Scranton News

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.

New details are emerging in connection with a deadly stabbing last year in Lackawanna County.

Friends of Bob Mellow, the campaign committee for the former state senator, started 2011 with $836,598 in the bank.

Scranton City Council on Thursday introduced a proposed ordinance that would create a registration program for residential rental properties and require landlords to designate agents.

Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer ABOVE: Marian Community Hospital employee Brendan Noto, R.N., gives a resume to Maureen Kane, ICU nurse manager at Regional Hospital of Scranton, during a sponsored job fair Thursday at the Carbondale hospital.

From Carbondale to Scranton, to the Lehigh Valley and beyond Harrisburg, Municipal Energy Managers, the Lackawanna County-based company that promised cash-strapped towns lower streetlight bills, left its customers in the dark, literally and figuratively.

Police caught a burglar in the doorway of a Mulberry Street apartment building early Wednesday after the resident called police after hearing him walking through his home, according to a criminal complaint.