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WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Employees at the Barnes & Noble bookstore were closing up for the night Wednesday when the front window blew out, sending glass and debris flying like a bomb exploding. “It just came flying in as if something hit it,” employee Patrick

West Side Career and Technology Center held its graduation ceremony Thursday. For a list of graduates, be sure to check out our annual graduation special section on June 28.

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm down to the ground. Tornadoes are capable of completely destroying well-made structures, uprooting trees, and hurling objects through the air like deadly missiles. T

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Shortly before 10 p.m., the emergency alert came: A tornado was coming to Luzerne County. For the previous half-hour, a severe thunderstorm had dumped rain as it moved across the county. About 20 minutes after the National Weather Serv

BEAR CREEK TWP. — The chunk of orange, black and white debris at Bear Creek Camp could only have come from one place: Dick’s Sporting Goods, nearly five miles away. A PPL employee restoring power in the area found the debris near a camp path and told staf

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Wednesday’s tornado was the 19th to hit Luzerne County since 1950 and one of the more powerful. Most of those previous 18 tornadoes left without injuring anyone, but one from 1984 injured 12 people in the county and another from 2006 i

The Barnes & Noble bookstore damaged in Wednesday night's tornado will reopen, the company announced on the store's Twitter page this afternoon.

LAUREL RUN — About 250 customers are still without power in Laurel Run after a tornado swept through the area Wednesday night.

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — A powerful storm caused absolute devastation Wednesday night in Wilkes-Barre Twp., decimating the Wilkes-Barre Commons shopping mall and the Wilkes-Barre Arena Hub Shopping Plaza.

Dallas School District teachers plan to go on strike Tuesday if the school board doesn’t approve a new union contract proposal at Monday’s meeting. A strike on Tuesday would probably only last one day because of a state requirement that students have 180