SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Following a momentous Election Night across the nation, some democratic candidates locally won big. Among them is Scranton's Mayor Paige Cognetti, who challenged incumbent Republican Rob Bresnahan in the race for the 8th Congressional District. Cognetti…
The mayor of the City of Erie proposed a nearly $88 million budget for 2027 to city council Wednesday morning— a less than 1% increase from the previous year. "This isn't gonna be easy, right? This is gonna require all of us to…
She and her husband are still processing the situation. “You almost are embarrassed that that could happen to your child, if that makes sense,” Bouch said. “You don’t want to talk about it, because we don’t want (our child) to…
November 4, 2026 / 4:48 PM EST / CBS Philadelphia The search for a missing 10-year-old girl from West Philadelphia has expanded into the suburbs. Investigators searched the backyard dumpster of a home Tuesday night on Ardmore Avenue in Lower Merion Township in connection with…
November 4, 2026 / 3:07 PM EST / CBS Philadelphia Philadelphia police are asking for the public's help to find a man wanted in the shooting death of a woman and the assault of two other women. Jamal Pistoria, 33, fatally shot 34-year-old Bellaniri Ofelia Hernandez…
The head of a Homewood-based nonprofit was charged Wednesday with more than two dozen theft-related counts ranging from theft by deception to forgery,...
NEW YORK — A reopened criminal investigation into gang rape allegations at Cornell University will be led by a former Manhattan federal prosecutor...
Updated on: November 21, 2024 / 3:13 PM EST / CBS/AP Police in New Jersey's capital have shown a pattern of misconduct, including excessive force and unlawful stops, Justice Department officials said Thursday, in a report documenting arrests without a legal basis, officers escalating…
Voters’ decision to maintain residency requirements for Greensburg’s city administrator and fiscal director could make it difficult to fill those positions in the future, according to Councilman Randy Finfrock. About 62% of voters rejected two referendum questions on Tuesday’s ballot that…
Linda Must didn’t think twice about the Mt. Lebanon police cruiser parked Tuesday night outside her Longuevue Drive neighbor’s home — until her son received a text message with the news: A father and his two children who lived on the…
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