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NASA chief: Changes ahead WASHINGTON — NASA’s new boss says major changes could be ahead for the International Space Station but there will always be an American astronaut in orbit. Administrator James Bridenstine said NASA is talking with private compani

NANTICOKE — A West Nanticoke man is accused of soliciting sex from a 14-year-old boy, according to an investigation by the state attorney general’s office. Authorities said Glen Andrew Jenkins Jr., 21, of East Poplar Street, sent videos of himself perform

Philadelphia Eagles superfan and 44-year-old Tresckow resident John Petrilyak Jr. thinks President Donald Trump should have let his Super Bowl-winning team visit the White House. The President rescinded the invitation Monday, a day before the scheduled vi

DRUMS — Norman Scheutrumpf can talk at length about just about any experience he had during World War II. He doesn’t miss a beat when he recalls the names of the soldiers he met, the conversations he had with Belgians or what was served in field kitchens

WILKES-BARRE — UGI Utilities will begin a natural gas main replacement project this week along three blocks of North and South Franklin Street. The project will stretch from West Union Street to West South Street. The initial phase of the project will imp

ASHLEY — A drunken man pounded on a car and shouted for police shoot him before he was taken into custody Thursday, according to police. Officers responded at 10:16 p.m. to the intersection of Mary and North Main streets for a report of a man with his pan

WILKES-BARRE — A city man serving prison time for molesting a foster child in his adoptive home was sentenced Tuesday to serve an additional 17 to 34 years in prison for sex offenses in two separate cases. Tyler Groner, 26, was sentenced on two counts of

WEST PITTSTON — A former client of Cefalo & Associates used the account number on a settlement check she got because of her son’s death in an attempt to pay her utility bills with the law firm’s escrow account, according to charges filed in court. Michell

WILKES-BARRE — Fire tore through a business and apartment building early Tuesday, causing extensive damage to the structure but resulting in no injuries, according to firefighters. The fire at the C&A Mini Market at 362 Scott St. was reported around 2:25

State Rep. Gerald Mullery’s bill that would ban nicotine-based products and electronic cigarettes in Pennsylvania schools was unanimously voted out of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Under House Bill 2268, e-cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing to