Lackawanna County News

Jason Farmer / Staff Photographer "What used to be a broken arm is now a gunshot wound," says Women's Resource Center Executive Director Peg Ruddy.

Scranton Mayoral candidate Elizabeth Randol watched within the first hours of official ballot counting on Friday to certify the primary election results in Lackawanna County.

Motorists traveling through northeastern Pennsylvania are encouraged to take a safety break at interstate rest areas over the Memorial Holiday.

Butch Comegys / Staff Photographer Jim and Karen Palumbo of Moosic take a stroll in front of the Albright Memorial Library on Friday night in downtown Scranton during the annual Swingin' on Vine event.

Democrat Elizabeth Randol lost her write-in bid to win the Republican nomination to run for mayor of Scranton, she said Friday.

Jessup, Lackawanna County- We've seen a drastic drop in the temperature over the past few days.

Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County- A massive emergency response was dispatched to Mahanoy City for a fire late Thursday night.

Hazleton, Luzerne County- A Hazleton High School student is arrested for starting a fight involving the principal, a state trooper, and a security guard.

In a surprise move, prosecutors today filed two new charges against suspended Scott Twp.

Accused murderer Ryan Harding returned to Scranton today from Syracuse N.Y. and is held at Lackawanna County Prison without bail.

Lackawanna County will delay the relocation of Controller Gary DiBileo's office to the Gateway Center on Jefferson Avenue pending environmental tests requested by the employees who will be working there.

Students can no longer attend the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County for business administration technology or drafting and design technology.

Dramatically reshaping Pennsylvania's web of municipal governments and school districts is difficult because of entrenched interests that oppose changing the system, but rising costs might force the issue, state Senate Democratic Leader Jay Costa said Thursday.

The Friday, May 31, fundraiser will take place in Shopland Hall at Scranton Cultural Center at The Masonic Temple.

Just over half of the communities in Lackawanna County have added people since the last census, with most of the growth in the North Pocono area.

"He'd be locked up right now and this wouldn't be happening." Brenda Cruise of Scranton is frustrated that 19-year-old David Ranakoski was out of prison and charged with yet another serious crime.

Hi It's Jayne Ann Bugda from the "Producer Pod" Here's what we are working on for Eyewitness News for May 23, 2013.

A Wyoming County man died after he lost control of his pick-up truck on Route 92 in Tunkhannock Wednesday night.

The state Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement cited a Lackawanna County business for liquor law violations in January and March, the bureau reports.

The Lackawanna County commissioners agreed Wednesday to buy one communications tower and approved a long-term lease on a second to strengthen the county's emergency 911 system and augment the new wireless network.