Dickson City man's bail set at $500,000 in drug death case
SCRANTON — A Dickson City man charged this week with supplying the drugs that killed a woman in 2018 is held on $500,000 bail while awaiting his preliminary hearing on the charges. Nicholas Martin...
View ArticleValley View School District seeking school board applications
ARCHBALD — The Valley View School Board is accepting applications for an open seat after the recent death of longtime board member and educator, Ellen Nielsen. The appointment runs until Dec. 4. A...
View ArticleScranton man arrested in heroin deal
SCRANTON — Lackawanna County detectives and the drug task force arrested a Scranton man earlier this week for drug crimes after a heroin sale led them back to dozens of bags of dope in his apartment,...
View ArticleSource of Legionnaires' at Jewish Home in Scranton still uncertain
Initial test results suggest the water system at the Jewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania is probably not the source of the Legionnaires’ disease that sickened a resident this month, the facility’s...
View ArticleInsurance company seeks to deny coverage in hazing death
An insurance company contends it is not responsible to defend or pay any damages in a lawsuit filed against several Lackawanna County men in connection with the 2017 hazing death of a Pennsylvania...
View ArticleMan charged in Wyoming County homicide now facing child pornography counts
The Wyoming County man accused of killing his live-in girlfriend last December and throwing her body into the Susquehanna River now faces child pornography charges. Phillip Donald Walters, 32, Mill...
View ArticleHandling snow like a pro
Our plane landed in Denver just past midnight. It was April and blizzard season wasn’t done yet. Snow fell thick and heavy. My wife, my daughter and I packed our gear into a new 2019 Volvo V60 station...
View ArticleToyota Camry seemsto swallow credit card
Q: I own a 2016 Toyota Camry. Yesterday, on my way to the gas station, I pulled out my credit card and set it on the center console. When I pulled up to the pump, I reached for my card, and it dropped...
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Beach Lake Evening prayer: Worship on the lakeshore, Saturday evening prayer service, Saturday, June 29, 7 p.m., Beach Lake United Methodist Church, 7 Milanville Road, across from the fire hall; bring...
View ArticleHonor rolls, June 15, 2019
HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL GRADE 12 Distinguished honors: Elizabeth Arbie, Mary Arcuri, Denys Arkhypenko, Heather Bailey, Olivia Bloskey, Gianna Calciano, Annabelle Callis, Taylor Callis, Hannah Carr,...
View ArticleLackawanna County Court Notes - June 15, 2019
MARRIAGE LICENSES ■ Elizabeth Allen and Christopher Edward Swinesburg, both of Mountain Top. ■ Luis Alberto Pina-Castillo and Maricela Sanchez-Vargas, both of Scranton. ■ Michael Edward Wombacker,...
View Article50 Years Ago - Family finds home in Scranton after some hardship
June 15, 1969 Family of nine finally finds home Edward Bryant and his wife, Janet, and their seven children — ages 9 months to 18 years — arrived in Scranton after leaving Wolcott, New York, for a new...
View ArticlePoconos entertainment village fueling contentious bill to change statewide...
A high-profile tourism project underway in the Poconos is driving an effort to change how bars and restaurants trade liquor licenses. If House Bill 1524, which advanced to the state Senate on Tuesday,...
View ArticleDeans lists, June 15, 2019
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA Joseph Arbie, Scranton; and Mara M. Walsh, Dunmore. BELMONT UNIVERSITY Gianna Emiliani, Moosic. CEDAR CREST COLLEGE Danielle Krispin, Tunkhannock. COLUMBIA COLLEGE Joshua...
View ArticleCasey visits Gerrity's to discuss loopholes in the WIC program
MOOSIC — Sen. Bob Casey heard firsthand from Scranton resident Sarah Cooper about the power of the Women, Infants and Children program while in the produce section of Gerrity’s Supermarket on Friday....
View ArticleTrisha Yearwood concert Nov. 23
WILKES-BARRE Country music star and Food Network host Trisha Yearwood will visit the F.M. Kirby Center Saturday, Nov. 23, at 8 p.m. The Kirby Center and Mohegan Sun Arena are teaming up to present the...
View ArticleNew Bancroft garden to provide produce, lessons
SCRANTON — Kristen Novak pointed to the small yellow flowers on the plant, as her students held their garden trowels steady. “This will become a tomato,” she told the George Bancroft Elementary School...
View ArticleScranton may garnish rents of biggest landlord scofflaws
SCRANTON — In a new approach to crack down on the city’s worst scofflaw landlords, Scranton plans to hit them where it hurts — in the wallet. Scranton may start seizing tenants’ rent from landlords...
View ArticleKosierowski breaks ranks, favors new abortion limit
State Rep. Bridget Kosierowski’s vote to ban abortions if the sole reason is a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis stunned an abortion-rights group who thought she opposed further abortion limits....
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