GOP senator plans bills to overhaul municipal debt laws
HARRISBURG - A Republican state senator is preparing legislation to ban use by municipalities of complex financial transactions known as "swaps" and provide tighter state oversight of municipal debt...
View Article'BOSS' TAKES CAKE AT KIRBY
WILKES-BARRE "Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro whipped the audience into a Christmas confectionery frenzy Friday at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts. The master pastry chef demonstrated his cake...
View ArticlePolice: NEIU student threatened classmate with pocketknife
Police: Student brandished knife SCRANTON - City police said a classmate's challenge to fight prompted a 13-year-old Northeast Intermediate School student to pull a knife in school Thursday. Acting...
View ArticleThree arrested for drugs during traffic stop
Three arrested after traffic stop TOBYHANNA TWP. - Three people were arrested in a heroin trafficking bust after a traffic stop in Monroe County on Thursday. Danielle Mitchell, 27, of Mount Pocono,...
View ArticleLackawanna College graduates nine future officers
It was hard. It was challenging. Not everyone made it. But after walking across the stage and receiving his Lackawanna College Police Academy diploma, Cadet Tyler Watson knew the hours he poured into...
View ArticleCommunity events list, 12/15/12
BlakelyClub meeting/film: Blakely High's Papa Bear Club meeting, Monday, 6 p.m., Bombay Cafe, Main Street, Archbald, showing film of the last championship game of Blakely and Mount Carmel high schools...
View ArticleSenior U.S. District Judge William J. Nealon reaches a golden milestone
The bang of the gavel still stirs him. And, for Senior U.S. District Judge William J. Nealon, his passion for the law will never recede. Fifty years ago today, Judge Nealon officially entered the...
View ArticleCORRECTION
Detention escapeA story in Friday's edition incorrectly reported the day a 15-year-old boy escaped from the Lackawanna County Juvenile Detention Center. The boy, who was apprehended late Wednesday,...
View ArticleRegional Briefs 12/15/2012
Day care center ordered to close STROUD TWP. - The state Department of Public Welfare has ordered the day care center where a child died earlier this year to close after a failed inspection. A...
View ArticleTCMC students exceed national average on test
Medical students exceed average SCRANTON - For the second consecutive year, students at the Commonwealth Medical College exceeded the national pass rate for Step I of the United States Medical...
View ArticleCar stolen in Hill Section
Car stolen from city's Hill Section SCRANTON - City police are looking for a car that was stolen in the Hill Section on Thursday. Michael Rossi, 69, noticed Thursday morning that his white Ford Fusion...
View ArticleFuneral Notices 12/15/2012
BOWEN, ROBERT R., Scranton, Thursday, Jacob Davis Funeral Home, Taylor, by the Rev. Donald Roberts, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, Taylor. Pallbearers: Bill Bowen, Randy, Justin and...
View ArticlePolice: Parents' lack of care left 4-month-old covered in rash, 2 pounds...
Two pounds lighter than her birth weight, covered in a fungal rash caused by lack of hygiene and afflicted with nearly a dozen fractured ribs. That is what four months of her parents' care did to the...
View ArticleExperts: limit exposure to tragedy, but be honest with children
With the tragedy of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., rattling students, parents and educators around the nation, local experts and school districts spoke about their plans for dealing with the...
View ArticleJudges surprised by Scranton's new, higher commuter tax revenue estimate
A panel of judges hearing Scranton's request for a 1 percent commuter tax were surprised Friday by a new estimate submitted by the city showing the tax would actually generate more money than...
View ArticlePolice: Dad was stoned when baby died, moved corpse to skirt blame
The father of an 8-month-old West Scranton boy found dead in August has been charged for smoking marijuana and sleeping in bed with the infant before his death, then moving the body afterward....
View ArticleScranton man allegedly raped woman at knifepoint, stabbed her
Moosic police said Charles "Tiny" Bray asked a female friend for a ride early Thursday and, after she picked him up, proceeded to grab her by the throat, rape, stab and threaten to kill her and her...
View ArticleHonor Rolls 12/15/2012
DUNMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADE 8 Distinguished honors: Ahmed Alanazi, Gina Bernotsky, Erika Bistran, Noah Blasko, Maxwell Borgia, Sarah Cantarella, Ryan Carey, Thomas Carroll, Ryan Choa, Kathleen Coar,...
View ArticleArea technical students compete in trade skills
Having spent the last few weeks fixing "all the computers (he) could get his hands on," Kalvin Soulsby felt pretty confident walking out of the Skills USA District 1 competition at the Career...
View ArticleOfficials: Emergency communications lacking, corrected after natural gas release
TUNKHANNOCK - Communication failures left some emergency agencies uninformed when a Monroe Twp. natural gas dehydration station allowed more than 5 million cubic feet of gas to vent loudly into the...
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