Northeastern Pennsylvania

Hemp is coming to Lackawanna County. The state recently awarded a hemp research permit to the nonprofit U.S. Ecological Advanced Research & Conservation Hub in Mayfield and Lackawanna College for them to grow and explore potential industrial uses of hemp,

SCRANTON — A Megan’s Law registrant accused of groping a woman at Boscov’s in August pleaded guilty to the crime Friday.

CLARKS SUMMIT — The Pennsylvania Turnpike will close today at 11 p.m. between the Clarks Summit interchange in South Abington Twp. and the Wyoming Valley exit in Dupont.

SCRANTON — Street closures and parking restrictions will take effect this morning in downtown Scranton for the annual Armed Forces Day Parade.

DURYEA — A Scranton woman is facing drug-trafficking charges after police say she was caught with a mobile methamphetamine lab during a traffic stop Friday.

Despite a pledge of neutrality in the presidential campaign, former Gov. William W. Scranton told The Scranton Times he was leaning toward New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockfeller for the Republican presidential nomination.

Springtime hasn’t forgotten Northeast Pennsylvania, despite the season’s seemingly uncharacteristic grayness.

Kyle Mullins whacked ’em. What might have seemed to his opponents like a close 112th state House District Democratic primary election race turned out a rout.

SCRANTON — John G. Whittier Elementary School students asked their peers and school community to “Put a Little Love in Their Hearts.”

SCRANTON — Already home to more than a century of memories, the walls of the former Globe Store will soon house a box of memories and messages for future generations to open a century from now.

DURYEA — A Scranton woman is facing drug-trafficking charges after police say she was caught with a mobile methamphetamine lab during a traffic stop Friday.

Natural gas prices will hold steady this summer for UGI Penn Natural Gas customers and likely drop by almost 3 percent just in time for the home heating season.

SCRANTON — The city sewer authority wants former solicitor Jim Mulligan to pay back more than $87,000 it gave him and his family for health care benefits.

The Diocese of Scranton, along with two other Roman Catholic dioceses in the state, won’t stand in the way of a grand jury report expected to detail decades of sex abuse by members of the clergy.

the Happenings and the Union Gap performed a the Long Center at the University of Scranton; the Gary Lane Quintet performed at the El Dorado on Lackawanna Avenue in Scranton.

SCRANTON — City police arrested a man Thursday after he led officers on a chase in a stolen vehicle on Interstate 81.

A Monroe County man on the run for five months for homicide charges stemming from a deadly home invasion last year in Wayne County is in custody.

SCRANTON — The inmate canteen account can sustain the return of a GED program to the Lackawanna County Prison at no cost to taxpayers, county controller and prison board member Gary DiBileo said Wednesday.

The congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary plans memorial services for Sister Angela Miller, I.H.M., and her sister, Rosemary Smith, on Sunday and Monday.

SCRANTON — Lackawanna County commissioners took another step Wednesday toward establishing an authority to run its county fair and appointed nine people to serve on it.