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Jessica Pegula is seeded No. 6 and Emma Navarro is seeded No. 13. Both women are New York natives.

The Wright Center for Community Health is hosting a community closet on Thursday, Feb. 6, and Friday, Feb. 7, at its Tunkhannock location.

Omicron shatters records. Biden addresses the nation on Jan. 6.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is inviting the public to look over plans and provide feedback on a bridge project in Northeast Pennsylvania. The online plans display concerns the Delaware River Bridge Rehabilitation Project on State Route 6, which connects Matamoras Borough in Pike County to Port Jervis in Orange County, New York. The project on section 451 of SR 6 proposes replacements for the sidewalks and deck of the current bridge, among other improvements, and is expected to take place in three stages. PennDOT noted that the current bridge does not have a historic designation. Construction is expected to begin in summer 2024 and continue until 2025.

Officials from the National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed a tornado blew through Wayne County on the evening of May 27. The storm uprooted trees and damaged barns in Damascus Township, lasting from 6:20 p.m. to 6:22 p.m. Monday evening.The NWS determined the storm was an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which ranges from zero to five. Maximum wind speeds reached 90 miles per hour.The Wayne County Director of Emergency Management is asking residents to report storm damage by calling the office at (570) 253-1622.The NWS also confirmed a tornado in Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County later that evening.

The national economy slowed sharply in the third quarter, falling to 1.6 percent, according to new government numbers. The droop comes after the nation's Gross Domestic Product had expanded at a 5.6 percent annual rate earlier in the year. Analysts blamed the poor showing on a slump in the housing sector.

Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate fell for the eighth month in a row in October, as payrolls grew but the labor force shrank.

Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula will face off in the tournament's women's singles final this weekend. It will be a rematch of August's final at the Cincinnati Open, which Sabalenka won.

The roads traveled least are the nation's deadliest roads, according to federal highway data. More Americans die on rural highways than on urban streets and freeways. U.S. Highway 6 in Utah in particular has earned a reputation as a deadly rural road.

Worker productivity grew at the fastest pace in nearly six years in the second quarter while labor costs fell by the most in nine years, as companies slashed costs to survive the recession. Productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, rose at an annual rate of 6.6 percent in the April-June quarter.