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Judge considers Scranton request to demolish building with creek running underneath it

SCRANTON — A judge wants an engineer to testify about the condition of a condemned building that Scranton seeks to demolish because a creek runs under the structure. ....

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OYFS cases under advisement by judge after hearing

Lackawanna County Judge James Gibbons did not issue an immediate ruling Friday regarding the fate of prosecutions against five current and former Office of Youth and Family Services staffers. ....

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Evidence of teen victim's earlier fight should go before jurors in Scranton murder case, defense argues

Tyler McKenna, an 18-year-old killed in a stabbing last year in Scranton, wielded a machete against someone else in a fight moments before his death, according to an attorney representing ....

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New mayor takes Scrantonâs reins
This is not how Paige Gebhardt Cognetti envisioned her first year as Scrantonâs mayor.
Elected in November 2019 to fill the final two years of former Mayor Bill Courtrightâs term after his guilty plea to federal corruption charges, Cognetti took office Jan. 6 and had to start working almost immediately to put out figurative fires.
The first was dealing with the potentially devastating Lackawanna County Court decision in a tax lawsuit that threatened to drive the city into insolvency, followed in short order by the burgeoning COVID-19 crisis that prompted her to declare a public health emergency in mid-March. ....

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