NEWPORT TWP. — Crews from both sides of the Susquehanna River were called to fight a multi-alarm fire that tore through a home on Thomas Street this afternoon.

CLARKS SUMMIT — The 17th annual Clarks Summit Festival of Ice will bring the “Frozen Wilderness” to Abingtons this year.

After Luzerne County’s popular August free-and-clear tax sale last year, 25 properties went into the repository pool of unsold parcels because the bidders failed to pay.

ATLANTA (AP) — A day before the U.S. Senate was expected to take up significant legislation on voting rights that is looking likely to fail, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eldest son condemned federal lawmakers over their inaction.

WILKES-BARRE — Team Beezy is busy creating quite a buzz in downtown Wilkes-Barre.

KINGSTON — The outpouring of love and support for the family of Nathan Gray, the eight-year-old Wilkes-Barre boy who passed away earlier this month, continued Saturday night with a night of basketball designed to raise money for the family.