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Former Wilkes-Barre City Administrator J.J. Murphy is on the move again. Murphy announced Friday on Facebook that he has landed a new job as assistant city manager in Palmdale, California, about 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Murphy, a King’s College

The Dallas Twp. Police Department will introduce Pastor Matthew Jonathan Tarr as its new chaplain at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the municipal building. On the same night, officer Taylor Dunn will receive the Life Saving Award and officer John Mendygral will be giv

EXETER — Veteran police officer Leonard Galli was properly fired last summer for continuing to use his work computer for personal business, an arbitrator ruled Thursday. Arbitrator Ralph H. Colflesh Jr. rejected a union grievance the Exeter police officer

The family of a longtime Scranton Prep staffer, who died after an accident during a 2016 football game, sued the Valley View School District and its football stadium contractors and engineers for neglecting to comply with field standards. Anthony L. “Taps

WILKES-BARRE — The Plains Twp. forgery suspect entwined in a mysterious arson case waived her right to a preliminary hearing Friday while maintaining her innocence. Linasheri D’Onofrio, 50, will stand trial on two counts each of forgery and theft alleging

WILKES-BARRE — Registered nurses at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital returned to the picket line Friday after they were informed Thursday night they are locked out until Tuesday. Nurses said Community Health Systems, the for-profit Tennessee-based company th

WILKES-BARRE — A man accused of opening fire on a loaded vehicle during a dispute over a parking spot and shooting a passenger in the head pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated assault and was immediately sentenced to up to 13 years in prison. Lizandy A. “L

State military officials are trying to track down photos of two Luzerne County soldiers killed during the Vietnam War as part of a project to show the faces of all Pennsylvanians killed during the war. Officials are looking for photos of Private 1st Class

DALLAS TWP. — Martin Barry has seen the dead trees in Dallas Twp. They’re ash trees, infected by an invasive insect and a potential danger to travelers on the township’s roads. Township officials first noticed the problem last year. Over the winter and in

WILKES-BARRE — Quality-of-life violations dropped nearly 40 percent from last year in the same city neighborhoods, data shows. Code and health inspectors spent one day in each of the last five weeks walking through the same city neighborhoods they did beg