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WILKES-BARRE TWP. — A Wilkes-Barre woman was arraigned Tuesday on charges alleging she lied on an application to buy a firearm. Denise A. Jopling, 46, of 64 Blackman St., is charged with a felony count of making a materially false statement and a misdemea

State Rep. Gerald Mullery’s bill that would ban nicotine-based products and electronic cigarettes in Pennsylvania schools was unanimously voted out of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Under House Bill 2268, e-cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing to

WILKES-BARRE — Fire tore through a business and apartment building early Tuesday, causing extensive damage to the structure but resulting in no injuries, according to firefighters. The fire at the C&A Mini Market at 362 Scott St. was reported around 2:25

WEST PITTSTON — A former client of Cefalo & Associates used the account number on a settlement check she got because of her son’s death in an attempt to pay her utility bills with the law firm’s escrow account, according to charges filed in court. Michell

WILKES-BARRE — A city man serving prison time for molesting a foster child in his adoptive home was sentenced Tuesday to serve an additional 17 to 34 years in prison for sex offenses in two separate cases. Tyler Groner, 26, was sentenced on two counts of

ASHLEY — A drunken man pounded on a car and shouted for police shoot him before he was taken into custody Thursday, according to police. Officers responded at 10:16 p.m. to the intersection of Mary and North Main streets for a report of a man with his pan

WILKES-BARRE — UGI Utilities will begin a natural gas main replacement project this week along three blocks of North and South Franklin Street. The project will stretch from West Union Street to West South Street. The initial phase of the project will imp

DRUMS — Norman Scheutrumpf can talk at length about just about any experience he had during World War II. He doesn’t miss a beat when he recalls the names of the soldiers he met, the conversations he had with Belgians or what was served in field kitchens

Philadelphia Eagles superfan and 44-year-old Tresckow resident John Petrilyak Jr. thinks President Donald Trump should have let his Super Bowl-winning team visit the White House. The President rescinded the invitation Monday, a day before the scheduled vi

WILKES-BARRE — A panel of Commonwealth Court judges on Monday sided with the Wilkes-Barre City Police Benevolent Association in a dispute about whether holiday pay and other special compensation should be included when calculating the pensions of retired

Registered nurses at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital continued to picket Monday for the fifth day, demanding improvements in staffing. The nurses planned to strike for one day on Thursday but the hospital hired temporary replacement nurses and locked out th

Frank Henry, chairman emeritus of the Martz Group who was known for his leadership in the transportation industry, his philanthropy and public service, died Sunday. He was 85. For more than 50 years, Henry served as chairman of the Martz Group, a fifth ge

Relay for Life of NEPA raised about $144,000 through the end of its 24-hour walking event over the weekend. The amount currently in the coffers is short of the $170,000 goal, said Melissa Wall, who chaired the event at PNC Field. The group hopes to meet o

SCRANTON — Doctors in the city want to use data to treat a disease that claims more lives than breast cancer. Geisinger Community Medical Center is opening a new $1.7 million epilepsy monitoring unit on Monday where medical staff can capture and study eve

HANOVER TWP. — Two men accused in a robbery and burglary spree were hit Monday with new charges alleging they burgled a township home prior to a high-profile bank heist last month. Gerald Paul Pambianco, 29, of Plains Twp., and Derek Lee Spaide, 26, of Ha

The Pennsylvania Democratic Party filed a complaint Monday morning against U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta for using footage of himself speaking on the House floor in his campaign for U.S. Senate. By the afternoon, the Pennsylvania Republican Party filed a similar

Frank Carlucci III, a Scranton native and longtime federal official who as “flood czar” helped the Wyoming Valley recover and rebuild after the devastating Agnes Flood, died Sunday at the age of 87. Born Oct. 18, 1930, Carlucci graduated from Wyoming Semi

EXETER TWP. — Township residents came out in force on Monday to oppose a planned drug treatment center at a former elementary school, but the board of supervisors told them the zoning hearing board is the proper venue to air their concerns. Dozens of resi

WILKES-BARRE — Two cats are dead after a city man threw them out of an eighth-floor window of the high-rise building at the Sherman Hills apartments, according to police. Tyquan L. Hinds, 22, of 332 Parkview Circle, is facing two counts of aggravated crue

Three lawsuits that seek to hold the parents of convicted cop killer Eric Matthew Frein liable for his 2014 sniper attack that killed a state trooper and wounded another can proceed, a Lackawanna County judge ruled. Judge Terrence Nealon said Tiffany Dick