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Today is Monday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2009. There are 10 days left in the year.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Karin Emanuelson, left, and Luke Kameroski are among the cast members of Scranton Civic Ballet's 23rd annual "Nutcracker," which will be performed Friday and Sunday at Scranton Cultural Center at The Masonic Temple.

Admission: $12; $10 in advance. Where: Benedictine Center, Ross Township. Details: 412-921-6220. Pittsburgh Youth Ballet - 7 p.m. Dec.

Local news, sports and weather. The Office 10:30PM - 11:00PM Dirt is dished over a dirty dish: Tension boils over when a mysterious someone leaves a culinary mess in the office microwave.

With the holiday season comes holiday travel. For local police, that travel means stepping up enforcement to help ensure people arrive safely.

Standing a few feet away from actors Denzel Washington and Rosario Dawson is not how most Penn State students would expect to spend a cold fall morning in Centre County.

During the 1920s and '30s, the frontier of discovery was found in the dusty fields and dug pits of archaeological expeditions.

This agate cup, made in 1867 by French jeweler and goldsmith Charles Duron, is a masterful example of Parisian lapidary work, enameling and metalwork.

A Labour election candidate may be sacked after being forced to apologise for calling the Queen a "parasite" and "vermin" on a website.

Incidents involving wild animals; a man who scales walls; impressive basketball tricks.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] ERIC CONOVER/Staff Photographer Joseph McGarry and Angela Vito are preparing for "A Christmas to Remember" to be held at Most Precious Blood Church in Hazleton in December.

Westminster College's Celebrity Series will welcome the Ten Tenors Christmas Show Wednesday, Nov.

King and Queen of the fairies, Titania and Oberon, played by Mhari Sandoval and Ian Bedford, rule the forest in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in August at the 2009 Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at DeSales University in Upper Saucon Township.

The story that emerged from the excavation of ancient Mesopotamian burial pits caused an international sensation: a bevy of sacrificial maidens drinking poison to join their ruler in the afterlife.

BY JANICE RAINEY JRAINEY@TRIBDEM.COM The Polish Heritage Council will hold a Pulaski Day Mass at 4:30 p.m. today at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Mountain Avenue, Portage.

Fran Roberts began working on cars as a teen. He still owns the 1969 Camaro he once raced.

A staff member at Redifer Commons reported she has been receiving harassing phone calls from an unknown caller for the past two years.

Brooke E. Heller, the 2009 Pennsylvania Apple Queen from Arendstville, takes some Apple Harvest stickers from her booth to hand out to people at the 45th Annual National Apple Harvest Festival in Biglerville Saturday.

Josephine Gresko, the Cabbage Roll Lady, lines up the cabbages as she makes the hamburger filling for her famous cabbage rolls at her home in Carmichaels.

Lock Haven University crowned its 2009 Homecoming King and Queen at halftime of the football game Saturday afternoon.