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1 week ago |
wvia.org | Roger DuPuis
There were nearly 10,000 crashes involving distracted driving last year in Pennsylvania, killing 49 people, state transportation officials say. Those crashes also left more than 6,000 people injured, according to PennDOT statistics. A new law that takes effect this week is designed to curb the use of electronic devices behind the wheel and save lives. Here's what you need to know about "Paul Miller's Law," which is named for a Scranton man killed by a distracted tractor-trailer driver in 2010.
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1 week ago |
wvia.org | Roger DuPuis
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday it will "pause" operations at 99 contractor-operated Job Corps centers nationwide, including two in Northeast Pennsylvania. Keystone Job Corps Center in Drums, Luzerne County and Red Rock Job Corps Center in Lopez, Sullivan County are among them, as are Job Corps facilities in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, records show. Twenty-four Job Corps centers operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture are not affected.
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1 week ago |
wvia.org | Roger DuPuis |Sarah Hall
NEWS VOICESWelcome to News Voices, a weekly feature where members of the WVIA News team will talk with each other — and sometimes sources — about key things we've learned in recent stories we have been working on. Today Roger DuPuis sits down with Sarah Hofius Hall to discuss Penn State's decision to close its Wilkes-Barre campus, including what that could mean for students currently enrolled there. This is a transcript of their conversation as it aired on WVIA Radio.
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1 week ago |
wvia.org | Roger DuPuis
For decades Dale Danneker knew very little about his uncle who was killed in action during World War II. "The family story was that he was shot down. Well, I grew up believing it was over the English Channel," said Danneker, who lives in DuBois. Only in recent years would he and other relatives learn that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. John H.
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2 weeks ago |
wvia.org | Roger DuPuis |Borys Krawczeniuk
NEWS VOICESWelcome to News Voices, a weekly feature where members of the WVIA News team will talk with each other — and sometimes sources — about key things we've learned in recent stories we have been working on. Today Roger DuPuis sits down with Borys Krawczeniuk to discuss key takeaways from Tuesday's primary election in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties. ***ROGER: I'm Roger DuPuis, and this is News Voices. Today I have with me WVIA News reporter Boris Krawczeniuk.
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