{"id":137460,"date":"2026-03-13T15:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137460\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:51:21","slug":"coroner-identifies-man-56-declared-dead-after-being-pulled-from-lackawanna-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137460\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies man, 56, declared dead after being pulled from Lackawanna River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Miller, 56, of Scranton, died after first responders pulled him from the Lackawanna River around noon Thursday, Lackawanna County Coroner Tim Rowland said. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Rowland said Miller entered the &#8220;swift current&#8221; of the river just before noon near the Mulberry Street bridge and traveled downstream approximately 1\/4 mile before first responders pulled him from the water. <\/p>\n<p>He was transported to Geisinger Community Medical Center, where he was declared dead after resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful. <\/p>\n<p>Rowland said the man died as a result of drowning and hypothermia, but the manner of death is pending the completion of a Scranton Police investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Miller, 56, of Scranton, died after first responders pulled him from the Lackawanna River around noon Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-137460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}