PennDOT encourages safety breaks
PennDOT urges safety breaksDUNMORE - The state Department of Transportation is encouraging motorists traveling through Northeast Pennsylvania during the Memorial Day holiday to take a safety break at...
View ArticleMarywood educating students from Kurdistan
Rebin Zikhani wants to improve the health care system in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Karokh Mohammed wants to better his government. The cousins from the growing region are trying to improve their...
View ArticleJane Oppenheim honored at B'nai B'rith's 61st annual Americanism Award dinner
She defines the word "volunteer." On Sunday, her peers validated Jane Oppenheim's devotion to the community. Amos Lodge 136 of B'nai B'rith, a Jewish community service and human rights organization,...
View ArticleMan hospitalized in ATV hit-and-run in Old Forge
Man hospitalized after ATV crashOLD FORGE - Borough police are searching for the driver of an ATV who struck a pedestrian on Sunday and sped off. The victim, a 39-year-old man whose name was not...
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Interactive map of sites onlineVisit thetimes-tribune.com to see an interactive map of the complaint investigations. The tool was developed in conjunction with the FracTracker Alliance, a nonprofit...
View ArticleSt. Ubaldo celebrated from Gubbio to Jessup
The connection between Gubbio, Italy, and Jessup has always been strong. The two communities are joined through family, tradition and St. Ubaldo Day, an event that celebrates a 12th century bishop, St....
View ArticleInaugural Ryan O'Malley 5K steps off at Nay Aug Park
For first-time runners, both Marion and James Koester completed the 5K course with relative ease, neither breaking a sweat as they crossed the finish line early Sunday morning.Of course, the 2- and...
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ARMBRUSTER, DIANE, Scranton, Tuesday, 7 p.m., Howard J. Snowdon Funeral Home, 1810 Sanderson Ave., Scranton. Calling hours, Tuesday, 4 to 7 and following the service until 8. Contributions: Armbruster...
View ArticleMassive Scott Twp. road repair and paving project set to begin Monday
Contractors today will begin work on a long-anticipated road repair and paving project to fix 35 Scott Twp. roads either deteriorating with age or torn up from a massive sewer project.Supervisors...
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Abington HeightsAn 11th-grader honed her skills through a community education and leadership training program.Brooke Chapple received a certificate for graduating from Tomorrow's Leaders Today,...
View ArticleMarcellus Shale boosts Wilkes-Barre/Scranton airport
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport lost 1.9 percent of its departing flights between 2007 and 2012, but the airport rates considerably better than most of its similar-sized peers, a new...
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CliffordElection dinner: Clifford United Methodist Church chicken-n-biscuit or ham dinner, Tuesday, 4-6 p.m., Main Street; takeouts available; $7.95, includes dinner, dessert and drink.Covington...
View ArticleDramatic growth seen in suburban poor
Conventional wisdom has long held that the poor overwhelmingly lived in cities and urban areas.But a new study by the Brookings Institution shows dramatic growth in poverty beyond city limits - in the...
View ArticleThief steals cash, credit cards, handgun in Clifton Twp.
Thief steals cash, handgun from car CLIFTON TWP. - A thief broke into a woman's car and stole cash, credit cards and a handgun out of her purse over the weekend, state police at Dunmore said. The...
View ArticleCarbondale hotel open for business
Pioneer Plaza open for business CARBONDALE - The Best Western Pioneer Plaza welcomed its first guests Friday night. The hotel on South Main Street includes 20 suites and 41 rooms, which start at $109...
View ArticleTalk of permit parking postponed in Carbondale
CARBONDALE - The structure of permit parking in the city will be decided another day. The council hosted a public hearing Monday and heard from about a dozen business owners and residents with mixed...
View ArticleHearing delayed for three accused in Scranton robbery
SCRANTON - The lack of a court stenographer resulted in postponement of preliminary hearings Monday for three city residents accused of beating and robbing another man as he was walking home from a...
View ArticleScranton's business administrator to leave for new job
Scranton Business Administrator Ryan McGowan will be leaving his job with the city on May 29 for a new job in the banking industry, Mayor Chris Doherty said Monday. With Mr. Doherty not seeking...
View ArticlePolls officially closed in Pennsylvania
Polls have officially closed in Pennsylvania as voters now turn their attention to watching the results. Voters in Lackawanna County have found short lines but long ballots when they get to the polls...
View ArticleVoters back row offices and Gibbons
Lackawanna County will have a commission to study its three-commissioner form of government and its seven members will likely include five of the people on the slate of the man advocating radical...
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