The F.M. Kirby Center sold every seat in the house for Friday's Bob Weir concert, but few of the 1,800 audience members used them. The founding member of the Grateful Dead had fans on their feet from the moment he walked on stage at the Wilkes-Barre the »
HERSHEY - According to defenseman Alexandre Picard, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins don't believe momentum carries over from game to game in a playoff series. If they want to move on to the second round, they better hope that belief turns out to be r »
Money has disappeared from a school cafeteria in the Greater Nanticoke Area School District, and an employee has been suspended without pay, authorities said. Police and school officials, however, released few details on the incident on Friday. School bo »
Saleh al Suyayfi acknowledged he didn't feel welcome in America when his plane first touched down at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International airport in 2009. The junior at Wilkes University said he worried people here blamed his home country, Saudi Arabia, »
Wilkes-Barre police are looking for a man who robbed Sheetz on Wilkes-Barre Township Boulevard just before 3 a.m. Friday. Police said the man grabbed a pair of scissors from the counter and told a clerk he would stab him if he did not give him money fro »
Wilkes-Barre police are looking for a man who robbed Sheetz on Wilkes-Barre Township Boulevard Thursday just before 3 a.m. today. »
ALLENTOWN - Chance after chance came. Chance after chance passed them by. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees manager Dave Miley didn't need the sports writers to file their stories to figure out what the lead in the latest loss to International League North »
Olivia Jendrzejewski won three individual events as the Hanover Area girls overwhelmed Nanticoke Area. In the boys meet, Carl Daubert and Tony Dennis were double winners in leading the Hawks to a easy win. Jendrzejewski won the triple, long and high jump »
Fox Rothschild attorney Alan Wohlstetter stared at the white table in front of him Thursday as the Wilkes-Barre Parking Authority questioned his research, criticized his estimates and nearly fired him for his work on the city's potential lease of parkin »
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a judge's ruling to throw out a controversial $6.5 million jury verdict against four staff members of the Department of Environmental Protection's Wilkes-Barre office. In the decision, the three-judge panel wit »
The Cherry BlossomFfestival is back. Organizers were forced to cancel the annual event last year, but the festivities are definitely on for this weekend at Kirby Park, said Lore Majikes, special events coordinator for the city of Wilkes-Barre. The festiv »
The time for large-scale roster shuffling is over. The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins already got their big three additions - winger Eric Tangradi and defensemen Brian Strait and Simon Despres - down from Pittsburgh. The Hershey Bears aren't likely to g »
A disbarred ex-Monroe County judge will remain on probation through December but can have contact with the daughter he was convicted of fondling during a Wilkes-Barre concert, a Luzerne County judge ruled this week. Mark Pazuhanich resigned from office a »
A Harveys Lake businessman who served five months in federal prison for supplying free carpeting to a Wilkes-Barre Area School Board member was granted an early release from probation this week. Richard Emanski, owner of King Glass and Paint Co. in Swoye »
Thursday's edition of jumpstart! incorrectly listed the cost of admission for Whole Earth's 7th Annual Holistic and Psychic Fair, which takes place Saturday and Sunday at Hilton Garden Inn, Wilkes-Barre Township. Adult admission costs $3. »
