Donnie Collins

Sneaking an occasional peek out his office window at the Wilkes University Public Safety Center on South Main Street toward the hustle and bustle of everyday life in Wilkes-Barre is a bit of a pastime for Chief Mike Krzywicki.

It isn't, by any obvious measure lyrically, a Christmas song. It never mentions the day itself, nor does it touch on themes that have become rather synonymous with the season in modern times.

Many, many years ago now — more than half my life ago, in fact — I was fresh out of college and presented with an opportunity to write my first weekly newspaper column.

In restaurant sales, recipes take back seat to experience, expertise, history

Picture a vast wilderness, lush trees overwhelming the hill, a river cutting through the stone and raging down its center.

When Pan Am Flight 101 landed at New York City's JFK Airport on Feb. 7, 1964, carrying four young men from Liverpool, England, who would go on to

At the height of the Beatlemania craze in 1964, more than 1,100 people were employed at the Capitol Records plant in Scranton to keep up with demand for the Fab Four’s albums.

When members of the Luzerne County Council voted to pass a much talked-about non-discrimination ordinance on Tuesday, they showed no small amount of political courage.

When members of the Luzerne County Council voted to pass a much talked-about non-discrimination ordinance on Tuesday, they showed no small amount of political courage

For nearly half a century, Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe was considered Wilkes-Barre's favorite son — even though very few knew his name.