{"id":160014,"date":"2026-04-08T01:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:24:10","slug":"officials-da-push-for-bans-on-kratom-sales-and-possession-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160014\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials, DA push for bans on kratom sales and possession in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        Officials, district attorney push bans on kratom sales, possession in Scranton<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton City Council plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2026-04-06\/officials-district-attorney-push-bans-on-kratom-sales-possession-in-scranton\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ban the sale and possession of kratom<\/a>, a substance that officials portrayed Monday as increasingly addictive and potentially deadly.<\/p>\n<p>At a Lackawanna County Courthouse news conference, City Councilman Patrick Flynn, the chief advocate for banning kratom sales locally, joined District Attorney Brian Gallagher and other officials to announce two ordinances to ban sales and possession in the city.<\/p>\n<p>120,000 Pennsylvanians have dropped ACA health insurance since the loss of federal subsidies<\/p>\n<p>More than 120,000 Pennsylvanians have dropped health insurance coverage through the state&#8217;s marketplace this year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/pennsylvania-affordable-care-act-enrollment-120000\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Premium spikes and the loss of federal subsidies<\/a> are playing a role.<\/p>\n<p>BOOKMARKS: Reading recommendations for kids from a team of Pittston Area experts<\/p>\n<p>Reading is a lifelong pursuit, and for many of us, it starts with the books read to us as children.<\/p>\n<p>For some recommendations on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2026-04-04\/bookmarks-reading-recommendations-for-kids-from-a-team-of-pittston-area-experts\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the best books for kids<\/a>, we decided to ask the experts \u2014 Teresa Luvender\u2019s kindergarten class at Pittston Area Primary Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials, district attorney push bans on kratom sales, possession in Scranton The Scranton City Council plans to ban&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-160014","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\/160014","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=160014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}