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(WBRE/WYOU) — Road work continues to cause delays as major Pennsylvania roads are worked on.

The following roads are scheduled to have closures or rolling roadblocks:

Two dead, one in hospital after Hazleton shooting

Interstate 81 north and southbound between Exit 178 (Wilkes Barre/Scranton International Airport) and Exit 185 (President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Expressway) on Monday, September 15, through Thursday, September 18, between 6:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. daily to perform shoulder cutting.

MILTON — Hector Boiardi has come home — albeit in the form of a 7-foot-tall bronze statue — to Milton, the town where the chef first built his pasta empire.

BLOOMSBURG -- Paving Market Street may not cost the town as much as it expects -- which is good news because bids...

BLOOMSBURG -- The retiring managing director of Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble said he will miss seeing the Alvina Krause...

DANVILLE -- The Danville Area school district does not want a crosswalk from its property to a Wawa convenience store...

LIME RIDGE -- After a DUI suspect told a state trooper he hadn't used drugs in "a while," hospital testing found traces...

BLOOMSBURG -- A woman threw herself on the floor, kicked at and tried to grab probation officers inside the courthouse...

DEER LAKE BOROUGH, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) say a man is dead after he was killed while checking under the hood of a car in Schuylkill County.

In a release, PSP explains that it happened around 4:00 p.m. on Sunday on Route 61 in Deer Lake.

State police say 58-year-old Eduardo Barcenas-Moncada of Shenandoah was outside of the car when a pickup truck slammed into the car.

Traffic flows again on Interstate 81 N after multi-vehicle crash

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Food, music, and dancing: All to celebrate culture and community. The Annual Lebanese Festival filled West Scranton with flavors and family on Sunday.

At Saint Ann Maronite Church, grills were busy and tents were packed as hundreds turned out for the Lebanese Food Festival.

From kabobs and grape leaves to pastries and spinach pies, the event serves as a major fundraiser for the parish.

DALLAS, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — 28/22 News Anchor Nick Toma was helping out on Sunday at what was billed as Big Cash Bingo at the Irem Pavilion in Luzerne County's Back Mountain.

Events like this are important to benefit the Irem Shrine and all that its members do.

NEPA crowds honors late political activist

"It allows us to raise money, and that to support our mission, which is helping children and helping our community," Irem Shrine Dallas Potentate Jeffrey Pace