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The new chief, Tom Manger, said the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection should not define the department and that necessary changes to its procedures have been made in the months since.

Al Monelli & Tim Novotney, award-winning filmmakers onthe WVIA Public Media staff, speaking about theirexperience at the NEPA Film Festival and talkingabout the workshops they will offer at the 2025Festival presented by the Waverly Community Housein partnership with WVIA & supported by the F. LammotBelin Arts Foundation. The 9th annual Festival will beheld at the Waverly Community House in Waverly, PAApril 4th, 5th & 6th. There will be an opening nightreception and panel discussion led by WVIA's JulieSidoni & screenings of films of different genreson Saturday & Sunday. Novotney's workshopwill be held at 5 pm April 5th; Monelli's workshopwill take place Sunday, April 6th at 2 pm.WVIA's Ron Andruscavage will present aproduction management workshop on April 5th at 3 pm,& Chris Zellers will offer a workshop about ways todemystify distribution. Sunday will also featureWVIA's Student Film Showcase. For information:nepafilmfestival.com/

Richard Stanislaus, artist, collector and guest curator for the Hope Horn Gallery exhibit; Chester Kulesa, retired Historic SiteAdministrator of the PA Historical & Museum CommissionAnthracite Heritage Museum & Scranton Iron Furnaces &guest essayist for the catalogue of the show, & DarleneMiller-Lanning, Director of the Hope Horn Gallery at theUniversity of Scranton, speaking about the currentexhibition titled, "The Anthracite Coal Industry ofNortheastern Pennsylvania: Selected Paintings,Sculptures, & Works on Paper from Public & PrivateCollections: 1829 - 1959."The show will run at the Hope Horn Galleryfrom October 20 through December 12, 2025,with a talk at 5:00 on October 24 & a receptionfrom 6:00 to 8:00 pm. And another program onNovember 7th at 5:00 with a reception at 6:00.www.scranton.edu/academics/hope-horn-gallery/index.shtml/

A.J. Jump and Neil Prisco of the F.M. Kirby Center, members of the Cavalcade committee, speaking about the 2026 Wilkes-Barre Cavalcadeof Jazz to be held June 5th, 6th & 7th at various venues throughoutdowntown Wilkes-Barre. The event marks the 75th anniversary of theoriginal Cavalcade of Dixieland Jazz that took place on February 23,1951, cited as the first formal jazz festival in the country.This year's headliner is the Bill Frisell Trio, and the group willperform at the F. M. Kirby Center on Public Squareat 6:30 pm. The Opening Ceremony will be held on Friday at 5:00 at the Kirby Centerwith the Indigo Moon Brass Band & a tribute to WVIA's George Grahamas Champion of Jazz. There will be a Jazz Walk on Friday evening,and many other performances throughout the weekend. For more information:www.wilkesbarrecavalcadeofjazz.org/

Because of past administrative failures, the some 78,000 affected public service workers such as nurses and teachers never got the relief they were entitled to under the law, Biden said.

Federal investigators are piecing together what led the gunman to try to kill former President Trump. There’s also a push to get to the bottom of how this massive security failure was able to happen.

Tourists from the U.S., Australia, Denmark and the U.K. have died. A tourism police officer said a "number of people" had been detained in the case but that no charges have yet been filed.

For many working adults, the summer can often feel the same as the rest of the year. So, maybe our idea of a "summer read" should encompass a wider swath of books? Here are a few out this week.

At times, Juho Kuosmanen's film plays like a scruffier, less romantic version of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise. There's tension to every scene, a sense that anything could go wrong at any moment.

The House select panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will vote Monday on plans to issue criminal referrals and other recommendations.