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By Aly Van Dyke, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. Jul. 14--After waiting 10 hours in the emergency room at Community Medical Center in Scranton, a 9-year-old boy finally was given a bed in a children's inpatient psychiatric ward -- in Philadelphia. The boy arrived via ambulance at Friends Hospital at 3:30 a.m., nearly 13 hours after he and his grandparents first arrived at CMC because his numerous mental health disorders left him uncontrollably violent. "We shouldn't have to go that far,"...
By Daniel Axelrod, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. Jul. 6--TOBYHANNA -- Fifteen-year-old Alexandria "Xandi" Robbins' 5-foot-7-inch frame dropped from 300 to 125 pounds in the 16 months before she died in September at her Tobyhanna home. Former Tobyhanna resident Thomas Abramouski, 16, now of Moscow, was so tired and weak he fainted into his father's arms in March 2007. Doctors gave him a prosthetic knee. A few months later, surgeons stopped the crippling pain of Thomas' friend and...
Verizon Wireless has expanded BroadbandAccess, its wireless broadband service, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, giving local customers access to the high-speed business and entertainment services on their wireless phones, laptop and desktop computers, and PDAs. Customers living in, or visiting, the Stroudsburg, East Stroudsburg, Brodheadsville, Blakeslee, Tobyhanna, East Stroudsburg University, Tannersville, Mount Pocono and Pocono Summit areas can now access their e-mail, corporate data and...
