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Just before 11 p.m. Friday night, Valley 911 centers began to resume normal operations following hours of intermittent outages statewide.

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) says they are actively troubleshooting the 9-1-1 system to find the cause of the issue.

28/22's Avery Nape has the latest with what we know so far about the outages.

PEMA emphasizes that the issues have been intermittent throughout the day but backup procedures are in place in the event of an emergency.

Around 2:00 p.m. Friday afternoon, Delaware County's 9-1-1 center began experiencing outages with its 9-1-1 system.

MOUNT POCONO, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department is investigating an animal cruelty incident where someone allegedly dumped a dog in a dumpster.

Police say that around 10:00 a.m. on Friday, a white Hispanic or Caucasian male driving a Nissan Rogue pulled up to a dumpster at Mi Casa Restaurant was captured dumping a small animal crate containing a small, beige dog similar to a Chihuahua into the garbage dumpster.

Police investigating theft of 12 chickens

Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Two people have been arrested in connection with a stabbing on Monday.

Scranton Police have arrested Bobbie Pinko and Jesus Matias Merrero, both of Scranton.

Police investigating theft of 12 chickens

Jesus Matias Merrero

Bobbie Pinko

Police say that they responded to the 700 block of Capouse Avenue after a man was stabbed in the neck multiple times and was hospitalized in critical condition.

Both people were taken into custody on West Olive Street without any incident.

SUGARLOAF TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— There's controversy over a proposed project from PPL.

Those against the project say it would negatively impact home and landowners.

28/22's Joe Mason was in Sugarloaf Township to learn more.

Residents are still voicing their concerns over a proposed PPL power line project.

Back in April, we reported PPL's plans to build a 12-mile-long 500 kilovolt transmission line through the Sugarloaf Valley.

What to know about the surge in data centers across NEPA

NANTICOKE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Blight is nothing new in our area, but one property in a Luzerne County neighborhood is causing some serious issues, and resolving them is now at a standstill.

Hidden behind trees, branches, and vines sits an abandoned property on Honey Pot Street in Nanticoke.

The neighbors, forced to watch as it gets worse, say they have tried multiple times to get in contact with the city, but a problem with the owner is what's getting in the way.

LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— On this week's Veterans Voices, we meet a Navy rescue swimmer from Luzerne County who teaches military members how to survive life-or-death scenarios at sea.

And surviving extreme conditions at sea is something this veteran knows first hand.

Crestwood High graduate Bill Gibson is an elite rescue swimmer.

The retired Navy veteran is so good, he teaches the next generation of aviation rescue swimmers to survive the worst possible situations, but it didn't start off that way.

FISHING CREEK TOWNSHIP, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after 12 chickens were stole from a coop on July 5.

According to the release, troopers say that they were called to Ridge Road for a report of a theft of chickens.

Officials say that after investigation, it was determined that between 7:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., three Hispanic men wearing ski masks broke into the victims chicken coop and stole around 12 assorted breed of chickens.

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Pennsylvania is experiencing 9-1-1 outages across the state, according to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management...

(WBRE/WYOU)— The 9-1-1 outage that was affecting 9-1-1 centers across Pennsylvania has been resolved according the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA).

PEMA announced just before midnight on Friday that the outage affecting the Next-Generation 911 (NG911) has been resolved after an almost 10-hour outage.