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GREENFIELD TWP. — Standing in the doorway of the recently opened Andrew C. Mazza Memorial Health Center, Phillip Mazza smiled as he reminisced about his son. “He always had a smile,” he said. “He was always the one to lend a helping hand.” NEPA Community

Kerry Shamnoski, Pittston Area High School Getting into her first-choice college proved to Kerry Shamnoski that no matter how many times one fails, never give up. “In the end, all of the hard work put in will be worth it,” she said. The Pittston Area High

SCRANTON — A physical therapist’s plan to redevelop the 1100 block of South Main Avenue into the start of an envisioned “medical corridor” is taking shape. The project by Frank Cawley has the frame of a new building under construction. An existing buildin

May 12, 1943 Firm announces location of plant Officials with Murray Corp. announced the location of their new airplane wing panel factory in South Scranton. The 500,000-square-foot plant with a $4 million price tag would be located on a large piece of lan

NEWTON TWP. — The cause of Thursday’s fire at an abandoned building in the township remains under investigation. Crews were called to a fire in the old MCI Building on Tower Road, near Newton Road, around 9:15 p.m., according to Newton Ransom Volunteer Fi

SCRANTON — A DeNaples company sold two parking garages downtown to a Lancaster company for $2.75 million, according to public real estate transactions. F&L Realty Inc. of Dunmore sold the Forum parking garage at Franklin Avenue and Linden Street and the A

HAZLE TWP. — A woman coerced a teenage boy to have sex with her at least six times a day and later advertised him online to perform sexual acts with strangers for heroin money, state police allege. Joleen Gambardella, 36, is charged with endangering the w

MARRIAGE LICENSES n Robert Paul Egan, Clarks Summit, and Mary Catherine Hott, Scranton. n Kaleb Ronald Lorow, Richmond, Va., and Christine Marie Treubig, Binghamton, N.Y. n Joseph Robert Beck and Sayas Inez Gertrude Walker, both of Scranton. n Jared David

SCRANTON — A volunteer search team looking for a missing nun Friday found what could be the femur of an animal or, more ominously, a human, out in the woods off a Scranton road, Police Chief Carl Graziano said.

TAYLOR — Two people face drug charges after borough and Old Forge police discovered materials to make methamphetamine during a traffic stop Thursday.