NORWEGIAN TOWNSHIP, SCHUYKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Music is giving young people in Schuylkill County a chance to build confidence, learn new skills and discover their inner rock star. Let There Be Rock School recently held a showcase featuring students who spent a week learning instruments, rehearsing together and preparing to perform as a band. The [...]
PLAINS TWP., LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A utility pole that fell across part of North River Street has traffic snarled near the Cross Valley Expressway ramps in Plains Township. The utility pole, along with wires, came down across the road Friday afternoon. Police vehicles and PennDOT crews have closed the road ahead of rush-hour traffic. [...]
LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Attorney General Dave Sunday said the office has filed a complaint against a Lackawanna County-based contractor for failing to complete jobs or issue refunds. N. Stanley Paving, Inc. and its owner, Nicholas Stanley, "used high-pressure sales tactics, increased contract prices without customers’ knowledge, abandoned home improvement projects, failed to complete contracted [...]
SAYRE, BRADFORD COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A dog was stabbed, and police are currently searching for a suspect. On Tuesday, August 11, police said a dog was stabbed on Center Street in Sayre, Bradford County. Police say there was a witness who saw the suspect with a knife in hand and described him as being in [...]
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The US Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force helped arrest a man accused of attacking a woman inside an apartment complex. 43-year-old Israel Bracero was arrested after being wanted for what police stated was an attack that left a woman injured in a Stroudsburg apartment complex. On July 6, officers with [...]
{div class=”subscriber-preview”}LEWISBURG — Union County reached a two-year agreement with Albright Care Services regarding its payment in lieu of taxes.
Country music recording artist and U.S. Air Force veteran Ryan Daniel and special guest Chet Roberts of 3 Doors Down return to the Valley to headline the downtown concert event, Showin’ Out in Shamokin 2.0 at 2 p.m. Saturday at 23 East Independence St., Shamokin.
The Gaspipe Theatre Company will perform a collection of Shakespearean monologues and scenes this weekend to give audiences a new “Shakespearience.”
MIFFLINBURG — Mifflinburg Police Department worked with a confidential informant to set up a drug sale involving a Mifflinburg man.
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— It was four days of emotional, gut-wrenching testimony inside the Lackawanna County Courthouse. Fifty-year-old Stephen Carroll is behind bars Thursday after a jury found him guilty on almost every charge; including multiple counts of rape, assault, and corruption of minors. Five victims took the stand, detailing not only the abuse they [...]
