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The state Department of Transportation’s District 4 region is launching an intensive pothole-repair effort on state-owned roads in Luzerne County. The effort will run until the end of the month and aims to address at least 80 percent of the potholes repor

WILKES-BARRE — Some residents living near the Solomon Creek flood wall are glad physical work on its replacement has started, but they feel left out of the loop as to when and how the work could affect them. A crew was busy Wednesday tearing up a section

WILKES-BARRE — The unusual sleeping defense put on by a suspended Pennsylvania State Police trooper accused of fondling a young girl paid off Wednesday when a Luzerne County judge tossed the case, finding prosecutors had not shown “one scintilla of eviden

WRIGHT TWP. — Four teachers rather than 13 will be laid off, and the Crestwood School District will spend $1.2 million of its reserves to balance the budget next year, Superintendent Joseph Gorham said Wednesday. Speaking during a news conference, Gorham

Pittston resident Mary Lou Schriver has been shopping at The Bon-Ton in the Midway Shopping Center in Wyoming for years and is upset that the store will soon close. The Bon-Ton stores in the Midway Shopping Center and the Wyoming Valley Mall in Wilkes-Bar

WILKES-BARRE — The defense for a state trooper accused of groping a young girl on Wednesday grilled the girl’s mother about omissions in a restraining-order application she filed hours after hearing about the incident. The mother — who is not being identi

NEW YORK (AP) — The end is near for department store operator The Bon-Ton Stores.

WILKES-BARRE — The trial of a suspended state police trooper accused of molesting a young girl got under way Tuesday with the defense arguing he can’t be held liable because he was asleep at the time of the alleged crime. “What was said was inappropriate,

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Starbucks is coming to town. The national coffee chain has plans to build a restaurant as part of a three-store complex planned for a 1.71-acre site on Woodbine Street, next to Damon’s restaurant and across Route 93 from Penn State Hazlet

A federal judge sentenced Michael Mejia, 21, to a time-served sentence of six months in jail and two years of supervised release for stealing thousands of dollars in checks from his victims’ mail. From May through August 2017, Mejia conspired to steal che