DALTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Nothing quite quenches your thirst like cool glass of lemonade. Some local girls are turning that sweet and tart beverage into a recipe for giving back. 28/22 News Reporter Mark Hiller shows how what they are doing is helping the most vulnerable children among us in this week's Here's to [...]
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A beloved coffee shop that spotlights people with intellectual disabilities is expanding, and on Monday, it opened its second location. Coffee Inclusive opened its new spot in Scranton's south side Monday morning inside the United Neighborhoods Center on Cedar Avenue. Their goal is to offer even more meaningful opportunities for [...]
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — After being closed for a year and a half, Coney Island Lunch on Lackawanna Avenue in Scranton is back. The community staple went through a remodeling, taking on a new retro look. The building will now include apartments upstairs and two other businesses on the lower level. But, customers can [...]
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A local school district is celebrating the expansion of its center-based program with a new learning center open just in time for the school year. It offers autistic support classrooms for kids in grades K-2. The Jim Connors Learning Center at Monticello East already has a few dozen students attending, [...]
HAZLETON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Police responded to a shooting Monday afternoon in Hazleton that left one person injured, according to a release. Just before 3:00 p.m., officers were called to an apartment on the 200 block of East Diamond Avenue for a gunshot victim, police said. The victim was taken to the hospital with [...]
SWIFTWATER, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — With winter approaching, local homeowners who rely on heating oil are already watching those prices. Many of them say they're worried about what those costs could mean for their budgets this winter. One local resident says she's watching the cost of heating oil, along with her other monthly bills, continue [...]
(WBRE/WYOU) — The Pennsylvania Attorney General announced charges Monday for 12 men after a long-term investigation into a multi-million-dollar high-potency THC product trafficking ring. The ring would traffic marijuana and other high-level THC products from warehouses to convenience stores and smoke shops across the Commonwealth, according to a release from the office of Attorney General [...]
(WBRE/WYOU) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Monday there are now 693 confirmed measles cases in the Commonwealth, 17 more than Friday's update. Of those 693 cases, 133 are hospitalized. In northeastern and central Pennsylvania, there are 54 confirmed cases, three more than Friday's report: In the state, 99 of the confirmed cases have [...]
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Three men were convicted Thursday after a two-week trial for running a drug organization out of a Wilkes-Barre barbershop, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Jerrod Curtis, 42, Paul Chavis, 56, and Reneard Harris, 68, all of Wilkes-Barre, were found guilty before a U.S. District Judge in Scranton [...]
A Pennsylvania woman's death is the state's third this year involving the measles virus. Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong says on Facebook the 40-year-old woman died Saturday from complications associated with measles. The post did not identify the woman other than as a resident of a rural area some 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania’s two previous deaths involving measles were infants. Both previous deaths were in August. Doctors deemed measles a “significant condition” at the time of one infant's death.
