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SCRANTON — Feedback from about 20 people who gathered in the city Wednesday will aide in a countywide effort to fight blight. Those convened at Goodwill at North — the site of the first of four meetings to be held as part of a burgeoning Blight to Bright

HARRISBURG — A Luzerne County doctor who came across a prescription in his name that he never wrote kicked off a months-long investigation that resulted in 10 people being charged with running a “pill mill,” according to the state Attorney General’s Offic

Dickson City Committee meeting: Dickson City Freight Station Committee public meeting, May 31, 5:30 p.m., Borough Building, to discuss potential renovations to the freight station. Lackawanna County Job fair: Lackawanna County sixth annual job fair, today

PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS ■ Harry Jadick, as executor of the estate of Alfred Sevensky, Spring Brook Twp., to Ashley A. Johnson, Saylorsburg; a property in Spring Brook Twp. for $260,000. ■ William Lee Beecham, executor of the estate of George D. Beecham, Tay

May 24, 1943 Surprise air raid drill a success Lackawanna County Citizens’ Defense Corps are once again proud of the successful response by the county’s residents to a surprise blackout and air raid drill held the previous day. The drill started at 9 o’cl

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EXETER — The mother of a former Wyoming Area School District student is seeking to have taxpayers fund a Catholic school education because she claims school officials failed to protect her daughter from bullying. The district and the principal of the high

JESSUP — A man is in custody after leading borough police on a chase and punching an officer in the face Wednesday night. Borough police responded to the area around the basketball courts near Jessup Memorial Field at about 9 p.m. for the report of a knif

SCRANTON — The city Planning Commission today approved a proposed Sheetz gas station/store at West Linden Street and Seventh Avenue.

SCRANTON — People can responsibly discard their unused or expired medicine during a drug take-back event Tuesday at the Prescription Center in downtown Scranton. Take-back events such as this one help patients clean out their medicine cabinets and safely