WASHINGTON (AP) - The president just couldn't say no: Mick Jagger held out a mic almost by way of command, and soon Barack Obama was belting out the blues with the best of them.
The East Room of the White House was transformed into an intimate blues club
SEDONA, Ariz. - Nagging controversy over the six-year process of completing "The Trouble with Cali" was generated by misunderstanding of the filmmaking process, taking the public on as investors and the film's association with former Lackawanna County commissioner Bob Cordaro, Paul Sorvino said today.
A new analysis of the prevalence of extreme weather events in Pennsylvania found that severe storms, hurricanes, flooding and snowfall in the last six years created federally declared disasters in counties where nearly 90 percent of the state's population lives.
An anthropologist has determined that bones discovered Monday in a vacant lot on Loomis Street in Wilkes-Barre were not human, Acting Luzerne County Coroner William Lisman said.
KINGSTON ? Authorities have filed drug charges against four people after a search warrant was filed this morning at 234 1/2 Rutter Ave. in Kingston, police said.
For more than a decade, Bronson Pinchot has spent much of his downtime in the picture-book Pennsylvania hamlet where he found a dream home far from the stressful clamor of New York or L.A.
Lackawanna County Commissioners Jim Wansacz and Corey O'Brien hope to have a better handle on who will be and who won't be part of their administration within the next two weeks.
Since notifying department directors, deputy directors and other top-level
A Scranton man pulled a pistol on his wife and her companion after he arrived at his North Scranton home on Monday night and found her with the other man, Lt. Joseph Arbie said.
Unless the Republican presidential race radically changes, Pennsylvania is likely to have a presidential primary election that matters for the second presidential election in a row.
The state will not see all the attention that then-Sens.
Lackawanna County Commissioners Jim Wansacz and Corey O'Brien hope to have a better handle on who will be and who won't be part of their administration within the next two weeks.
Probably no one has more riding on what happens today in a darkened theater in Sedona, Ariz., than director and actor Paul Sorvino and his family.
But pardon the taxpayers of Lackawanna County if they have more than a passing interest, too.
On what otherwise would have been a fairly quiet Presidents Day holiday, Vincenzo's Pizzeria in West Scranton had an unusually busy lunch crowd Monday.
FORTY FORT - Standing high on the banks of the Susquehanna River on Monday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey called on the Army Corps of Engineers to begin work to repair the Wyoming Valley levee system damaged by last year's flood.
SCRANTON - Off-duty Police Chief Dan Duffy arrested a man he caught urinating in the Patrick F. Guido Funeral Home parking lot while people were attending a viewing Monday night, and also found a bag of suspected marijuana in the man's pants pocket, arrest papers said.
The director who oversaw a decade of growth in a Scranton-based nonprofit organization that promotes independent living for people with disabilities in 10 Northeast Pennsylvania counties will retire, the agency announced Monday.
On the first day they officially began reporting to camp, the New York Yankees weren't short on talking points.
Before his big left-hander threw a pitch, manager Joe Girardi already had named CC Sabathia his opening day starter.
In the last week or so, it's been feast or famine with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins' offense.
On Monday afternoon, it was a Presidents' Day feast.
LITTLE LEAGUE - Final signups for Moosic Little League will be held Feb. 27 and March 2 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Moosic Borough Building. Cost is $40 per child, $60 per family, teener league $65 per child/family. Red Wings $45 per child and $70 per family
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FEDERAL - Cookies Travelers, First Credit Union and Fratelli's Pizza and Pasta each won three points. Top scorers: Bernie Azzarelli 242-615, Ken Strezlecki 588, Dennis Yanchik 588, Mark Strezlecki 563, Jimmy Notarianni 543, Marty Snyder 542.
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On the offensive end, it might have been one of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Steamers' better games of the season.
Seven players scored in double figures. Six posted at least 16 points and, as a team, they shot 58 percent from the field.
Unfortunately for
LA PLUME - A shot by a Marywood University player hits the front of the rim and caroms to a Keystone College player. Seeing his teammate with the rebound, Kenneth Hardnett immediately begins to sprint to the other end of the court.
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It's not just on the softball diamond where junior shortstop Kelsey Sarafinko excels. A captain of the softball team, Sarafinko put some of her other talents on display last week when she sang the national anthem prior to the boys' game
The junior guard scored 10 points in Lakeland's 49-30 win over Montrose on Tuesday to clinch the second-half title in Lackawanna Division III boys basketball. On Friday, he scored a game-high 27 points in a 59-48 victory over the Meteors
ALBANY, N.Y. - More than 31 minutes of scoreless hockey had been played Saturday night between the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and Albany Devils when the puck squirted its way past Albany goaltender Jeff Frazee and sat loose in the crease.
CLINTON TWP. - Lackawanna Trail's Stephen Miller simply towered over the competition, once again.
A dominant force, Miller, a 7-foot-1, senior scored 29 points, collected 20 rebounds and swatted five shots to lead the Lions to a 61-51 win over Carbondale Area on Saturday afternoon in a Lackawanna Class AA play-in game.
After plowing through the bracket on Saturday, 10 wrestlers from Delaware Valley made it to the championship finals of the Lackawanna League tournament.
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BASEBALL - Weston Park Junior/Senior Baseball League signups (ages 13-16) will be today from 3 to 5 p.m. at Holy Rosary Center, West Market Street in Scranton.
- Green Ridge American Legion Baseball (ages 12-19) will hold signups today from 3 t
In swimming, the record books don't stand a chance against Mia Nonnenberg.
A year after shredding two pages from the Lackawanna County Championship meet, the Scranton Prep sophomore scrapped two more in her encore performance.
It certainly has been a boys basketball season to remember.
Players who have been leading their teams for a number of years are going out in style. Many of them are leaving a lasting legacy, as well.
This season, where the player of the year in each divi
Coaches predicted in early December that Wallenpaupack was ready to take over the reins in Division I of the Lacka-wanna League.
Two traditional powers showed that the Lady Buckhorns still had some growing pains to get past. And while Abington Heights an
Nearly halfway through their 20-game season, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Steamers (4-4) are still trying to find the momentum that could lead them on a streak of wins.
