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EXETER, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU — Tuesday is October 1, and many across NEPA are already getting into the Halloween holiday spirit by decorating.

One house in Exeter on Wyoming Avenue is ready to send a chill down everyone's spine with its large displays of animatronics, themed lighting pumpkins, and Erie music.

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Many drivers in the area were slowing down to check it out.

The house also has cool life-like creepy cartoons.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A cyber attack in March cost the Scranton School District more than $100,000 in fees and ransom.

School district officials told 28/22 News it cost them over $25,000 in ransom and associated fees, including an additional $100,000 payment to a forensic expert.

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The March 15 ransomware attack caused outages and disruptions to the school district's systems.

SELINSGROVE, SNYDER COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — 28/22 News has an update on the Snyder County sewage line that ruptured pouring hundreds of thousands of gallons of sewage into a creek flowing into the Susquehanna River.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection says the break happened on Sunday, September 22, near the eastern Snyder County Regional Authority's Sewage Treatment Plant in Selinsgrove.

Friends of the Poor Thanksgiving Dinner to expand

As a result, over 459,000 gallons of sewage was dumped into the water.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — There's been a lot of attention lately on ballot drop boxes in northeastern Pennsylvania. Luzerne County won't have them out this election, but in Lackawanna County, the boxes are already set up in several locations Monday afternoon.

The decision to reinstate the ballot drop boxes was made last week by the county's board of elections.

Voters in Lackawanna County now have access to ballot drop boxes.

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HARRISBURG — Two Philadelphia-area Democrats who won special legislative elections this month were sworn into office Monday in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — An annual Thanksgiving dinner meets an ever-growing need in Lackawanna County. The Friends of the Poor expects to serve more dinners this year than in years past, but that comes at a cost.

It's an annual tradition that goes back nearly five decades.

"It began 48 years ago with feeding 24 people for the Thanksgiving dinner and now it's turned into this week-long program," said Friends of the Poor President and CEO Megan Loftus.

Now, it will be bigger than ever before.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania House Republicans presented a package of bills Monday intended to be tough on crime, seeking to address prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment.

Early detection saves lives in the fight against cancer. For some women, the standard mammogram may not be effective. For others, the cost of health care keeps them from even setting an appointment.

DANVILLE — After fighting breast cancer only three years ago, community leader Rebecca Dressler made it her mission to encourage women to get regular mammograms.