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Playing in his 47th game for Penn State, Lamont Wade got his highlight moment. The safety took a kickoff back 100 yards for a touchdown in December’s season finale against Illinois.

High School Basketball

H.S. Girls Basketball: Wyoming Valley West edges Berwick in overtime in WVC opener

John Erzar - January 14, 2021

PLYMOUTH — Wyoming Valley West’s Trinity Johnson didn’t miss many shots Thursday night.

College coaching stalwart Urban Meyer makes jump to NFL as new head coach of Jaguars

NFL Times Leader - January 14, 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Urban Meyer has won everywhere he’s coached. Small colleges. Big-time programs. He’s been a difference maker at each stop during his storied career.

H.S. Boys Basketball: Pittston Area recovers from slow start, rolls past Lake-Lehman

High School Basketball John Erzar - January 13, 2021

YATESVILLE — No doubt the first quarter was bad for Pittston Area on Wednesday night. But all things considered, it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.

NHL season opens in empty arenas as Flyers skate past Penguins, 6-3

Sports Times Leader - January 13, 2021

PHILADELPHIA — Nolan Patrick missed last season with debilitating migraines and Oskar Lindblom had his shortened in his fight with a rare bone cancer. The only cheers they heard in their comeback games came in the locker room before faceoff in the form of rousing approval from the Philadelphia Flyers, grateful their teammates could play.

AP sources: Eagles won’t be penalized for quarterback decisions in finale

Sports Times Leader - January 13, 2021

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles won’t be penalized after the NFL looked into the way the team handled its quarterback decisions in the final regular-season game against Washington, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

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Opinion

Our View: Mr. Scavo goes to Washington

Times Leader - January 14, 2021

Perhaps you’ve heard about the concept of liminal space.

Their view: Schwarzenegger was right. Many of his fellow Republicans are ‘spineless’

Op-Ed Times Leader - January 14, 2021

Their view: We must focus on the greater good

Op-Ed Times Leader - January 13, 2021

Your view: WB mayor’s recent moves a cause for concern

Letters Times Leader - January 13, 2021

Your view: Taking a lesson from ‘The Final Days’

Letters Times Leader - January 12, 2021

FEATURES

Features

Fromajardis are a savory pastry, stuffed with cheese and herbs

Mary Biebel - January 14, 2021

I’d never heard of them before. I wasn’t sure how to pronounce their name. But every time I paged through my “Best of America Traditional Regional Recipes” the picture of little cheese pastries called fromajardis called out to me.

Features

Best friends for more than 50 years, they celebrate birthdays this week

Mary Biebel - January 13, 2021

Bonnie Fox of West Pittston turns 65 today Jan. 14 and her best friend since elementary school, Mary Lynn Kutzer Murray of Harford will celebrate her 66th birthday on Saturday.

Features

‘Ski for the B’ Winter Snowcial to benefit BBBS

Times Leader - January 13, 2021

Forty-Fort, PA – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeastern Pennsylvania announces a new fundraiser, “Ski for the B” Winter Snowcial, to be held Sunday, Jan. 31, starting at 11 a.m. at Montage Mountain in Scranton.

BUSINESS

Business

They need to chill. Tips for turning seeds into trees

Times Leader - January 9, 2021

How exciting to think of a full-size tree locked up within each seed still clinging to the branches of sugar maples, hornbeams, oaks, sycamores and other trees at the end of summer.

Business