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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed by an assassin’s bullet at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Student artists from several area colleges will show off their talents during Scranton’s First Friday Art Walk.

SCRANTON — The Pavilion at Montage Mountain will host country legend Willie Nelson and his Outlaw Music Festival on Friday, Sept. 14.

In the window of a small storefront on Church Street, a miniature museum of empty glass bottles, stones and other once-buried oddities reveals what contractors unearthed while replacing old Scranton bridges

A Scranton man and woman were arrested Saturday night after Taylor police officers caught them having oral sex in Walmart’s crowded parking lot, police said.

SCRANTON — A fire displaced two people Monday night. City fire personnel responded to 923 Hampton St. about 8:40 p.m. to find heavy flames at the rear of the building, city Assistant Fire Chief Jack Davis said on the scene.

SCRANTON — City council expressed concern Monday that a proposed Sheetz gas station/store near Scranton High School would increase traffic jams in that area and make it more difficult for pedestrians to cross streets.

SCRANTON — A Berks County man faces firearms charges after he tried to bring a gun into a city nightclub.

A former Lackawanna County Prison guard charged with having sex with a female work release inmate is among nine defendants named in a new civil lawsuit related to the ongoing prison sex abuse investigation.

Cpl. Floyd Smith of Honesdale, Pvt. Joseph Zarone of Old Forge and Pvt. Stiney G. Jocius of New Philadelphia died in an accidental explosion at Camp Hancock in Georgia on April 2.

Prescription opioid drugs don’t come with a warning label. They also don’t include a list of local resources if patients find themselves hooked on the highly addictive medicine or worse, face a fatal overdose.

SCRANTON — The McDade Expressway is back open after a crash this morning briefly closed the inbound lanes, the Lackawanna County 911 center said.

In the eight years since her son died in a crash caused by a distracted driver, Eileen Woelkers Miller has become a ceaseless warrior in the fight for better highway safety laws.

Even when it looks like the end, it just might not be. That’s the message Parker Hill Church Pastor Mark Stuenzi hoped to convey Easter Sunday.

Scranton Mayor Howard Snowdon was upset with City Hall employees over salary adjustments after 136 workers went directly to city council to ask for adjustments instead of speaking with him.

SCRANTON — A long-awaited project to correct errors on the monuments on Lackawanna County Courthouse Square could be completed this summer.

JERMYN — Lackawanna County Commissioners will meet Wednesday evening at the Jermyn Borough Municipal Building, 440 Jefferson Ave. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. — JEFF HORVATH

The last time April Fools’ and Easter Sunday shared the same space on the calendar, Bob Lesh was a baby. More than 60 years later, the Scranton School District response to my latest Right to Know request is a 353-page April Fools’ joke.

A prowess for problem-solving propelled a handful of local Odyssey of the Mind teams through the regional tournament and into this Saturday’s state finals.

SCRANTON — Basked in the glow of a roaring fire in St. Peter’s Cathedral’s prayer garden, parishioners clutched unlit candles while winds showered them in embers as they began their Easter Vigil with a service of light.