WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The mayor's office says the completion of the Horton Street Project, an effort to fix two sinkholes, is now rescheduled. Previously scheduled to reopen Friday, November 21, officials say the new expected opening date is Wednesday, November 26. Officials say the rescheduling is due to issues with the contractor's equipment. [...]
SCUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A corrections officer has been arrested for forging fraudulent COVID-19 medical excuses and laboratory results, police say. Alexander Meyers, 33, of Kingston, allegedly took advantage of the COVID-19 Enforcement Officer Disability Benefit and stole $20,613.60 in paid leave via forged documents from the State Correctional Institute (SCI) in Frackville. Between January [...]
MUNCY, LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A local active member of the Army National Guard is getting a helping hand. He came back home to find his car had been repossessed and severely damaged. 28/22 News reporter Joe Mason explains how a community is helping him in his time of need. Sergeant Christopher Lizotte served in the [...]
KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Luzerne County man faces decades in prison after pleading "no contest" to third degree murder. Prosecutors say Walter Zolner III, 33 bludgeoned to death 22-year-old Ryan Padovani in his Bennett Street, Kingston home in 2023. Zolner lived next to Padovani in the duplex home. At the time, Zolner claimed [...]
PENN TWP., SNYDER COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Police say three RVs totaling approximately $14,500 in value were stolen in July from Susquehanna Valley RV in Selinsgrove. PSP are searching for a 2008 Wildwood RV, valued at $7,999, a 1994 Prowler RV, valued at $2,999, and a 2001 Jayco RV, valued at $3,499. PSP Selinsgrove say the [...]
CARBONDALE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Police say a K9 unit helped arrest a man wanted for an alleged stabbing in Allentown. The Carbondale Police Department, along with the Mayfield Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, arrested a wanted suspect out of Allentown. Police say the man was wanted on robbery and [...]
OLD FORGE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man was arrested Thursday and faces multiple charges regarding possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), police say. Sterling Albert Barnes, 27, of Old Forge, is in Lackawanna County Prison with a $50,000 bail issued following his arrest during the execution of a search warrant on Thursday, officials [...]
(WBRE/WYOU) — Law enforcement efforts to catch online child predators are ongoing across NEPA and the nation. Tonight, we take a look back at an I-Team Internet Sting 20 years ago that resulted in the arrest and later guilty pleas of six child predators. Coming up on 28/22 News, the I-Team's Andy Mehalshick looks back [...]
LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The victim who was thrown from a vehicle during an Interstate 81 pile-up earlier this week has been identified. 64-year-old Freeman Gladd from Blakeslee was killed during an I-81 pile-up crash after he was thrown from a vehicle, according to the Luzerne County coroner. The crash happened on November 17 around 6:00 a.m., [...]
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Luzerne County Coroner has identified the driver killed after crashing into a tractor-trailer Thursday afternoon. 57-year-old Annette Kostelnick from Wilkes-Barre died after the vehicle she was driving crashed into a tractor-trailer in Wilkes-Barre on November 20. Officers were called to the 700 block of North Pennsylvania Avenue for a [...]
