Throop News

In Taylor, St. Paul's United Church of Christ welcomed 50 members of the parish and the community to enjoy a free Valentine's Day dinner and evening of games.

Scranton police Capt. Carl Graziano said officers responded to the 600 block of Beech Street shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday where Ralph Frederick, 34, of Throop, said he had been robbed.

Keystone Sanitary Landfill plans to process rock waste from natural gas drilling at its property in Throop and Dunmore in a switch from its years-old practice of accepting already processed waste from the region's Marcellus Shale well sites.

Jake Danna Stevens / Staff Photographer Scranton police Sgt. James Sheerin, left, is congratulated Friday by Patrolman Joe Dombroski upon completing crisis intervention training.

Scranton, Lackawanna County-- A.J. Munchak will spend 7 years in prison, while his former colleague Bob Cordaro will serve 11 years in a Federal prison.

The Amazing Kreskin didn't foresee the trouble he would have at his show at the Scranton Cultural Center on Sunday afternoon.

Jason Farmer / Staff Photographer Lance Cpl. John Lubeck Jr., who just returned home from Afghanistan, talks with his adopted grandparents, Walter and Linda Marhelski, of Throop, during a party held for him at Queen City Hose Company in Olyphant on Saturday.