Wilkes University has received approval from the Arizona State Board for Private Postsecondary Education to offer degree programs in Mesa.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Emergency officials kept a close eye on the Susquehanna River early Thursday, but expressed optimism that conditions were improving and that a recently improved levee system would hold back floodwaters.

Mesa has secured a fourth liberal arts college for a planned higher education center that’s set to open downtown in the fall of 2013.

When Mesa officials asked more than 1,000 liberal arts colleges last year if they’d consider opening a Western branch campus, city officials had no idea how their unsolicited proposals would be received.

TRENTON, N.J. - As the waters of the Delaware River gradually began to recede, residents up and down its banks prepared to clear debris, pump out muddy water and tally the flood's cost.

DALLAS, Pa. — Out of toilet paper? Need to pick up a few things for dinner? Take a number and start bidding.

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