NORTHAMPTON COUNTY One lane of U.S. 13 has reopened several hours after a crash involving a tractor-trailer that lost part of a load of lumber, authorities said today.

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All three of the county’s schools will close early today because of increasing absences and the high number of children reporting to the schools’ nurses, the superintendent says.

By Josh Mrozinski The (Scranton) Times-Tribune HONESDALE, Pa. Prosecutors in Wayne County are seeking the death penalty for Jeffrey Plishka, the Eastern Shore man they say killed Laura Ronning 18 years ago.

WILLIS WHARF Virginia is adopting a new wastewater-disposal regulation to protect clam and oyster production in the waters off the Eastern Shore.

A Virginia State Police trooper is being honored Sunday by Parade Magazine and the International Association of Chiefs of Police for saving a child from a burning car earlier this year.

A dozen high-powered fans, eight industrial drainage pumps the size of washing machines, miles of electric cables and concrete-encased water pipes, and walls of power breakers and transformers. This is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel drivers never see. The guts sit behind the tunnel's walls, ceilings and floors and in five-story buildings at each tunnel portal.

By Nora Firestone Correspondent EXMORE Terry Kroll began serving people in need as a nursing home assistant at age 15. At 22, she earned a nursing degree and continued to care for the ill, elderly and disabled, loving all her patients -"even the grumpy ones," she half joked.

WALLOPS ISLAND NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.

NORFOLK Two Eastern Shore men were sentenced to probation Monday after pleading guilty in federal court to trafficking thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes. Senel Cuce, 29, co-owner of the Sunrise Family Market and Pizzeria in Exmore, and his manager, Ali Riza Zulam, were placed on five months of home detention with electronic monitoring.

By Josh Mrozinski

The (Scranton) Times-Tribune HONESDALE, Pa. A man charged with the 1991 killing of a Wayne County camp counselor has been ordered to stand trial in her death.