WILKES-BARRE — Don Webster, executive director of tecBRIDGE, called up a sizable group of audience members to the F.M. Kirby Center stage on Thursday evening.

EDWARDSVILLE — One person was hospitalized after a shooting in area of the Eagle Ridge Apartments on Beverly Road Thursday, officials told our news gathering partners at Eyewitness News (WBRE/WYOU).

WILKES-BARRE — Multi-platinum rock band Starship featuring Mickey Thomas will headline the city’s second consecutive free concert to be held Aug. 16 on Public Square.

Luzerne County will need a new veteran affairs overseer because James Spagnola is retiring from the position he’s held since 2009.

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WILKES-BARRE — If Gov. Josh Shapiro and Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis are to be successful in getting more funding approved for fighting gun violence, stories like the one told on Wednesday by Scranton’s Kathy Lee Toothill need to be repeated over and over.

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. If he does it again, the judge warned, he could be jailed.

Luzerne County’s Election Board will hold a public hearing Friday afternoon on 13 challenged provisional ballots in the Republican 117th District state representative race.

Thirteen Luzerne County provisional votes hang in the balance in the tight primary election Republican race for 117th District state representative, and it’s still unknown whether they can be opened and tallied.

DALLAS TWP. — Hazleton Area demonstrated Wednesday why it has won the last four Wyoming Valley Conference Division 1 baseball titles.

TUNKHANNOCK — In her first game against the Tunkhannock lineup this year, Pittston Area ace Gianna Adams had a no-hit, 15 strikeout performance that would have been pretty hard to top.

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders blanked the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 5-0 Wednesday evening at 121 Financial Ballpark. Clayton Beeter struck out nine over 5.2 innings and Luis Torrens drove in four of the five runs as the RailRiders won their second straight and for the sixth time on their current two-week road trip.

The Crestwood boys tennis team breezed into the semifinals of the District 2 Class 3A team tournament, picking up a 5-0 sweep over Wyoming Valley West on Wednesday.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks understand the stakes.

Omar Jerez tripled and drove in three runs as Wilkes-Barre Area upset first-place Pittston Area 5-3 Wednesday in a Wyoming Valley Conference Division 1 baseball game.

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders beat the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 7-6 on Tuesday night at 121 Financial Ballpark. The RailRiders held off the Jumbo Shrimp’s last gasp efforts in a 13-run opener to this six-game series.

NEW YORK — Tyrese Maxey saved Philadelphia from elimination with seven points in the final 25 seconds of regulation, finished with 46 and led the 76ers to a 112-106 overtime victory over the New York Knicks on Tuesday night in Game 5 of their first-round series.