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DUNMORE — Pennsylvania American Water on Friday will begin replacing water mains along Butler, Smith and Cherry streets in the borough. During the project, which is expected to continue until the end of the summer, traffic restrictions will be in place. C

The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will introduce Dr. Mélisse Brunet as interim music director and conductor as well as a full season of music at a reception on May 16 at 6 p.m. at the Colonnade, 401 Jefferson Ave., Scranton.

A North Scranton man punched, kicked and spit on officers when they tried to take him into custody after responding to a reported fight, city police said.

SCRANTON — A city woman is accused of drunkenly lunging at a police officer Tuesday night, nearly knocking the patrolwoman down a flight of steps.

SCRANTON — Lackawanna County is one step closer to a fair of its own.

A Scranton businessman recently released from jail after serving time for a streetlight scam faces new trouble after investigators say he took a 2006 Chevy Cobalt due to be relinquished in a woman’s bankruptcy case and treated it as his own for 19 months.

Nearly three weeks after a mentally ill confidential informant was killed, Lackawanna County detectives now will vet informants’ mental competency and require they sign a written agreement before using them, District Attorney Mark Powell announced Wednesday.

OLD FORGE — A former borough police officer who unsuccessfully waged a more than decade long legal battle to get his job back after returning from military service has died.

Ryan Sauter, Scranton Prep In his sophomore year Ryan Sauter earned a perfect score on the national standardized Latin exam.

SCRANTON — Embracing the belief that need knows no season, the local Salvation Army corps will highlight its many programs and services at an open house this evening.

Scranton Mayor Alex Connell ordered Scranton Police Chief Lona Day to send plainclothes police officers into the city’s pool rooms, barber shops, saloons and parks to gather the names of men who loaf and were chronic idlers.

May 9, 1968 Growing unrest in the forecast Alexander J. Allen, director of the Urban League’s Eastern Region, told those gathered at the 74th annual meeting of the Family Service of Lackawanna County that in the summer the nation had the potential for mor

Lackawanna County is turning to Philadelphia and New York to sell its current Administration Building. The county plans to vacate the six-story structure at 200 Adams Ave. in Scranton once the former Globe store on Wyoming Avenue is ready to house governm

SCRANTON — AAA North Penn bought a former restaurant on Viewmont Drive for $2.65 million, according to public records on property transactions. The roadside assistance member organization will combine two member service centers — one in central Scranton a

The more than two-decade push to build a 40-mile walking and riding trail along the Lackawanna River got another boost from state government Tuesday. State officials announced the release of $1.2 million in grants to help close some of the remaining gaps

SCRANTON — A man arrested Tuesday for a Scranton bank robbery earlier in the week already served time for a string of bank heists in 2004 that earned him the nickname “the apologetic robber.” Thomas Francis Smith III, 36, 1693 Church Ave., was apprehended

SCRANTON Fire damaged a house at 1738 Clearview St. on Tuesday evening. The call came in about 5:45 p.m. and firefighters quickly extinguished the flames upon arriving. The fire started when a resident lit a grill on the back porch, which caught fire and

SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. — The president of the Griffin Pond Animal Shelter board of directors resigned. Doug Boyle, who joined the board more than a year ago during great tumult over its previous executive director’s reign, said he decided to resign because h

SCRANTON — A judge sentenced a former Dickson City man Tuesday to 11 to 36 months in prison for risking a catastrophe by burning a Bible in his kitchen sink and slicking his apartment building hallway with motor oil. The incident occurred in June 2017, wh

SCRANTON — A judge sentenced a New York man Tuesday to three to eight years in prison on a drug charge and for an indecent assault of a woman in her city apartment. Kasiem T. Lundy, 38, was charged in early November 2016 with rape, sexual assault, aggrava