Here are the stories keeping our reporters busy Thursday:

• Highway havoc: A crash on a busy street took out a parking meter, then a washing machine and then the corner of a building.

• Back to work: A female sheriff's deputy who sued the department over alleged sexual discrimination is back on the job.

• Hall pass: Will a township give the OK for a big social club to be reused as a church?

• A familiar voice: WHLM's Jim Doyle guest stars on this week's high-school football video podcast, and gives us his insights into how our local teams stack up.

Look for these stories and more in Friday's Press Enterprise.

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• Armed conflict: A gang wielding a machete, a bat and a knife showed up at a family's doorstep over the weekend, cops say. Now two of them are in jail.

• Staffing up: Geisinger plans for a hiring surge.

• Trickle down: Some high schools are seeing football players copy the national anthem protests happening at the NFL level.