News

Scranton resident Jude Mandarano supports local music for a living. Mandarano is a veteran of several local bands and currently plays bass in the group Mesos, looking at his job as a musician as a kind of release.

Attorneys for a Scranton man charged with the 2014 death of his neighbor are seeking court permission to present an insanity defense. Attorneys Christopher Osborne and James Elliott filed court papers Monday that notify Lackawanna County prosecutors they

WAYMART — The Wayne County 911 emergency telephone line was inoperable late Tuesday night in the Waymart Borough and South Canaan Twp. areas, according to the Wayne County dispatch center. In the event of an emergency, residents in these areas instead sho

Reporter Kat Bolus will be covering tonight’s Scranton School Board work session tonight at 7:00

PHILADELPHIA — Tens of thousands of Starbucks employees around the country will be spending their afternoon in racial-bias training Tuesday, an event stemming from the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia location last month.

The Interstate Commerce Commission told the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad that it has to operate two passenger trains serving this area for one more year.

SCRANTON — Fifteen thousand flags billowed in the wind Monday morning at Cathedral Cemetery.

This year’s NEPA Match Day event celebrated its fourth year by shattering several records.

SCRANTON — The air rippled as flames shot out of a weathered iron furnace sitting in the shadow of Scranton’s historic Iron Furnaces on Monday afternoon as part of the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art.

SCRANTON — The playground at William Prescott Elementary School could get a major overhaul thanks to parents and administrators who are working to raise money for the project.

SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. — As American doughboys battled their way across the French countryside in 1917, late in the First World War, American women from a different army fried dough for their fellow countrymen on the front lines.

SCRANTONGorge victim’s death an accident A 23-year-old Moscow woman died from the combined effects of drowning and hypothermia in the fast-moving waters of Roaring Brook on Thursday, an autopsy found. The Lackawanna County Coroner’s Office ruled Autum Lei

Growing up in North Scranton, Ricky Shruba thought the woodsy patch just down the street from his home was an Indian burial ground. Decades later, the 62-year-old roofer discovered that the land in the 200 block of Reese Street is indeed a graveyard — the

May 28, 1918 Red Cross campaign tops half-million mark More than 300 Red Cross War Fund campaign workers filled the ballroom at the Hotel Jermyn to hear the final total after their eight days of hard work. They expressed joy when the total of $518,000 was

Police say a Taylor man incensed over money tried stabbing a dog, and instead cut another man just after midnight Saturday. Christopher Chopyak, 38, 611 Union St., used a knife to break into the North Evans Court home of Jason Storm, 38, seeking money all

No interstate passes through Dalton, but drive along some state roads there and you might roll over Interstate 81. That is, remnants of past versions of I-81. Years ago, the regional state Department of Transportation office began recycling asphalt torn u

SCRANTON — Faced with a number of darkened shops, Marketplace at Steamtown officials boarded them up and put out the call for artists in true lemons-versus-lemonade spirit. More than a dozen artists are painting for the Your Art Here contest this weekend,

The Riverside Elementary East playground in Moosic is getting an upgrade to boost physical fitness and revamp the school’s gym program. “It will definitely enhance what we have right now and provide some different things we haven’t had implemented in our

A prominent Scranton dentist repeatedly name-dropped his friend, President Donald Trump, at a recent hearing in Florida in an attempt to obtain a license to practice in Palm Beach, records show.

SCRANTON — City Hall, Lackawanna County offices and the county courts will be closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day.