When Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated on Monday, Jan. 20, those who attended an annual program on Friday afternoon will have a lot to think about. The event, entitled “Martin Luther King Jr.

C. David Pedri, president and CEO at the Luzerne Foundation, on Friday said in a time where so many are looking inward, each ...

The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by ...

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows.

The Senate is heading toward a final vote on legislation that would give states the power to challenge federal immigration policies and require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft ...

Church closure: St. Mary’s of the Immaculate Conception, the oldest Roman Catholic church in our area, celebrated its final Mass and closed recently. Since the 1800s, many thousands of local Catholics ...

City police say a 21-year-old man delivering a food order was robbed and assaulted at an apartment building on Carey Avenue early Thursday morning.

An American accused of sexually assaulting a college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said “So I raped you” was ordered held without bail Friday during a court hearing in ...

When Democrat John Fetterman got elected to Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat, many backers hoped he’d challenge convention and ...

SCRANTON — A Plymouth man was sentenced to federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a convict. U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani sentenced Corey L. Thomas Jr., 39, to three ...

A man who forced his way inside a Wilkes-Barre home and attacked a woman while holding an infant apologized and asked for forgiveness.

Popular weight loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have been added to Medicare’s list of medications that will be negotiated directly between the government and drug manufacturers, the ...