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State police are investigating the theft of $121,640 from a foundation that supports teachers and students in Bradford County. A statement issued Thursday from the Wyalusing Area Education Foundation calls the theft of funds “devastating and deeply painful for our board and our community.” -
Kingston Police are accepting donations for the survivors of a fatal fire that destroyed a home on North Welles Street on Wednesday night. -
Officials said Thursday that the Dickson City hospital will reopen Friday morning, just over a week after last week’s fire destroyed its orthopedic institute. -
Rumors of an ICE agent approaching Taylor Allderdice High School's campus in Squirrel Hill last week had students and teachers on high alert. -
At least for now, Pennsylvania's Josh Shapiro and other governors will be no-shows for an annual event this month, one that traditionally has been a bipartisan gathering of governors at the White House. Just last year, Shapiro said the gathering helped break an impasse over federal funding earmarked for the state. -
Brian Kincaid will be signing copies of his recently published novel, "Murder in Old Forge, Pennsylvania: The Tragic Death of the Ziemba Children." -
Few women coach boys varsity basketball. Montrose head coach Tracie McComb — the first woman to do so in the Lackawanna League — focuses on growth and bringing her team together. -
Gov. Josh Shapiro thanked first responders at the Dickson City Fire Department for their work last week during the fire at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Dickson City and highlighted investments proposed in his annual budget to support the state’s fire departments. -
Senior U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Nicholas Dombek, 55, of Thornhurst Twp., to 10 years in prison minus prison time already served for co-leading an art and memorabilia theft ring that operated for 20 years, targeted 20 museums and other venues and stole millions of dollars in one-of-a-kind jewelry, sports awards and paintings along with rare guns and minerals. -
Community leaders across Northeast and Central Pennsylvania have their eyes set on downtown revitalization, transportation and to update aging infrastructure in 2026. -
Luzerne County Republican Party Chairperson Lee Ann McDermott rips NEPA Republicans President T.J. Fitzgerald for a 'repeated pattern of belligerent, reckless and self-sabotaging behavior,' including a Super Bowl day video that denounces people who speak Spanish. -
Pennsylvania's major rivers are above 80% frozen, according to the National Weather Service, but officials warn that water continues to flow beneath the cold crust. The state's Fish and Boat Commission has a simple message: 'Stay off of that ice.'
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- Red Cross assisting residents displaced by West Side Hotel fire in Scranton
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