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A local funeral home and area emergency responders are getting ready to give a hero’s welcome to a sailor killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor nearly 77 years ago.

WILKES-BARRE — Seated on the front porch of the single-family home she rents on Hutson Street as city officials combed the neighborhood for code violations Wednesday, Darnella Randolph said she moved there nearly two years ago to escape the high crime rat

WASHINGTON — Tropical cyclones around the world are moving slightly slower over land and water, dumping more rain as they stall, just as Hurricane Harvey did last year, a new study found. This isn’t about how powerful a storm’s winds are, just how fast it

AVOCA — Avoca residents who sued Kerr-McGee Corporation alleging that their health suffered because of toxins from the company’s creosote plant are now suing attorneys who aided their original case. The Avoca residents filed a class-action lawsuit Monday

SCRANTON — The Diocese of Scranton declined to comment Wednesday about the written statement it provided to a grand jury investigating allegations of child sexual abuse within it and five other Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania. In refusing to delay

HARRISBURG — An effort to improve elevator safety is moving forward in the state Senate. The Senate Labor and Industry Committee approved Senate Bill 934, which would create a new nine-member elevator safety board in the Department of Labor and Industry.

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A trio of astronauts from Russia, the United States and the European Space Agency blasted off Wednesday for a mission on the International Space Station. A Russian spacecraft carrying Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopye

WASHINGTON — Record heat returned to the United States with a vengeance in May. May warmed to a record average 65.4 degrees in the Lower 48 states, breaking the high of 64.7 set in 1934, according to federal weather figures released Wednesday. May was 5.2

SCRANTON — After a local businessman’s firm bought the Electric City parking garage from the city for $1 in 2016, Lackawanna County’s Assessor’s Office never changed the garage’s tax classification from exempt to taxable, the head of the office said. With

WILKES-BARRE — The glow of the florescent blue lighting shining down on customers might seem better suited in a nightclub than a convenience store restroom. But the recent change at some area Turkey Hill Minit Markets is far more than cosmetic — it’s a pr