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.

PHILADELPHIA — Quinyon Mitchell spent the last couple of months bouncing between Toledo’s campus, the Detroit metropolitan airport, and numerous NFL training complexes.

Crestwood used a six-run second inning to defeat Wyoming Valley West 10-2 Tuesday in Wyoming Valley Conference softball.

The Wyoming Area boys track and field team swept all 17 contested events to finish up another undefeated regular season with a dominant 121-7 win over Nanticoke Area on Tuesday.

DENVER — The futures of LeBron James and Darvin Ham with the Los Angeles Lakers are murky after their first-round playoff exit.

NEW YORK (AP) — Perhaps neither Milwaukee nor Philadelphia would’ve been good enough to beat a Boston team that ran away to the NBA’s best record.

NEW ORLEANS — Jalen Williams highlighted a 24-point performance with a back-breaking 3 with three minutes left, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the New Orleans Pelicans 97-89 on Monday night to complete a four-game sweep of their first-round playoff series.

When Andrew Brunette was playing for Minnesota, the Wild worked their way back from two separate 3-games-to-1 deficits to win playoff series.

SUNRISE, Fla. — Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves, Aleksander Barkov and Carter Verhaege each had two goals and an assist, and the Florida Panthers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6-1 in Game 5 on Monday night to clinch their first-round series and advance in the NHL playoffs.