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Flynn legislation would address $104M in uncollected turnpike tolls

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132 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Luzerne County on Monday;...

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The Capitol Building in Harrisburg.

Wolf Administration releases first-ever statewide Litter Action Plan

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Coronavirus hospitalizations rise again in Luzerne County

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Several Luzerne County government meetings this week

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State Rep. Aaron Kaufer lights the menorah to signal the beginning of Hanukkah on Public Square Sunday night. Kevin Carroll | Times Leader Kevin Carroll | Times Leader

Start of Hanukkah marked with Public Square ceremony

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Performer Josephine Baker strikes a pose during her Ziegfeld Follies performance of ‘The Conga’ on the Winter Garden Theater stage in New York in 1936. France is inducting Josephine Baker – Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French Resistance fighter and civil rights leader – into its Pantheon, the first Black woman honored in the final resting place of France’s most revered luminaries. AP file photo

In French Pantheon, Josephine Baker makes history yet again

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Bishop Richard Howell poses Aug. 19, 2021 beside some of the 630 solar panels on the roof of Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis. The church is one of many “community solar” providers popping up around the U.S. as surging demand for renewable energy inspires new approaches. AP photo

Community systems offer alternative paths for solar growth

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Phil Saviano, key clergy sex abuse whistleblower, dies at 69

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In this Sept. 2, 2000 file photo, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, driven by Britain’s Prince Andrew leaves the wedding of a former girlfriend of the prince, Aurelia Cecil, at the Parish Church of St Michael in Compton Chamberlayne near Salisbury, England. AP file photo

Who is the real Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein enabler or pawn?

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An apartment on Railroad Street, Pittston, damaged by a mine subsidence on Nov. 27, 1942. Published Evening News Nov. 30, 1942

Look Back: 1942 mine subsidences damages Pittston buildings

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125 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Luzerne County on Sunday

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Janiece Montes, left, owner of Exeter-based Janiece’s Purse Collection LLC, talks with a customer during Diamond City Partnership’s Holiday Market on Saturday at Midtown Village in Wilkes-Barre. Roger DuPuis | Times Leader

Christmas in the city

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Luzerne County Courthouse File photo

Luzerne County government vacancies blamed on low compensation and competition

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Helen Lavelle’s ‘Pandemic Pieta’ focuses on a bereaved mother, similarly to Michelangel’s Pieta. ‘She is in the eye of the storm,’ Lavelle wrote of the mother, ‘her face acknowledging her reality and ours.’ Submitted photo

‘I know art heals. Art transforms’

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Teri Ooms, executive director at The Institute for Public Policy & Economic Development.

Report: Remote work has grown increasingly common in recent years

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Beyond the Byline: Keep those holiday traditions going

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The front-most bar at The Down Pour, as guests started showing up. Ryan Evans | Times Leader

Down Pour thriving with help of DCP

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From left: Emily Miller, King’s College; Ryan Marr, Wilkes University; Ann Clarke, King’s College; and Shavaughn Frank, King’s College, take the time to pose for a photo as inaugural College Ambassadors. The DCP College Ambassadors Program aims to pair students from local schools with local businesses in order to promote unity in the downtown, on-the-job training for students and revitalization for businesses effected by the pandemic. Courtesy of Susan Magnotta

Downtown College Ambassadors Program returns

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Downtown Wilkes-Barre facing new threat … we must be up to...

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Soon to be President John F. Kennedy made a campaign sweep through Wyoming Valley in October 1960, including down Main Street in Plymouth. Submitted Photo

Beyond the Byline: Remembering a handshake of 58 years ago

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The contestants began to dive into their chip bags as the contest, five minutes to eat as many chips as they can, got underway. Kevin Carroll | Times Leader

Middleswarth lovers chow down on chips for contest

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Barry Metzger receives his TL Cares grand prize last week. Times Leader file photo

Ready or not, here is your Sunday, Nov. 28 news quiz

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At the groundbreaking, from left: William Gibney, PFBC District 7 Commissioner; Gary Linde, Leeward Construction, Inc.; Rep. Jonathan Fritz; Sen. Lisa Baker; Tim Schaeffer, PFBC Executive Director. Photo ourtesy PA Fish and Boat Commission

PA Fish and Boat Commission breaks ground on project in Wayne...

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