LEWISBURG — Oren Cass, founder and chief economist of American Compass, an influential conservative think tank, told a Bucknell University audience on Monday that finance should serve a productive economy and create value — not just become an end in itself.
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NEW BERLIN — SUN Area Technical Institute has received a $100,000 grant to advance a comprehensive workforce development project.
MILTON — State police seek more victims in a nationwide scam in which the accused impersonated federal law enforcement agents to collect at least $6.5 million in gold bars and coins.
MILTON — A Milton man living in a home where a 3-day-old baby was found buried in a backyard in 2025 has been charged with sexually assaulting a 10-year-old.
The settlement says the attorney general controls the money, but Pennsylvania’s fiscal code says it should go into the General Fund.
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MIDDLEBURG — Four-year-old Lucas Pitre clamored into the ambulance Saturday at Summit Early Learning’s Touch a Truck event in Middleburg and received a crash course in how a first responder works.
RANSOM TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Almost a year after Ransom Township supervisors voted to deny a data center application in the township, guidelines are now in place with the hopes of better protecting residents' health and safety. Passed by township supervisors Monday night, the forty-page document both defines data centers and puts up guardrails for [...]
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Local performers gathered at the Strange Birds Art and Music venue in Scranton for an Open Mic Night held as part of the ongoing Scranton Fringe Festival. The Lackawanna County event featured acts across multiple artistic disciplines, including comedy, music and theater. The open mic provided stage time for performers [...]
