A portrait of fallen Pennsylvania State Trooper Joshua Miller is displayed in the rotunda of the Pittston Area High School during his viewing in Yatesville, Pa., in June.
YATESVILLE Pittston Area school officials agreed Tuesday to look into a pre-emptive move into the open electricity market, after hearing a presentation from an energy buyer.
LAFLIN Borough officials Thursday gave a first reading to a 2010 budget that holds taxes and fees at current levels but still spends $5,000 less this year's budget.
But about a half dozen at Greater Nanticoke have confirmed cases of swine flu. YATESVILLE While students at one school district returned to classes Tuesday after the schools had been shut down to combat the swine flu, another district was hit with its first cases of the illness.
YATESVILLE Borough officials on Wednesday confirmed the receipt of a $25,000 state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources grant that will be used to create a concrete path to the borough's bocci courts, as well to do as other work in the park.
A school bus crashed into the porch of a home Monday morning in Luzerne County. There were no students on the bus when it crashed in Hughestown Monday morning.
When a train derailment in 2002 forced the evacuation of hundreds of Laflin residents, emergency crews went up and down every street going door-to-door to notify residents.
School board to fill vacancy created when Joe Oliveri resigned last month. YATESVILLE A handful of candidates have submitted paperwork requesting to fill Pittston Area School Board member Joe Oliveri's seat after he resigned in mid-August and pleaded guilty to federal charges of accepting money in exchange for awarding a contract.