Northeastern Pennsylvania

SCRANTON — The U.S. attorney’s office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Thursday said it has charged a Scranton man with importing synthetic marijuana from China.

A New York man kidnapped a woman Wednesday, drove her to a Scranton hotel and threatened to rape her, Scranton police said.

A former Taylor councilman accused of assaulting a woman and then calling her from jail to persuade her to drop the charges pleaded guilty Thursday.

In the Best Bets on page G3 of the Wednesday, March 14, edition of Weekend Times, the prices for Montage MountainFest were incorrect. The correct price for lift tickets is $37 for adults and $32 for children 5 to 17, and rentals cost $31.

The sun shone on the 4,000 participants of the seventh annual Scranton St. Patrick’s Parade, which featured marching bands from area high schools and organizations, an equestrian unit, and marchers from numerous civic organizations.

Federal security agents have begun tighter screening of departing air travelers’ electronic devices at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport.

For 17 somber minutes late Wednesday morning, silent students filled the hallways at Scranton High School.

A letter mistakenly sent to parents in Chinchilla started a feud between the Chinchilla Thimble Club and the Chinchilla School Board.

SCRANTON — A mother faces endangerment charges after police found her boy hanging out a second floor window Tuesday.

A Lancaster County man is accused of trying to run down a man with a car in a Family Dollar parking lot and then biting, kicking and spitting on city police officers as they arrested him.

A Scranton man accused of setting fire to a police officer’s home while looking for a place to shoot heroin was sent to state prison Tuesday as part of several resentencings because he committed the crime while still under court supervision.

Lackawanna County President Judge Michael J. Barrasse on Tuesday sent two men in unrelated child sex abuse cases to state prison.

A 46-year-old man who admitted he robbed a series of banks and stole an elderly woman’s car during a week-long crime spree in December pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of robbery.

A man caught with nearly $50,000 in drugs and cash, including heroin laced with fentanyl, after a bust last year at a Scranton hotel will spend at least 11 years in state prison

SCRANTON — If nothing else, a meeting Tuesday demonstrated how deeply divided Scranton and Lackawanna County officials remain on the issue of a countywide property reassessment.

Former Lackawanna County Prison guards’ concerns about their Fifth Amendment rights against self incrimination do not justify postponing pre-trial evidence gathering in a sexual abuse lawsuit against them and others, a federal judge ruled.

The Scranton Public Works employee strike entered its fourth day. Negotiations between the city and the unionized workers were ongoing, but refuse pickup and snow removal were stopped.

SCRANTON — Lackawanna County commissioners took an early step Monday in a process that may see the addition of a new multiuse trail in the North Pocono area by 2025 at no cost to the county.

The Hill Section parties that coincided with the annual Scranton St. Patrick’s Parade attracted hundreds of drinkers Saturday to a city block where police issued numerous citations, including one for punching a horse.

SCRANTON — After only four months as Scranton’s business administrator, Chris Casciano began a new job in City Hall on Monday in the Office of Economic and Community Development, Mayor Bill Courtright said.