FORTY FORT, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — People puckered up for the Pickle This Pickle That Pickle Fest at the Forty Fort Sports Complex. The event featured plenty of pickle-flavored food and pickle-inspired crafts.
With nearly 40 vendors on hand, there was something to relish for pickle lovers of all ages.
Celebrating culture at NEPA Latino Fiesta in Scranton
Wilkes-Barre hosted Accessible Outdoor Day at Kirby Park, celebrating nature for all abilities with activities like adaptive biking and inclusive fishing.
Kids in Luzerne County enjoyed a back-to-school event on Saturday with activities and prizes at King's College.
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Celebrating more than a century in business is a huge milestone for any local shop, but one in Luzerne County is also welcoming a new expansion to its legacy.
28/22 News has more from Wilkes-Barre with how they're ringing in history... Kielbasi rings, that is.
Turning on the lights and opening up shop is something 89-year-old Ed Balicki has done as the owner of Leonard’s Kielbasi Shop in Wilkes-Barre for more than 50 years.
Joseph Kaminski faces pandemic fraud charges, including wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to the Small Business Administration.
NANTICOKE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Nanticoke man has been charged in a scheme that the Department of Justice said defrauded over $850,000 of emergency pandemic funding.
According to the Department of Justice, Joseph Kaminski, 55, of Nanticoke, defrauded the Small Business Administration (SBA) of over $850,000 in emergency pandemic funding that was made available to small business owners through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.
DUI conviction overturned due to unauthorized blood draw
LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man accused of murdering a woman, then burning her body on the side of the road, is in court Friday.
55-year-old Terence Ray from Hazleton is in Luzerne County Court after being accused of murdering 39-year-old Jessica Lockwood in April.
Prosecutors say Ray killed Lockwood in his Muir Avenue home, then burned her body along Club 40 Road near Hazleton. The coroner says Lockwood died from blunt force trauma and a gunshot wound.
Missing Moosic man found dead in Luzerne County
The library has been closed for three days after the former St. Paul's Church was on fire. The Hazleton Fire Department says the fire was set intentionally.
LEHIGHTON, CARBON COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A Luzerne County Attorney who prosecutors say caused a deadly DUI crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike just had his conviction overturned.
In October of 2023, Shavertown attorney Joseph Persico was sentenced to three to six years in prison after being found guilty of vehicular homicide that took the life of Paul Gerrity.
Persico was driving the wrong way on the Pennsylvania Turnpike under the influence in 2018.
Persico's sentence has been overturned because of an unauthorized blood draw on the night of the crash.
(WBRE/WYOU) — State police announced DUI checkpoints will be placed across various roadways in Lackawanna County this weekend.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols aim to deter drinking and driving. Police say they are operating with a "zero-tolerance enforcement policy."
Police say checkpoints will be placed on roadways from Friday, August 1, through Sunday, August 3, that are experiencing high rates of DUI-related traffic violations and DUI-related crashes.
The counties participating in the DUI checkpoints are as follows:
