Williamsport News

Event will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. on Monday at the Best Western Genetti Hotel, Wilkes-Barre. WILKES-BARRE The Commonwealth Medical College will hold a local open house for prospective students on Monday, as the nation's newest medical school gears up for the 2010-11 academic year.

At a roundtable, area journalism leaders offer insight into the future of print media.

The Pennsylvania State Department of Health will conduct H1N1 flu vaccination clinics for at-risk groups Friday through Sunday at selected locations.

BILL KELLY asked us over to his house the other night for some light conversation, a couple of drinks and hors d'oeuvres. Kelly is the amiable president of WVIA, deep-throated as an old radio and broadcast pro should be, and also a man who is pensive, often deep in thought.

Share + Nov 21, 2009 11:47 am US/Eastern HARRISBURG, Pa. Prospective employees at a central Pennsylvania hospital chain will now be tested for nicotine when they apply for jobs.

More than a dozen people in the Shippensburg and Chambersburg area are accused of being a part of a drug ring over the past several years.

Jason Farmer / times-shamrock State Sen. Robert J. Mellow, speaks to the first class of the Commonwealth Medical College during its convocation program in August.

Northumberland County's former drug and alcohol program director waived theft and conflict of interest charges to the Court of Common Pleas Monday.

Gretchen Young works on glass in her Lower Windsor Township garage, which doubles as a workshop.

Former Rep. Brett Feese, a Williamsport-area Republican and onetime chair of the Pa.

Geisinger Medical Center on Friday confirmed its second patient death from swine flu within a week.

Ceremonies marking Veterans Day are being held all over the area to honor the men and women who sacrificed for our country.

Job: Event marketing manager at "Columbus Business First" Neighborhood: Grandview Hometown: South Williamsport, Pennsylvania Label your style: "Consignment chic" What do you like to wear? Everything I have on today, besides a couple jewelry pieces, is all consignment.

Friday was a big day for a handful of families in Lycoming County. Seven children were adopted into their new families.

Two high-ranking Pennsylvania House Republican aides who have been active in running political campaigns have announced they are leaving their state jobs, a caucus spokesman said Thursday.

After more than 30 years on the job, first as a paramedic, then ambulance manager, and most recently the patient safety and risk management co-ordinator for Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc., Grace Silander retired last week.

Although gray skies and a cold drizzle served as the backdrop for Williamsport Regional Medical Center's ground-breaking ceremony for a $140 million patient tower, the overall prognosis for the hospital is anything but cloudy.

Unemployment in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area rose in September, inching above 8 percent for the first time since September 1986, according to data released Tuesday by the state Department of Labor and Industry.

First Fee Increase since 1984 Affects All New, Non-Marcellus Shale Wells HARRISBURG- The Department of Environmental Protection has begun collecting higher permit application fees for all traditional vertical non-Marcellus Shale oil and natural gas wells drilled in Pennsylvania to cover the cost of the agency's permitting and enforcement work.

Williamsport, Lycoming County- Billtown's proud past has never been in doubt, but as for its promising future? That's a bit more of a question mark.