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Wyoming Area addresses tax-relief question

EXETER -- An agenda full of routine items made for an uneventful Wyoming Area School Board work session Thursday.

Fleeing from police produces more charges

PITTSTON – A city man who was rescued from a ravine after a Tuesday night foot chase has been charged.

Scarantino starts prison term

When Ross Scarantino reported to a federal prison on Nov. 10, he became the first person in the ongoing public corruption probe in Luzerne County to begin serving time behind bars.

Teacher hiring delayed

YATESVILLE – The Pittston Area School Board on Tuesday tabled a proposal to add a special education teacher on the grounds that the addition would be better addressed in the 2010-11 budget.

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Thanksgiving Dinner at Senior Center on Thursday

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For Paige Semenza life as a Buckeye is good

Four years ago when Paige Semenza was entering her sophomore year in high school she left Pittston Area and enrolled in the North American Hockey Academy in Stowe, Vermont. At the ...

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The Wyoming Seminary Madrigal Singers and Chorale will present their annual Christmas Choral Concert on Sunday, December 6 at 3:00 p.m. in the Great Hall of Wyoming Seminary, 228 W ...

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Luzerne County precluded from kids for cash lawsuit, judge says

U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo has denied a motion to add Luzerne County as a defendant to the kids for cash lawsuit. The ruling will preclude the plaintiffs from bein ...

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Philly cop killer must wait to find out his fate

A man who murdered a Philadelphia police officer will have to wait until next week to find out if he'll be sentenced to death or life in prison.

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Sears Tower plot leader gets 13-year prison term

The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was s ...

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