The PE Sneak Peek — Aug. 2

Here's a look at the stories that are keeping our reporters busy Friday: * How embarrassing -- a prisoner pens a note to taunt jailers over his planned escape, then gets caught trying to make it out. Read our online report and look for more Saturday. * Family rallies around the suspect in a stabbing. Find out what her dad has to say. * A small town takes the next step against a police chief who allegedly beat his girlfriend. Get the details.

The PE Sneak Peek — July 31

Here's a look at the stories that are keeping our reporters busy Wednesday: * A man dies when his farm tractor overturns on a hillside. * A driver is killed when she pulls out in front of a utility truck. See our online report and look for more to come. * Some $50,000 in parts disappeared from a local sewer plant, an official testifies. Read the latest in the case of a worker charged with theft.

Driver killed in wreck was cancer survivor

MILLVILLE - A breast cancer survivor from the Benton area was killed Wednesday morning when she pulled out into the path of a utility truck just north of the borough on Route 42, officials say. Margaret Eve Haddow, 49, was on her way to Geisinger for a follow-up mammogram around 8 a.m. when she pulled out from Sereno Hollow Road in her sub-compact Ford and crossed into the path of the bucket truck, according to family and police.

The PE Sneak Peek — July 29

Here's a look at the stories that are keeping our reporters busy Tuesday: * A man sold food stamps for cash, and it all went downhill from there, police say. * A scam call about an arrest warrant nets $200 from a woman whose Caller ID told her it was, indeed, the police on the phone. * A DUI suspect makes his day worse by hitting a police cruiser. * The family of a meth suspect shows up outside court to support her. Our photographer captured the scene. * And what will the judges say when local talent takes the stage on "America's Got Talent" tonight? If you're not tuned in, we will be.

Tractor trailer overturns

SOUTH CENTRE TWP. -- A tractor trailer hauling the remains of a flood-destroyed home tipped over on the interstate on-ramp, spilling several tons of debris on the road. David Dea, 33, of Hazleton, was driving about 12 tons of material from a demolished home in Scott Township at 10:20 a.m. Dea, who was headed north on Route 11, failed to make the left curve to Route 11 south and the Interstate 80 west on-ramp and overtured onto its passenger side.

House fire is deadly in Hunlock

HUNLOCK CREEK -- A smoky fire killed a man inside his longtime home here Thursday afternoon. Family members of Kent Brace spotted smoke coming from his Hartman Road home around 3:30 p.m.. They were unable to get inside to help him. A call to 9-1-1 drew a quick response, family said. But Brace's body was discovered in the front living room of the smoke-filled home when firefighters arrived. Firefighters had not determined what may have caused the fire, or where it might have originated in Brace's two-story house.

State's first same-sex marriage has a local connection

LIMERICK TWP. -- A Catawissa native made history Wednesday morning when she married her longtime partner in a small ceremony in Montgomery County. Alicia Terrizzi, 45, a Southern Columbia and Bloomsburg University grad, and Loreen Bloodgood, 40, were the first same-sex couple to be married in Pennsylvania -- a distinction that happened mostly by accident, Terrizzi joked. After learning on Tuesday that the Register of Wills in the suburban Philadelphia county was going to grant marriage licenses to gay couples, the couple decided to go to the courthouse the next morning.

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