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SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The race for Scranton mayor is heating up ahead of next week's primary election. Voters will choose from both familiar faces and new challengers, all with different ideas on how to shape the city's future.

28/22 News has a closer look at who's on the ballot and what each candidate is bringing to the table.

From longtime public servants to first-time contenders, each hopeful has a different vision for the Electric City.

DANVILLE — Geisinger Medical Center officials promise improved delivery of service to patients as they begin a multi-year expansion and modernization project.

Former Selinsgrove Borough Council President Marvin Rudnitsky violated the state Ethics Act by participating in funding the Regional Engagement Center led by his daughter and failing to report serving on the center’s board of directors.

SELINSGROVE — A textbook has been approved for the AP psychology course that many in Selinsgrove Area School District were concerned would be eliminated.

DANVILLE — Danville fifth graders took a trip outside their Liberty Valley Intermediate School classrooms Tuesday and attended real-world lessons at Frosty Valley Resort.

DANVILLE — A student logged into an online classroom using another student's credentials and posted a threat toward Danville Middle School last night, according to a report sent to district parents and guardians.

LEWISBURG — The Union County Library System on Monday expanded access to laptops to assist patrons in the “last mile” of the technology gap.

Once, there were 90 one-room schoolhouses scattered throughout Montour County, but today there is only one that is still intact, according to Shane Patterson, vice president of the Montour County Historical Society. The Mooresburg One Room Schoolhouse at 685 Liberty Valley Road is still just as it was when it closed in 1964.

CARBONDALE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A former executive director at the Carbondale YMCA is facing charges after police say he embezzled almost $100,000 from the organization's accounts.

According to a release from Carbondale police, 44-year-old Jason Mackie was taken into custody after funds were reported missing from the Carbondale YMCA's operations account.

AG says more than 400 illegal gambling machines seized

(WBRE/WYOU) — Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the seizure of more than 400 alleged illegal gambling devices from multiple establishments in western Pennsylvania.

Charges have been filed against two companies, Buffalo Skills Games, Inc., and J.J. Amusement, Inc., which are both owned and operated by John F. Conley, who the attorney general says has prior federal convictions for illegal gambling.

Summer tribute concerts coming to Mount Airy Casino Resort