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WILKES-BARRE — South Franklin Street will be closed from Anheiser Lane to East Market Street from 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday to accommodate ongoing renovations at the Citizens Bank building, the city announced Friday. South Franklin Street

CLARKS SUMMIT — Gas prices across the state crept over $3 Thursday for the first time in more than three years. Pennsylvania’s average price for regular gasoline hit $3.01 per gallon — something that hasn’t happened since November 2014, according to AAA.

WILKES-BARRE — Mayor Tony George is extending his search for a new police chief beyond the ranks of the city police department. George’s office issued a news release late Thursday afternoon announcing that the city is conducting a search to fill the posit

WILKES-BARRE — The first annual Recovery Communities of Luzerne County vs. Luzerne County Public Officials basketball tournament will be held Saturday at Wilkes University’s gymnasium on South Franklin Street. The event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,

Megan Hannon won an individual award this month, but she gave the credit to the team. Hannon, a Luzerne County 911 manager and trainer, received the 2017 Communications Center Director of the Year Award from the state chapter of the Association for Public

A bridge on Sleepy Hollow Road near Edgewood in the Pines in Drums will close April 30 for approximately three weeks for repairs, according to the Luzerne County Engineer’s Office. The bridge crosses Nescopeck Creek approximately one-half mile south of Ro

HONESDALE — A Pittston man will serve up to three years in jail for selling heroin. On Wednesday, Senior Judge Raymond L. Hamill sentenced Hayden Tyson, 23, to serve 11½ months to three years in the Wayne County Correctional Facility for conspiring to del

PLAINS TWP. — Four people wanted in connection with the murder of an elderly man in West Virginia were captured in a room at Mohegan Sun Pocono and found in possession of guns, drugs, counterfeiting equipment and the victim’s personal documents, according

Bloomsburg University Democrats and the Columbia County Democratic Committee will co-host a forum featuring all three Democratic candidates for the new 9th Congressional District at 7 p.m. May 1. The event at the Greenly Center, 50 E. Main St., Bloomsburg

WILKES-BARRE — Barney Street will be closed from the bridge over Solomon Creek to Division Street from 8 a.m. until around 6 p.m. Monday, the city announced Thursday. The street will be closed to allow Pennsylvania American Water Co. to complete utility r

As Luzerne County council considers a proposed county-wide $5 vehicle registration surcharge to raise funds for road repairs, county officials on Thursday released a list of county-owned roads and a map showing the location of county-owned roads and bridg

WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Marshals and Wilkes-Barre police captured a man Thursday who was wanted on homicide charges in Virginia. Sharif Gabriel Colon, 18, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, surrendered to police at 57 Hanover St., Wilkes-Barre. In the criminal comp

WILKES-BARRE — A man wanted in Tennessee for rape of a child exposed himself to Wilkes University students Thursday before being apprehended, police said. Franklin Drayton, 34, walked into the Stark Learning Center around 1 p.m. Thursday and made crude co

NANTICOKE — Tuition to enroll at Luzerne County Community College will increase 2.4 percent for county residents, according to a $45 million budget approved Thursday. The new tuition rate for county residents will be $1,950 per semester, or $3,900 per yea

PITTSTON — A day after being accused of leaving her young children alone in squalor, a city mother was hit Thursday with new charges alleging she lied about a man pulling a gun on her. Alissa Searles, 26, of 20 Riverview Manor, is accused of falsely claim

Despite a warning that they were unwelcome, Moses Taylor Hospital nurses showed up to clock in for the 7 a.m. shift Thursday, the time their strike officially ended. Security stopped most of them before they made it through the door. In Kingston, nurses w

WILKES-BARRE — The Plains Twp. forgery suspect entwined in a mysterious arson case on Wednesday got a new lawyer because she might know something about the unidentified “target” of the investigation, according to court documents filed Thursday. Linasheri

PLYMOUTH — A man dressed as a cowboy forced his way into a borough home over the weekend and defenestrated a man in a case of attempted murder motivated by an apparent drug debt, according to court documents. Police say Alvey Zielinski, 48, was forced thr

WEST PITTSTON — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has finalized a plan to open a new regional office at the former Pennsylvania Army National Guard armory on Susquehanna Avenue. “It’s a win for West Pittston and a win for the PA Fish and Boat Comm

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — An Edwardsville man was arrested during a sting operation Tuesday morning after the 14-year-old boy he planned to meet for a sexual rendezvous turned out to be an undercover agent, according to investigators. Authorities say that after