PITTSTON TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Competitors are on cloud nine after they zipped past obstacles with micro drones. The group, NEPA Quad Racers, designed and set up a track at the Pilot Mind Drone Academy in Pittston Township. Participants came from as far away as Texas, Virginia, and the New England region to gear [...]
Police say Robert Betts is in custody after police followed a blood trail to his apartment, linking him to a stabbing on East Main Street.
KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Getting a photo for the holiday season is more than just sitting on Santa's lap; some prefer posing with his dark counterpart. People crammed into The Strange and Unusual in Kingston on Sunday afternoon for Photos with Krampus. The character is a horned, demonic folklore figure that originated in Pagan [...]
LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Snow totals across northeastern Pennsylvania are often anything but even, and the latest snowfall in parts of the region has many doing a double-take. While many communities saw just a light coating, others woke up digging out from much more. "We weren't expecting the snowstorm. I was like 'What the heck?'" [...]
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A local state trooper is shaking off the cold after helping out a cause for kids. Pennsylvania State Police Troop N Trooper Anthony Petrosky got dropped in a dunk tank outside Mohegan Arena before Saturday night's Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins game. The Fourth Annual Freezin' for a Reason event is held [...]
A dunk tank was set up outside the Mohegan Arena, where folks could attempt to dunk state troopers.
SUGARLOAF TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Luzerne County giving back to the community for Christmas. SJM Auto Sales and Repair held its annual Toys for Tots day Saturday afternoon along Route 93 in Sugarloaf Township. The business brought out Santa and his reindeer to the site that features a 60-foot tree that went up [...]
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Millions of people with billion-dollar dreams are expected to get tickets for Saturday night's Powerball game. Lottery machines are humming, printing out those tickets at places like Anthracite Newsstand in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Saturday night's jackpot is an estimated $1,000,000,000 with a cash value of nearly $457,000,000. The jackpot is the [...]
DRUMS, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Hazleton area is one of many communities nationwide pausing to honor and remember our fallen heroes on Saturday. Saint Jude Knights of the Columbus Council of Mountain Top invited the community to Calvary Cemetery on Route 309 in Drums to lay wreaths at veteran gravesites. It's all part of [...]
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A problem-plagued road in Wilkes-Barre is finally open for good. The city fully reopened Horton Street on Friday. Part of the road had been closed since June after two sinkholes opened up. The road briefly reopened for Thanksgiving but had to close again after the holiday so crews could replace a [...]
