Scranton News

They met with one common goal: a cleaner Lackawanna River. Concerned individuals, representatives from sportsmen's groups and cities and towns along the river gathered at the Hotel Casey on Tuesday afternoon, Nov.

People sipped wine casually while wandering through the grounds of Sno Cove Water Park on Saturday, most chatting with friends as they enjoyed the day's wine festival.

Outside the towering chapel at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in New Britain Township, the graduating class of Villa Joseph Marie High School threw their white graduation caps in the air and cheered.

Lackawanna County Commissioner Corey O'Brien says his latest hiring decision was inspired by The Times-Tribune's Chris Kelly, who asked in a March 4 column, "Why not give a young up-and-comer a shot?" Mr.

The story about the election of a white supremacist from Pittston to a four-year term on the Luzerne County Republican Committee has gone viral on the Internet.

Scranton residents will vote for mayor next year, but you look at the city's financial mess and you wonder who would want the headache.

Joseph C. Bambera, bishop of the Diocese of Scranton in trust for the parish of St.

Jake Danna Stevens / Staff Photographer Keystone Iron Works volunteers take molten metal from an iron furnace during the Arts on Fire fundraiser to support the Anthracite Heritage Museum and Iron Furnaces Associates on Friday in Scranton.

The effect of Scranton City Council allowing the Scranton Parking Authority to default on a debt was immediate on Friday, officials said.

A summer camp for low-income children from Lackawanna County will be able to run at full capacity for the next two years, with 500 children and a five-week schedule, thanks to a $100,000 grant from a charitable foundation, organizers announced Thursday.

Butch Comegys / Staff Photographer Mariely Santiago Vale reacts as her two-year-old son Keriell Velez is taken away by paramedics after he fell from a second floor window at Skyview Park apartment 2B at 36 Crown Circle Drive on Thursday afternoon in South Scranton.

Hazleton, Luzerne County- Hazleton Area High School Commencement scheduled for tonight at 6pm, has been postponed due to the weather.

The silk, hand-sewn stars and stripes had travelled a long way to reach the pole planted in the 80-year-old Navy veteran's front yard in Scranton.

As one of the first of Pennsylvania's struggling midsize cities to be declared "distressed" under state law, and as the city to languish longest under that designation, Scranton has served as the laboratory for the state government's experiment in municipal government economic recovery.

A two-year-old in Scranton had no major injuries after falling 20 feet from a window Thursday afternoon.

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Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty says his recovery plan that lays out tax hikes for the next three years is needed for the city to secure a $16 million loan to pay bills.

An appeals court has ruled that a law that denies a host of federal benefits to same-sex married couples is unconstitutional.

The star-crossed Shakespearean lovers Romeo and Juliet have found themselves reinterpreted in a variety of ways, notably in director Baz Luhrmann's 1997 blockbuster "Romeo + Juliet" where they were transported out of Renaissance-era Verona, Italy and into modern-day Verona Beach, Calif.

During John Monahan's time recovering from three strokes since December, he has appreciated therapists at Allied Rehab Hospital in Scranton.