SELINSGROVE — Three Selinsgrove brothers raised $841 for Meals for Seals at a lemonade stand they set up Saturday, helping support the financially-struggling nonprofit.
WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP — A New Columbia man has been charged after allegedly striking a woman multiple times in the face and recording her without her consent, according to state police in Milton.
LEWISBURG — Fiber artist Frances Appleman will discuss the history of woven coverlets in the Union County Historical Society Collection at 2 p.m. Aug. 17.
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Motorists traveling to the Little League World Series got a navigation boost from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant that shook the ground near Pittsburgh left one dead and sent at least 10 to hospitals with emergency workers still searching the badly charred rubble hours later for a missing worker. An Allegheny County spokesperson says an explosion followed by several smaller blasts happened Monday morning at the Clairton Coke Works. The plant is a massive industrial facility along the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh, and is considered the largest coking operation in North America.
Experts say the rollback will decrease energy production and add $130 on average to bills by the end of the decade.
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A woman is dead after a shooting in Wilkes-Barre over the weekend.
Candles now sit outside the Mila Lounge in Wilkes-Barre after the homicide of 30-year-old Ayana Velardo. In a criminal complaint obtained, 35-year-old Natasha Dixon is accused of shooting Velardo.
It happened after an altercation between the two at the lounge early Saturday morning. Witnesses say they saw them arguing inside the lounge, which then escalated outside.
PennDOT is beginning recruitment for over 100 full-time winter positions across District 4.
Drivers in Luzerne County will face a year-long detour as Route 115 access to I-81 North is closed.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison term after her conviction on sex trafficking charges for helping procure girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.
