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WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Tommy Van Scoy Jr. had developed contingency plans for robberies, for fires — but not a tornado. “There’s no place for anyone to go with a tornado like this,” the owner and president of Tovon and Co. said Thursday — the day after an EF

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm down to the ground. Tornadoes are capable of destroying well-made structures, uprooting trees, and hurling objects through the air like deadly missiles. Tornadoes ca

MARRIAGE LICENSE ■ David Brian Mims and Annmarie Herne, both of Scranton. PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS ■ Estate of Edeltrud Makowski, late of Scranton, by Paul K. Kipar, executor, and Paul K. Kipar, individually, Meshoppen, and David R. Kipar, individually, Mesh

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS ■ Deborah Ann Raniella to James L. Strunk, property in Tunkhannock Twp. for $114,500. ■ DSV SPV2 LLC to Lynn M. Ross and Tanya M. Cratsley, property in Falls Twp. for $41,500. ■ Karen Walker, Karen Karavitch and Albert E. Karavitc

Employees at the Barnes & Noble in Wilkes-Barre Twp. were closing up for the night Wednesday when the front window blew out, sending glass and debris flying like a bomb exploding. “It just came flying in as if something hit it,” employee Patrick Abdalla r

President Judge Michael Bar­rasse sentenced the following defendants recently in Lacka­wanna County Court: ■ John Jenisky Jr., 28, 729 Hudson St., Forest City, 10 to 30 months in state prison and $1,025 in fines for fleeing and eluding police, failure to

BEAR CREEK TWP. — The chunk of orange, black and white debris at Bear Creek Camp could only have come from one place: Dick’s Sporting Goods, nearly 5 miles away. A PPL employee restoring power in the area found the debris near a camp path and told staff,

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Shortly before 10 p.m., the emergency alert came: A tornado was coming to Luzerne County. For the previous half-hour, a severe thunderstorm had dumped rain as it moved across the county. About 20 minutes after the National Weather Serv

June 15, 1968 Brazil to step down from Dem post Attorney John Brazil, president of Scranton City Council, announced that he would not seek another term as Scranton Democratic chairman. He said he wanted to prevent party detractors from using the fact that

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Wednesday’s tornado was the 19th to hit Luzerne County since 1950 and one of the more powerful. Most of those previous 18 tornadoes left without injuring anyone, but one in 1984 injured 12 people in the county and another from 2006 inj