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Abington Democrats was one of these groups, and its members were seeking to recruit potential candidates for the city’s upcoming municipal elections.

Abington Democrats wants more people to pay attention to Scranton’s local elections and understand the connection between local government and core community resources, like maintaining hospitals and funding schools.

Defense attorneys allege in a recent court filing that Verity Beck, 44, of Abington, “was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act she was doing, or that she did not know that what she was doing was wrong.”

The bodies of Reid Beck, 73, and Miriam Beck, 72, were found last January after their son told Abington police he had gone to his parents’ home to check on them.

They had been having “personal issues” for the past year and a half — prompting several police calls — over Wallace’s complaints about his snoring, Casey told investigators during an interview Sunday night at Abington Hospital.