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Man charged with commercial bribery in fraud, kickback investigation
EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — Officials have charged seven people for allegedly committing bribery fraud worth thousands of dollars in Pennsylvania. The Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania says charges have been filed against Jose L. Ortiz, 48, of Drums, for conspiring to commit honest services fraud. According to U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam, during […]
Five taken to hospital after vehicle crashes into railroad car near Shenandoah
SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. — Several people were taken to the hospital after a car crashed into a railroad car Monday evening in Schuylkill County. According to police, a vehicle was speeding in West Mahanoy Township near Shenandoah around 6:45 p.m. when it missed a left curve, went off the road, and struck a parked Reading and Northern Railroad coal car.
Cargill recalls ground beef due to possible contamination
WASHINGTON—Cargill Meat Solutions, a Hazleton, Pennsylvania, establishment, is recalling approximately 16,243 pounds of raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The raw ground beef items were produced on April 26-27,...
Muhammad Ali’s daughter visits Fighter’s Heaven in Deer Lake
DEER LAKE, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The late, great Muhammed Ali’s eldest daughter visited Fighter’s Heaven in Deer Lake, Schuylkill County, in honor of her dad. Fighter’s Heaven was in an uproar as Ali’s eldest daughter, Maryum “May” May” Ali, participated in the Parkinson Unity Walk, but before heading home she visited her father’s restored […]
Get a sneak peek of next week’s Here’s to You, Kid!
PA live! (WBRE) — Reporter Iyee Jagne is back for her weekly feature on Fridays to tease her Here’s to You Kid! story. This week she introduces us to Brianna, a student in Tamaqua with an impeccable musical inclination. But her story doesn’t end there, because Brianna continues to give back to her community in many ways.
The Fire Beneath Our Feet
Centralia became an attraction for both horror movie fans and ordinary people fascinated by the story. I first learned the story of Centralia, Pennsylvania as a child, driving in my parents’ car through the mountains beyond the Blue Ridge. The fire had been making national news for several years, and a documentary appeared on PBS in 1982, which must have when my parents told us the story. Fascinated, my brother and I scanned the hills for smoke. I don’t know how close we actually were to the town on that drive, but to us it seemed that the fire could spread, could appear anywhere, connected by the vast seams of anthracite coal. The vast underground caverns I imagined while playing Dungeons and Dragons were real, and maybe the fires of hell, too.
Blankenhorn back home for series
In his first plate appearance near his hometown Pottsville’s Travis Blankenhorn smacked a 2 run hoe run for the Rochester Red Wings. It has been that kind of season for the former Crimson tide player. Coming into this week’s series with the Railriders Travis was hitting over 300 in the first month of the season.
New alert system for steam electric plant
EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — Many people from our region are familiar with the sirens that go off for testing and alert at the Susquehanna Steam Electric Plant in the Berwick Area. The time has come for change FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security are proposing changing sirens with cell phone alerts. Officials ran a […]
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