* 717: 958 Harrisburg / Scranton / Wilkes-Barre, PA

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It is one of the principal cities in the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area, which had a population of 563, 631 as of the 2010 Census making it the fourth largest metro / statistical area in the state of Pennsylvania.

This statement is quoted from the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees News page: " On October 12, 1926, Babe Ruth visited Wilkes-Barre's Artillery Park to play in an exhibition game between Hughestown and Larksville.

An estimated 40, 000 people live and / or work in Downtown Wilkes-Barre every day.

It is home to three low-income housing projects, two elderly high-rise apartment buildings, and the AHL team The Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in Coal St Park.

Wilkes-Barre / Scranton International Airport serves the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton

Five international airlines fly from the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton International Airport in nearby Pittston Township.

* PNC Field, home of the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees ( in Moosic )

In the midst of the lockout, the Penguins dispersed between the club's American Hockey League affiliate Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins and European leagues.

* Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, or Red Barons, the former nickname of the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees baseball club

* Wilkes-Barre / Scranton: WOLF ( W52CE-TV Sayre ) Fox ; WNEP ABC ; and WYOU CBS

Lehighton is located in northeast Pennsylvania north / northwest of Allentown and south of Wilkes-Barre.

The town is primarily served by Service Electric Cablevision cable TV and receives both the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton market television stations and Philadelphia stations.

Directly to the north of the borough is the Toyota Pavilion and Sno Mountain Ski Resort in Scranton and directly south is the site of the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton International Airport, located in the adjacent borough of Avoca.

PNC Field, home to the New York Yankees ' farm team, the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees, is situated within the city limits of Moosic.

For 2006, a new, extension connects the county's Electric City Trolley Museum line at the Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, to a new station and trolley restoration facility, immediately adjacent to the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees stadium off Montage Mountain Road, Moosic.

It is the county seat of Lackawanna County and the largest principal city in the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area.

Other attractions responsible for recent popularity and favorable attention to the Scranton area include the Snö Mountain ski resort ( formerly Montage Mountain ), the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, AHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees ( formerly the Red Barons ), AAA affiliate of the New York Yankees, and their PNC Field, The Houdini Museum and the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain concert venue.

* Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the core cities of the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.

It is part of the Scranton – Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area.

Moosic is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, six miles ( 9 km ) south of Scranton and northeast of Wilkes-Barre on the Lackawanna River.

Professional ice hockey arrived in 1999 when the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League began play at the Mohegan Sun Arena ( formerly Wachovia Arena ) in Wilkes-Barre Township.

Mario Lemieux, OC, CQ (; ; born October 5, 1965 ) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and co-owner of the National Hockey League's ( NHL ) Pittsburgh Penguins and the American Hockey League's ( AHL ) Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins.

He played for the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, an affiliate team of the Pittsburgh Penguins, in the American Hockey League during the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout.

On April 17 – 18, 2009, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, the AHL affiliate of the New York Islanders, played two of their home playoff games against the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins at the Coliseum due to a scheduling conflict at the Sound Tigers ' regular home, the Arena at Harbor Yard.

They are the ECHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL and the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins and the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL.

Fleury finished the QMJHL season with Cape Breton in a first round elimination and was subsequently assigned to Pittsburgh's American Hockey League ( AHL ) affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins and appeared in 2 post-season games.

Category: Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins players

The Senators entered the playoffs on a roll, winners of 11 of their last 13 games, and continued their dominance by cruising through the first 2 games of their first round best of 7 series against the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, scoring 9 goals.

Boulerice was invited to the AHL's, Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, training camp for the 2009 – 10 season.

Undrafted, Brookbank has previously played for the Anchorage Aces of the West Coast Hockey League ( WCHL ), the Oklahoma City Blazers of the Central Hockey League ( CHL ), the Orlando Solar Bears of the International Hockey League ( IHL ), the Grand Rapids Griffins, Providence Bruins, Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, Binghamton Senators, Milwaukee Admirals, Norfolk Admirals and Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League ( AHL ), and the Nashville Predators, Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL.

The Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins are the American Hockey League affiliate of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Penguins purchased the dormant Cornwall Aces AHL franchise from the Colorado Avalanche in 1996, but left the team inactive until the 1999 – 2000 season when it was placed in Wilkes-Barre.

* July 3 – American Revolutionary War: the Wyoming Massacre takes place near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, ending in a terrible defeat of the local colonists.

Starting in 2012, professional lacrosse will come to the area in the form of the North American Lacrosse League's Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Shamrocks.

The hurricane, at the time the most significant natural disaster in American history, wreaked havoc on Kingston and neighboring Wilkes-Barre, causing a state of emergency.

Wilkes University is a private, non-denominational American university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

William Daniel Phillips ( born November 5, 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ) is a Nobel Prize winning, American physicist.

After a brief managing stint in 1913 while playing in Wilkes-Barre, he resumed his managing career with Louisville in 1919, leading the team to American Association pennants in 1921 and 1925 before being hired to manage the Chicago Cubs for the 1926 season.

Having not been claimed by another team, Šatan was assigned to the Penguins ' American Hockey League ( AHL ) affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins.

The Bufalino crime family, also known as the Pittston crime family, or the Scranton Wilkes-Barre family, is an American Mafia crime family active in the Northeastern Pennsylvania cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Pittston.

He was retained by the organization, however, and named interim head coach of the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins for the remainder of the American Hockey League ( AHL ) season.

In the middle of his first season of professional baseball, Conley agreed to sign with the Wilkes-Barre Barons of the struggling American Basketball League

British forces along with Seneca warriors destroyed a fort near Wilkes-Barre and killed over 300 American settlers.

He split his rookie season between Pittsburgh and their American Hockey League ( AHL ) affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, finishing with 6 points ( 2 goals, 4 assists ) in 30 NHL games and 28 points ( 8 goals, 20 assists ) in 44 AHL games.

Northeast Pennsylvania English is the local dialect of American English spoken in northeastern Pennsylvania, specifically in the Coal Region, which includes the cities of Hazleton, Pottsville, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton.

Starting in January 2012 it will be home to the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Shamrocks of the North American Lacrosse League.

The Blizzard carried over their success at home from the regular season by knocking off Louisville 37-27 and advancing to take on Wilkes-Barre / Scranton in their second consecutive American Conference Championship Game.