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A Luzerne County judge dismissed a domestic assault case against Scott Bolton when he was deemed not competent to face charges at trial.

WILKES-BARRE — Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was up one-tenth of a percentage point over the month to 3.6% in December. Still, the Commonwealth’s rate remained well under the U.S. unemployment rate ...

Lake-Lehman’s Olivia Corcoran guards Holy Redeemer’s Tessa Cegelka as she brings the ball down court in the first quarter. WILKES-BARRE — Lake-Lehman’s Kathryn Morgan woke up just in time Thursday ...

It is a good week to give out nothing but diamonds, perhaps because of many events related to Martin Luther King Jr. day, or perhaps simply because there was a lot of genuinely good news.

The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a requirement that owners of millions of small businesses register with an arm of the Treasury Department charged with fighting money laundering and other ...

A 20-3 edge in the second quarter helped the Crestwood girls basketball team take control en route to a 47-39 win over Dallas on Thursday night, strengthening the Comets’ grip on second place in ...

With a few exceptions, I agree with the objectives of nearly all of the executive orders President Donald Trump has signed during his first few days in the White House.

The Senate advanced the nomination of Pete Hegseth as President Donald Trump’s defense secretary Thursday on a largely party-line vote, despite grave objections from Democrats and stirring unease ...

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Mayor George Brown, at Thursday’s regular council meeting, gave an update on efforts to rebuild a local baseball field after it was heavily damaged by a Fourth of July fire last year.

President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for ...