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Font size: [A] [A] [A] The owner of the Masonic Lodge in Carbondale has come up with a last-minute plan to raise cash and demolish the crumbling building on Salem Avenue so he can avoid a two-year prison sentence, Mayor Justin Taylor said Wednesday.

Borough council has introduced a $3.3 million tentative 2010 budget that does not include property taxes, but say they may have to reintroduce millage in phases starting next year.

Despite the cold weather Saturday morning, dozens of parents and kids bundled up and waited in line for the nasal flu vaccine in Scranton.

A Scranton woman pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle Monday in a drunken driving accident that killed Robert Moran of Scranton and seriously injured Deana Kivlin of Olyphant - both passengers - in July 2008.

Concerns over swine flu are causing hospitals in Lackawanna County to take drastic measures.

The Department of Environmental Protection will hold a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. followed by a public hearing at 8 p.m. on Monday, Nov.

The Greater Pennsylvania Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association presented the Scranton Area Memory Walk on Saturday, Oct.

The mandatory minimum is 15 years, but Lackawannna County prosecutors are shooting for a mark way beyond that.

A man from Taylor accused of brutally attacking a young girl inside her home as her parents cleaned up from a July Fourth picnic outside was in Lackawanna County court Tuesday.

A northeastern Pennsylvania man accused of raping a 5-year-old girl in her bedroom has pleaded no contest to charges of rape, aggravated assault and burglary.

SCRANTON The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday filed a federal complaint against the Scranton Sewer Authority, alleging that it allowed more than 1 billion gallons of untreated sewage to be discharged into the Lackawanna River and other waterways in 2008.

The state Department of Health recently submitted a draft report to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry regarding additional air monitoring that was conducted at Alliance Sanitary Landfill last year.

The Leadership Lackawanna Class of 2009 2010 gathered at Keystone College on Thursday, September 10 for the first session of ten which included an orientation.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] On this date in NEPA 50 years ago, at the movies, you could see "Anatomy of Murder" at the Comerford Drive-In, "The Big Circus" at the Granada or "From Here to Eternity" at the Ideal Drive-In in Carbondale.

BARRE A city man has been charged in connection with a stabbing earlier this week in the Heights section, police said.

Unique health care center provides both day care and medical supervision for ill children.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] A vehicle that crashed off the highway on a February night was difficult to spot even during the day, recalled a Lackawanna County deputy coroner who responded to the scene of the fatal crash days later.

Grant money from the U.S. Justice Department will pay the salary of a part-time police officer hired to work with Carbondale's code enforcement office, according to an official.

Courtesy of Alderfer Auction & Appraisal This Daguerreotype dominated by the 203-foot steeple of Trinity Lutheran Church at Sixth and Washington streets is one of the oldest photographs of Reading.

A Middletown woman was involved in two crashes within about three minutes of each other early Saturday, with the second sending her to the Hershey Medical Center, Lebanon police said.