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A brief swim in the White House press pool
As I tend not to write a column on Saturday because readership is down (nobody surfing at work I guess), it is a good day for a soft news story. ...
Tech school kickbacks alleged
SCRANTON - A former employee of a northeastern Pennsylvania technical school is accused of taking kickbacks from a vendor. ...
Pa. project improves quality of parents' visits
Wilfredo Ortiz heated up a chocolate-chip muffin in a microwave and dug in, trying his best to cajole his 4-year-old daughter to eat some, too. ...
Piazza agrees to guilty plea
SCRANTON – Former Wilkes-Barre Area Career and Technical Center employee Jeff Piazza has agreed to plead guilty to charges he accepted thousands of ...
Namedropper, 12/05/09
Comm celebrates at Cultural CenterIt was a Waverly night in Scranton on Friday when the Waverly Community House conducted its annual Sustainers ...
Funeral notices for Saturday, Dec. 5
CAWLEY, WILLIAM F., today, 9 a.m., Thomas J. Hughes Funeral Home Inc., 1240 St. Ann's St., Scranton. Mass, 9:30, St. Mary of Mount Carmel Church, ...
A Scranton man has been sentenced to 131 to 242 months in state prison for aggravated assault and burglary.Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse ...
Lackawanna County sentencings 12/5/2009
A Scranton man has been sentenced to 131 to 242 months in state prison for aggravated assault and burglary.Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse ...
Man wanted in connection with two Scranton robberies
Man wanted for two city burglariesSCRANTON - Police are searching for a man wanted in connection with two robberies that happened in the city on Nov. ...
Scranton man charged with indecent assault of 5-year-old
A North Scranton man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly had sexual contact with a 5-year-old girl.Robert Shaffer, 54, of 117 Oak St., first ...
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