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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
By David Singleton Lackawanna County is out of the sport but not the business of baseball. Ending 26 years of public ownership of the team, the county's Multi-Purpose Stadium Authority on Thursday finalized the sale of its Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees »
WILKES-BARRE - How do you get an auditorium full of energetic high school students to quiet down and pay attention? Show them a picture of the mangled car in which eight high school students died in one of the worst single-vehicle wrecks in the country »
All charges against the suspect in a machete attack outside GAR High School have been forwarded to county court following a preliminary hearing today in Wilkes-Barre Central Court. »
One chapter in Northeast Pennsylvania baseball history is over, and another has begun. The Lackawanna County Multi-Purpose Stadium Authority today completed the sale of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees Triple-A franchise to SWB Yankees LLC for $14.6 m... »
Demolition at PNC Field would begin Friday under an aggressive schedule laid out Wednesday for the completion of the ballpark's reconstruction prior to the start of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees' 2013 baseball season. An updated timetable for the st »
Demolition at PNC Field would begin Friday under an aggressive schedule laid out Wednesday for the completion of the ballpark's reconstruction prior to the start of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees' 2013 baseball season. An updated timetable for the sta »
