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Font size: [A] [A] [A] Carol Burke is actively involved with the Arc of Northeastern Pennsylvania and helped secure a state grant to distribute the book "My Friend Mikayla," the story of a Nazareth, Pa., girl written by her elementary school classmates about working with a student with a disability.

Enjoying a summer cruise through Russia are, in front, from left: Dolly Michalczyk, Cathy Kennedy, Adele Friemel Brown, Pat Priolo and Sister Mary Reap.

Boy Scout Troop 66 is always available to help the community. Now the Scouts are hoping someone will return the favor.

All across america tonight and here at home, malls are mobbed with people!From holiday returns to bagging bargains, people hit stores to search out sweet deals on the day after Christmas.

Some recent threats and attacks on airplanes, airports, trains and subways around the world: - Dec.

After a generation of Northeastern Pennsylvanians tried to put their anthracite history behind them, succeeding generations are eager to rediscover it.

Thousands of motorists may have been ripped off by a local car warranty company.

LACKAWANNA COUNTY COURT NOTES MARRIAGE LICENSES - Firas Mohammad Damra and Regina Serena Larcome, both of Dickson City.

People in 3-vehicles are lucky to escape serious injury after an accident in Lackawanna County Wednesday morning.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] The City Council voted 3 to 2 today to create an authority to run the Scranton Public Library, a satellite branch in Green Ridge and a proposed South Scranton library whose future remains murky.

Moscow Fire Company's Mike Schank steers a vehicle as John Gentile operates an R.L.E. Enterprises flatbed on Route 435 in Moscow after a crash with a North Pocono School District bus Tuesday morning.

A blanket drive for the less fortunate in Lackawanna County will run through Dec.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this The concourse is pretty quiet most days at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, but on a spring night in 2006 about 900 people were milling about at a black-tie affair dining on hors d'oeuvres as they took in a $30,000 laser light and music show.

It was a large turnout in 2006 as the crowd mingled inside the Joseph M. McDade Terminal Building for its lavish dedication at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport in Avoca.

Two homes were hit by flames Thursday. In Schuylkill County, a home in South Manheim Township was destroyed.

Director David Cronenberg , who cast Viggo Mortensen as a Russian mob lieutenant in Eastern Promises , tells how his star would disappear from the London shoot on weekends, not revealing where he was going, and return Monday with photographs and objects, tattoo books, and snatches of Russian street slang he had gleaned during his stealth getaways ...

SENTENCINGS The following were recently sentenced in Lackawanna County Court: - Joseph J. Palmitessa, 29, 323 12th Ave.; one month house arrest, five months probation and a $1,000 fine for drunken driving on Keyser Avenue on Nov.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Marriage LicenseS - Khumada Amil Gregory and Jaclyn Leeann Mrykalo, both of Scranton.

The big race in Lackawanna County is also a judicial one. Two candidates are vying for one open seat on the bench.

Marriage licenses - Jason Lee Smith and Nicole Marie Domm, both of Moscow. - George Louis Basila and Diane Marilyn Rybcinski, both of Dunmore.