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Before embarking on that summer road trip you’ve been itching to take, make sure your ride there is ready to put on some extra miles. AAA said 64 percent of family travelers will take a road trip this season and the company predicts there will be a 2-perc

No LCTA bus/van service on holiday Luzerne County Transportation Authority announced that there will be no fixed route bus services and no shared ride van services on Memorial Day. The corporate office will also be closed. Bus routes will resume normal sc

SCRANTON — About 60 percent of the almost 4,000 civil cases that have been referred to mediation by U.S. District Court judges in the Middle District of Pennsylvania over the past 24 years have settled without the need for further litigation. With the ope

The Pennsylvania Lottery’s new Keno game tickets have been selling “like gangbusters” since debuting at the beginning of the month, lottery spokesman Gary Miller said. Since May 1, the Pennsylvania Lottery took in $2.7 million in Keno sales and players ha

The Wilkes-Barre Area School District has released three new design renderings of its new consolidated high school in Plains Twp. The district plans to merge Coughlin and Meyers high schools in 2022 after the new school is built on 78 acres in Plains Twp.

The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Plains Twp. hosted a Memorial Day ceremony on Friday at the center’s main entrance area. The ceremony was held to remember and honor the men and women who gave their lives in military service.

HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of former state attorney general Kathleen Kane for leaking secret grand jury information and lying about it, saying among other things she wasn’t entitled to use evidence of a porno

WILKES-BARRE — Eighty percent of homes tested in Wilkes-Barre over the past several months had elevated levels of lead — a scary statistic for area residents with young children. Lower levels of lead in the body can cause problems in young children, such

Stove grate used in self-defense WILKES-BARRE — A woman used an iron stove grate to fend off an attacker, according to city police. Police said a 33-year-old city woman told them that an intoxicated man assaulted her at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday at a New Alexan

WILKES-BARRE — The state Superior Court on Friday rejected convicted killer Jessica Alinsky’s argument that she was wrongfully denied a mistrial because prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence. Alinsky, a 34-year-old former Hazle Twp. resident, was conv

The Wyoming County Planning Commission gave the green light Wednesday night to three substantial land developments: an Aldi Food Market in Eaton Twp., a Dollar General store in Lemon Twp., and a D&C Fuel Station and Convenience Store in Tunkhannock Twp. T

OLD FORGE — Nearly 16 months after Old Forge restaurateur Robert Baron disappeared, police activity in the borough Wednesday suggests a wider probe. Lackawanna County detectives and Old Forge police returned to Ghigiarelli’s restaurant to do some “additio

Luzerne County will not sell county-owned land to Wilkes-Barre for the city’s long-planned extension of Coal Street. County council on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution that states the county human services building and the parking lots around it,

HARRISBURG — A Luzerne County doctor who came across a prescription in his name that he never wrote kicked off a months-long investigation that resulted in 10 people being charged with running a “pill mill,” according to the state Attorney General’s Offic

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WILKES-BARRE TWP. — The estranged boyfriend of Cindy Lou Ashton brutally stabbed her in the throat during a break-up and then fled the state before attempting suicide at his New Jersey apartment, according to court documents released Wednesday. The suspec

Eventually, the school colors will fade, but the memories will live on. When news broke Tuesday night that the Wilkes-Barre Area school board voted to merge the Coughlin, Meyers and GAR athletic programs, the response on social media was far ranging. It w

Editor’s note: This story ran in the Jan. 21, 2018 edition of The Citizens’ Voice. It details the athletic merger that took place last year within the Erie School District. The Erie School District was facing a financial crisis and was almost $12 million

WILKES-BARRE — City officials have chosen a contractor for the first phase of the Solomon Creek flood wall replacement project, and they expect construction will begin next month. Popple Construction, based in Laflin, was the lowest responsible bidder for

PLAINS TWP. — Police swarmed the Alternative Learning Center on Wednesday morning after getting a report of a “riot” involving more than two dozen people. State troopers joined local police and firefighters descending on the school at 33 W. Carey St. arou