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NANTICOKE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Thursday marks 24 years since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Luzerne County Community College held a ceremony Thursday morning to reflect and remember the events that happened on September 11, 2001.

The ceremony remembered the nearly three thousand lives lost on September 11, 2001.The ceremony included a flag ceremony, the national anthem, pledge of allegiance, an invocation and benediction, and a final alarm ceremony.

Firemen in Monroe County spent the morning reflecting on the lives of their fellow first responders lost on September 11th, 2001.

Events are taking place across our communities to honor those lost on 9/11, including a Remembrance Stair Climb at PNC Field in Moosic.

The crash happened along Route 487 in Franklin Township, south of Catawissa, around 3 p.m. Thursday.

Authorities say a helicopter crashed in the area of Maury Road near Jim Thorpe around 3 p.m. Thursday.

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress talked to people in Monroe County who were in New York City the day our country changed forever.

FRANKLIN TWP. – Emergency crews were called to a rolled-over Southern Columbia school bus here shortly after 3 p.m. on Route 487 near Ashton Hollow Road. At the accident scene,...

Motorcyclists gathered in Clinton Township to honor 9/11 victims with a 42 mile ride.

While workers can't face child endangerment charges, they can be prosecuted on charges of failing to report child abuse, according to a Pa. Superior Court ruling.

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Emergency crews responded to a report of a school bus rollover Thursday afternoon in Franklin Township and a major road is closed, according to Columbia County Communications Center.

Officials say they responded to the scene of a school bus rollover with entrapment just after 3:00 p.m. at the intersection of Southern Drive and Ashton Hollow Road.

Columbia County Communications Center confirmed that there were thirty-one passengers aboard the school bus at the time of the crash.