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Joseph Kaminski faces pandemic fraud charges, including wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to the Small Business Administration.

NANTICOKE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Nanticoke man has been charged in a scheme that the Department of Justice said defrauded over $850,000 of emergency pandemic funding.

According to the Department of Justice, Joseph Kaminski, 55, of Nanticoke, defrauded the Small Business Administration (SBA) of over $850,000 in emergency pandemic funding that was made available to small business owners through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.

DUI conviction overturned due to unauthorized blood draw

Pie, muffins and pizza all containing blueberries can be found in Montrose.

MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Authorities have charged a woman after they say she faked a cancer diagnosis to get nearly 8,300 oxycodone pills from providers in three counties.

Attorney General Dave Sunday stated that Brandi Leigh Bachman has been charged with fraudulently obtaining nearly 8,300 oxycodone pills from 19 different providers while claiming she had terminal cancer.

Between 2021 and 2024, Bachman, 40, told providers in Monroe, Lehigh, and Carbon counties that she had a malignant melanoma and it metastasized to her lungs, the release states.

Brandi Bachman faces felony charges of acquisition of a controlled substance by fraud, identity theft, and criminal use of a communication facility.

The SAVE plan has been in legal limbo for months since the program was struck down by a federal appeals court.

UPPER PROVIDENCE TWP., Pa. (WPHL) -- Officials announced the arrest of a child care facility employee after police said she sent two infants to the hospital.

Catalina Baldwin, 37, was arrested Thursday for aggravated assault and related charges.

LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man accused of murdering a woman, then burning her body on the side of the road, is in court Friday.

55-year-old Terence Ray from Hazleton is in Luzerne County Court after being accused of murdering 39-year-old Jessica Lockwood in April.

Prosecutors say Ray killed Lockwood in his Muir Avenue home, then burned her body along Club 40 Road near Hazleton. The coroner says Lockwood died from blunt force trauma and a gunshot wound.

Missing Moosic man found dead in Luzerne County

Kohberger has been moved to long-term restrictive housing, where inmates are moved in restraints and have one hour of outdoor recreation daily.

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