Northeastern Pennsylvania

PITTSTON TWP. — A simple modernization, long common at most airports nationwide, should finally arrive at the local airport in April.

THORNHURST — Two Red Cross shelters are open overnight in Lackawanna County for residents without power.

Temple Hesed in Scranton held a Purim celebration Saturday that included carnival games and a pasta dinner.

SCRANTON — Randy Wilson had the television on with the sound low at the far end of the counter of the Spruce Street business he manages, the Video Game Store, a small shop whose name leaves no question about what they sell.

Federal agents arrested Clayton Woodworth of Dunmore on charges he conspired to interfere with the recruitment of individuals for service in the military.

Clarks Summit Penn State master gardeners in Lackawanna County will hold an early spring lesson on starting seeds at the Abington Community Library, 1200 W. Grove St. Participants of the free program, which will take place at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 13,

Comrade Bob marched into our newsroom like Putin leading a parade of tanks and missiles through Red Square. He came bearing gifts “From Russia With Love.”

After weathering a flood and surviving a scrap yard, the former Scranton Transit Co. 505 trolley is one step closer to restoration, thanks to a $20,000 gaming grant and a dedicated group of volunteers.

SCRANTON — More than 20 people, many of them members of the area’s Indian and Latino communities, registered to vote Saturday at a community voter outreach event in the Electric City.

The handwritten script in the back of the small green book is difficult to read — the Ts spike high and the Ps jet low with purpose and passion.

Irving Furst, social protection supervisor with the Federal Security Agency, told city officials that “Scranton is doing a swell job” in fighting commercialized vice and the spread of venereal disease.

SCRANTON — An ordinance that would require Lackawanna County residents to pay an annual $5 registration fee for each vehicle they own is in limbo almost two months after commissioners first introduced it.

Nick Carlini pulled his balaclava over his mouth and hunched over his shovel.

The attorney for a Wyoming County dentist charged with illegally prescribing medication to a woman who fatally overdosed is seeking to bar prosecutors from using text messages between him and the woman as evidence against him.

DANVILLE— Calling his recovery “nothing short of a miracle,” Lackawanna County Controller Gary DiBileo said Thursday his brother, Anthony DiBileo, is “progressing amazingly well” after being struck by two bullets at a bar in West Scranton.

SCRANTON— Crews took a bicyclist to the hospital Thursday evening after an SUV struck her at Luzerne Street and Meridian Avenue, city police said.

SCRANTON — A Scranton man faces felony charges for sexually abusing a child after his 6-year-old victim reported the assaults to her caseworker

SCRANTON — Deputy Fire Chief Al Lucas did not leak which book would be used in an upcoming Fire Department promotional test, Civil Service Commission solicitor Christian Owens said Thursday.

SCRANTON — Smoke poured from General Dynamics on Cedar Avenue as firefighters scrambled to extinguish a burning cooling tower late Thursday night.

An attorney representing Lackawanna County Prison defendants being sued for sexual abuse filed a new motion seeking to postpone the case based on the recent arrests stemming from the criminal investigation.