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Bluntly and loudly, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey ripped President Donald Trump’s administration for enforcing a policy of separating children from their parents when they cross the Mexican border into the United States.

MOUNT CARBON — State police at Schuylkill Haven on Monday charged an Old Forge man in a home invasion in North Manheim Twp.

JESSUP — Borough council Monday approved a 10-year tax abatement for the site of a proposed 1-million-square-foot warehouse in the Valley View Business Park. Council voted 7-0 to grant the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance term for the Scranton

Wrong answer In the news quiz on Page C1 of Sunday’s edition, a wrong answer was provided in the answer key. The correct answer for question 7 should have said an EF-2 tornado touched down in (A.) Wilkes-Barre Twp.

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — The tornado that struck the Wilkes-Barre Twp. shopping area last week left hundreds of people out of work, but they are receiving some assistance. The state Department of Labor and Industry has activated its Rapid Response Coordination

U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta defended the Trump administration policy of separating children from their parents who enter the United States illegally from Mexico. Barletta, R-11, Hazleton, said Monday the policy amounts to enforcing federal law to deter illegal

SCRANTON — One lane of Interstate 81 North at the River Street exit and the on-ramp from River Street to the northbound lanes of I-81 will be closed tonight, Wednesday night and Thursday night. The lane closure will be in effect from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. each

SCRANTON — A city man is accused of breaking into a North Bromley Avenue residence early Sunday morning. Tyrone Tyler, 37, 2215 Comegys Ave., Scranton, is charged with burglary, harassment and criminal mischief after police responded to a home on the 300

As the agency’s mission shifted over the last three decades, the Employment Opportunity Training Center’s name no longer covers what it does. As a solution to this confusion, EOTC is now Outreach — Center for Community Resources starting today. “We want t

Summer doesn’t officially arrive until Thursday, but Monday’s weather was very summerlike. The high reached 92, according to AccuWeather, just shy of the record for the date, 93, set in 1954. Today is expected to start off cloudy, with sunshine later and