WILKES-BARRE TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Saint Patrick's Day is not until next week, but competition surrounding the holiday was on full display. The Wyoming Valley Mall held a Saint Patrick's themed pageant on Sunday. The Sunburst Beauty Pageant is one of the oldest beauty pageants in the world, held across 43 states and around [...]
KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A local high school student is showing how sports can help save lives at a tournament she set up. Freshman Madison Falkowski organized a field hockey tournament that raised thousands of dollars. It also spread awareness about sudden cardiac arrest in youth athletes. Dozens of young athletes filled the court [...]
DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Drivers will need to find another route on Sunday as a bridge is out of service in Lackawanna County. A Dunmore bridge connecting the 1000 block of Mill Street to Erie Street, also referred to as Bunker Hill, is closed to all traffic on Sunday. Those who were planning to [...]
(WBRE/WYOU) — Philadelphia courts are issuing a statewide consumer fraud alert: They're urging the public to ignore text messages that say you failed to pay a PA Turnpike toll. The headline on the text message says: "Notice of Hearing - TOLL VIOLATION." The courts strongly advise consumers to ignore these texts and not scan the [...]
The double voting was uncovered with the help of a multistate voter roll maintenance program called ERIC.
A book by Sunbury native John P. Deeben features an anthology of soldier letters written specifically for publication in two local Northumberland County newspapers.
DANVILLE — For Chelsie Derr of Danville, the ABC Fashion Show at the Pine Barn Inn is as close as she’ll likely get to the reality competition show RuPaul’s Drag Race. That’s why she went all out with her design this year for the fund raiser that invites contestants to walk the runway in “Anything But Clothes.”
Sometimes even the greatest differences can be bridged in a three-hour taxi ride with a stranger. I now call an Iranian stranger my friend.
The story of convicted killer Myrle Miller, who died in 2025 while serving a mandatory life sentence in state prison for the murder of her husband, was featured on the Investigation Discovery true-crime documentary series “Evil Lives Here.”
LEWISBURG — An employee of Westbranch Rental in East Buffalo Township paid for a chainsaw and blade using counterfeit cash on Feb. 24, according to the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department.
