{"id":150201,"date":"2026-03-27T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150201\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:49:07","slug":"scranton-police-face-off-against-arc-of-nepa-in-charity-basketball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150201\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police face off against ARC of NEPA in charity basketball game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scranton High School hosted the charity game on Wednesday, supporting the ARC of NEPA&#8217;s advocacy for individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 An annual basketball game at Scranton High School raised money for a local nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thearcnepa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ARC of Northeastern Pennsylvania<\/a> advocates for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, more than 100 people gathered to watch the organization take on the Scranton police in a friendly game of hoops.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit says the game helps bring the community together for a good cause. &#8220;This game really brings together the local police depart or the fraternity police department as well as those with disabilities and really just highlights the importance of community and working together and having a great time,&#8221; said Andrew Hoppes, ARC of NEPA.<\/p>\n<p>The Arc Nor&#8217;easters won this year&#8217;s basketball game against the Scranton Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton High School hosted the charity game on Wednesday, supporting the ARC of NEPA&#8217;s advocacy for individuals with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-150201","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\/150201","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=150201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}