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SCRANTON — Lackawanna County Commissioners took another step Wednesday toward establishing an authority to run its county fair and appointed nine people to serve on it. Commissioners unanimously approved an ordinance establishing the Lackawanna County Fai

SCRANTON — The local students making arts and crafts with seniors and packaging food for the less fortunate were happy to spend Wednesday out of the classroom and helping out in their communities. They, along with around 200 seventh to 12th graders, parti

CANAAN TWP. — An EF1 tornado touched down east of Waymart during a powerful thunderstorm midafternoon Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. Joanne LaBounty, a metrologist with the weather service, said survey teams are still in the field and

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — One of two cousins has pleaded guilty to murder charges in the gruesome killings of four young men whose bodies were found buried on a suburban Philadelphia farm.

KINGSTON — A Carbon County man accused of threatening a judge and others is now accused of threatening to decapitate and rip out the heart of a local attorney, according to police.

With the return of the Electric City Trolley Museum’s baseball excursions, baseball fans and train aficionados alike will have several chances this season to ride the trolley to a RailRiders game at PNC Field.

A Monroe County man on the run for five months for homicide charges stemming from a deadly home invasion last year in Wayne County is in custody. Tuesday aftern

Scranton City Council on Monday voted 4-0 to introduce a resolution from Courtright for the city to give a $70,000 loan to grant to the nonprofit Discovery Multiple Intelligences Preschool, 1301 Beech St., in East Mountain.

State Sen. Scott Wagner won just three of seven northeast counties on his way to claiming victory in the Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday, according to unofficial election results.

Dan Sansky says I’m an “awful, nasty man.” I called the former Scranton School District fleet manager Tuesday evening, after spending the day baking in the sun outside his West Elm Street garage. State investigators swarmed Danny’s Auto Service and hauled