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SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A traffic alert for drivers in Scranton.

PennDOT has shifted traffic from the Green Ridge Street Bridge to a temporary modular steel bridge.

Both lanes on the temporary bridge are usable, and a walkway is in place for pedestrians.

FEMA’s acting administrator is replaced a day after congressional testimony

This change is part of the ongoing Green Ridge Street Bridge Replacement Project.

The temporary bridge will stay in place until the new, permanent one opens early next year.

TANNERSVILLE, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Police in Monroe County need your help to track down some car vandals.

Pocono Township Police released surveillance images Thursday.

Police investigating robbery in downtown Wilkes-Barre

They say a man and a group of people with him damaged a car on Tuesday at Camelback Lodge in Tannersville.

Anyone with information should contact Pocono Township Police or submit an anonymous tip through Monroe County Crimewatch.

The Chicago native is also a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop.

President Donald Trump said that for the new pope to be American, “What greater honor can there be?”

Pope Leo XIV marks the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church.

Although any baptized Catholic man is technically eligible to be the pope, none of the previous 266 popes in history had been from America.

Robert Prevost, the first-ever American pope, will take the name Leo XIV.

WILLIAMSPORT, LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Two more people have been charged in a case where a body was found in garbage bags on Interstate 80.

Police have charged Rahsaan Goines, 25, of Newark, New Jersey, and his mother, Chata Harris, 49, of Williamsport, in relation to the death of 19-year-old Kevin Cagle after his body was discovered in garbage bags along Interstate 80 in Montour County in October of 2023.

ROME – Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first U.S. pope, selected Thursday by 133 cardinals from across the globe on the second day of the papal conclave in Rome.  ...

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Police say a man was robbed in downtown Wilkes-Barre Wednesday morning.

Police say they responded to the area of 34 South Main Street just after 10:30 a.m. for a report of a robbery.

Hazleton homicide suspect Terence Ray in custody

When they arrived, police said the victim told them he was walking on South Main Street and placed $200 into his socks. He was then approached by two men and one of them said "give me the money or you`re going to get hurt" while the other man took his money, according to the police report.