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AUBURN TOWNSHIP, SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Police say a man fired a shot at the back of someone's car after attempting to rob them.

Gerald Sutton, 42, has been charged after police say that on June 7, he stopped somebody on Baker Road in Auburn Township, with a rifle in his hand, and pointed the gun at the driver of the car.

According to police, Sutton said, "give me all your money" to the victim, and when the victim refused, Sutton pointed the gun at the victim to the point where his arms were in the car and said "this gun will kill".

WEST PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man has been arrested after police say he and a group of people chased a boy for blocks in an SUV after attempting to rob him at a park in West Pittston Monday night.

Wyoming Area Regional Police Department (WARPD) responded to the area of Parke and Carpenter streets in the Garden Village around 8:15 p.m. for a report of a person being chased by several people with knives and guns, according to a media release.

SUNBURY — A Penn State Extension event, "Herds and Her — Empowering Women in Dairy" will be held 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 30 at Fantasyland Holsteins, 27 Valley Farm Lane, Robesonia.

WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP — Two vehicles involved in line painting on Route 15 in White Deer Township collided on May 29, according to state police in Milton.

SUNBURY — The former Triangle Tech in Sunbury is the new home of the Susquehanna Valley Community Education Project Inc., after the group purchased the $750,000 property.

SUNBURY — Sunbury Treasurer Kevin Troup will officially resign from his position on June 30, less than a month after winning a Republican nomination for one of the two open seats on City Council this fall.

Amazon says it will spend $20 billion on two data center complexes in Pennsylvania, including one it is building alongside a nuclear power plant that has drawn federal scrutiny over its arrangement to essentially plug right into the power plant. Kevin Miller of Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, told The Associated Press on Monday that the company will build another data center complex just north of Philadelphia. The data centers are designed to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence products.

LEWISBURG — Township Secretary/Treasurer Gayle Boudman submitted her resignation at Monday night’s public meeting of the East Buffalo Township Board of Supervisors.

HARRISBURG — Two proposals seeking to allow survivors of long-ago sexual abuse to seek justice in civil court advanced out of the Pennsylvania House on Monday.

HARRISBURG — Lawmakers in the Pennsylvania House approved two amendments to legislation designed to enhance accountability when hospitals are purchased by for-profit companies backed by private equity.