PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Seasonal items are arriving at the Pittston Farmers Market in Luzerne County as fall approaches, but market vendors are advising shoppers not to buy Halloween pumpkins just yet. The market is offering seasonal favorites alongside its standard selection of fresh fruits and vegetables as Halloween draws closer. However, organizers warn [...]
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Volunteers of America will hold its 18th annual Walk for Hope this Saturday in Wilkes-Barre to support Ruth's Place, a local women's shelter. The event gives Luzerne County residents an opportunity to raise support for individuals using shelter services while walking the community's streets. The walk route proceeds through downtown [...]
MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man was arrested after he extorted sexual images from a child and forced the child to extreme self-harm, according to unsealed court documents. Destin Angel Petrides, 20, of Kunkletown, faces several charges, including attempted murder, aiding suicide, and sexual exploitation of children. According to an unsealed criminal affidavit, Petrides met [...]
TUNKHANNOCK, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man who was previously found guilty for a 2018 homicide was granted a retrial, set to start Monday. Phillip Walters, 39, was found guilty and sentenced in 2020 for the murder of his girlfriend, Haley Lorenzon. He was granted a retrial based on issued his counsel and the Pennsylvania [...]
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Local college students are finding their footing on campus this school year, but a volunteer fair featuring dozens of local organizations is helping them find their place in the community, too. 28/22 News Reporter Colby Hughes explained the event in the Electric City. The start of the school year is [...]
POCONO TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — In Pocono Township, officials are drawing a line between private business and public business. Commissioners voted 4-to-1 to ban township officials from signing nondisclosure agreements involving township matters. In simple terms, officials cannot agree to keep township business secret from the public. "The people of Pocono Township elected us [...]
LOYALSOCK TWP., LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man charged with a deadly shooting at TGI Fridays in Lycoming County has been sentenced. Ja’hsir Kahseem Legare was sentenced Tuesday morning to 8-20 years on charges of voluntary manslaughter and firearms not to be carried without a license. He pled guilty to those charges back on July 13. [...]
HARRISBURG — The FBI arrested a Butler County man with a juvenile record for illegal weapons and child pornography on new accusations that he intended to carry out a mass shooting in support of the Islamic extremist terror group, ISIS.
NORTHMORELAND TWP., WYOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Two people have been taken to the hospital after a fire broke out at a home in Wyoming County Tuesday. Crews responded to a house fire on Orchard Hill Road in Northmoreland Township around 9:16 a.m. Back Mountain Fire Chief Chuck Story told 28/22 News that two people were [...]
(WBRE/WYOU) — A Pennsylvania man who was known to the FBI as a 'mass casualty threat' as a teenager was arrested in an alleged terrorism plot, authorities report. 21-year-old Jonathan Hunter Kramer of Valencia, Butler County, was arrested over the weekend at a hotel in Cranberry Township, where FBI agents seized a semiautomatic rifle, three [...]
