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EYNON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A fire ripped through a double block home and chased more than a dozen people. Firefighters raced to the scene Sunday afternoon in Lackawanna County. Several fire crews responded to the fire that broke out just before 2:00 p.m. Sunday in Eynon. Many neighbors watched while firefighters worked to contain [...]
MOOSIC, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Some local ladies in Lackawanna County are no doubt feeling like their best selves after an event all about them. Hundreds of ladies and their biggest supporters laced up for the Annual Girls on the Run 5K in Moosic on Sunday. More than 500 runners filled the stadium at PNC [...]
WILKES-BARRE TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A local high school community is in a giving mood to help students in need this holiday week. Members of Wilkes-Barre Area High School's Key Club teamed up with a couple of businesses for a Thanksgiving food drive. They met on Sunday outside the Wyoming Valley Mall to package [...]
DUPONT, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A growing need is bringing two church communities together in Luzerne County. Volunteers are preparing hundreds of Thanksgiving meals for families who depend on the help. Leaders at First Baptist Church of Pittston and Holy Mother of Sorrows in Dupont say working across denominations does not matter when it comes [...]
PITTSTON TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Get ready for what's expected to be the biggest Thanksgiving travel rush ever. 28/22 News caught up with some travelers outside the Pilot Travel Center on Sunday near Pittston. They are part of the more than 81,000,000 people AAA projects will travel at least 50 miles from home from [...]
EYNON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — At least 13 people are displaced from a fire that broke out at a Lackawanna County apartment building Sunday afternoon. 28/22 News was there as multiple fire companies were at the scene of a fire at a duplex apartment building on the 500 block of Main Street in Eynon. Lackawanna [...]
EAST STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Firefighters were able to quickly deal with a fire at a business in Monroe County Sunday morning. According to the Monroe County Communications Center, several emergency response departments were dispatched to Holy Stokes, a business on Washington Street in East Stroudsburg, around 10:15 a.m. on Sunday. The East Stroudsburg [...]
SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) say a man was arrested after allegedly assaulting a man sleeping in a tractor-trailer and fleeing in a truck in Susquehanna County earlier this month. According to the release, 39-year-old David Smith of New Milford smashed the driver's side window of a tractor-trailer parked at a gas [...]
