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The dispute over whether some charges filed against former Lackawanna County prison guards accused of sexually abusing inmates fall outside the statute of limitations won’t easily be resolved due to a lack of appellate court rulings on the matter, two attorneys said.

SCRANTON — Neil Regan woke up hours before sunrise to screeching tires, a series of bangs and then quiet. In the dark below his funeral home in the 1900 block of Pittston Avenue, a 20-year-old man lay dying on the blacktop.

The Times-Tribune and its staff won 13 Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Keystone Press Awards for work last year.

SCRANTON — Two attorneys who make up the Scranton law firm that filed lawsuits on behalf of several women who alleged they were sexually abused by Lackawanna County prison guards have dissolved their partnership.

The University of Scranton Royals baseball team took to the turf Thursday at the newly named Charles J. Volpe Family Field for the first game at the school’s new athletics campus.

Patriotism was in abundance in Scranton with the Loyalty Parade, a patriotic rally and the kickoff to the third Liberty Bond drive, marking the first anniversary of the United States declaring war on Germany.

JERMYN — Frustrated by delays and fearing future costs, borough council President Frank Kulick appealed to Lackawanna County commissioners for help with a decades-old, $4 million-plus flood-control project that’s far from breaking ground.

SCRANTON — City Hall will close a few hours early Tuesday, at 2 p.m., for employees to participate in training to respond to potential active-shooter incidents.

SCRANTON — The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Scranton a $645,814 federal grant to promote excellence in undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Scranton police confronted a city detective over possibly violating the department’s social media policy by portraying Lackawanna County District Attorney Mark Powell as a liar on his private Facebook page.

Lackawanna College will offer select area students the opportunity to earn an associate degree while still in high school.

MOOSIC — State police at Dunmore say a man may have been under the influence when he crashed Tuesday night at an Interstate 81 off-ramp.

In a Facebook video shared more than 2,000 times, John Adams Elementary School fourth-grader Cassidy Warner is silent. She holds up white sheets of paper with handwritten descriptions of bullying she has endured at school. Classmates have spit on her, pul

SCRANTON — Doctors and staff with multi-specialty medical group Delta Medix are set to begin moving to their new home in the Marketplace at Steamtown on Tuesday, a long-awaited transition to the repurposed Bon Ton department store’s first floor.

Anna McCrone of Stanton Street made her debut as a Western Union messenger in Scranton

JERMYN — Lackawanna County Commissioner Patrick O’Malley on Wednesday accused fellow Commissioner Jerry Notarianni of acting improperly by expediting a settlement check to a relative’s law firm and suggested broader conflicts involving Notarianni and the firm.

Over the objections of its two fire board members, Scranton’s composite pension board voted Wednesday to evenly split 90 percent of $22.9 million in sewer sale proceeds between the fire and police funds, with the remaining 10 percent going to the nonuniform fund.

Distracted driving-related citations in Pennsylvania increased by 52 percent from 2016 to 2017, though enforcing anti-texting and driving laws can be a challenge for police.

Two leading Pennsylvania charities in the fight against breast cancer have merged to find strength in combined resources.

It’s been more than 40 years since a school- marm told me to sit in the corner, but Alexis Kirijan, Ed.D., sees me as a problem child in need of correction.