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.

Scranton held a press conference in which he was reassuring, yet confusing, about this possibility, stating that though there had been a " small release of radiation ... no increase in normal radiation levels " had been detected.

Twenty-eight hours after the accident began, William Scranton III, the lieutenant governor, appeared at a news briefing to say that Metropolitan Edison, the plant's owner, had assured the state that " everything is under control ".

Ericsson still had a dislike for the U. S. Navy, but he was nevertheless convinced by Cornelius Scranton Bushnell to submit an ironclad ship design to them.

Scranton had a population of 76, 089 in 2010, according to the U. S. Census, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most-populous city after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, and Reading.

Present-day Scranton and its surrounding area had been inhabited by the native Lenape tribe, from whose language " Lackawanna " ( or " le-can-hanna ", meaning " stream that forks ") is derived.

The Delaware and Hudson ( D & H ) Canal Company, which had its own gravity railroad from Carbondale to Honesdale, built a steam railroad that entered Scranton in 1863.

The Scranton Transit Company, whose trolleys had given the city its nickname, transferred all operations to buses as the 1954 holiday season approached.

In 1970, the Secretary of Mines for Pennsylvania suggested that so many underground voids had been left by mining underneath Scranton that it would be " more economical " to abandon the city than make them safe.

Financial consultant Gary Lewis, who lives in Scranton, was quoted as estimating that " on 5 July the city had just $ 5, 000 cash in hand.

The former arena football Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Pioneers, who played eight seasons at the Mohegan Sun Arena ( formerly Wachovia Arena ) in Wilkes-Barre Township had made the playoffs in their last six years of existence and contended for the ArenaCup VIII in 2007 and the ArenaCup X in 2009, their final year, but lost both times.

Scranton previously had pro basketball teams, including the Scranton Apollos, Scranton Miners and Scranton Zappers.

In Scranton, Mayor McKune had been violently assaulted, and a posse of the leading citizens had fired upon and killed several of the rioters.

The war between the Polish faction and the Scranton Diocese settled into a standstill for the Christmas holidays, but in January 1890, war resumed, and this time the focus was the cemetery on Welsh Hill which the Diocese had created for use by both the Poles and the Lithuanians.

The Lithuanians did not expect to meet with an armed body of men and they had nothing to do but retreat, which they did speedily ... A committee of Polanders went to Scranton last night and had an interview with Bishop O ' Hara.

Harris had previously visited Scranton in October 1986 to perform Camelot with his younger brother, Dermot Harris, who died of a heart attack that same year.

As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 74, 982, making it the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, and Scranton.

The Scranton Declaration acknowledging voluntarism was adhered to, even though the craft-based railroad brotherhoods had not yet joined the AFL.

It has been rumored for years that there is an effort to re-establish rail passenger service via New Jersey Transit between Scranton and Hoboken, New Jersey by way of the Lackawanna Cut-Off, with connecting service into Manhattan.

For 16 consecutive years, beginning in 1994, The University of Scranton has been ranked in the top 10 schools in U. S. News & World Report's rankings of the Best Master's Universities-North.

The proposed rehabilitation west of Andover, which has not yet been funded, would provide commuter rail service between Scranton, Pennsylvania and Hoboken Terminal, with connecting service to New York's Penn Station ), serving the growing exurban communities in Monroe County in the Poconos, and in upper Warren County and lower Sussex County.

The margin would have likely been closer had the state legislature not shifted heavily Democratic Scranton and most of surrounding Lackawanna County from the nearby 10th District to the 11th.

The biggest change came when the legislature shifted heavily Democratic Scranton, which had been the 10th's base for over a century, to the Wilkes-Barre based 11th, already a Democratic stronghold.

It has successfully expanded to the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre markets, and to the Altoona-State College area, but it has been shown less interest in the suburban counties surrounding Philadelphia ( though there are a few locations ) and Pittsburgh.

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

Scranton had been Shafer's classmate at Yale and both were considered moderate Republicans.

