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POCONO TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — In Pocono Township, officials are drawing a line between private business and public business. Commissioners voted 4-to-1 to ban township officials from signing nondisclosure agreements involving township matters. In simple terms, officials cannot agree to keep township business secret from the public. "The people of Pocono Township elected us [...]

LOYALSOCK TWP., LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man charged with a deadly shooting at TGI Fridays in Lycoming County has been sentenced. Ja’hsir Kahseem Legare was sentenced Tuesday morning to 8-20 years on charges of voluntary manslaughter and firearms not to be carried without a license. He pled guilty to those charges back on July 13. [...]

HARRISBURG — The FBI arrested a Butler County man with a juvenile record for illegal weapons and child pornography on new accusations that he intended to carry out a mass shooting in support of the Islamic extremist terror group, ISIS.

NORTHMORELAND TWP., WYOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Two people have been taken to the hospital after a fire broke out at a home in Wyoming County Tuesday. Crews responded to a house fire on Orchard Hill Road in Northmoreland Township around 9:16 a.m. Back Mountain Fire Chief Chuck Story told 28/22 News that two people were [...]

(WBRE/WYOU) — A Pennsylvania man who was known to the FBI as a 'mass casualty threat' as a teenager was arrested in an alleged terrorism plot, authorities report. 21-year-old Jonathan Hunter Kramer of Valencia, Butler County, was arrested over the weekend at a hotel in Cranberry Township, where FBI agents seized a semiautomatic rifle, three [...]

(WBRE/WYOU) — A recent lottery player has won $114,000 off a Win It All game from the Pennsylvania Lottery sold at a Weis in Luzerne County. A progressive top prize-winning ticket worth $114,026 in the Pennsylvania Lottery's Win It All game was sold at a lottery retailer in Luzerne County on Monday, September 14. Weis Markets in Nanticoke [...]

ALLENWOOD — A citizen group in Union County is speaking out against a company seeking to develop a data center in Gregg Township and promising up to $4.1 million in community investments.

SUNBURY — A Mount Carmel man who spent extended time in Northumberland County Jail said he was “set up” by jail officials for reporting that a guard had allegedly been using a cellphone.

SUNBURY — A Mifflinburg man convicted of raping a child will spend the next 22 1/2 to 67 years in state prison.On Monday, Melvin Ross, 53, of Dice Road, Mifflinburg, was sentenced by Union County Judge Michael Piecuch.

SUNBURY — The attorney for a Sunbury man convicted of sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s teen daughter says the June trial was unfair and his client’s conviction should be vacated or, at the very least, a new trial granted.