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Members of the Scranton Red Sox returned to the Electric City last night following a two-game stretch in Wilmington, Delaware.

Eight out of nine Scranton School Board members signed and sent a letter Tuesday to the state attorney general requesting assistance to determine if the district’s transportation contract with DeNaples Transportation is legitimate. The board is concerned

Amid a multistate E. coli outbreak likely linked to romaine lettuce, several local grocery store chains and restaurants report their salad is safe. The state Department of Health on Tuesday warned residents to throw out romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Ariz

April 25 1918 Runaway horse injuries 2 women A frightened horse ran into a group of women walking along the 300 block of Pittston Avenue in Scranton. The women were on their way to a funeral at St. Mary’s Church when the horse running at a mad gallop cras

Lackawanna County’s 2018 judicial tax sale concluded Monday with 89 tax-delinquent properties selling for more than $880,000 over two auction days. Of those 89 properties, the county Tax Claim Bureau sold 20 on the first day of the sale, March 26, and 69

A 27-year-old Scranton man believed he sent pictures of his genitals to a 14-year-old girl he met online and arranged to meet her, but agents with the state attorney general’s office arrested him instead, authorities said. Mark J. Centeno, 608 Landis St.,

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. will sell three local TV stations as part of its purchase of another national media company with area ties. Sinclair will sell 23 stations across 15 states, including Fox 56 WOLF-TV, The CW-affliated WSWB and MyNetworkTV-affi

First Hospital in Kingston and Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton will be fully staffed and operational when registered nurses plan to strike on Wednesday, hospital officials said.

First Hospital in Kingston and Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton will be fully staffed and operational when registered nurses plan to strike on Wednesday, hospital officials said.

Scranton police suspect a rash of small weekend fires moving south from the West Side were intentionally set.

WILKES-BARRE ­— A former Marywood University professor knew he would likely be fired for posting two satirical videos that portrayed school officials as Nazis, but he did it anyway.

SCRANTON — City police are investigating after a 67-year-old woman reported her purse stolen Monday.

SCRANTON — A city resident is accused of strangling a woman late Saturday night.

SCRANTON — A boil-water advisory affecting about 1,400 Pennsylvania American Water customers in Scranton’s East Mountain neighborhood was lifted Monday morning, the utility said.

SCRANTON — Before the Scranton School Board approved borrowing up to $16.5 million — $8.5 million more than what it previously discussed borrowing — one director questioned the fees charged by the financial consultant who worked on finding the funds.

SCRANTON — Like the other two women seated with her at a table in the University of Scranton’s Edward R. Leahy Jr. Hall, state Transportation Secretary Leslie S. Richards said she knows what it’s like to be the only female in a room full of men.

A former Lakeland School District teacher who pleaded guilty to molesting a student agreed to pay a $4 million judgment in a civil lawsuit the victim filed against him.

SCRANTON — Scranton City Council voted 4-1 Monday for traffic signal upgrades for a proposed Sheetz gas station and store at West Linden Street and Seventh Avenue.

The Times-Tribune and its staff won 22 more statewide journalism awards for work last year. The newspaper won 14 Pennsylvania Women’s Press Association awards

SCRANTON — A 47-year-old city man told to buy a pregnancy test instead grabbed a woman’s throat and “smashed” her head off a wall several times Friday night, city police charged.