Romilda Crocamo

Pennsylvania’s top election official, Secretary of State Al Schmidt, said the state "expects everyone observing polling places to follow all state and federal laws" — and those laws don't give monitors authority to police voters themselves.

R.J. Corman Railroad Co. and the Reading & Northern Railroad agreed to settle R.J. Corman's lawsuit over the sale of Luzerne County's tracks, meaning $7 million in cash for the county.

A Wilkes-Barre man has pleaded guilty in connection with last month's flag theft from a display on the Luzerne County Courthouse lawn.

Luzerne County officials hosted a press conference Tuesday morning to discuss the uptick in the county’s overdose deaths, 12 of which have been connected to cocaine laced with fentanyl in the last three months.

Luzerne County Manager Romilda Crocamo wants to see the person who stole U.S. and county flags from the courthouse lawn prosecuted. And Scranton's mayor wants a hearing on PPL Electric's project to upgrade 100-year-old transmission lines.

Luzerne County Manager Romilda Crocamo says someone stole U.S. and county flags from a patriotic display on the courthouse lawn, and she wants to see them charged: "We will not let this go."

In Nanticoke, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he wants to work toward reforming the federal permitting process so the Nanticoke-West Nanticoke Bridge can reopen sooner than 2029.

Genesis Arias had to charge her phone three times on Tuesday, her notifications full of calls and messages after Luzerne County announced her appointment as sheriff. But the first woman in the county to hold that position — and the first Hispanic woman to become a sheriff statewide — felt proudest when she got home.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport board member Bill Gaughan, a Lackawanna County commissioner, raised questions Thursday about how fellow Commissioner Chris Chermak became a finalist for the airport's executive director opening.

Lackawanna County Commissioner Chris Chermak said he's more than qualified to serve as the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport's new executive director.