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SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. — Safety concerns over ongoing construction prompted Griffin Pond Animal Shelter officIals to close the South Abington Twp. facility to the public starting today through Monday. Staff will care for the animals and take emergency calls

ATLANTA (AP) — NFL owners approve policy allowing players to stay in locker room for national anthem, but they must stand if on field.

OLD FORGE — Lackawanna County detectives and Old Forge police returned to Ghigiarelli’s restaurant today in their ongoing investigation of the disappearance of restaurateur Robert Baron. Baron was last seen at the restaurant nearly 16 months ago. Detectiv

DUNMORE — Two people were taken to area hospitals for symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning after a leak Tuesday at VCA Dunmore Animal Hospital, borough Fire Chief Chris DeNaples said Wednesday. The symptoms displayed by the two hospital employees, whom t

LENOX TWP. — A wood burning stove is believed to be the cause of a fatal fire earlier this week in Susquehanna County, but the damage is so extensive to the mobile home engulfed that is tough to tell for sure, state police at Dunmore said.

High gas prices will not deter area residents from traveling on Memorial Day weekend, according to AAA. Although the average price of gasoline in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area is $3.09 a gallon, AAA forecasts nearly 45,000 area residents will travel 50 m

NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of "Portnoy's Complaint" to the elegiac lyricism of "American Pastoral," died Tuesday night at age 85.

SCRANTON — Established two years ago, the private, nonprofit Discovery Multiple Intelligences Preschool in East Mountain is expanding. Scranton’s only public-private Montessori preschool and kindergarten, Discovery MI Preschool plans to buy the Irish Cult

DUNMORE — All state Department of Transportation driver’s license and photo centers will be closed from Saturday through Monday in observance of Memorial Day. The holiday will affect the local driver’s license center in the borough, 81 Keystone Industrial