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SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. — A Mexican restaurant in South Abington Twp. is closed for renovations. It’s unclear when La Tonalteca on Northern Boulevard will reopen. Mercedes Diaz, a manager at sister restaurant La Tonalteca in Dickson City, said the owner is re

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By one measure in the fight against drug addiction, the tables are turning. Hospital admissions for opioid drug overdoses — that is, from heroin and prescription pain medicine — dropped by 35 percent in Lackawanna County and by 1 percent in Luzerne County

PHOTOS COURTESY OF NEW YORK YANKEES Cassidy Warner of Scranton played kickball with members of the New York Yankees on Tuesday at Heritage Field, site of the original Yankee Stadium in New York. They were joined by members of Cassidy’s family and children

SCRANTON — Police arrested a Throop man twice in three hours today for huffing compressed air duster in public, police said.

SCRANTON — A Scranton man accused of sexually assaulting a sleeping woman last summer has pleaded guilty to a less serious charge.

SCRANTON — Summer pool season starts Saturday at several local public facilities, including Scranton’s Nay Aug Park Pool.

Calling a weekend fire at a vacant South Side home arson, Scranton police today released a handful of video clips of a bicyclist investigators are calling a person of interest in the case.

A Moscow man was charged today with attempting to solicit a person to kill his estranged wife’s boyfriend.

Authorities found 148 LSD hits and other drugs Monday at a Blakely home where a 2-month-old lived, police said. Marcus Santarelli, 29, and Jennifer Franco, 25, both of 922 Lincoln Ave., each face charges of child endangerment and various drug-related offe