DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Runners are raising funds this holiday season for a family-oriented non-profit. Dozens of runners took off Saturday morning in Dunmore for the second annual Greater Scranton YMCA Jingle Bell Jog 5K and one-mile fun walk. They braved the cold for the cause. Most runners who participated are from northeastern Pennsylvania, [...]
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Millions of people with billion-dollar dreams are expected to get tickets for Saturday night's Powerball game. Lottery machines are humming, printing out those tickets at places like Anthracite Newsstand in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Saturday night's jackpot is an estimated $1,000,000,000 with a cash value of nearly $457,000,000. The jackpot is the [...]
DRUMS, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Hazleton area is one of many communities nationwide pausing to honor and remember our fallen heroes on Saturday. Saint Jude Knights of the Columbus Council of Mountain Top invited the community to Calvary Cemetery on Route 309 in Drums to lay wreaths at veteran gravesites. It's all part of [...]
Michael G. Stanton scrubbed for over 3 hours at the 24th annual Shower for Charity in Honesdale.
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) say a man is dead after a shooting involving authorities Saturday in South Williamsport. Troopers from Troop F, Montoursville, say they were helping the South Williamsport Police Department for a terroristic threat incident Saturday on the 700 block of Fairmont Avenue. Officials added that the [...]
At least two students died and nine were injured in a Saturday shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, according to authorities. Providence Police Department Chief Oscar Perez said at a press conference early Sunday that a person of interest was detained overnight but declined to provide additional identifying information about where the individual was detained or whether [...]
Newswatch 16's Valeria Quiñones shows us around the borough's most festive season.
Brown University is a private, nonprofit institution with about 7,300 undergraduates and just over 3,000 graduate students, according to its website.
State police say 49-year-old Michael Hughes allegedly brandished a weapon at troopers in a home along Fairmount Avenue.
Officials said progress is being made in identifying a person of "significant interest" who has now been seen in several pieces of surveillance footage.
