Inside Party City in Wilkes-Barre Township, employees display popular Halloween costumes this year including Batman, Barack Obama masks and alien morphsuits.
Six-year-old Kiersten Burrows of Lake Sheridan, who recently shopped at the store with her mom a
Splurge expected for Halloween shopping
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Bradford, Susquehanna receive large shares of Shale drilling impact fees
HARRISBURG - Bradford and Susquehanna counties are among the top recipients of impact fee revenue paid by drillers for natural gas production during 2011, Gov. Tom Corbett and state officials announced Monday.
Bradford County will receive $8.4 million fo
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Local stocks up for third quarter
Shares of broadcaster Nexstar Broadcasting Group surged while an off-price retailer Big Lots Inc. stumbled, according to BusinessWeekly's quarterly look at the stocks of publicly traded companies with a significant presence in Northeast Pennsylvania.
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Partners break ground on Black Diamond Trail extension
Hondo Nobel, who enjoys walking his dog, wanted to see a hiking trail pass his house in Mountain Top.
Judy Rimple, looked at the old railroad line near her home in the Back Mountain and imagined it as a bikeway. â"If I could ride on that I would reall
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Lawton takes back proposal to amend hiring code
WILKES-BARRE - Luzerne County Manager Robert Lawton announced at last week's meeting of county council that he was withdrawing his proposal to amend the county personnel code.
Critics of the proposed amendment were upset it would exempt 361 of 1,551 cou
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Butler Twp. supers consider amending burning ordinance
Two Butler Township residents complained last week about the ongoing problem with a mutual neighbor concerning open burning.
Blaine Rampulla and Thomas Yurkanin said a neighbor whom they did not name burns items either every Wednesday or Saturday causing
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Local U.S. Senate candidates debate health care overhaul
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is the Democrat running for re-election, Tom Smith is the Republican who wants his job and President Barack Obama's national health care reform law highlights their divide perfectly.
Casey proudly voted for the law; Smith wants to rep
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Luzerne County manager delays budget proposal
WILKES-BARRE - Luzerne County Manager Robert Lawton on Monday delayed proposing a budget until Friday, saying it would give him more time to consult with administration officials and eliminate a $7-million gap.
Deeper spending cuts are needed for Lawton'
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Michael Bolton to perform in Hazleton in Feb.
Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and social activist Michael Bolton will appear at the Wiltsie Center at the Historic Castle in Hazleton on Feb. 24, 2013, at 7 p.m.
Tickets will be available to Castle Club members beginning Wednesday and
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Mayor picks Sharp to lead public transit
Hazleton Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi's pick for city administrator will lead to an administrative shuffling that will put the city parking authority manager in charge of public transit.
Ralph Sharp, who served as Hazleton Parking Authority's chief operating ma
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DCNR director change won't shift gas-drilling policy
The secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources named an acting director of state parks and rebutted claims that the resignation of the former director indicated a change in gas-drilling policy.
Secretary Richard Allan introduced David Kemmerer as th
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Senate Republican leaders to review legislation to prevent fraud in LIHEAP
HARRISBURG - Legislation seeking to prevent fraud in the state heating assistance program is being reviewed by Senate Republican leaders, as the bill-voting session enters its final days.
The House unanimously passed a bill in June that would require sta
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Police, Oct. 16
2 Hazleton men charged with forging plates
Two Hazleton men face forgery and other charges after a traffic stop on Route 309 in Hazle Township on Saturday afternoon, state police at Hazleton said.
Alfonso Granados Zamudio, 27, and Obdulia Zamudio Paniagu
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West Hazleton teacher charged with stealing from youth league
A Hazleton Area middle school teacher has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from a Kingston-area youth basketball league.
Christopher Walsh, 36, of Dallas, surrendered Tuesday to Kingston police to face charges of theft and criminal use of
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King's to offer dual-degree with Notre Dame
WILKES-BARRE - King's College and the University of Notre Dame have reached an agreement to offer an engineering dual-degree program.
Students in the program will spend three years at King's taking math, science and pre-engineering courses before transfe
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Conyngham authority on budget, treasurer says
The Conyngham Borough Authority remains within budget on nearly every line item as it enters the fourth quarter of the year, its assistant treasurer said.
Betty Jane Gasper updated the board on the authority finances Monday afternoon, and asked if board
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Holocaust survivor shares her most difficult story
Students of Trinity Academy in Shenandoah received a history lesson Tuesday afternoon about the Holocaust told by a survivor who experienced it as a child.
Born in a small village in Poland in 1934, Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride remembers when she and her
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New bribery counts filed against Musto
A federal grand jury added two new bribery counts Wednesday to the list of charges against former state Sen. Raphael J. Musto, whose corruption trial on a November 2010 indictment has been repeatedly postponed because of ill health.
It was not clear Wedn
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2 strangers pull woman from burning vehicle
A White Haven Center employee owes her life to two Good Samaritans who pulled her from her burning vehicle in Dennison Township just before noon Wednesday, police said.
The woman, who police didn't identify, was taken to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical
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Foster Twp. man seeks street direction shift
A Foster Township resident asked supervisors at their meeting last week if they can make a two-way street into a one-way for safety reasons.
The resident, who declined to give his name, said his concern is with Birch Street where it comes to a five-point
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