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SCRANTON — In the works for a decade, a peculiar park downtown will finally open on Easter, officials said. The Renaissance Park at 500, one block long and 30 to 50 feet wide, sits atop a 25-foot-high former rail line between Cedar and Washington avenues

PITTSTON TWP. — A lot fewer passengers departed the airport in February than a year ago, the second monthly decline in a row.

A city man faces homicide-by-vehicle charges more than a month after he crashed a stolen car, killing his passenger, police said.

SCRANTON — A city man sold crack cocaine to an informant, Lackawanna County detectives said in arrest papers Wednesday.

SCRANTON — A Wayne County woman faces charges of knowingly filing false documents and hiding assets during her bankruptcy case five years ago.

SCRANTON — The Scranton School Board will borrow $4.1 million to finalize its 2018 budget and could borrow additional funds for capital projects, including school safety improvements.

SCRANTON — Marketplace at Steamtown owner John Basalyga and the outside operator of the mall’s parking garage disagree on how much free parking patrons will get under a new validation system starting Monday.

Officials with the local Knights of Columbus War Campaign reported that the drive surpassed $65,000.

SCRANTON — A city man faces charges after he screamed at a woman to tell police he punched her, police said.

A desire to be with his ailing dad compelled Holy Cross junior Nick Klein to leave mock trial practice early Dec. 27 and make the 45-minute trip home.

SCRANTON — The Arc of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s charity basketball game scheduled for Wednesday to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day has been postponed until next week, thanks to predicted bad weather.

SCRANTON — A Taylor man faces terroristic threats charges after city police investigated threatening text messages reported by a Marywood University student on Wednesday.

SCRANTON — A man faces drug charges after city police say he called an off-duty officer Wednesday in order to buy drugs

SCRANTON — The Civil War museum in the basement of City Hall will host an actor portraying Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on Saturday, said museum Commander Hal Myers. Kenneth J. Serfass will present a living history of Grant talking about the Vicksburg, Mississip

SCRANTON — The Lackawanna County Salary Board on Wednesday voted to fund a new position to perform state Supreme Court-mandated work, an issue that sparked contentious debate at a prior salary board meeting late last year. Register of Wills Fran Kovaleski

March 22, 1943 Teacher saved from mine hole Margaret Conroy, junior high school teacher, was rescued yesterday from a mine hole that opened up in the backyard of her home on Ward Street in Jessup. According to Conroy, she was in the backyard walking back

The four women who testified Wednesday they had sexual contact with former Lackawanna County Prison guard John Shnipes Jr. were incapable of giving consent because he had complete power over them from his job, the state attorney general’s office said. One

SCRANTON — Marketplace at Steamtown patrons will get up to three hours of free parking there with validations, and without any minimum purchase required for a validation, under a new parking-rate system starting Monday, the parking system operators announ

A Scranton man who admitted he used marijuana, heroin and cocaine before his car hit and killed a bicyclist in 2016, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three charges and faces a minimum of three years in prison. Thomas A. Gill, 58, who lived at 1007 Green Ridge

SCRANTON — Lackawanna County Commissioner Laureen Cummings on Wednesday voted against accepting a state grant to conduct a bicycle study for Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, arguing the money would be better spent repairing roads and bridges. Commissioners vote