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The New York Yankees stepped up to the plate Wednesday for a bullied Scranton girl.

The support Cassidy Warner continues to grow, this time in the form a video posted by the New York Yankees.

SCRANTON — A team of uniquely skilled Lackawanna College students will clash with competitors on virtual battlefields beginning this fall — and scholarships are available.

Joseph F. Radkiewicz, Lackawanna County planner, reported that county officials are in negotiations to purchase land along the Scranton-Taylor line for the location of a museum dedicated to the history of anthracite mining.

In 1988, then-second lady Barbara Bush spent an evening on Montage Mountain, rubbing elbows with local Republicans at a $500-a-plate fundraiser for her husband’s presidential campaign.

A 48-year-old Scranton man, very drunk, pulled out a knife during a fight Friday night and threatened to stab another man, city police said.

Eleven years ago, independent record store owners across the country, including Joe Nardone Jr., joined to create a special day for music lovers.

At first blush, the nearly $300,000 in improper medical and dental benefits the Scranton School District paid to its former “fleet manager” and his wife seem like an anomaly, which dictionaries define as “something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.

A magisterial district judge ruled charges against a former Lackawanna County Prison guard accused of sexually abusing an inmate fall within the statute of limitations for the offenses.

Lackawanna County commissioners likely will vote today on an ordinance requiring county residents to pay an annual $5 registration fee for each of their vehicles.

SCRANTON — If transgender adults struggle to feel at home in their own skin, the task is magnified for children.

Local artist, business owner and teacher Ryan Hnat told Scranton City Council on Monday of his plan to establish a Scranton-based business called Northeast Art Project, aimed at facilitating and creating murals and public artworks in the region.

LAPLUME TWP. — Keystone College officials evacuated two campus buildings as a precaution early this afternoon after winds caused an an electrical utility wire to touch a nearby tree and set the tree on fire, Dalton Fire Chief Chris Tolson said.

SCRANTON — Officials evacuated about 120 elderly and disabled residents who live at Lutherwood because strong winds blew off large portions of the apartment building’s flat roof just before dawn Monday.

SCRANTON — Scranton City Council on Monday again discussed a proposed Sheetz gas station and store for West Linden Street and Seventh Avenue.

SCRANTON Charges against former Lackawanna County prison guard George T. McHale were held for court Monday, according to court documents. McHale, 50, 513 Florin St., will face trial on one count of institutional sexual assault and two counts of indecent a

A federal judge denied a Wyoming County dentist’s motion to dismiss charges he illegally prescribed controlled substances to an Olyphant woman who died from an unrelated heroin overdose. Christopher Bereznak, 48, of Clarks Green, is charged with nine coun

A New York-based private label manufacturer is bringing a factory to Scranton where it will need 200 workers to make laundry detergent. U.S. Nonwovens Corp. plans to begin producing detergent and fabric softener by Aug. 1, said project manager Stephen Rob

April 17, 1943 Mine union against arresting miners Hubert Farrell, district vice president of the United Mine Workers, is speaking out against the increase in arrests by railroad police of miners trespassing on Lackawanna Railroad property as they walk to

SCRANTONBridge work to close expressway The Central Scranton Expressway will be closed from 8 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Monday for the removal of the old Harrison Avenue Bridge. The car detour for the closure will be on Moosic Street and the truck detour w