Oil falls below $94 as China manufacturing weakens

(AP) A government investigation found poor quality construction materials and building code violations were among the "series of irregularities" that caused the collapse of a...

KINGSTON —The game of girls lacrosse allows for quick punches that can lead to absolute knockouts.

DETROIT — The Detroit automakers are largely forgoing the traditional two-week summer break at their factories and speeding up production to meet buyers' growing demand for new cars and trucks.

A Luzerne County website crash at the height of online primary election result reporting Tuesday was caused by an overload of computer users simultaneously accessing the site, county officials say.

MIDDAY DRAWINGDaily Number - 9-2-1Big Four - 9-9-0-5Quinto - 5-8-5-8-4Treasure Hunt06-11-20-26-27EVENING DRAWINGDaily Number – 9-0-8

WILKES-BARRE – Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said Wednesday she thought she would be the last person to be asked to speak at the county's Day Reporting Center graduation.

Paul Quick, vice president and general manager of Frontier Communications in Dallas, gives opening remarks Wednesday morning at a ceremony to honor the service men and women who lost their lives in service to their country. At left are representatives from the Dallas...

Deputy Coroner Curt Swanson, front right, brings the body of Helen McNelis from the backyard of her East Hillside Street residence in Kingston Township on Wednesday afternoon. Swanson said McNelis, 85, fell into the swimming pool and drowned. She was pronounced dead at...

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to...

WASHINGTON4 Americans drone victims

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot to death by authorities early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.

MOORE, Okla. — The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and might have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — Members of a House panel angry over the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the military took a key step toward tackling the problem by passing legislation Wednesday that would strip commanding officers of their longstanding authority to...

CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up.

Holiday driving to increaseIt's going to be another busy Memorial Day weekend on the nation's highways.

WASHINGTON — Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to slow its extraordinary stimulus programs.

BEAR CREEK TWP. — A crash involving a car and a pickup on what some deem an unsafe road claimed the lives of two people on Wednesday.

KINGSTON — The Luzerne Intermediate Unit announced its 2013 scholarship selections on Wednesday night.

HARRISBURG — Democrats nominated new mayoral candidates in Pittsburgh, Scranton and Harrisburg in the Pennsylvania primary election.

SWARTHMORE, Pa. — In an effort to slow the pace of climate change, students at more than 200 colleges are asking their schools to stop investing in fossil fuel companies.

Democratic Luzerne County controller nominee Michelle Bednar believes her primary opponent Stephen A. Urban — and many others — thought defeating her would be a “walk in the park.”

BUTLER TWP. — Two people were injured in a two-vehicle crash on South Hunter Highway (state Route 309) Wednesday afternoon.

HAZLETON — City Council voted 3-2 on Wednesday to defeat a measure that would have allowed city businesses to opt into creating customer parking zones in front of their establishments.

Former Luzerne County Judge Arthur D. Dalessandro died Wednesday at age 86.

SPOKANE, Wash. — A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a case in which a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week.

The Associated PressWASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriage and other issues.

WILKES-BARRE — A little more than a week after the release of federal funding for the demolition of the Hotel Sterling, the bid period began Wednesday for contractors interested in tearing down the landmark structure.

WILKES-BARRE — For nearly a dozen years, a local World War II veteran has been trying to get American flags flying in Wilkes-Barre. Today his star-spangled dream comes true.

WILKES-BARRE – A Luzerne County senior judge on Wednesday said an attorney representing his daughter in a fatal hit-and-run may continue to represent her, but cannot testify at her trial.

NANTICOKE — A woman charged after cocaine allegedly was found in her toddler's bloodstream waived her right to a preliminary hearing on Wednesday.

JENKINS TWP. — The face period for payment of 2013 Luzerne County and Jenkins Township taxes will expire on Saturday, June 1.

HAZLE TWP. — A man was arrested Wednesday by Luzerne County detectives and the state police computer crime unit on charges he downloaded child pornography.

WILKES -BARRE — The city's Zoning Hearing Board again denied a business owner's attempt to open a hookah bar and expand his pizza restaurant on South Main Street.

WILKES-BARRE — Attorneys from both sides of the Dallas School District bus contract debate agreed Wednesday to continue a preliminary injunction hearing, resetting the case from Wednesday to May 30 at 9 a.m.

A CLARIFICATION NEEDS to be made in an election round-up published on Page 7A in Wednesday's edition.

WRIGHT TWP. — A bag filled with 344 Ritalin tablets was confiscated by a Crestwood High School teacher, foiling a plan among three students to sell each pill for profit, township police said Wednesday.