Dickson City News

Signs for deals can be found at JC Penney stores at the Viewmont Mall in Dickson City, the Laurel Mall in Hazleton, and the Wyoming Valley Mall in Wilkes-Barre.

Walmart has partially reopened in the borough after a small fire in a meat cooler shut the store down for about two hours.

Looking for a last-minute idea to make dad's day special? There's plenty to do with dad today including: * Take dad to a baseball game.

Borough police on Friday officially unveiled the department's new commercial vehicle enforcement unit, a patrol SUV equipped to enforce tractor-trailer regulations.

After more than a year of planning, the Clarks Summit police department just launched its commercial vehicle enforcement unit to crack down on dangerous trucks.

A preliminary hearing Wednesday for a Waymart man accused of running over a woman with his truck in Dickson City was continued to July 16. James Bannon, 31, 1285 Roosevelt Highway, faces five charges, including aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person, for striking Kimberly Walsh with his truck on Morgan Street on June 2. We ... (more)

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Mayor Tom Leighton said the city will do whatever it can to help develop the former Murray Complex, which could include applying for grants on behalf of the property owner.

PREIT reported strong first-quarter results recently, with total revenue of $105.9 million, up $3 million over the same period in 2012.

Olyphant Borough Council President Robert Hudak, Gene Turko and Richard Morelli check out the spot at 419 Lackawanna Ave. in downtown Olyphant where John J. Morelli's historical marker will be placed.

Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer Olyphant Borough Council President Robert Hudak, left, Gene Turko, center, and Richard Morelli show off the historical marker honoring the late John J. Morelli, an Olyphant native and Army veteran whose nine-and-a-half nonconsecutive years as sergeant of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at ... (more)

Beaver Meadows, Carbon Co.-Anthony Rusnock, Beaver Meadows- Borough Council President has announced road work and detours in the borough due to a PennDOT Rt.

There will be short traffic stops on I-81 Northbound from Exit 190 to Exit 194 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, June 8 for the removal of large rocks from the top of the slope in the area of the rock cut.

A Dickson City man accused of running a woman over with his truck turned himself into police, saying he did not want to "live his life on the run."

A man from Lackawanna County turned himself in Wednesday on assault charges after police say he ran over his girlfriend with his car.

Festival-goers waited in line to order lunch Tuesday during the annual Greek Food Festival at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Scranton as members of the church worked tirelessly preparing dishes.

The will also be a closure on the ramp from Route 6 from Clarks Summit to both the PA Turnpike and Interstate 81 from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. There is a posted detour through Dickson City.

Classic Voices' fifth anniversary springtime concert will take place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce building, 27 N. Main St., Carbondale.

A pair of unrelated quarrels in Scranton and Dickson City on Sunday ended with cars being used as weapons, police said.

Jake Danna Stevens / Staff Photographer Justus resident Bill Rovinsky discusses his late brother Joe's World War II service on a recent day while holding a display featuring his brother's medals and papers.