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For the last century, Lackawanna County workers played a huge role in producing recorded music for the world. The run ends in a few weeks, as Technicolor plant in Olyphant closes for good. Doug Long and his former co-workers at the plant, formerly and bes

Bishop Joseph C. Bambera apologized Sunday to victims ahead of a grand jury report expected to detail child sexual abuse by Catholic priests and attempts to conceal it. In a written message published in church bulletins, the bishop offered his “deepest ap

SCRANTON — The city received a $125,000 state grant to fund a temporary fix of big holes that opened in recent years in some backyards in Green Ridge from the collapse of an old underground stormwater conduit. Council last Monday unanimously introduced a

June 18, 1943 Whites Crossing man kills wife, children, self George Davis shot and killed his wife, Grace, and their two children, Lois Jean and Diane, before taking his own life, Carbondale police said. Neighbors called the police in the morning after th

SCRANTON — Ron Moore has more fun driving his 1928 Ford speedster to the car show than he does showing it off when he gets there. The bright yellow hot rod, which he bought and began refurbishing eight years ago, drew gawkers Sunday at the 24th annual Vil

A bench at Nay Aug Park near the pool entrance was dedicated Saturday in honor of Robert “Ozzie” Quinn, former president of the Hill Neighborhood Association.

Blakely Registration for the borough’s Summer Youth Program will begin this week. Borough residents will be able to register Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Blakely Borough Recreational Complex refreshment stand, according to the borou

More than three dozen Scranton residents joined thousands who converged on the nation’s capital 50 years ago to call attention to the plight of America’s poor.

SCRANTON — The theme of the Lithuanian ambassador’s visit to the Electric City on Saturday was roots — both the kind found in a garden and the ancestral kind that tie certain area residents back to the Baltic nation.

Four school districts in Northeast Pennsylvania outperformed 33 others in Times-Shamrock Newspapers’ annual analysis of academic performance.

Lackawanna County District Attorney George Maxey ordered a second raid on slot machines in Scranton.

Another transgender Lackawanna County Prison inmate who says she was denied hormone therapy treatments is suing the jail and its medical provider.

Authorities are looking for three city men in relation to an assault that left another man dead earlier this month.

Former Scranton City Council President Joe Wechsler will take over as deputy director for purchasing for Lackawanna County, the county announced Friday.

SCRANTON — The final steps in a decadelong effort to create the elevated Renaissance Park downtown involve enacting maintenance agreements among the three participating entities, officials said.

The War Department announced that plans had been drawn up for a new military hospital and housing for 2,500 Air Force trainees at Tobyhanna Military Reservation.

Lax enforcement of immigration laws, sanctuary policies and “open-border” advocates encourage illegal immigration and put police and the public in danger, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a group of police academy cadets Friday in Scranton.

SCRANTON — As U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ motorcade drove away from Lackawanna College on Friday, a peaceful crowd of protesters erupted.

SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. — Four children who battled cancer in treatment rooms will take the fight to the lemonade stand today.

SCRANTON — Allentown-based developer Jefferson-Werner LLC submitted an apparent high bid of more than $1.6 million Friday for the Lackawanna County Administration Building.