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WILKES-BARRE — Luzerne County is always a hotbed for political activity and 2025 was no exception.

WILKES-BARRE — Make no mistake about it, Paige Cognetti is running for reelection in November as Mayor of Scranton — but she sure sounds like a candidate for Congress.

WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services released the 2024 Annual Child Protective Services Report this week. It provides statewide and county-level data on the efforts to protect and help children who were reported as victims of suspected abuse and neglect.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Stacy Garrity, Pennsylvania’s two-term elected state treasurer, said Monday that she will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro ’s reelection bid, setting up what could be a contest between a low-profile officeholder and a potential White House contender in 2028.

The Pennsylvania Lottery is recognizing two jackpot-winning Cash 5 with Quick Cash tickets worth a combined total of $450,000 sold from the weekend drawings.

WILKES-BARRE — More than 100 students received their bachelor’s and master’s degrees this week before family, friends and faculty during the King’s College Summer Commencement at the William S. Scandlon Physical Education Center.

WILKES-BARRE — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s spokesman, Manuel Bonder, said the governor knows how critical mass transit is to the Commonwealth — and he has been fighting to deliver funding and solutions his entire time in office.

A 61-year-old man fatally shot a neighbor in rural Pennsylvania Thursday and then ambushed responding state troopers, wounding two while firing dozens of rounds from a semiautomatic weapon, police said.

A letter of intent was signed with California-based nonprofit Tenor Health Foundation last week to purchase Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, Regional Hospital of Scranton and Moses Taylor Hospital from Commonwealth Health, according to an internal memo.