Lackawanna County's minority commissioner predicts Luzerne County will lose its suit over the possible sale of the region's Triple-A baseball franchise.
A.J. Munchak says Luzerne County has no right to share in the profits of any sale of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. He says Luzerne County has not helped with expenses.
Coach Joe Paterno has tabbed freshman Robert Bolden as the starting quarterback for No. 19 Penn State.
Bolden beat out two sophomores, Kevin Newsome and West Scranton's Matt McGloin to start Saturday's opener against Youngstown State.
It would be the first time a true freshman opened the season as the starting quarterback for Penn State. It would also be the first start for a true freshman
Better drag that sofa on the porch indoors if you live in Hazelton. The Times Leader reports the city has banned furniture designed for indoor use in exterior areas such as front or back porches. Officials say if such furniture is spotted outside a home or business, the owner will have 10 days to remove it or face being billed for the cost of removal.
An underage drinking charge has sidelined the Nittany Lion mascot.
Penn State officials say the student who dons the mascot costume will miss the first month of the football season after being cited for underage drinking.
State College police issued a summons August 24 to Clint Gyory. He was also cited for public drunkenness and criminal mischief on August 1, the day after his 20th birthday.
Police in Monroe County, say 61-year-old Dale Morris of Stroudsburg, hit her husband in the crotch with a crowbar and then hit him in the head with it. This happened Monday night.
Stroud Area Regional police say Mrs. Morris reacted to a note from her husband. Police quoted her, "he deserved it."
BUXTON, N.C. (AP) - The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 115 mph winds Thursday on North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and potentially most destructive stop on the storm's projected journey up the Eastern Seaboard. The hurricane's leading edge brought on-and-off light rain in the afternoon to the long ribbon of barrier islands, which were expected to get the brunt of the storm around midnigh...
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - The Coast Guard is saying there are no immediate signs of a spill from an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. All 13 crew members were rescued from the water in the second such disaster in the Gulf in less than five months....
By MATTHEW LEE and ROBERT BURNS 2010-09-02T21:36:31Z
WASHINGTON (AP) - In an early sign of promise, Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged Thursday in a cordial first round of talks to keep meeting at regular intervals, aiming to nail down a framework for overcoming deep disputes and achieving lasting peace within a year. As their facilitator-in-chief, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to rise above the suspicion and skepticism that has blocked pe...
NEW YORK (AP) - This year's back-to-school season isn't as big a bust for retailers as they feared - or as last year's - but it's not great either. Americans are spending only when the item and price are just right, according to August reports from major chains released Thursday that showed shoppers bought a little more than a year ago....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Engineers removed a temporary cap Thursday that stopped oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown-out well in mid-July. No more oil was expected to leak into the sea, but crews were standing by with collection vessels just in case. The cap was removed as a prelude to raising the massive piece of equipment underneath that failed to prevent the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history....
By TERRY COLLINS and SUDHIN THANAWALA 2010-09-02T21:42:29Z
VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) - The co-worker of a woman found dead in her boyfriend's car after a fatal California police chase said Thursday that she spoke with the victim during the pursuit. The high-speed chase ended at a Richmond strip mall on Tuesday night, when officers shot and killed murder suspect Efren Valdemoro....
LONDON (AP) - Did creation need a creator? British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe....
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Two young goats wandered onto the thin ledge of a railroad bridge and spent nearly two days high above the ground until rescuers in a towering cherry picker plucked them from their perch, hungry but safe. The rescue occurred Wednesday 60 feet above a little-trafficked rural roadway in southern Montana between Billings and Roundup, after a caller told the Rimrock Humane Society the goats were stranded on the 6-inch ledge....
NEW YORK (AP) - Chris Brown is back to a familiar place - the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. The 21-year-old's latest song, the goodbye groove "Deuces," hit the top spot of Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart this week....
JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. (AP) - Fresh off his divorce, Tiger Woods has taken out a $54.5 million mortgage on his Florida waterfront estate. Mortgage documents filed last month in Martin County show Woods will make payments to an entity called JRD Florida Ventures LLC. That is a Virginia company whose registered agent is an attorney with the firm that represented Woods' ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, in their divorce....
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