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Nearly five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Valley test scores remain below grade level.

SUNBURY — Northumberland County officials say children and youth officials investigated 538 reports of suspected child abuse cases in 2023.

SELINSGROVE — The 79th season of the Selinsgrove Speedway will open April 11 with new promoters who have been working around the clock getting the track ready.

SUNBURY — Shikellamy has hired four new Reponse to Instruction and Intervention teachers.

SUNBURY — This weekend marks the start of the 2025 trout fishing season, and a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission expects more than 500,000 anglers will cast lines in area creeks and tributaries.

LEWISBURG — A Williamsport woman tried to punch a staff member and threatened employees at the emergency room at WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg on March 30, according to state police in Milton.

(WBRE/WYOU)— The discovery of bedbugs has one local school district taking precautions.

The Carbondale Area Superintendent confirms that two bedbugs were recently found in a classroom at the high school.

The principal there says students who were in the affected classroom moved and the room was closed off until a deep clean was done.

The superintendent says this is not considered to be an infestation and they are in compliance with the state health department.

DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued an extension on the Keystone Sanitary Landfill's (KSL) operating permit on Friday.

According to the release, the DEP has issued a six month extension to the landfill's existing operating permit for its facility in Dunmore and Throop.

This renews the operating permit until October 6, 2025.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Ford Motor Company announced it is offering customers a limited-time discounted deal. Following the Trump administration's hefty 25% duty on all auto imports.

That deal extends to car lots right here in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Facing new tariffs and potential price hikes, Ford is rolling out an unprecedented offer: the "From America for America" plan, allowing all U.S. Customers to purchase vehicles at employee pricing.

EXETER, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— The Luzerne County Historical Society will have a new place to preserve and teach about the area's rich history.

The society purchased Saint Cecilia Church on Wyoming Avenue in Exeter which closed in 2022.

Once renovations are completed, it will serve as a unique resource for the county holding historic county artifacts and museum exhibits.

Dumpsite cleaned up in Luzerne County

Society officials say this is just an expansion of the organization and will still continue to operate at their current Wilkes-Barre locations.