Ray Liotta, the actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 67.

For the third day in a row, Luzerne County’s Election Board spent Wednesday painstakingly reviewing provisional and flagged mail ballots, with the tallying of approximately 11,000 primary election write-in votes yet to be completed.

DALLAS — Nora Derhammer celebrated birthday number 104, which was on May 21, Wednesday afternoon at Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dallas, where she is a resident.

WILKES-BARRE — A contractor prepared a blighted property at 523 Hazle St. for demolition Tuesday night and worked through the early morning hours of Wednesday to complete the job. The Site is seen here late Tuesday, and again early Wednesday.

WILKES-BARRE — A transitional housing facility proposed for a vacant warehouse on East Union Street received zoning approval Wednesday.

WILKES-BARRE — Two people were removed from a Luzerne County Courtroom, a perceived threat was made and a victim of a shooting called an attorney “stupid” during a contentious preliminary hearing for homicide suspect Frangel Garcia Andujar on Wednesday.