Air Products fiscal 4Q profit slides 57 percent
Air Products sees profit deflatedALLENTOWN - Air Products' fiscal fourth-quarter net income sank 57 percent as costs tied to restructuring and exiting certain businesses outweighed revenue gains.The...
View ArticleRegional briefs for Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012
Hearing held for fired county workerWILKES-BARRE - Luzerne County acting chief solicitor Vito DeLuca defended the termination of Leonard Piazza during a contentious hearing Friday, explaining Mr....
View ArticleToohil questioned over video
After meeting constituents in her Hazleton office Friday, state Rep. Tarah Toohil fielded more questions about a controversial YouTube video showing her with what could be marijuana at a pizza party...
View ArticlePa. jobless rate rises again
Pa. rate rises again HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania's jobless rate rose for the fourth straight month in September, although it coincided with the biggest monthly jump in hiring since February. The state...
View ArticleNo flood aid before Legislature's break
HARRISBURG - It didn't get done. A state flood aid bill to provide money to repair damage from the destructive flooding throughout the Susquehanna River Basin in September 2011 is missing from the...
View ArticlePolice investigate construction site theft
Construction site theft investigatedMADISON TWP. - State police are investigating the theft of thousands of dollars' worth of tools from a Lackawanna County construction site.Someone entered a job site...
View ArticleScouts confidential 'perversion files' show ties to NEPA
A pair of Northeast Pennsylvania men who were eventually charged with sodomy of boys and another accused of sexual molestation were monitored by the local and national leadership of the Boy Scouts of...
View ArticleScranton commuter tax would not have any exemptions
There would be no exemptions to a commuter tax imposed by Scranton on nonresidents who work in the city, the city's Act 47 coordinator said Friday.The question of whether some federal or county workers...
View ArticleFuneral notices, 10/20/2012
BERNOSKY, ROBERT D., Dickson City, today, 9 a.m., Frank T. Mazur Funeral Home Inc., 601 Dundaff St., Dickson City. Mass, 9:30, St. Patrick's Church, Olyphant. Interment, St. Joseph's Cemetery, Scott...
View ArticleLackawanna County Court sentencings, 10/20/2012
The following defendants were sentenced recently in LackaÂwanna County Court by Judge Vito Geroulo:- Tony Lamar Wentz Jr., 25, of 115 Tourist Ave., Clarks Summit, to eight to 23½ months in county...
View ArticleBreast cancer awareness march close to home for Keystone student
LA PLUME - Just two weeks after her last radiation treatment, Heidi Harvey of Hop Bottom went to Keystone College on Friday to see her daughter's part in the fight against breast cancer."You don't...
View ArticleAccused killer heads to trial
A Carbondale man charged in the September stabbing of Dennis Doherty will head to trial, a judge decided at a preliminary hearing Friday morning. Magisterial District Judge Theodore Giglio said Joseph...
View ArticleCOLTS wins ad award
COLTS wins award for radio spotSCRANTON - The County of Lackawanna Transit System recently won an advertising award for a radio ad about its partnership with local universities, the agency said...
View ArticleCommunity events list, 10/20/12
BlakelyGroup meets: Blankets for Vets meeting, Monday, noon-2 p.m., VFW Shopa-Davey Post, 123 Electric St., 587-5087, blanketsforvets@gmail.com or www.blanketsforvets.org.Clifford Twp.Committee...
View ArticleSusquehanna County man pleads guilty to heroin charge
MONTROSE - An Oakland man pleaded guilty Friday to a drug charge, more than four months after officers found heroin in his home during a routine parole check.Stephen Whritenour, 31, pleaded guilty in...
View ArticleUpvalley to get new water mains
Upvalley to get new water mainsCARBONDALE - Several roads in Carbondale, Carbondale Twp. and Mayfield will receive new water mains to improve service reliability and increase water flow for fire...
View ArticleNo major revisions likely for Lackawanna County's tentative budget
The 2013 budget that the Lackawanna County commissioners must adopt by Dec. 1 is unlikely to differ greatly from the tentative $91.7 million spending plan the public got its first look at this...
View ArticleGetting a job with a company you work with risky business
DEAR J.T. & DALE: I am in discussions with a prospective employer. They have asked for a letter from my current management or HR/legal department stating that there is no "conflict of interest" in...
View ArticleMissions of the World Mass scheduled for today
Special Mass celebrated today SCRANTON - Bishop Joseph Bambera will be celebrating World Mission Sunday today at 12:15 p.m. with a special Eucharist at St. Peter's Cathedral, officials with the...
View ArticleFormer fed president speaks on financial crisis warnings
Gary Stern isn't the sort of guy to say "I told you so."The former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is perfectly entitled to. Amid the heady economy of 2004, he and colleague Ron J....
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