Blakely News

Charges against a Blakely woman accused of setting a fire at the multiunit home from which she and her family had recently been evicted in September were bound over Tuesday after a preliminary hearing in the case.

Butch Comegys / Staff Photographer Keystone Chapter of UNICO National members gather.

Philadelphia; KnightBrook Insurance, Brandywine Village, 1807 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; and Erie Insurance Exchange; seeking in excess of $50,000, together with compensatory damages, interest and such other relief, on four counts, for injuries suffered May 13 in a motor-vehicle crash on Route 6. - Robert G. Price, 153 Center St., Covington ... (more)

Michael J. MUllen / Staff Photographer Former state Sen. Robert J. Mellow leaves the William J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse after pleading guilty Wednesday.

"It would appear that prices peaked three to four weeks ago," said Patrick DeHaan, a petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com, a Minneapolis-area fuel information network.

A driver had to be pulled from a car wreck Friday night after it smashed into a building in Lackawanna County.

Former Lackawanna County Commissioner Randy Castellani's stunning defeat, by landscaping business owner Frank Farina in the 115th Legislative District Democratic primary election, might mark the end of an era.

Brian Wrightson, emergency services director for the Red Cross of Lackawanna County, said the agency responded to the 3:30 a.m. blaze at 101 Keystone Ave., a multi-unit building in the borough's Peckville section.

The state attorney general's office refuses to say if it will investigate a finding that former state Senate Democratic Leader Robert J. Mellow violated the state Ethics Act by renting space for his Blakely Senate office from himself.

Neither the state Senate nor the state Ethics Commission noticed as former state Sen.

Last June, Angel Lubeck was faced with the prospect of her only son heading to Afghanistan to serve his country as a Marine.

Officers of the District Eight Business and Professional Women's Club gather at their installation.