{"id":264410,"date":"2026-08-13T05:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264410\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:34:15","slug":"scranton-wwii-veteran-known-for-his-musical-arrangements-dies-a-new-name-for-the-railriders-and-pa-sues-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264410\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton WWII veteran known for his musical arrangements dies, a new name for the RailRiders and Pa. sues TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, Aug. 12. Let&#8217;s get Up to Date. <\/p>\n<p>Passarella, WWII veteran and longtime Gene Dempsey Orchestra leader, dies days shy of 101<br \/>Gene Passarella came home from World War II and entertained Northeast Pennsylvania with his music for nearly 70 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2026-08-11\/passarella-wwii-veteran-and-longtime-gene-dempsey-orchestra-leader-dies-at-101\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The founder of the Gene Dempsey Orchestra died Saturday<\/a>, days shy of his 101st birthday.<\/p>\n<p>RailRiders to rebrand AAA baseball franchise for 2027 season, with fall unveiling set<br \/>The AAA New York Yankees affiliate based in Moosic will have a new identity for the 2027 season, with more information to be announced &#8220;soon&#8221; and plans for a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2026-08-11\/railriders-to-rebrand-aaa-baseball-franchise-for-2027-season-with-fall-unveiling-set\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> full brand unveiling in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday sues TikTok over youth addictiveness and exposure to mature content<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/pennsylvania-attorney-general-sues-tiktok\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania joins more than a dozen other states suing the social media company.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Wednesday, Aug. 12. Let&#8217;s get Up to Date. Passarella, WWII veteran and longtime Gene Dempsey Orchestra leader,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-264410","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\/264410","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=264410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}