Scranton News

Smokers are a generous lot. After indulging their addiction, many smokers share it with everyone else, blithely tossing their cigarette butts on sidewalks or roadways.

Christopher Doherty, mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, talks with Bloomberg's Romy Varghese about the city's efforts to comply with a court order forcing Scranton to pay $30 million in wages withheld from police and firefighters under a state-approved fiscal recovery plan.

When a Lackawanna County judge reduced his bail in November, the conditions for accused child abuser Brian Sleboda's prospective release were very clear.

On Dec. 23, a man slipped a note to a teller at the Wells Fargo Bank in West Side at North Main Avenue and Jackson Street demanding money.

Hobo Admits He Has Not Worked In Over A Year Arthur Lewis, who gave his age as 26 and his home address as Scranton, Pennsylvania, frankly admitted to Justice of the Peace E. I. Lennon today he had not done a day's work in the last year and a half.

SCRANTON After being identified by First Lady Michelle Obama as a leader among healthy communities, White House officials spent a portion of Thursday, Feb.

When she received the report of a pharmacist at Walgreens at 330 S. Main Ave. having called in about two Berwick residents buying Sudafed at the store, Scranton police Patrolwoman Jill Foley had the same thought he did.

As Alicia Hallinan looked out at the crowd of people filling the gym, hallways and cafeteria of the high school Saturday afternoon, she found it difficult to put the emotions she felt into words.

Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer Leslie Martinez digs into her breakfast bag while studying with friends in the Kennedy Elementary School playground in Scranton before classes begin on Wednesday morning.

Gov. Tom Corbett, R-Drillers, opened his Tuesday budget address by thanking his adoring enablers in the Legislature and saying, "Pennsylvanians are people who embrace important qualities.

The pair, who married 20 years ago, were one of five couples competing for bragging rights Saturday at the Irish Cultural Society's second annual "Newlywed and Not So Newlywed" game.

The crowds in Central City poured from the sidewalks into the streets as the first lights began to flicker out.

Jake Danna Stevens / Staff Photographer Chris Polk's blood runs through a dialysis machine at the Davita Clinic in Scranton.

The $3 million in unspent Scranton parking revenue discovered last month untouched in a bank account has been spent to pay various bills from this year and 2011, such as health insurance, payroll, debt service and vendors, according to an itemized list released Friday by city council.

Fragrant myrrh filled the air. The encounters with the centers of attraction were quick, but the reactions were indelible.

The Diocese of Scranton posted a statement on its website, www.dioceseofscranton.org, Friday: "The Most Rev.

City officials are asking the North Scranton Neighborhood Association to provide a $75 payment when it rents out Weston Park.

State police arrested a Scranton man early Thursday at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs after he allegedly picked up a wallet another patron left behind.

A Penndot project in Lackawanna County is forcing some drivers to change the way they get to work or the mall.

City police and U.S. Marshals on Friday apprehended the Scranton man accused of shooting a shotgun at his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend earlier this week in the Valley View housing complex.