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High notes Robert A. Sallavanti, Ph.D., of Dalton, was awarded the prestigious UNICO National Guglielmo Marconi Award in Science at the UNICO National annual board meeting in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Sallavanti has a background in physical chemistry

OLD FORGETwo charged with selling heroin Lackawanna County detectives charged two people from Old Forge for selling 10 bags of heroin in Moosic on Monday. Police charged Jason Cistola, 40, and Amanda McCullon, 41, both of 520 Oak St., with drug offenses.

SCRANTON — After a local businessman’s firm bought the Electric City parking garage from the city for $1 in 2016, Lackawanna County’s Assessor’s Office never changed the garage’s tax classification from exempt to taxable, the head of the office said. With

SCRANTON — The Diocese of Scranton declined to comment today about the written statement it provided to a grand jury investigating allegations of child sexual abuse within it and five other Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania. I

WILKES-BARRE — A city man who took powerful sedatives while caring for his 14-month-old son was found slumped over on his couch while the baby cried alone on the front porch, according to police.

A resident at a personal care home in Scranton admitted to city police detectives that he repeatedly had inappropriate contact with a developmentally delayed woman, police said. Mark Chubb, 57, 712 Harrison Ave., is charged with indecent assault of a pers

SALEM TWP. — A truck hauling 500 gallons of paint careened from the Hamlin Highway into a small lake in Wayne County on Wednesday morning, the county’s emergency management director said. Officials so far estimate that 50 gallons of paint and some transmi

WESTFALL TWP. — What caused a UPS truck to catch fire Tuesday in Pike County could remain a mystery, state police at Dunmore said. There is no known cause for the fire in Westfall Twp. and a state police fire marshal’s conclusion may end up being undeterm

Dunmore Class reunion: Dunmore High School class of 1963 55th anniversary celebration, July 15, 1-6 p.m., Costantino’s, Glen­burn Twp.; Bob Montalbano, 570-346-5304, or Mary Ann Gianoni Bowen, 570-347-1354. Throop Class reunion: Throop High School class o

Two former websites run by the Luzerne County Democratic Party now direct people to a big photo of Republican President Donald Trump and some mocking words. “HAHAHAHAA, County Democratic Party don’t know how to renew domains,” screams the headline of the