Clarks Summit News

Holiday travelers who use a section of Interstate 81 will get a break this July Fourth weekend in Lackawanna County.

Toppled trees turned into toothpicks as residents try to clean up mother nature's mess.

A crash in Lackawanna County killed a man early Sunday morning. According to state police, the crash happened around 6:30 a.m. on Route 307 in Newton Township, west of Clarks Summit.

July 3 - Fireworks at the Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, Plains Township, at 9 p.m. July 3 - Wright Township, Wright Township Recreation Park.

Several women are charged with obtaining or giving pills to coworkers at an assisted living facility in Lackawanna County.

GLENBURN TOWNSHIP, Pa. - A train carrying chemicals and other freight jumped off its rails late Monday, prompting a massive response from area emergency crews and leaving a rail line closed Tuesday.

Court papers: Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre will pay out $3.2M and $1.8M in two cases.

Chris Albright of Clarks Summit has been named branch manager of the Scranton office of Wachovia Securities, 224 Wyoming Ave.

The jury is back in the federal case against two men accused of extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It took a jury in Scranton 2 and a half hours to come to a not guilty verdict in the extortion case of Charles Costanzo and Philip Forgione.

A federal trial is beginning for two Dunmore men accused of extorting more than $300,000 from a Clarks Summit company.

The commission established to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth in Lackawanna County is on a monumental mission.

PPL reports more than 3,000 homes and businesses were without power in our area as strong storms rolled through the area Sunday night.

Jonathan Bunnell, of Clarks Summit, plants tomatoes in the garden he shares with a friend at Abington Community Garden.

Longtime paralegal Susan Burke greets her employer's clients with a direct look and a smile.

Several gas stations recently acquired by a New Jersey firm closed abruptly last month, a contraction in gas retailing that observers say may continue.

John "Blaze" Caro, 22, of Stroudsburg, formerly of Sciota, is on the Pennsylvania State Police's "10 Most Wanted List." Caro is suspected in a December 2006 shooting on Interstate 81 North, between the Moosic ...

A former youth minister at a Kingston church is accused of molesting at least two teenage girls who belonged to his congregation.

Larry Risner was trying to explain why it's hard to feel safe on his job when a tractor-trailer did it for him.

The Memorial Day parade in Clarks Summit was "a great gathering of the community," parade chairman Dominic "Dom" Scott said Tuesday.