Scranton DPW director answers questions about department gas card usage at...
SCRANTON — Records provided by the city’s Department of Public Works director may explain more than $1,300 in diesel fuel charged to a single employee’s taxpayer-funded gas card on two days exactly...
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Dickson City Lighting ceremony: Dickson City Christmas Light and Banner Association sixth annual town lighting ceremony, Sunday, 2-6 p.m., Municipal Building, Enterprise Street, featuring two...
View ArticleLackawanna County places it's Christmas tree
Lackawanna County marked the beginning of the holiday season Monday with the arrival of the county’s Christmas tree. Crews erected the 30-foot concolor fir, grown by Chambers’ Christmas Trees in...
View ArticleTwo in custody, one sought, for West Scranton assault
Scranton police charged three people with felonies for severely beating a man in West Side. One of them — Kyler Kenyatta Marshall, 22, 329 14th Ave. — remained at large Monday. The others —Nicholette...
View ArticleAfter golf playoff loss, Matthews embraces fan who yelled during his putt
Sometimes, there is victory even in defeat. Dupont’s Brandon Matthews proved that Sunday when he finished runner-up at a PGA Tour Latinoamérica event in Buenos Aires and made national headlines in...
View ArticleManager drives from New York to Honesdale to return keys
HONESDALE, Pa. (AP) — A bagel shop manager in New York drove to Pennsylvania to return a key fob that a customer had left in his shop on Long Island. Diana Chong drove off from Bagels 101 on Saturday...
View ArticlePolice: Adopted children beaten, whipped
WILKES-BARRE — A city woman was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on charges alleging she beat and verbally abused two adopted children for years. Carmen Inocente, 54, of 245 Madison St., is accused...
View ArticleCops: Drunken Luzerne County parents brought kids for truck ride
EXETER — Two Wright Twp. parents who were so drunk they could barely stand are facing child endangerment charges after allegedly taking their two children in a ride in a tractor trailer that was...
View ArticleState Sen. John Yudichak switches parties
State Sen. John Yudichak announced Tuesday he is leaving the Democrat party to become a registered independent. “Registering as an independent is the only way I can faithfully and fully serve the...
View ArticleProsecutor says Shawn Christy was a one man crime wave
SCRANTON — Shawn Christy became a “one man crime wave” who stole several vehicles and broke into homes and businesses to avoid capture on charges he threatened President Donald Trump and others, a...
View ArticleLackawanna County reschedules commissioners, prison board meetings
SCRANTON The Lackawanna County commissioners and prison board meetings originally scheduled for Wednesday have been rescheduled to Nov. 27, the day before Thanksgiving. The new meeting date likely...
View ArticlePolice capture man wanted for rape in Carbondale
CARBONDALE Carbondale Police found the man wanted for raping a city woman in September as he was walking up Main Street late this morning, Chief Brian Bognatz said. Justin Brown, 24, will be arraigned...
View ArticleLocal lawmakers introduce bills to deter bullying
Ending bullying will take education, advocacy and deterrents, local legislators said Tuesday. The lawmakers announced a bipartisan effort to define bullying in the state crimes code, which could then...
View ArticleGin Blossoms to perform at Montage Mountain Resorts festival
The Gin Blossoms are coming to Scranton. Montage Mountain Resorts, 1000 Montage Mountain Road, announced today that it will host the band for Mountainfest 2020, set for Saturday, March 7. Mountainfest...
View ArticlePSP: Demanding the land back, gunmen stormed Pike County clubhouse and took a...
An armed security team contracted by a Pike County woman to take over a community association and reclaim the land as her own raided the association’s clubhouse Monday and took a security officer...
View ArticleNonprofit bakery to help former inmates learn marketable skills
SCRANTON A Scranton church is opening a bakery to help former inmates gain professional and marketable skills. For her birthday, Rev. Rebecca Barnes of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Wyoming Avenue...
View ArticleWoman wanted for assault in Scranton found in New Jersey
SCRANTON -- U.S. Marshals today found a woman wanted for assault in Scranton in northern New Jersey. Balir Hart, 31, of Scranton, was found this morning at a home in East Orange, marshals said. Police...
View ArticleTransportation among top concerns at independent living forum
SCRANTON — People with disabilities and their advocates seem to agree one thing: The County of Lackawanna Transit System and other transportation agencies provide great service — except when they...
View ArticleDowntown Scranton parking fees and tickets to rise in 2020
SCRANTON — Parking at downtown city garages and on streets — and parking tickets — will cost more in 2020. Most increases were authorized under a rate schedule approved as part of the city’s 2016...
View ArticleMohegan Sun Pocono reported more than $2M and Mount Airy Casino $10M in...
More than $2 million was wagered in sports bets at Mohegan Sun Pocono in October, according to numbers released Monday by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. The Plains Twp. casino, which opened...
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