LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A lucky Pennsylvania Lottery player has won $500,000 from a Cash 5 with Quick Cash ticket. A jackpot-winning Pennsylvania Lottery Cash 5 with Quick Cash ticket sold for the Wednesday, August 5 drawing matched all five balls drawn, 11-19-29-33-39, to win $500,000. The winning ticket was sold at Pantry Quik in [...]
(WBRE/WYOU) — There are two big parts to our weather story tonight! First, it will be warm and very humid through the weekend. Friday's highs will be in the middle and upper 80s. Temperatures on Saturday and Sunday will reach the lower and middle 80s. At times, it will feel like it's in the lower [...]
ARCHBALD, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — It's a nationwide effort that helps police departments across the country connect with and build rapport with their communities. It's called National Night Out. On Wednesday night, Archbald Police, Fire, EMT'S and a number of neighboring departments came out to put on a show for the community. Police gave demonstrations [...]
NESQUEHONING, CARBON COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — An alleged train thief's second attempt went off the rails in Carbon County. Newly released video shows a break-in at the Reading & Northern Railroad in Nesquehoning back in June. Police say after posting bail, Michael McFadden Junior returned weeks later, climbed aboard a locomotive, and tried to get it [...]
CANAAN TOWNSHIP, WAYNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Seven years after a deadly prison cell killing, a federal jury has delivered its verdict. A jury convicted 41-year-old Rudy Mendoza of voluntary manslaughter following a five-day trial. Prosecutors say Mendoza's cellmate was found dead inside their special housing unit cell in July 2019 with multiple head and face [...]
NEW MILFORD TOWNSHIP, SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A woman and a child were killed, and a girl was injured in a Wednesday afternoon side-by-side crash in Susquehanna County, according to Pennsylvania State Police (PSP). Taryn Briggs, 18, of New Milford, and an unidentified 13-year-old from Springville were killed in a crash just before 3:00 p.m. [...]
SHAVERTOWN, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man is dead and three others are injured after a house fire on North Pioneer Avenue in Shavertown Wednesday morning. Firefighters were called to the home just after 5:00 a.m. and were met with heavy flames. Shavertown Firefighters say this fire was difficult to manage, taking roughly 45 minutes [...]
AVOCA, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Nelson Villafane, a 15-year-old from Taylor, is a world champion wrestler after winning the U17 World Championship in Baku, Azerbaijan. Villafane, who represented Puerto Rico in the tournament, gave up one point across four matches he wrestled in overseas. Wrestling at 45kg, approximately 100 pounds, Villafane still can't believe he [...]
POTTSVILLE, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A tribute Wednesday afternoon brought a community together to celebrate the life of a young woman who was killed in a car crash last week. A somber tribute in Schuylkill county brought hundreds of people to Laurel Boulevard in Pottsville on Wednesday. Holding checkered flags, they honored the life of [...]
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Traffic is snarled at times at a busy Wilkes-Barre corridor because of a road construction project. A stretch of River Street near Wilkes-Barre General Hospital was down to one lane Wednesday. Word at the scene is that Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority is raising three manholes to prepare for future paving. [...]
