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MIDDLEBURG — Two plain-clothed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a 22-year-old man as he was entering the Snyder County courtroom Tuesday.

HARRISBURG — There’s a $3 billion gap between budget bills advanced by the respective chambers of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and a widened political gulf separating chief negotiators as a stalemate persists over the commonwealth’s spending plan for 2025-26.

SUNBURY — One male is in custody after Sunbury police were called to the 200 block of Race Street for a man with a gun at around 1:25 p.m. Wednesday.

Bucknell University has been named the top liberal arts college in the nation and ranked 21st overall among the “50 Top Colleges in the U.S.” in LinkedIn’s first-ever ranking of schools that best set graduates up for long-term career success.

A Wegmans supplier initiated the recall after being notified by a French supplier that three shipments may be contaminated with listeria.

(WBRE/WYOU) — 28/22 News is learning more about the EBT outages that briefly prevented millions of Pennsylvanians from buying food.

The EBT system is how people access their SNAP food benefits.

The system went down more than once during the past week, most recently on Monday night for a little less than an hour.

Residents learn valuable lessons at Beaver Meadows scam seminar

PA's Department of Human Services says the outages impacted multiple states.

New Jersey-based Conduent said its technicians addressed the "brief" outages quickly.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Severe flash flooding bogged down much of Lackawanna County on Wednesday afternoon.

That flooding hit mostly in lower-lying areas, impacting many homes and roads.

Act Out Theatre Group on South Main Street in Taylor has been in this location since 2022.

Storm causes flooding in Wilkes-Barre homes

The owner says they dealt with regular flooding at their old location in Dunmore, but never here.

Inside, at least an inch of water covered the floor, damaging carpets, costumes, and other equipment.

BLAKELY, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Another packed house to discuss one of the biggest controversies about the future storage of electronic data and the energy used to run it.

Residents in Blakely got to ask questions to developers and air their concerns about the proposed data sites.

So many people showed up to the Blakely Borough building on Wednesday that even 30 minutes before the meeting started, the seats were filled, and that crowd poured out into the parking lot.

Communities all throughout the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area saw flooding from the rainstorms on Wednesday afternoon. Almost a month's worth of rain fell in 90 minutes.

The class action lawsuit revolves around two data breaches in 2024.