ORANGE TWP. — A tractor-trailer attempting to turn around in the parking lot at Hess Market here Wednesday morning snapped two utility poles and knocked out power to the busy convenience store.

Arthur Johnson, 25, Trenton, N.J., was on a local delivery route for Dollar General around 9 a.m. when he was forced to widen his turn due to a parked car blocking part of the entrance off Route 487.

“I couldn’t make it around so I widened out on the turn and heard a ‘snap.’ It was like a branch breaking,” the delivery driver said.

Talen Energy Supply, the owner of the nuclear plant outside Berwick and the coal burning plant near Washingtonville, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday.

Officials said the move will give the company time and money to restructure. Eventually, it will be owned by some of its creditors, said Chief Executive Officer Alejandro “Alex” Hernandez.

Employees, vendors and neighbors won’t see any changes, according to Kroll’s Restructuring Administration, a bankruptcy consultant hired by Talen.

CATAWISSA—Police say a fire that destroyed a borough home in February was set by the owner’s son in a bid to collect a $260,000 insurance payout.

Nathan Roeder, 35, of 43 Andrew Lane was arrested at his home Friday morning an arraigned on felony arson and other charges before District Judge Craig Long.

Roeder allegedly confessed last month to using a hand-held torch to ignite items in a second floor bedroom of his father Roger Roeder’s home on Feb. 15 after police confronted him with evidence that put him at the scene just before the noontime fire.