Northeastern Pennsylvania

SCRANTON Police arrested a Throop man twice in three hours Tuesday for huffing compressed air duster in public, police said.

SCRANTON Pool season starts Saturday at several public facilities, including the Nay Aug Park Pool.

A 63-year-old Dunmore man leaned back in his car and masturbated in a Nay Aug Park parking lot Monday across from an event at which parents were dropping off children, Scranton police said.

Calling a weekend fire at a vacant South Side home arson, city police released a handful of video clips Tuesday of a bicyclist investigators say is a person of interest in the case.

SCRANTON A state wine and spirits shop in Scranton is closed for the summer.

Helen Mongelia and Mike Balash hope this time North Korea means it.

Honesdale Roots & Rhythm Festival For a Saturday of good food, good music and good fun for everyone in the family, visit the 13th annual Honesdale Roots & Rhythm Music & Arts Festival at Honesdale Central Park, Church Street.

Scott Twp. resident Doreen Michelle Cuozzo-Demming died Jan. 27 at 57, leaving behind her heartbroken son, Ed Cuozzo; husband, Brian Demming; and two stepchildren.

Matthew Sacchetti eluded police twice, but his girlfriend helped officers track him down.

Alison, Aileen and Erin Barrett went to high school with the goal to be good people and students, not necessarily Scranton High School valedictorians.

In coordinated raids throughout the city, Scranton police confiscated 40 slot machines from saloons, cigar shops and pool rooms.

JESSUP — Several people gathered Monday for the fourth of four “Blight to Bright” meetings see potential in a state law designed to help communities raze blighted buildings.

SCRANTON — City council preliminarily backed a $9.3 million plan Monday by the outside operators of the parking system to renovate four garages and eventually replace street meters with kiosk payment stations.

The majority of Lackawanna County municipalities are participating in a free electronics recycling program that’s continuing through July.

SCRANTON — Authorities are looking into how a vacant South Scranton home went up in flames early Sunday morning.

SCRANTON — Jane Widenor flips through the tattered black book filled with the names of hundreds of First Christian Church parishioners spanning eight decades.

The Scranton School Board again said it would select a new superintendent for the district.

SCRANTON — Goodbye parking meters, hello kiosks. The operators of the city’s parking system are considering replacing parking meters with kiosk payment stations, a councilman said.

Mike Morro, who shot two men in Carbondale on May 26, turned himself in to attorney E.A. Delaney, who took Morro to Carbondale Police Chief O’Boyle.

SCRANTON — For the DePietro and Rettura families, bocce ball is more than just a game — it’s a tradition.