Northeastern Pennsylvania

Boulevard Avenue is a real monster. The beast chews up rubber tires, spits out wheel lugs and uses your alignment as a toothpick.

President Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek or accept the 1968 Democratic nomination for president — a decision that caught the country by surprise.

ROARING BROOK TWP. — Like father, like son. Today at Easter Mass, organist Scott Coates, 48, will lead St. Eulalia Parish in music at the church on Blue Shutters Road in Roaring Brook Twp.

Area retail merchants described the spring clothing in 1963 to be “lighter and brighter.”

SCRANTON — A road rage incident in which a man pointed a gun at a car carrying two women and two infants led to charges Friday, according to police.

The attorney for a Wyoming County dentist charged with improperly prescribing medications to a woman who fatally overdosed on heroin says his client is a scapegoat for police who failed to get enough evidence to charge another man.

SCRANTON — The Lackawanna County Salary Board approved raises this month for eight lawyers in the district attorney’s office.

Bob Lesh now plans to keep his seat on the Scranton School Board, less than a week after he resigned by text message sent to board secretary Virginia Orr and Superintendent Alexis Kirijan, Ed.D.

The Easter Bunny will hop aboard the trolley today at the Electric City Trolley Museum and ride the rails with local youngsters and their families.

Seventh- and eighth-grade girls and boys basketball, softball and baseball programs at the Scranton School District’s three intermediate schools will continue until the end of this school year.

A city man faces charges after an attempted break-in at a apartment early Thursday, police said.

Bob Lesh resigned from the Scranton School Board via text message Monday, a modern way of quitting, perhaps quite unexpected for an old-school politician who struggles with computers.

Linda Littlejohn, an Australian journalist and radio commentator, spoke at the Century Club on March 30 in a lecture put together by the club’s current topics department.

SCRANTON — Lackawanna County’s first female commissioner, a Times-Tribune education reporter and the first woman admitted to the county Bar Association are among the female role models local students opted to honor in a recent women’s history month contest.

Hillary Clinton sneaked into Scranton pretty much unnoticed Tuesday. The former secretary of state, first lady and Democratic presidential candidate visited the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.

NEWTON TWP. — The Rev. Seth Wasnock led several members of the St. Benedict’s Youth Ministry down the aisle, smoking censer and candles in hand.

SCRANTON — City Hall, Lackawanna County offices and the county courts will be closed today in observance of Good Friday and the Easter holiday.

SCRANTON — The Junior League of Scranton invites area nonprofits to apply for its annual discretionary grant, which this year will be awarded to an organization that will use it for a program or project focused on childhood nutrition and hunger.

March 30, 1968 State approves grant for Nay Aug Pool The state Department of Community Affairs approved a grant of $324,284.50 to cover half the cost of the construction of a new swimming complex at Scranton’s Nay Aug Park to replace Lake Lincoln. Lake Li

SCRANTON — A teen was taken to a hospital after an all-terrain vehicle flipped onto its side Thursday. The wreck happened about 1:30 p.m., when a Polaris RZR traveled west on Snook Street and tried to make a left on Seymour Avenue, city police Lt. Marty C