Scranton | featured news

The owner of a company that lost its contract to provide security for the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority said the authority cut ties because she questioned Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner’s use of authority property to land his helicopt

NEWTON TWP. State police seek a man who went missing Thursday from Clarks Summit State Hospital. Jad Merrit Mickavicz, 29, walked away from the hospital grounds between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., police said. He is a white man, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 186

Scranton police are seeking two vehicles involved in a violent assault early Sunday morning as the coroner’s office probes a “suspicious death” related to the incident. The assault happened at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday on the 100 block of Kressler Court in d

SCRANTON — The Lackawanna County Tax Assessor’s Office today changed the tax classification of the privately owned Electric City Parking Garage from exempt to taxable, city Tax Collector Bill Fox said. “It’s going to be on the tax rolls now,” Fox said of

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf's administration will begin enforcing tougher air pollution standards on Pennsylvania's booming natural gas industry in August.

NANTICOKE — A West Nanticoke man is accused of soliciting sex from a 14-year-old boy, according to an investigation by the state attorney general’s office.

A tractor trailer ran off Interstate 81 onto Layton Road in the Chinchilla section of South Abington Twp. early this morning, closing the road.

Scranton’s federally qualified health center received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS ■ Maryann Veno, as executrix and successor trustee of the estate of Kenneth C. Santarelli, Peckville, to William B. Fobes, Jessup; a property at 156 Constitution Ave., Jessup, for $74,200. ■ Fine Line Homes LP, Harrisburg, to Thomas

Scranton High grad A Clarks Summit note in Around the Towns on Page A4 of Sunday’s edition should have said poet Laurel Radzieski is a Scranton High School graduate.