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MORTGAGES n Joseph T. Mulvey et al. to PNC Bank, $75,000; Sutherland Drive, Fairview Twp. n ARA Management LLC to Luzerne Bank, $224,800; River Drive, Foster Twp. n Drew E. Fitch et al. to Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania, $250,000; Winterberry Drive, Dallas

900 Marketplace in Forty Fort hosted an art, craft and vintage market Sunday. The outdoor event featured food trucks, music, vintage and antique items, handmade beauty products, jewelry, paintings and more.

Crestwood High School held its commencement exercises Sunday at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza. For a list of graduates, be sure to check out our annual graduation special section on June 28.

WILKES-BARRE — Luzerne County Council on Tuesday will vote on a request to transfer $80,000 from the county reserve fund to the public defender’s office, to assist the defense of an accused murderer in a death penalty case. Chief County Defender Steven Gr

WILKES-BARRE — King’s College officials plan to begin two or three major construction projects this fall and have asked the city to apply for $6.5 million in state grants to help fund them. Two of the projects would accommodate the expansion of the colleg

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Damenti’s Restaurant recently served its first dinners from a new location next to the Candlewood Inn & Suites. The eatery’s reopening comes four years after fire destroyed the original restaurant in Butler Twp. “We were on our hands on k

At the end of the 2017-18 school year, “colleges and universities are expected to award 1.0 million associate degrees; 1.9 million bachelor’s degrees; 790,000 master’s degrees; and 183,000 doctor degrees,” according to the National Center for Education St

Opioid painkillers prescriptions are decreasing in Pennsylvania and across the country, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Thursday in a news release. Pennsylvania had the second largest percent change among U.S. states in opioid prescriptions from 2016 to 2017, acc

WILKES-BARRE — Authorities are investigating the death of a Berwick man who died after being taken from Luzerne County Correctional Facility to a local hospital last week, according to county Manager David Pedri. Shaheen Mackey, 41, was sent to county jai

Monsignor Bernard E. Yarrish, a Catholic priest who was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre and who worked in Rome before he returned home to serve as pastor of St. Boniface Parish, is remembered as a model of grace and dignity. The Rev. Yarrish, 67, died Jun