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SCRANTON — A state wine and spirits shop in Scranton is closed for the summer.

A 63-year-old Dunmore man leaned back in his car and masturbated in a Nay Aug Park parking lot Monday across from an event at which parents were dropping off children, Scranton police said. George Haven, 525 Chestnut St., faces misdemeanor counts of indec

SCRANTON — A former Taylor councilman is headed to state prison. Lackawanna County President Judge Michael J. Barrasse sentenced Eugene Gallagher today to 1½ to three years behind bars for assaulting a woman last October at his home and then tried to get

COVINGTON TWP. — An early morning fire at an apartment building in the township started in a outside garbage can against the house, state police at Dunmore said. The fire at 352 Route 307 remains under investigation, Trooper Jason F. Mills, a state police

ESTATE NOTICES ■ Olieta Travis, 10775 N. Weston Road, Montrose; letters testamentary to Duane Travis, 100 Victoria Drive, Binghamton, N.Y. ■ Felix Oleniacz, 187 Lathrop St., Montrose; letters testamentary to Jean Allen, 115 Kelly St., Montrose. ■ Mary Ciz

SCRANTON — City council preliminarily backed a $9.3 million plan Monday by the outside operators of the parking system to renovate four garages and eventually replace street meters with kiosk payment stations. Council voted 5-0 — with President Pat Rogan,

SHOHOLA State police are investigating after someone shot at the rear window of a motor carrier enforcement vehicle sometime Sunday or Monday. Investigators believe the vandal used a BB gun to damage the window somewhere between Lee Road in Shohola Twp. a

Alison, Aileen and Erin Barrett went to high school with the goal to be good people and students, not necessarily Scranton High School valedictorians. By their graduation, the sisters were top of their classes — Alison, 21, in 2015; Aileen, 19, in 2016; a

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