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(WBRE/WYOU) — The rest of the work week may start feeling like fall as frost advisories are in effect for parts of Pennsylvania.

Temperatures will fall into the lower and middle 30s in the Wilkes-Barre area.

For the rest of the area, it will be clear and colder with low temperatures between 35° and 40°. Some warmer valleys could stay in the 40s.

Thursday will be mostly sunny and cool and afternoon temperatures could be in the middle and upper 50s.

Lawmakers looking for solutions to keep vulnerable community safe

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Court documents say a second person is being charged in connection with allegations of child abuse going unreported that closed a Lackawanna County daycare center.

Authorities say Erin Pallo, owner and director of Learn & Grow Early Childhood Day Care Center in Scranton, is being charged with failure to report child abuse. Officials add co-owner Amy Ware faces the same charge.

TROY — Julian Fleming faces a bevy of charges, including vehicular homicide and driving under the influence, in connection with a May ATV wreck that killed his girlfriend, a 23-year-old...

SUNBURY — Degenstein Community Library will host its annual indoor yard sale beginning Thursday and running through Saturday morning.

SUNBURY — The trial for a 66-year-old Sunbury man who is accused of leaving a child on a school van for an extended period of time has been continued.

NEW BERLIN — Messiah Lutheran Church, 308 Market St., will host a community presentation, “Navigating the Challenging World of Dementia and Abuse Prevention,” on Thursday, Oct. 9, at 7 p.m.

DANVILLE — A group calling itself the “Concerned Citizens of Montour County” has for more than a month speculated that Talen Energy plans to build a data center in the northern section of the county.

LEWISBURG — The Union County Commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday to designate the month of October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

SUNBURY — Members of the public and journalists from Valley media groups across Northumberland County will no longer hear scanner traffic from county police departments after the system goes to an encrypted network beginning Oct. 13.

Sunbury — The Albright Center of the Arts is inviting residents to kick it old-school and put on their dancing shoes with free monthly swing dancing lessons. Held every second Thursday of the month at the Albright Center, 450 Chestnut St., Sunbury, the lessons are open to all.