SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Corin Dively sacrificed sleep to shop.

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to buy a quart of milk or bottle of Tylenol in the wee hours of the morning as many stores once open 24 hours a day are now closing at midnight or earlier...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A New York bus driver is seeking a lighter sentence in an interstate crash in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed a woman and injured several others 2 1/2 years ago...

The former superintendent of a Pennsylvania school district and two other officials were charged Wednesday with felony child endangerment over allegations they covered up lead and asbestos contamination in the schools and exposed students and staff to serious health risks...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump is returning to the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Thursday to deliver a campaign speech to attack Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden near the place Biden grew up and on the same day Biden is to accept the nomination...

SCRANTON — With frigid temperatures forecast tonight into Saturday, the Lackawanna County commissioners remind homeless individuals that there are places where they can find refuge from the cold.

Emergency shelter can been accessed at three locations in Scranton, according to county officials:...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania financial planner who was ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages to customers he allegedly tricked into high-risk investments took the stand at his criminal fraud trial Monday and blamed some of his woes on sloppy paperwork...

SCRANTON — The 59th annual St. Patrick’s Parade will be held on Saturday, March 14, in downtown Scranton, the St. Patrick’s Parade Association of Lackawanna County announced today.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for sending an online message to a suburban Cleveland high school student in 2018 about a shooting he warned would occur the next day...

A man who police say grabbed at a child at a Scranton school bus stop Wednesday faces charges that he threatened them before he walked away.

Nathaniel Lee Gunderman, 24, 309 N. Bromley Ave., is charged with terroristic threats and harassment...

A woman wanted by Scranton police for assaulting her ex-boyfriend with a baseball bat while robbing his apartment — all on the day they broke up — is in custody. Rio Marie Lisi, 25, 8 Law St., Pittston, was held in Lackawanna County Prison on $100,000 bail Thursday after her apprehension by U.S.

SCRANTON — Daniel Sansky, who admitted to overbilling taxpayers and charging the Scranton School District for work on the personal vehicles of its employees, will spend the next six to 23½ months in Lackawanna County Prison...

NEW YORK — Scranton native John Ruby helped open the NASDAQ stock market Friday. Ruby was among a group from WisdomTree Investments Inc., New York, who attended the opening ceremony. WisdomTree’s CEO and President, Jonathan Steinberg, rang the opening bell...

SCRANTON — Scrantonians have a lot in common in what they want from their next mayor — honesty is a big one.

City council gets first crack at a full slate of candidates vying to be the next mayor today...

SCRANTON Crunch Fitness rectifies lien The state Department of Labor and Industry filed a lien against Crunch Fitness in the Marketplace at Steamtown earlier this week seeking nearly $45,000 in unpaid unemployment compensation taxes from January 2017 to March 2018.

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health has banned dispensaries from participating in one of the state's largest cannabis festivals...

SCRANTON — West Scranton High School will reopen today as boiler problems in the building have been resolved.

The high school dismissed early Monday morning and remained closed Tuesday as crews worked to repair a malfunctioning boiler...

SCRANTON — State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale warned the Scranton School District on Thursday that he’s watching to ensure it does not use state funds to “pad” what he called the worst school bus contract in the history of Pennsylvania.

COVINGTON TWP. — The woman who died Sunday night when a bus she was riding in crashed on Interstate 380 was identified as Rebecca Renee Blanco, 33, of Vacaville, California, according to state police...

One woman died Sunday night when the passenger bus she was riding in crashed on Interstate 380 in Covington Twp...

SCRANTON — Like the other two women seated with her at a table in the University of Scranton’s Edward R. Leahy Jr. Hall, state Transportation Secretary Leslie S. Richards said she knows what it’s like to be the only female in a room full of men...

SCRANTON — Officials evacuated about 120 elderly and disabled residents who live at Lutherwood because strong winds blew off large portions of the apartment building’s flat roof just before dawn Monday...

A city man faces homicide-by-vehicle charges more than a month after he crashed a stolen car, killing his passenger, police said.

Police charged Daquan Marquise Johnson, 25, 802 Crown Ave., on Thursday with homicide by vehicle and related counts...

SCRANTON — Members of the Scranton School Board will ask the Lackawanna County district attorney to investigate how a mechanic received school district health insurance for 12 years.

“It’s an important issue we want to make sure you all know we’re still following up on,” Director Paige Gebhardt Cognetti, the new chairwoman of the board’s budget and finance committee, said at Monday night’s work session.

The tone-deaf Scranton School Board was forced to face the music.

Almost.

Closed doors muffled the melodies, played in a hallway by music students for whom there was no room Monday night in the packed auditorium of South Scranton Intermediate School.

Scranton’s Historical Architectural Review Board agreed Monday that a digital billboard planned for the side of an apartment building at 134 Franklin Ave., accompanied by some old-fashioned painted lettering, would be appropriate in the downtown historic district...