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Twelve charged in multi-million drug trafficking ring

(WBRE/WYOU) — The Pennsylvania Attorney General announced charges Monday for 12 men after a long-term investigation into a multi-million-dollar high-potency THC product trafficking ring. The ring would traffic marijuana and other high-level THC products from warehouses to convenience stores and smoke shops across the Commonwealth, according to a release from the office of Attorney General [...]

DOH confirms almost 700 measles cases in Pennsylvania

(WBRE/WYOU) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Monday there are now 693 confirmed measles cases in the Commonwealth, 17 more than Friday's update. Of those 693 cases, 133 are hospitalized. In northeastern and central Pennsylvania, there are 54 confirmed cases, three more than Friday's report: In the state, 99 of the confirmed cases have [...]

Three men convicted in barbershop drug-trafficking ring

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Three men were convicted Thursday after a two-week trial for running a drug organization out of a Wilkes-Barre barbershop, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Jerrod Curtis, 42, Paul Chavis, 56, and Reneard Harris, 68, all of Wilkes-Barre, were found guilty before a U.S. District Judge in Scranton [...]

Pennsylvania officials report state's...

A Pennsylvania woman's death is the state's third this year involving the measles virus. Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong says on Facebook the 40-year-old woman died Saturday from complications associated with measles. The post did not identify the woman other than as a resident of a rural area some 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania’s two previous deaths involving measles were infants. Both previous deaths were in August. Doctors deemed measles a “significant condition” at the time of one infant's death.

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