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Avoca Pig roast: Queen of the Apostles Parish annual all-you-can-eat pig roast, July 8, noon-4 p.m., parish hall, 742 Spring St., takeout dinners available all day, additional seating will be available under an outdoor tent, $20/adults, $10/6-12 and free/

Rent cost incorrect A story on Page A1 in Wednesday’s edition incorrectly reported how much the Scranton School District pays in rent for its Electric City Academy to local businessman and Marketplace at Steamtown developer, John Basalyga. The total cost

SCRANTON — A Taylor man is accused of breaking into a city residence over the weekend and cutting a man over $100. Christopher Chopyak, 38, 611 Union St. , is charged with burglary, simple assault and related counts after police responded to 316 N. Evans

Timeline 1906: Martin Maloney, Scranton native, wished to start a home in Scranton that would care for the elderly poor until their death. He traveled to France and met with the Mother General of the Little Sisters of the Poor to ask for their assistance

SCRANTON — Fire drove four men from their apartments Wednesday morning in the Pinebrook section of Scranton. Flames shot across the back of 111-113 Larch St. shortly after 7:30 a.m. and sent a column of dark gray smoke into the sky, Assistant Fire Chief J

SCRANTON — A New York man who used other people’s identities to obtain loans from PNC Bank locations in several counties was sentenced Wednesday to 33 months to six years in state prison. Lackawanna County Judge Vito Geroulo imposed the sentence, which is

SCRANTON — A Scranton man who admitted to sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl was sentenced Wednesday to seven to 20 years in state prison. James Bazick Jr., 30, 1849 Stafford Ave., Apt. 11A-A, pleaded guilty in January, to rape and aggravated indecen

A Nicholson man beat and robbed his girlfriend in front of her children, a day after she called police because he stole her mother’s car, Taylor police said. Kurtis Razderk, 27, 74 Snyder Park Road, snuck into Alicia Giresi’s apartment on Lynwood Lane thr

LA PLUME TWP. — Tracy L. Brundage, Keystone College’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, will become the college’s 11th president in July.

The monthly cost of riding a public bus in Lackawanna County will rise $4 on July 1. The County of Lackawanna Transit System announced the increase from $56 to $60 a month today.