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The March 7 death of a Snyder County man injured in Clinton County jail was caused by a medical issue, Clinton County District Attorney Dave Strouse said Thursday.

Local health systems officials at Geisinger and WellSpan Evangelical are attempting to predict how President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” will impact patients.

SELINSGROVE — State officials visited the Regional Engagement Center (REC) in Selinsgrove on Thursday to see how the nonprofit is spending a $167,000 grant for its drop-in program.

SUNBURY — A Republican candidate for a secondary Sunbury City Council race in November has yet to be announced, according to the Northumberland County Election’s Office.

MIDDLEBURG — A Middleburg man accused of raping a child will be retried in Snyder County following a mistrial.

LEWISBURG — Seven of eight criminal charges are headed to the Union County Court of Common Pleas following a preliminary hearing for a Winfield man accused of touching a 12-year-old girl and trying to kiss her.

BRIIDGEWATER TOWNSHIP, SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A man and a woman were charged after they allegedly stole and elderly man's coin collection back in April.

A Pennsylvania State Police release says that theft related charges have been filed on Stephen and Robyn Crowley of Farmingville, New York after trooper say they stole a Susquehanna County man's coin collection back in April.

Man allegedly used $2 million in pandemic funds on a boat

MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— The United States District Attorney's Office announced the arrest of a 46-year-old man from Stroudsburg after he allegedly secured $2.2 million and spent it on some luxury items.

Officials say that Brian Albelli of Stroudsburg was sentenced to 48 months of prison time following his convictions of wire fraud and money laundering.

The U.S. District Attorney's Office states that Albelli filed approximately 20 fraudulent applications for pandemic stimulus funds under various business entities under hid and his family's control.

HAZLETON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Luzerne County man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday in relation to the death of a store clerk.

This comes after a robbery in December 2020 in which a 50-year-old employee of Craig's Food Mart in Hazleton, Ashokkumar Patel, was fatally shot.

Burglar removes air conditioner to break into home

Security cameras at the store captured Jafet Rodriguez committing the crime. Patel was mopping when Rodriguez rushed into the store wearing a mask, shoved Patel into a closet and shot him.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Dinosaurs, dinosaurs and more dinosaurs! Seventh and eighth graders were welding some of these prehistoric predators at the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County on Thursday as part of the Weld-A-Saurus camp.

The Career Technology Center has been hosting camps like these for eight years. It teaches middle school-aged kids how to weld and introduces them to trade careers with professional equipment.

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