LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — For those traveling this holiday weekend, gas prices could be hurting your wallet. 28/22 News crews stopped at Turkey Hill on Providence Road in Scranton and Sheetz on the O'Neill Highway in Dunmore. Both fill-up stations are priced at $4.29 a gallon. That's also the statewide average, according to AAA. The [...]
More than 36 million Latinos are now eligible to vote in the United States — the nation's fastest-growing electorate — and political analysts say they will play a major role in the upcoming midterm elections with control of Congress hinging on razor-thin margins.
SUNBURY — A Shikellamy school director wants the district to slow down on conducting another possible feasibility study of district buildings, which would include the cost of building a new high school.
Lawyers for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky are asking to cancel a hearing that was scheduled to hear a claim that an accuser wants to recant allegations that Sandusky sexually abused him years ago. The hearing is scheduled for Sept. 8. The defense suggested in a court filing Thursday that it wants to appeal the judge’s refusal to hear other claims besides the accuser’s recantation. The 82-year-old Sandusky has been serving a decades-long prison sentence since he was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse in 2012.
Crowds will have love on the brain when the Selinsgrove Area High School’s marching band performs its field show this season with the theme “Love This Band.”
(WBRE/WYOU) — Authorities stated they have sentenced two dealers after fentanyl trafficking on the darknet resulted in the deaths of three people. James P. Cullen, V., 32, and Michelle Lindsay Ferranti, 33, both of Bartonsville, were sentenced on September 3 for a drug trafficking conspiracy that resulted in death. Cullen received a sentence of 25 [...]
HAZLE TWP., LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man who accidentally shot himself while outside of a high school in Luzerne County has been charged, police say. 48-year-old Nathaniel D. Altmiller is charged with possessing a weapon on school property and other related offenses after investigators stated he shot himself while securing a gun in his [...]
(WBRE/WYOU) —12 people have been charged after an investigation into straw purchases and other illegal transfers and possession of firearms in Pennsylvania. Attorney General Dave Sunday, along with other law enforcement partners across Pennsylvania, announced charges against the following 12 people for alleged illegal transfers of guns: Among those charged is Kyree McCray, who investigators [...]
COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Attorney General Dave Sunday stated that the conviction of a man who murdered a 3-year-old will stand after an attempt to appeal it. Michael Crimi was convicted in 2021 of third-degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child. A Columbia County judge denied Crimi’s Post Conviction Relief Act filing that [...]
HONESDALE, WAYNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man has been arrested and charged after police say he crashed his pickup truck into a Pennsylvania State Police barracks. 36-year-old Wade Louis Rickard is facing various charges for driving his vehicle into the Pennsylvania State Police Honesdale Station, PSP reports. On September 3, around 6:53 p.m., a pickup [...]
