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SCRANTON — Two members of city council and Mayor Bill Courtright will meet today with Lackawanna County commissioners to advocate for a countywide property reassessment.

Lackawanna County paid more than $530,000 as of March to nine prison guards who were suspended after several inmates filed a lawsuit accusing them of sexual abuse, including about $180,000 to three of the guards who now face criminal charges, according to a Times-Tribune analysis of wage data.

SCRANTON Albright Memorial Library at Vine Street and North Washington Avenue will reopen at 9 a.m. Monday, March 19

Starting early Saturday, March 13, a winter storm that was dubbed the “Storm of the Century” buried Northeast Pennsylvania in 21.4 inches of snow.

The Little Sisters of the Poor kicked off St. Patrick’s Day week in Scranton with their fifth annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration and Dinner on Sunday at Holy Family Residence, 2500 Adams Ave.

SCRANTON — If University of Scranton professors Douglas M. Boyle and Daniel P. Mahoney graduated from high school in 2018, they’re not sure they’d have the means to attend college.

Unlike just about everyone else, Dr. Leighton Y. Huey wants to spend more time in drug treatment court.

SCRANTON — United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s plan to convert a landmark in South Scranton into its offices and an incubator for women-owned businesses remains a work in progress, representatives said.

The question was never if Tricia Hemphill and Julia Georgetti were going to Washington, D.C., on March 24 but how they were going to get there.

Two children molested by a Wilkes-Barre man might not have been victimized had Lackawanna County child welfare officials warned the man’s adoptive parents he had a history of sexual abuse, according to a federal lawsuit.

Abington Heights Sadie Henzes was awarded the highest honor in the local Scholastics Art and Writing contest.After winning the Golden Key for a jewelry piece she created, she will now go on to compete at the national level.Sadie is a sophomore class offic

The father of a teenage girl filed a federal lawsuit against Wendy’s Restaurants LLC, alleging a manager at the company’s Dickson City store sexually harassed and groped his daughter.

His speech may have gone smoothly, but then-Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey’s arrival in Scranton 50 years ago included a few bumps.

Commonwealth Health Emergency Medical Services will ask Scranton officials not to change the city’s ambulance response system, company representatives said.

An insurance executive will become 2019 president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Lackawanna County at the organization’s upcoming dinner.

Friends and relatives of the late Lindsay Doherty say her legacy will live on through an empowerment program that uses running to help young girls find their voice — a program that’s expanding in Lackawanna County.

One client who wanted to lose weight hired him as a personal trainer, but Jordan Galasso learned he could only control the man’s workouts. He had no say in the man’s diet and that thwarted his weight loss for a while.

Temperatures in the low 30s and a slight breeze did not dissuade 82-year-old George Yarns of Clarks Summit from donning his kilt for Saturday’s Scranton St. Patrick’s Parade.

A Times-Tribune reporter spent the day with O’Malley and Sussman on an ambulance, Penn-31, an Advanced Life Support truck, to witness first-hand a day in the life of EMS on Scranton’s busiest day.

Clarks Summit Northeastern Lodge 63 Fraternal Order of Police will be holding a spaghetti dinner to raise money for its scholarship fund. The dinner is slated for March 24 from 4 to 7 p.m. at VFW Post 7069, 402 Winola Road, with tickets available at the d