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(WBRE/WYOU) — The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced four people have been banned from Pennsylvania casinos for abandoning children to gamble.

Officials with the board say they placed, or denied the removal of four people from the casino's Involuntary Exclusion list for leaving minors unattended while gambling in a Pennsylvania casino.

26 banned from gaming in Pennsylvania casinos

According to the release, placed on the list were the following:

The IRS cautions taxpayers not to rely on receiving a refund by a certain date, especially when making major purchases or paying bills.

STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — In downtown Stroudsburg, the sidewalks are bare with a chill in the air. Inside Main Street Makery, however, heat from owner Lisa Diemer's oven warms up the shop.

“It’s cold, it’s damp, and people just don’t want to stroll the streets of Stroudsburg. So we offer classes that are prescheduled, so they have a destination to come into a nice warm kitchen.”

Offering up all types of classes; such as how to decorate cakes, making spritz butter cookies or fresh bread Diemer keeps up with the times.

(WPHL) – A Temple University gymnast has died after falling from a light pole in Philadelphia during city-wide celebrations after the Eagles won the NFC Championship on Sunday.

Tyler Sabapathy, 18, "sustained critical injuries" in the fall and passed away Tuesday, Temple University announced.

Sabapathy, a first-year student at Temple, was a native of Toronto, Canada, and was said to be a "thriving student within Temple University’s College of Public Health, where he was majoring in exercise and sport science."

The White House confirmed the website for Medicaid payments was down a day after announcing a pause on federal grants and loans.

The White House confirmed the Office of Management and Budget pulled the memo Wednesday in a two sentence notice to agencies and departments.

Starbucks will also add digital menus to all of its company-owned U.S. stores over the next 18 months to make ordering options clearer.

The Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget released a new memo Wednesday rescinding a controversial memo issued late Monday that froze a wide swath of federal financial assistance, which had paralyzed many federal programs and caused a huge uproar on Capitol Hill.

The decision came amid strong behind-the-scenes pushback from Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, according to a GOP senator who was apprised of the decision to reverse Monday’s budget memo.

The reversal was signed by Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of the White House budget office.

After DHS revoked previous guidance for immigration enforcement, we VERIFY if ICE agents can now enter schools, churches and hospitals.

Trump was sentenced Jan. 10 to what’s known as an unconditional discharge, leaving his conviction on the books but sparing him jail, probation or other punishment.