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DICKSON CITY, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Dickson City road is now reopened after crews battled a structure fire Friday evening.

The Dickson City Police Department said on Friday shortly before 5:00 p.m. that drivers were to avoid the 1300 block of Main Street.

Police explained the roadway was closed down as firefighters battled a structure fire at Berger's Furniture.

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Dickson City Police say no one was in the vacant building at the time and no one was reported injured.

EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — State police announced DUI checkpoints will be placed across various roadways in Pennsylvania for the rest of the holiday season.

According to Pennsylvania State Police, sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols aim to deter drinking and driving. Police say they are operating with a “zero-tolerance enforcement policy.”

Police say checkpoints will be placed on roadways from now into January 6 that are experiencing high rates of DUI-related traffic violations and DUI-related crashes.

OLYPHANT, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Congressman Matt Cartwright is calling for an investigation into what he calls a "strikingly high" amount of cancer cases being reported from former employees of several facilities in Lackawanna County.

According to a released letter from Cartwright to PA Secretary of Health Dr. Debra Bogen, Cartwright says the abnormally high amount of cases seem to revolve around former employees of several plants in Olyphant: Specialty Records, WEA Manufacturing, and Cinram.

Former Scranton officer charged with rape of students

WILLIAMSPORT, LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A 30-year cold case murder investigation is getting another look by investigators.

24-year-old Gail Matthews and her five-year-old daughter Tamara Berkheiser were murdered inside their Williamsport home in September of 1994 over the decades several suspects were interviewed and properties searched but the killer remains on the street.

The Lycoming County District Attorney Tom Marino tells 28/22 News his detectives are reviewing evidence in the case.

TOWANDA TWP., BRADFORD COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A driver has been sentenced after state police say he hit and killed a man and left two others injured, including the victim's child.

Charles Scott, 39, of Columbia Crossroads, was sentenced to 63 months in state prison to a maximum of more than 20 years on the following charges;

Homicide by motor vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol

Recklessly endangering another person

Driving under the influence of alcohol

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SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A former officer who was with the Scranton Police Department has been charged with the rape of several students from West Scranton High School.

A criminal affidavit states that Stephen Carroll drugged and raped multiple students while acting as a School Resource Officer at West Scranton High School.

The alleged crimes are said to have taken place between September of 2009 and November of 2017.

WINFIELD — A house fire in Union Township killed a 64-year-old woman early Friday morning, according to state police in Milton.

LEWISBURG — Author Sara Reisch Desmond will have a book event at the Barnes and Noble in Lewisburg next week.

LEWISBURG — The Union County Historical Society Capital Campaign is entering the second year of its capital campaign to raise $200,000 for the new Union County Museum and Gallery at 15 N. Water St. in Lewisburg.

MILTON — The Central PA Chamber of Commerce on Thursday named several new and returning members to its board of directors.