More than 36 million Latinos are now eligible to vote in the United States — the nation's fastest-growing electorate — and political analysts say they will play a major role in the upcoming midterm elections with control of Congress hinging on razor-thin margins.
(WBRE/WYOU) — Authorities stated they have sentenced two dealers after fentanyl trafficking on the darknet resulted in the deaths of three people. James P. Cullen, V., 32, and Michelle Lindsay Ferranti, 33, both of Bartonsville, were sentenced on September 3 for a drug trafficking conspiracy that resulted in death. Cullen received a sentence of 25 [...]
HAZLE TWP., LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man who accidentally shot himself while outside of a high school in Luzerne County has been charged, police say. 48-year-old Nathaniel D. Altmiller is charged with possessing a weapon on school property and other related offenses after investigators stated he shot himself while securing a gun in his [...]
(WBRE/WYOU) —12 people have been charged after an investigation into straw purchases and other illegal transfers and possession of firearms in Pennsylvania. Attorney General Dave Sunday, along with other law enforcement partners across Pennsylvania, announced charges against the following 12 people for alleged illegal transfers of guns: Among those charged is Kyree McCray, who investigators [...]
COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Attorney General Dave Sunday stated that the conviction of a man who murdered a 3-year-old will stand after an attempt to appeal it. Michael Crimi was convicted in 2021 of third-degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child. A Columbia County judge denied Crimi’s Post Conviction Relief Act filing that [...]
HONESDALE, WAYNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man has been arrested and charged after police say he crashed his pickup truck into a Pennsylvania State Police barracks. 36-year-old Wade Louis Rickard is facing various charges for driving his vehicle into the Pennsylvania State Police Honesdale Station, PSP reports. On September 3, around 6:53 p.m., a pickup [...]
(WBRE/WYOU) — An isolated shower is possible tonight. Temperatures will be in the lower 70s and upper 60s for high school football. Then, they'll fall into the middle and upper 50s by morning. It'll become less humid overnight. An upper-level storm system is over New England and the northern Atlantic Ocean, which will influence our [...]
HONESDALE, WAYNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) are conducting a criminal investigation after a vehicle crashed into the Pennsylvania State Police barracks Thursday night in Honesdale, Wayne County. The crash involved a silver pickup truck along Route 191 in Cherry Ridge Township. State police closed off the parking lot entrance to the barracks [...]
HONESDALE, WAYNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Several crews responded to the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Honesdale barracks, where a truck crashed into the building Thursday night. 28/22 News crews witnessed a grey pickup truck with its front end crashed into the police building. PSP troopers said a criminal investigation is underway and there is no threat [...]
CLINTON COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Floodwater is covering several areas in Clinton County after Wednesday night's severe storms that brought torrential downpours. "I don't think anyone was expecting it," Mellanie Boone of Mill Hall said. "What the storm produced for us is what some places are calling it like a 200-year type rain, with heavy rains [...]
