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The Times Leader has earned a second-place award in the News Excellence category of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Foundation&#8217;s Newspaper of the Year contest for 2016.Announcement of the award was made by the organization on Monday afternoon. The award recognizes issues published by the Times Leader on Sept. 6, 2015, and Feb. 3 and Feb. 13 in 2016. The judging category was for work done between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2016.Stories in those issues include:&#8212; &#8220;Risk Rises,&#8221; the first of a two-part series looking at the long-term effect of the 2011 flooding in Wyoming Valley, by Jennifer Learn-Andes.&#8212; &#8220;Alinsky guilty of 3rd-degree murder,&#8221; an article by Joe Dolinsky about how a jury of seven women and five men found Jessica Alinsky, 32, guilty of third-degree murder in the 2011 fatal, point-blank-range shooting of her boyfriend, Matthew Ryan Gailie.&#8212; &#8220;Phil&#8217;s prediction: Nothing but hogwash,&#8221; a column by Bill O&#8217;Boyle saying that Punxsutawney Phil &#8212; that furry groundhog who is Pennsylvania&#8217;s most famous weather forecaster &#8212; has compiled only a 39 percent accuracy rate for predicting the weather.&#8220;This is yet another example in recognizing the outstanding work done by the Times Leader news team,&#8221; Publisher Mike Murray said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a testament to both a great work ethic and a continued pursuit in community journalism excellence.&#8221;The Times Leader&#8217;s award came in Division III, which is for daily newspapers with a circulation of 20,000 to 39,999. First place went to the Daily Item in Sunbury.<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta>Times Leader Staff</bylineMeta></div>

Times Leader honored in News Excellence category in statewide contest