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Font size: [A] [A] [A] A massive manhunt ended without incident tonight about 10:15 when police captured a man they had been chasing through West Scranton for almost an hour.

Two robberies were committed within hours of each other in Scranton and now police are trying to figure out if the same person committed both crimes.

A man with a knife threatened a clerk at a gas station overnight and then robbed the place.

The Lackawanna County Election board decided Thursday to do a recount of all county races because a couple of machines malfunctioned in last week's election.

Several jobs are being eliminated in the city of Scranton. The news came Friday afternoon as city leaders released their 2010 budget.

City police charged a man with beating his girlfriend early Sunday in their South Scranton home.

A long-forgotten cemetery filled with Civil War veterans finally receieved some long overdue recognition Wednesday afternoon.

An employee of McCarthy's Flower Cabs on Cedar Avenue in Scranton is hospitalized and the hunt is underway for the man who put him there.

Timothy Briggs, interim director of public safety at the University of Scranton congratulates Jessica A. Williams for being one of three people nationwide to receive a scholarship from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Ltc. A. Joseph Albert Ret., the Commander of the Koch-Conley American Legion Post #121 Scranton, will be among those giving remarks today at the post's annual veterans day program.

Only one Pennsylvania city can claim to have produced two governors in the last half-century. Chris Doherty, elected just last week to his third term as mayor of this cradle of governors, hopes to join Republican William W. Scranton and Democrat Robert P. Casey as Scrantonians who made it to the executive mansion.

Mortgage fraud charges have been filed against Brian Scott and Gerrylene Villanueva, both from Elm Street, Scranton.

If his mother hadn't agreed to host an exchange student years ago in Maryland, Gene Litz might never have met his French friend, visited Paris and Provence and developed a love for cooking.

The Scranton School District has received a donation of $2,000 to help supply Scranton High students who walk as many as four miles to school with bus passes.

The large field of Democrats seeking to be elected Pennsylvania governor continues to take shape.

A Scranton manufacturing plant that employed more than 50 illegal immigrants two years ago has agreed to take steps to ensure it doesn't happen again, according to a court order filed Friday in federal court.

The University of Scranton will remember the lives, mission and murder of six Jesuit priests and educators, their housekeeper and her daughter that occurred in El Salvador 20 years ago.

The building will remain and Bill Rosado will still be in charge of it. But his historic Ford dealership at Linden and Franklin in Scranton will close on Tuesday.

Marciano became Scranton's animal control officer in February....she's suspended without pay and free on her own recognizance.

Linda Ledford-Miller, Ph.D., chair and professor of world languages and cultures at the University of Scranton , recently received the John L. Earl III award for service.