Scranton News

The 58th annual celebration of the arts continues today and Sunday on Public Square in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Festivities include art exhibits, live music and performances and children's activities.

What became a wildly successful series in the US almost died at birth. A six-episode run in 2005 garnered calamitously low ratings and generally poor reviews.

Photo courtesy of Angela Ceccarelli Photography Karley Rose Hill is the child chair for this year's Lackawanna County Heart Walk.

The pair will join friends and family at the Moosic Walk to Cure Diabetes at PNC Field on Saturday, June 1. Most people think of diabetes as an adult problem.

Let it be said that, "To all good things must come to an end," has a vast array of possibilities that these words represent a significant moment in time or final farewell.

In case you missed it, NBC's " The Office " just ended its nine season run on Thursday.

Tonight we're looking back at nine seasons of the popular hit NBC show "The Office." The show is ending tonight and throughout the years it has managed to put one local city on the The show's characters work at a fictional paper company in Scranton.

Colonial Regional police have made an arrest in the case of an Easton woman accused of successfully cashing phony checks shortly before last Christmas at the Walmart in Lower Nazareth Township.

A Senate bill to target new state higher education assistance grants to middle-class students would expand financial aid opportunities at the University of Scranton, a top school official told a Senate panel Wednesday.

Four engineering firms on Wednesday submitted to Scranton qualifications to design repairs to the crumbling sidewalks and wall of a West Lackawanna Avenue bridge.

The Office will close up shop Thursday night. For nine seasons, viewers have watched the goings-on at the fictional Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pa., as its employees were followed by a documentary crew.

The accused accomplice of a suspected murderer had his preliminary hearing before a judge postponed, his public defender, Cathy Tully, confirmed.

As "The Office" airs its series finale after eight years on NBC, the time feels right to salute the show that spawned it.

The first recipient of the professor Dr. Jay Nathan, Ph.D., scholarship at the University of Scranton is Nathawut Suksomanat, a graduate student from Chonburi, Thailand.

The annual 2-mile whole road of yard sales will take place on Saturday, May 18, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. along North Turnpike Road from Dalton at the Dalton Pharmacy to LaPlume at the LaPlume Post Office where Turnpike Road meets Route 438.

Dollar General representatives will receive resumes, educate candidates and discuss career opportunities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Candidates are encouraged to bring their resumes on Saturday and check the corporate website before attending for information on current vacancies.

Guests will be spending the night at a hotel in Lackawanna County that's been almost a decade in the making.

Federal authorities have filed new charges against an alleged member of a robbery squad responsible for sticking up two area jewelry stores, a bank and staging a gunpoint robbery to collect tens of thousands of dollars in insurance money.

Brewed in Scranton: May 15, 7 p.m., Lackawanna Historical Society . $5 for presentation only, $25 for presentation and beer tasting.

Frances Willard Elementary School third-grader Anthony Marsico, center, cuts a cake created from his design during an assembly last week at the West Scranton school.