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MAYFIELD, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The property of an abandoned coal mine in Lackawanna County will soon be transformed into an economic opportunity. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro announced a $39 million investment into 11 sites across the commonwealth on Wednesday.

Six million dollars of the $39,000,000 will be used to build a brand-new manufacturing and logistics center in Mayfield.

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Pennsylvania voting systems are under the microscope again, this time for sending a group of voters duplicate mail-in ballots. 31 voters in Luzerne County received duplicate mail-in ballots ahead of this year's municipal election.

The ballots, coming from the commonwealth's statewide uniform registry of electors, also known as the Secretary of State's office, not the county's Bureau of Elections.

The database manages voter records in Pennsylvania's 67 counties.

Emily Cook is the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections Director.

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Governor Josh Shapiro announced a new investment in a multi-million dollar project that will bring hundreds of jobs to Archbald and Mayfield.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A local university is bringing awareness to mental health and suicide prevention. Students attended the mental health fair to learn about the resources they can access should they need them.

"I know it's very hard for people our age, young adults, to come to find help, essentially, and we are connectors to mental health services," said Deana Nieves, a senior at Penn State Scranton.

(WBRE/WYOU) — The rest of the work week may start feeling like fall as frost advisories are in effect for parts of Pennsylvania.

Temperatures will fall into the lower and middle 30s in the Wilkes-Barre area.

For the rest of the area, it will be clear and colder with low temperatures between 35° and 40°. Some warmer valleys could stay in the 40s.

Thursday will be mostly sunny and cool and afternoon temperatures could be in the middle and upper 50s.

Lawmakers looking for solutions to keep vulnerable community safe

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Court documents say a second person is being charged in connection with allegations of child abuse going unreported that closed a Lackawanna County daycare center.

Authorities say Erin Pallo, owner and director of Learn & Grow Early Childhood Day Care Center in Scranton, is being charged with failure to report child abuse. Officials add co-owner Amy Ware faces the same charge.

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TROY — Julian Fleming faces a bevy of charges, including vehicular homicide and driving under the influence, in connection with a May ATV wreck that killed his girlfriend, a 23-year-old...

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress shows us how a monthly pierogi sale for one church in Palmerton is bringing everyone together on National Pierogi Day.