PITTSTON TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— The forecast potential for high winds and freezing temperatures is always worrisome, especially when it comes to power outages. 28/22 News reporter Avery Nape talks about what people should know as we head into the weekend. PennDOT travel restrictions are already in place on roads in Pennsylvania, including Interstate 81. [...]
TREMONT TWP., SCHUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Wednesday’s Schuylkill County Commissioners meeting confirmed an ICE detention facility will be coming to Tremont Township. The federal government purchased the former Big Lots! warehouse for upwards of $120 million. According to the County Commissioners, the facility will house 7,500 people for 45 to 90 days. It will also [...]
MIDDLEBURG — Two years after receiving a privately funded $155,000 custom emergency mobile command center, Snyder County EMA Director Derick Shambach said the vehicle is not expected to be available for use until April.
LEWISBURG — Rodney and Betty Gohl stood together at an icy throne on Market Street in Lewisburg to snap a cool photograph Friday.
DANVILLE — A brief submitted to Montour County commissioners by attorney Jeffrey Malak argued Talen Energy’s rezoning petition is “procedurally defective, substantively unsupported and legally unsustainable.”
HARRISBURG — Cursive handwriting lessons in all elementary schools, public and private, would be mandatory under legislation approved by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
DANVILLE — A man driving a horse and buggy was injured in a collision Friday afternoon in Danville.
MIDDLEBURG — A Philadelphia man is charged with stealing nine checks worth $341,714 from Advanced Concrete Systems in Middleburg.
MINNEAPOLIS — Two protesters have died. Others have been beaten with batons, doused with pepper spray or targeted with facial recognition technology.
LEWISBURG — A New York City man already facing multiple charges in Union County, Montoursville, Tennessee, New York, and from the Knoxville FBI field office is facing additional charges for taking $29,000 from an ATM in Kelly Township in November, according to state police in Milton.
