Luzerne County Coroner Jill Matthews carries a stretcher at the scene where a body was found in a wooded area long the North Cross Valley Expressway in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday. Ed Lewis | Times Leader
                                 Ed Lewis | Times Leader

Body found in a wooded area along North Cross Valley Expressway

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WILKES-BARRE — A body was removed from a wooded area along the North Cross Valley Expressway near Exit 1 and behind the Host Inn All Suites Hotel on Tuesday.


			
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Legislators announce CFA Multimodal Transportation Fund grants

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WILKES-BARRE — Local state legislators on Tuesday announced the approval of several grants under the Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure Plan.


			
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Rep. Kaufer, GOP colleagues introduce bill seeking to lower energy costs

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KINGSTON — Rep. Aaron Kaufer on Monday said despite having abundant energy resources right here in Pennsylvania, families and businesses pay too much to heat their homes and turn the lights on.


			
				                                Kevin Brobson, the Republican candidate for an open seat on Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court, leaves with his wife Lauren after they voted at their polling place at Fishing Creek Community Center, Nov. 2, 2021, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Pa. roundup: GOP’s Brobson wins open seat on Supreme Court

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republican Kevin Brobson was elected Tuesday to serve on Pennsylvania’s highest court, leaving it with a 5-to-2 Democratic majority.


			
				                                In this Friday, July 30, 2004 file photo, the U.S.S. Virginia returns to the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton Conn., after its first sea trials. A Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, the Justice Department said Sunday.
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Navy nuclear engineer charged with trying to pass secrets

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WASHINGTON — A Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, the Justice Department said Sunday.


			
				                                Bill O’Boyle

Beyond the Byline: Memories of St. Vincent’s and the ‘M Squad’

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WILKES-BARRE — Last week, I really did take a trip in the Way Back Machine, wandering through many years of St. Vincent’s High School classes and memories.


			
				                                The Capitol Building in Harrisburg.

Toomey looking to restore authority over ‘national security’ tariffs

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WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, and Mark Warner, D-Virginia, this week introduced bipartisan legislation to prevent presidential abuse of “national security” tariffs by reinstating congressional authority over trade.


			
				                                FILE - In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York’s Times Square. Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 elections in a moneymaking move that a company whistleblower alleges contributed to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, invasion of the U.S. Capitol.
                                 (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage

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(AP) — Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were down across wide swathes of the world Monday. Facebook’s internal systems used by employees also went down.

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Cavaliers making second trip to state semifinals

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BETHLEHEM – The Scranton Prep boys basketball team had plenty of reason to understand just how difficult it was to get past Philadelphia power Neumann-Goretti.

District 2 Individual Wrestling ChampionshipsSmith, Heard, Marzolino win titles, lead Comets to second place

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Austin Smith captured his fourth Class 3A gold medal while Abington Heights teammates Brian Heard and Caleb Marzolino each won their third in the District 2 Individual Wrestling Championships Feb. 23-24 at Wilkes-Barre Area High School.


			
				                                In this April 27, 2016, file photo, former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight speaks during campaign stop for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Indianapolis. Knight, the brilliant and combustible coach who won three NCAA titles at Indiana and for years was the scowling face of college basketball has died. He was 83.
                                 AP file photo

Legendary college basketball coach Bob Knight dead at 83

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bob Knight, the brilliant and combustible coach who won three NCAA titles at Indiana and for years was the scowling face of college basketball, has died. He was 83.


			
				                                Delaware Valley defeated Pittston Area and Scranton to win the District 2 Class 5A championship last season.
                                 Tony Callaio file photo | For Times Leader

H.S. Football: Lackawanna Conference looks quite competitive

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OLYPHANT — The Lackawanna Football Conference opens Friday with three brand-new head coaches, each an experienced assistant in his first assignment leading a high school program.


			
				                                Parent/Child tournament winners Mariellen Walsh and Camilla Rinaldi, finalists; Ella and Will Cohen, champions.

Scranton Tennis Club hosts 50 and Over Doubles and Parent-Child tourneys

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Despite a couple of rain delays, the Scranton Tennis Club was able to complete its 50 and Over Doubles and Parent-Child tournaments recently.

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US has serious problem in the Red Sea as it tries...

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A decade ago, the Houthis were a ragtag group of fighters based in the north of Yemen that most people hadn’t even heard of. Today, the movement-turned-de facto government in Yemen is causing so much trouble in the Red Sea that some of the world’s largest shipping companies are no longer sailing through its waters.

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