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For most of the Hazleton area merchants gathered Tuesday morning for the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce's Downtown Committee meeting, one issue on the agenda towered over the rest.

Waldenbooks in Laurel Mall is among the 200-some Borders Group Inc. stores slated to close nationwide in 2010, the parent company announced Friday.

Becoming a parent for the first time three years ago, Kim Murphy tried to do everything the way she was raised by her parents and from what she read in pediatricians? handbooks, but it just didn?t feel right.

Director of regional facility in Wyoming speaks as part of Citizens' Police Academy.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Warren Ruda / The Citizens' Voice June Stone, Freda Miller and Dee Michaels wait for Forty Fort Ward 1 residents to sign the registry before casting ballots at the Cross Valley Assembly of God Church.

The voters of Luzerne County will decide who will hold court here in Wilkes-Barre. Up for grabs are two open seats on the Court of Common Pleas and on the eve of the election the three candidates vying for a seat hit the campaign trail.

West Wyoming Borough Council has decided to fly a "9/11 National Remembrance Flag" below the American flag in front of the town hall.

A woman from Luzerne County was killed Monday morning in a two-vehicle crash. Police in Salem Township said Rosemary Kline, 63, of Shickshinny was headed north on Route 11 near Berwick when her car collided with a southbound pick-up truck.

Rex Rutkoski can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4664. The "soldiers" of the Wyoming Valley Massacre, which took place in 1778 during the Revolutionary War, were not "soldiers" in the traditional sense.

The Abrahams Creek Watershed Association along with Skelly and Loy Engineering will hold a public meeting on November 16 at 7 p.m. in the West Wyoming Borough Hall.

Township police are investigating an armed robbery at Interstate Blood and Plasma on Carey Avenue on Monday morning.

Tuesday night, Allen Bellas resigned from his position as director of the Luzerne County Redevelopment Authority.

EDWARDSVILLE: The Family Caregivers Support Group will have its meeting from 1-3 p.m. today at the Edwardsville Senior Center, Russell Street.

DEP to hold hearing on permit that would allow discharge of treated gas-drilling water.

Wyoming Seminary awarded Upper School Merit Scholarships to six freshmen students from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.

A woman from Luzerne County is behind bars on charges she stole thousands of dollars worth of jewelry to support a heroin habit.

West Wyoming police say suspect pawned stolen jewelry to support drug habit. WEST WYOMING A house cleaner admitted she stole $13,000 worth of jewelry from a borough home to support her heroin habit, police said.

Beautification the focus of women's clubs in creation of gardens at county rec site.

A missing dog that was stuck on an island for several days has been found. Search crews were looking for "Bubby" on "Scovell Island" in the Susquehanna River.

Prior experience: Self-employed attorney-at-law, 1973 to May 1998, Law Offices of Burke and Burke, 1460 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and U.S. Federal District Court MILITARY SERVICE: U.S. Army July, 1969 to February, 1971; Specialist 5 Awarded Bronze Star Medal for ...