He began his education at the Scranton Country Day School, which had been founded by his parents, completing his basic schooling at the Fessenden School in Newton, Massachusetts, and attended the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.

This paper had been founded in 1891 as the Scranton Tribune.

This television advertisement portrayed Scranton as having been a regular drug user in the 1960s and mocked Scranton's interest in transcendental meditation and his ties to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

At one point, the administration strongly considered a move from single-sex to co-educational classrooms due to low enrollment ; similar changes had been implemented at other Jesuit secondary institutions such as Scranton Preparatory School.

Other important towns containing many Jewish residents are: Wilkesbarre, whose first synagogue, B ' nai B ' rith, was incorporated in 1848 ; Scranton, which has three synagogues, the earliest, the Anshe Chesed, having been incorporated Jan. 7, 1862 ; Reading, which has two congregations, one of which, the Oheb Sholom, was founded May 1, 1864.

Since the summer of 1998, the D-L, under a haulage agreement with the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been running unit Canadian grain trains between Scranton and the Harvest States Grain Mill at Pocono Summit, PA.

Four U. S. Navy ships have been named USS Scranton:

Carney has been an associate professor of political science at Penn State Worthington Scranton since 1992.

Delta Air Lines also adjusted their flights at Wilkes-Barre / Scranton by temporarily stopping Atlanta service in preference of serving its new hub of Detroit.

The county has a population of 214, 437 as of 2010 and its county seat is Scranton.

Today Carbondale is served by the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority and its designated-operator Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad on a single remaining D & H mainline track running to Scranton.

" The show uses Scranton as its setting.

Scranton and its numerous satellite boroughs provide most of the employment, commerce, and recreation opportunities for Scott Township's residents.

The NYO & W Railroad, which depended heavily on its Scranton branch for freight traffic, was abandoned in 1957.

The township was the site of a plane crash on May 21, 2000, when an airplane, in its attempt to land at the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton International Airport in nearby Avoca, crashed in what was described by the BBC as a " wooded area " of the township near the intersection of Bear Creek Boulevard ( PA-Route 115 ) and the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, killing the pilot as well as all 19 passengers.

Scranton Button Co. halted production of new records by its Emerson subsidiary in 1928, but the company retained the name and later applied it to a line of radios.

In its heyday, travelers flocked in masses from the Southern Central Railroad as far as Scranton, Pa, and Syacruse, NY for outdoor family parties and picnicing.

Following appearances in Rochester and Syracuse in New York, and in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, Sherlock Holmes made its Broadway debut at the Garrick Theater on November 6, 1899, performing until June 16, 1900.

* 1946: Scranton Times, " for its fifteen-year investigation of judicial practices in the United States District Court for the middle district of Pennsylvania, resulting in removal of the District Judge and indictment of many others.

Along with its main studios, WBRE operates four news bureaus: Scranton ( on Lackawanna Avenue ), Stroudsburg ( Main Street ), Williamsport ( on Pine Street ), and Hazelton ( East 10th Street ).

The lower reaches of the river flow through the urbanized areas of Scranton, which grew around its banks in the 19th century as an industrial center.

Scranton had anchored the 10th and its predecessors for almost a century.

With time he moved up to supervisory positions and became rich enough to buy the company when its charter expired, and Connell became an influential Scranton businessmann, serving on several boards of directors.

He purchased the Scranton Button Company shortly after its founding.

CNJ created a route rationalization plan in 1965 which intended in ripping up its tracks along the Lehigh River from Nesquehoning Junction near Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania all the way to Scranton.

Also in 1957, the Bulletin bought CBS affiliate WGBI-TV ( channel 22 ) in Scranton, changing its call letters to WDAU-TV ( it is now WYOU ).

The station grew rapidly, and within a year moved its offices from First Presbyterian Church in Wilkes-Barre to office space donated by King's College, and later to a school in Scranton.

In 1910, it merged with Scranton's first newspaper, The Morning Republican, and changed its name to the Scranton Republican.

However, its legal name is still The Scranton Times ; the licensee for sister radio station WEJL and its two satellites is " The Scranton Times L. P ."