Northeastern Pennsylvania

Thousands of miles from his native Guatemala, Rufino Cano’s prayers are with the hundreds of dead and missing Guatemalans swallowed up by fast-moving clouds of ash and volcanic matter.

SCRANTON — The Lackawanna County tax assessor’s office on Thursday changed the tax classification of the privately owned Electric City Parking Garage from exempt to taxable for each of 2017 and 2018, officials said.

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Scranton opened its Greek Food Festival on Tuesday at the church, 505 N. Washington Ave.

A resident at a personal care home in Scranton admitted to city police detectives that he repeatedly had inappropriate contact with a developmentally disabled woman, police said.

The Diocese of Scranton declined to comment Wednesday about the written statement it provided to a grand jury investigating allegations of child sexual abuse within it and five other Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania.

SCRANTON — After a local businessman’s firm bought the Electric City parking garage from the city for $1 in 2016, Lackawanna County’s Assessor’s Office never changed the garage’s tax classification from exempt to taxable, the head of the office said.

Scranton Mayor James Walsh announced the new swim center being constructed at Nay Aug Park would be called the Kennedy-Lincoln Swim Center.

McDade Park will be host Saturday to the 27th annual Lackawanna County Commissioners Bocce Tournament, which runs from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Boy, could Bill McAndrew work an angle. Before he died Tuesday of lung cancer at age 82, McAndrew perfected an audacious style of charming his way into circles others feared, cozying up to famous people most never dared approach and attracting attention w

The Scranton Federation of Teachers claims the district administration is eliminating physical education, music and art classes next year for 3- and 4-year-old preschool students at the Scranton School District’s 11 elementary schools.

Scranton police detectives said Tuesday they arrested three people wanted for a spree of car vandalism throughout the city.

The 350 employees of the Scranton Department of Public Works went on strike.

Ann Marie Brewer witnessed history Tuesday. She stood on her daughter’s porch in South Scranton with her 5-year-old grandson, Liam Heckman, and watched the last section of the Harrison Avenue Bridge crash into Roaring Brook.

Magisterial District Judge Paul J. Ware dismissed one felony count against a former Lackawanna County Prison guard but sent another felony count against him to trial, court records showed Tuesday.

In a split second, almost 100 years of history crumbled and tumbled Tuesday into Roaring Brook, leaving a new Harrison Avenue Bridge unharmed for future generations and the iconic old one a sentimental memory for their ancestors.

The remains of the old Harrison Avenue Bridge will come down this morning, according to the state Department of Transportation.

SCRANTON — If necessary, the Scranton teachers union will appeal the district’s decision to lay off teachers to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, President Rosemary Boland said Monday.

A 58-year-old Scranton man who admitted he’d used heroin, cocaine and marijuana before hitting and killing a bicyclist nearly two years ago was sentenced to six to 12 years in a state prison

SCRANTON — A split city council Monday approved Mayor Bill Courtright’s appointment of an outside resident as business administrator and waived a rule requiring him to live in the city.

SCRANTON — The Forever Sammi Foundation and its supporters are planning the third annual Addiction Awareness Rally next month.