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MIDDLEBURG — A Los Angeles man accused of threatening to kill a Geisinger nurse and another woman will be extradited to Snyder County.

The Coast Guard will remove divisive language from its new workplace harassment policy that downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday. Noem’s announcement, made over social media, comes after the military branch allowed the more lenient language to quietly take effect Monday, [...]

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Lackawanna College is expanding. It is adding a new building to house multiple programs already in place at the school. 28/22 News reporter Connor Coar takes us to the groundbreaking ceremony in Scranton. Shovels were in the ground in downtown Scranton. Lackawanna College is set to build a 17,000-square-foot facility that [...]

Photos released include tech giants Bill Gates and Sergey Brin, filmmaker Woody Allen and former Trump adviser Steve Banon.

President Trump’s “warrior dividends” of $1,776 will use funding appropriated for military housing subsidies under the administration’s signature “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” 

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to speed up the rescheduling of marijuana from Schedule I to the less severe Schedule III, with the stated goal of expanding cannabis research. The executive order will direct the attorney general to expedite the completion of the rescheduling process. The Biden administration had begun the rescheduling [...]

Former race driver Greg Biffle and members of his family were among seven people who died in a plane crash Thursday in North Carolina, state police confirmed.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM)-- The Governor's Residence is mostly repaired from an arson attack in April, and the arsonist is serving a long prison sentence, but the saga isn't over. Questions continue to smolder over taxpayer-funded upgrades to Governor Shapiro's private residence in Montgomery County, and a Midstate State Senator is further fanning the flames. Taxpayers [...]

(WBRE/WYOU) — Authorities announced charges against seven people involved in a SNAP trafficking operation that stole over $775,000 in funds. After a multi-year investigation, the Office of State Inspector General stated seven individuals took part in a SNAP trafficking operation that took $775,677.77 in fraudulent transactions over three years. Investigators said the owner of Quick Stop Convenience [...]

(WBRE/WYOU) — A lucky Pennsylvania lottery player in Luzerne County has won $1 million from a Powerball ticket. Two winning Powerball® tickets were sold in Pennsylvania in the Wednesday, December 17 drawing, which were worth a combined total of $1.2 million. It includes one prize worth $1 million sold at a Pennsylvania Lottery retailer in [...]