Snow Drought Has Ski Season on Hold
There has only been two Novembers in Scranton in the past 54 years with no recorded snowfall. By late tonight, we may add November 2009 to that tally.
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There has only been two Novembers in Scranton in the past 54 years with no recorded snowfall. By late tonight, we may add November 2009 to that tally.
The start of this year’s deer season was soggy to say the least.
A man from Wilkes-Barre is behind bars, accused of assaulting a police officer over the weekend.
Not long after the start of rifle deer season Monday came the first injury report.
An elderly woman and her son made it out of their burning home early Monday morning.
The first day of rifle deer season kicked off early MOnday morning in Pennsylvania.
Ralph Galicki of Pittston was charged with burglary, assault, and other crimes after a five hour standoff with police on Friday.
Authorities say one person is dead after an early morning shooting on Sunday in Luzerne County.
When Elisabeth Von Trapp was growing up in Vermont, her family suspended an Advent wreath above the dining-room table each December.
A Navy sailor from our area who was killed more than a week ago while serving overseas was laid to rest Saturday in Luzerne County.
A man was shot by state police after a stand-off that lasted for nearly five hours.
A well-known businessman in Old Forge was robbed of thousands of dollars Friday morning.
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While many of you are already a few hours into your Black Friday shopping, consider buying local this holiday season and supporting local business owners. A great tool for locating local products and services launched recently: Visit Downtown Scranton.
The site provides directory listings of downtown Scranton businesses broken out by categories – Eat, Shop, Play, [...]
Two homes were hit by flames Thursday.
With the holiday shopping season kicking off, the SPCA in Luzerne County has a suggestion for gift giving: no pets.
Shoppers are hitting stores across our area for Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
Volunteers in Luzerne County reached out on Thanksgiving to help neighbors who spent the holiday alone.
During his 18-week sabbatical in Italy earlier this year, local potter Frank Goryl admired the way churches displayed some of their artwork.
For Dana Feigenblatt, the role of Scrooge’s housekeeper in “A Christmas Carol” is a fun chance to play nasty – stealing her employer’s belongings as soon as he dies, hoping to turn a pretty penny or two.
Trashing “Old Dogs” is a bit like kicking a puppy. But here goes.
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” is a magical mixing of two distinctly ingenius sensibilities. Marry the dark “scare the little darlings” playfulness of children’s novelist Roald Dahl to the quirky, comic warmth of filmmaker Wes Anderson, assign it to ever-so-patient British masters of stop-motion animation, and what you get is a movie of whimsy, wit, warmth and wackiness, a Dahl parable (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”) brought to animated life.
In Japan, where the blades are shiny and sharp and if the fake blood isn’t staining the lens, you’re not trying hard enough, there’s a rich tradition of sword-and-splatter pictures. That’s the tradition Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” leaned on, and it’s the foundation of “Ninja Assassin,” a more run-of-the-mill Hollywood ninja movie with “Matrix” ties.
It’s Thanksgiving eve but instead of heading to the grocery store or traveling to grandmother’s house several folks attended the Luzerne County commissioner’s meeting and they were talking turkey.
WILKES-BARRE TWP. – Coming off the most successful year in the franchise’s history, the iconic Harlem Globetrotters are primed to showcase their eye-popping 2010 “Magical Memories” World Tour in the Wyoming Valley on Feb. 26.
Millions of travelers are expected to hit the highways this Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Thanks to the Family to Family program in Lackawanna County, hundreds of families will have a better Thanksgiving.
A bridge that has been shut down to traffic for more than a year finally reopened Wednesday morning in downtown Scranton.
Two men are behind bars for a robbery at a Sunoco station last week.
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It’s been some time in coming but the Lackawanna Avenue Bridge Project opened this morning with local officials on hand to cut the ribbon and open the bridge to traffic. View more pictures from the opening inside.
The state supreme court has denied a request by a former Luzerne County judge to restore her salary while she fights her removal from the bench.
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