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Efforts to fill a judicial vacancy within the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania have taken on increased importance as the court deals with the loss of

Local news from StateCollege.com and Centre County Partners. Read about Judge Puts Jerry Sandusky's Federal Appeal on Hold and more from the State College, PA region

A federal judge has put on hold Jerry Sandusky’s latest appeal of his 2012 child sexual abuse convictions.

A Pittston man will spend nearly a quarter century in federal prison for producing child pornography.

Judge blocks lawsuit against OSHA over refusal to inspect Pennsylvania Maid-Rite food processing plant during pandemic US District Judge Malachy Mannion of Scranton, Pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit March 30 that was brought by three anonymous employees of the Maid-Rite Specialty Foods meatpacking plant in Dunmore. The lawsuit was against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for failing to adequately inspect the plant where more than half of the workforce contracted COVID-19...

New mayor takes Scranton’s reins This is not how Paige Gebhardt Cognetti envisioned her first year as Scranton’s mayor. Elected in November 2019 to fill the final two years of former Mayor Bill Courtright’s term after his guilty plea to federal corruption charges, Cognetti took office Jan. 6 and had to start working almost immediately to put out figurative fires. The first was dealing with the potentially devastating Lackawanna County Court decision in a tax lawsuit that threaten...