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Marisa Liza Pell to share live reading show with hometown crowd A Scranton native looks to bridge her hometown and the other side.

The Scranton Police Department released a report on the crime rate in the city for 1967. Last year, 1,688 crimes were reported to the department.

SCRANTON — With the primary election two weeks away, two adversaries provided the fireworks as five Democratic House candidates debated Tuesday evening and largely agreed on issues.

Carole King and Gerry Goffin impacted the musical landscape with their creative genius, a story that lives on in a Broadway show coming to Scranton next week.

Clarks Summit native and 2018 Olympic medalist Adam Rippon made his “Dancing with the Stars: Athletes” debut Monday night.

SCRANTON — A man shot and killed his mother before setting their West Scranton house ablaze, killing himself, as police attempted to serve an emergency protection-from-abuse order Saturday, police said. Another woman is still missing.

SCRANTON A man is in custody after he struggled with and ran from city police Sunday, according to court documents. James Sheriff, 38, 903 Luzerne St. , Scranton, is charged with resisting arrest, escape and related charges after an incident at 902 Luzern

SCRANTON Three companies submitted proposals by Monday’s deadline for a project to correct errors and perform other work on the monuments on Lackawanna County Courthouse Square, county Budget Director Kevin Mitchell said. A committee led by Maureen McGuig

SCRANTON A fire displaced four people in the city’s South Side on Monday evening.

May 1, 1918 2 dead, 1 hurt in train crash James Jennings, of Scranton, and William Green, of Binghamton, New York, died when a pusher engine crashed into the caboose of a Lackawanna Railroad freight train about 6 miles outside of Scranton. Oren Stiff, of

To move into the future and put the local Penn State campus on the map, the university dropped the Worthington and today officially becomes Penn State Scranton. “With the new name, it’s going to honor the Scranton family as well as kind of give a more reg

Pennsylvania’s newest industry comes with a learning curve. More than 7,000 people now carry medical marijuana ID cards to treat illness with cannabis, and thousands more seek them. However, it remains a legal conundrum when it comes to federal law, and i

SCRANTON The Lackawanna County Commissioners meeting originally set for Wednesday morning has been rescheduled to 10 a.m. Thursday. The meeting will still be held in the sixth floor conference room of the county administration building, 200 Adams Ave. The

U.S. Rep. Tom Marino sued an elderly woman and her son for defamation, alleging they distributed an email that falsely accuses him of taking a drug industry kickback and having a “big hand” in spreading heroin and opioids at the heart of an addiction epid

PHILADELPHIA — More than two months after the first licensed shops opened in Pennsylvania, medical marijuana producers still struggle to keep dispensaries stocked. Despite demand that regularly outpaces supply in many shops, growers and sellers alike are

SCRANTON — The city may extend the trash fee full payment discount period from today to May 31, because garbage bills had not been mailed out as of Monday, city council members said. Past practice had the annual $300 trash fee billed in two installments o

A retired Scranton firefighter convicted of setting a fire that destroyed a building he owned is continuing his fight to overturn the conviction despite having been released from prison. Thomas Gervasi recently filed a petition in federal court seeking a

Jeffrey Gretz has never been so busy. The owner of First Class Auto Glass Inc. in Scranton said windshields are cracking far more than usual, a conundrum likely caused by an abundance of anti-skid material spread this winter as road crews battled a seemin

A plan to turn Pennsylvania Turnpike right of way into an information superhighway with high-speed, fiber-optic broadband internet has begun unfolding, with completion expected in three to five years.

SCRANTON — Before supermarkets, a typical Northeast Pennsylvanian couldn’t buy fresh fruits or vegetables this time of year.