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Nicholas Sabo was sentenced on Friday to six months in jail, followed by 4 1/2 years of probation.

The Greater Scranton Black Diamonds Pipe Band was on board a school bus that crashed Sunday night in Lackawanna County

Forever 21 stores in the U.S. will hold liquidation sales and the website will continue to run while operations wind down.

(WBRE/WYOU) — The Pennsylvania Lottery is asking players to check their tickets because two winning lottery tickets, worth over $5 million, are close to expiring.

Officials with the Pennsylvania Lottery state two tickets worth a combined total of $5,128,337 will soon expire.

This includes one jackpot-winning Match 6 Lotto prize worth $2.5 million sold in Wayne County, and one jackpot-winning Cash 5 with Quick Cash prize worth $2,628,337 sold in Westmoreland County.

RIVERSIDE, MONTOUR COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — According to PA WARN Notices, the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. will close its Montour County location by 2026.

Bus carrying bagpipers crashes into tractor-trailer

The closure will impact 163 jobs at the Riverside location in Montour County. The layoffs will happen in multiple rounds, with the first one starting on May 16 through May 30.

The second round of layoffs will happen between June 23 and July 7, and the final round will happen sometime in 2026.

The nonprofit Shamrock Heart Foundation of Lackawanna County spent Monday morning preparing and delivering green carnation corsages and boutonnieres.

A full session of the IOC board is needed to fully reintroduce the sport, but if that formality passes without issue, boxing will be back for the Los Angeles Games.

PLAINS TWP., LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Video shows multiple shots fired early Monday morning near a school in Plains Township.

28/22 News received surveillance video of shots fired near the intersection of Abbott and Stocker streets in Plains Township around 4:30 a.m.

In the video, someone can be seen firing four shots from a gun while multiple people are running from the scene. Additional shots are then heard off camera.

Two dead after multi-vehicle crash due to fog

Qaadir and Nazir Lewis' bodies were found on Bell Mountain. Their family disputes GBI's initial murder-suicide ruling, insisting the twins wouldn’t hurt each other.

Three Pa. senators will soon reintroduce a bill that would establish Hershey's Kisses as the state candy.