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SPRING BROOK TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Remembering 9/11: That's what dozens in Lackawanna County did during a Happy Hour for Heroes.

The event was to honor law enforcement members who battled on that tragic day and to support a local lieutenant in his battle with cancer.

Dozens of people gathered at High Bridge House to honor 9/11. They showed their support for those who served then and those serving now.

One is a local lieutenant battling stage four cancer.

SELINSGROVE — Fair Board Association members met Wednesday to discuss the beleaguered promoter of the Selinsgrove Speedway.

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WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP — An unknown actor burgled an organic garden supply store in New Columbia on Sept. 1, according to state police in Milton.

LEWISBURG — A new Geisinger medical clinic and a Weis Market expansion are being proposed in Kelly Township, according to paperwork filed in the Central Keystone Council of Governments in Lewisburg.

As name after name of the heroes of Flight 93 were read aloud on Wednesday morning, Donna Gibson and Fred Lukachinsky tolled bells that rang clearly across an otherwise quiet open field near Shanksville.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Scranton Fire Department paid tribute to their fellow first responders from 9/11.

Honoring both those who lost their lives and those who answered the call

Firefighters suited up, weighed down by their equipment and began their journey 110 flights of stairs. The same number that first responders faced during the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY — Another somber occasion was held in Scranton, this one at the 9/11 monument in McDade Park.

Scranton police and firefighters and even students from West Scranton High School were among those who attended.

The ceremony included hymns and the reading of names of Lackawanna County residents who died, as well as those who died fighting in the war on terror.

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MIDDLE SMITHFIELD TWP., MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Monroe County homicide suspect remains hospitalized and in police custody, after he was shot at eight times outside a nightclub in Utah, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

State police say on August 10, around 12:55 a.m., the Salt Lake Police Department was called for a report of multiple gunshots fired outside of a nightclub in the area of Exchange Place and State Street in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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