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Clarks Summit Breakfast buffet: All-you-can-eat breakfast buffet, Sunday, 8 a.m.-noon, Clarks Summit Fire Company, 321 Bedford St., $9/adults and $6/children. Elmhurst Twp. Card party: Women of Elmhurst Country Club card party/luncheon, Friday, noon, club

MARRIAGE LICENSES ■ James Rondell Crawford and Lynn Marie Yackobovitz, both of Taylor. ■ William Joseph Houlihan and Rebecca Lynn Proctor, both of Spring Brook Twp. ■ Stanley Thomas Chickey III and Amanda Marie Leonard, both of Scranton. ■ Bryan William L

June 16, 1943 Hospital and housing to be built at Tobyhanna The War Department announced that plans had been drawn up for a new military hospital and housing for 2,500 Air Force trainees at Tobyhanna Military Reservation. Officials hoped the project, whic

SCRANTON — The final steps in a decadelong effort to create the elevated Renaissance Park downtown involve enacting maintenance agreements among the three participating entities, officials said. The peculiar park — one block long, 30 to 50 feet wide, and

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MOOSIC — All lanes of Interstate 81 southbound are closed due to a tractor-trailer crash in the vicinity of mile marker 180. The crash happened about 11 p.m. There is no word on injuries.

A tax relief credit effective at the beginning of July will take a little heat off the average UGI Penn Natural Gas monthly bill. The gas utility, which services about 172,000 customers in 13 Northeast Pennsylvania counties, announced Friday that monthly

BLAKELY Fire crews from across the Midvalley are at the scene of a fire in the Peckville section of the borough tonight. Firefighters responded to the 600 block of Gino Merli Drive about 5 p.m. The fire is out and a state police fire marshal is on scene.

NEW MILFORD TWP. — A bus transporting members of the Pennsylvania National Guard members crashed into a Susquehanna County fireworks store after the bus driver passed out this morning, state police at Gibson said.

SCRANTON — Lax enforcement of immigration laws, sanctuary policies and “open-border” advocates encourage illegal immigration and put police and the public in danger, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a group of police academy cadets Friday. The nat