at the University of Scranton under an agreement announced today by the two colleges. The National League...
View ArticleFirefighters battle blaze in South Abington Twp.
A fire broke out around 11:30 a.m. at a two-story home with an attached garage on Layton Road in South Abington Twp. The roof of the attached garage has caved in and a green Jeep Wrangler parking...
View ArticleSix vie for four full seats, three vie for two year seat in Riverside
Falling federal funding and school security are among the top issues school director candidates say are facing in the Riverside School District. Barbara Arens, Carol Armstrong, Bob Bennie, Michael...
View ArticleMohegan plans free beer for Players Club members
Mohegan Sun offers free beer PLAINS TWP. - Customers who go to Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs with a Players Club card can get free 16-ounce draft beer while they're playing table games or slots as part...
View ArticleRegional Briefs 5/2/2013
Crash causes traffic backup SCRANTON - A tractor-trailer crash backed up traffic on Keyser Avenue and the McDade Expressway during the morning commute Wednesday, officials said. Scranton Police Capt....
View ArticleThree seek to fill opening for Archbald mayor
With Archbald Mayor Ed Fairbrother declining to run for another term, the race for mayor is wide open. With no one running for the Republican nomination to the post, there's a good chance the winner...
View ArticleCommunity events list, 5/2/13
CLIPBOARDCarbondaleElectronics collection: City residents electronics drop-off first Friday of each month beginning Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., foyer, City Hall, 1 N. Main St.; 282-4633.Car cruise: Coal...
View ArticleScott Township police chief's preliminary hearing rescheduled
SCRANTON - Officials rescheduled a preliminary hearing for a local police chief charged last month with two counts related to intimidating a witness and one count of obstructing justice. Scott Twp....
View ArticleMid Valley weighs options to make up deficit
THROOP - School board members mulled an impending $1 million deficit and a tax increase of up to 5.3 mills for the 2013-14 Mid Valley budget at a work session Wednesday. A presentation from business...
View ArticleDickson City woman pleads guilty to tax evasion
WILKES-BARRE - The owner of a tobacco shop who court records show was under investigation for distributing a controlled substance, tax evasion and fraud was sentenced Wednesday to one year of...
View ArticleDoctors, health care professionals examine correlation between poverty and...
Poverty, health care discussed SCRANTON - Researchers, doctors and health care professionals on Wednesday discussed the correlation between poverty and poor health - some even offering a way it could...
View ArticlePriest from Wilkes-Barre convicted in N.Y.
Diocese of Scranton Bishop Joseph C. Bambera issued a statement Wednesday on a Tioga County verdict convicting a priest from Wilkes-Barre of sexually abusing an altar boy for six years. Thomas...
View ArticleNatural gas service bills clear Senate panel
Panel advances bills to expand gas service Would offer opportunity to switch HARRISBURG - A Senate committee overwhelmingly approved two bills to give state government a role in directing utilities to...
View ArticleScranton mayor says city won't pay for separate tax office solicitor
Mayor Chris Doherty said Wednesday the city will no longer pay for the Single Tax Office to have its own solicitor because state law dictates that the city solicitor's office is to provide legal...
View Article"The Office" wrap party to bring business downtown
Business picked up at Cooper's Seafood House after "The Office" name-dropped the Scranton restaurant in the third season of the show. "It's amazing the amount of spinoff business we get from this...
View ArticleMontrose man sent to state prison for running over four state troopers
A Montrose man could spend up to 18 years in state prison for ramming his Jeep into four state troopers during a heroin bust gone sour at the Viewmont Mall. Cuffed and dressed in a county prison...
View ArticleWater restored after valve repair in Dunmore
Valve repairs disrupts water DUNMORE - American Water customers on Ash Street were without water service for a brief time while crews worked to repair a valve at the intersection of Quincy Avenue and...
View ArticleW-B man charged with assaulting his child's mother
A Wilkes-Barre man angry over an argument about child support picked up a wooden banister post and cracked his daughter’s mother in the back of the head, according to police. Asnake A. Assefa, 29, of...
View ArticleScranton man threatens to kill, butcher his ex-girlfriend
Man threatens exSCRANTON - A Scranton man is jailed for threatening his ex-girlfriend by saying he would kill her and butcher her and hide her remains where they would never be discovered, Scranton...
View ArticleDrilling down, but gas industry here to stay
Even as drilling activity has noticeably declined, the natural gas industry will remain part of the area's economic landscape for generations to come, industry officials said at NEPA Energy Day in...
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