Police: Man handcuffs clerk, robs store at gunpoint
Police are searching for a Scranton man accused in a brazen Sunday night robbery at a Larksville convenience store. Investigators say Nicholas Kyle Reed, 25, pulled a handgun on the clerk at the Nu...
View ArticleForest City teacher falls short in 'Teacher of the Year' title
Forest City teacher falls short in titleHERSHEY - A Jefferson County educator was named Pennsylvania's 2013 Teacher of the Year on Tuesday. Eleven other finalists - including one from Forest City - had...
View ArticleRegal takes over Great Escape Theater in Dickson City
Regal Entertainment Group has begun rebranding Great Escape Theater in Dickson City. Regal, the largest movie theater operator in the country with 6,600 screens at 521 locations in the U.S., came to...
View ArticleClarks Summit council hires police chief, raises sewer rate
CLARKS SUMMIT - After searching for eight months, Clarks Summit landed its police chief. At a Clarks Summit Borough Council meeting Wednesday, council voted to hire Carbondale police Sgt. Joe Laguzzi...
View ArticleNamedropper 12/6/2012
Longbeards hear kids at memorial event The Lake Region Longbeards Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation conducted its 11th annual Earl Mickel Memorial Youth Turkey Calling Contest at the...
View ArticleScranton baby sitter who OD'd on heroin gets prison time
A Scranton man who overdosed on heroin while watching a 3-year-old child for a friend in August was sentenced to six to 12 months in county prison. Lackawanna County Judge Vito P. Geroulo also...
View ArticleOld Forge School Board reorganizes
DeSando back as board chief OLD FORGE - Deborah DeSando is still president of the Old Forge Board of Education, after a 7-2 vote at Wednesday night's reorganization meeting. Board members Marygrace...
View ArticleLackawanna County Court Sentencings 12/6/2012
The following defendants were sentenced recently in Lackawanna County Court by Judge Michael Barrasse: - John A. Midgley, 53, of 130½ S. Rebecca Ave., Scranton, to six months of probation and a $300...
View ArticleMan arrested in connection with Hill Section muggings
A Lackawanna College student allegedly admitted to partaking in two November robberies, but charges are still pending against a second man and Scranton police continue to investigate the identity of a...
View ArticleFederal prosecutor: Ex-Scranton school director obsessed with teenage boys
Fueled by his "obsession" with teenage boys and an "uncontrollable need and urge to communicate sexually" with them, a former Scranton school director is accused of sending more than 12,000 text...
View ArticlePenn State QB McGloin teams up with Children's Advocacy Center
As they rode to the welcoming house at the top of Mulberry Street, in the shadow of Nay Aug Park, Matt McGloin and his father, Paul, couldn't help but discuss the numbers one more time. Last year, 843...
View ArticleThroop fire displaces 10
THROOP - A fire displaced 10 borough residents from their Pancoast Street homes overnight. The Red Cross of Lackawanna County is assisting 10 individuals who lived at a multi-family home at 211...
View ArticleWansacz named to auditor general's transition team
SCRANTON - Lackawanna County residents will notice at least one familiar name on auditor general-elect Eugene DePasquale's transition team. County Commissioner Jim Wansacz is among the transition team...
View ArticleScranton's commuter-tax hearing pushed back one day
SCRANTON - Hearings in Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas on Scranton's request for a commuter tax that were scheduled for Monday and Tuesday have been rescheduled to Tuesday and Wednesday, court...
View ArticleWarrant issued in Carbondale baseball bat attack
CARBONDALE - A warrant has been filed for a man identified Tuesday as the person who allegedly beat a city man with a baseball bat last month. The victim, Shaw Schaeffer, 21, of Carbondale, had been...
View ArticleDriver OK after Covington crash
COVINGTON TWP. - State police said the driver of a tractor-trailer that crashed down an 800-foot embankment was not injured in the wreck early Wednesday. Vitold Melnik, 57, of Honeoye Falls, N.Y.,...
View ArticleWoman arrested on drug charges
DICKSON CITY - Borough and Archbald police arrested a woman they say was on her way to sell a quarter-pound of marijuana Tuesday. Officers stopped a tan Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Kelly...
View ArticleFour charged in Jefferson Township burglary
JEFFERSON TWP. - Four people were arrested in connection with an October burglary in Lackawanna County. Nicole Stygar, 19, of Blakely, and Frank Stygar, 23, of Olyphant, turned themselves in to...
View ArticleTrial, hearing delayed for Penn State administrators
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A hearing scheduled for next week and a trial set for next month were delayed Wednesday for former Penn State administrators accused of a criminal cover-up in the Jerry Sandusky...
View ArticleDowntown Wilkes-Barre welcomes new pub
Bottlenecks Saloon and Eatery is the newest business to open in downtown Wilkes-Barre. The pub and eatery, which also has a location in West Hazleton, opened Wednesday at 3 S. Main St. in space next...
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