Here are the stories keeping our reporters busy Friday:

• Rising above: A man was banned from a stadium while a youth football team played. So he went home and got his bucket lift.

• No inspections: The state doesn't want a local garage to conduct inspections for four months after it says the garage missed a piece of faulty equipment in a recent check.

• Threats alleged: Sick of insults, a man showed up at a Berwick house with friends, a machete and a baseball bat, police say. Friday, he had his day in court.

• Football faceoffs: We'll have all the latest scores at www.PeExtraPoints.com tonight from Week 8 of high-school football.

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

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• Rudy reimbursement: The state Attorney General says a local furniture company needs to pay up for taking people's money, but never sending them their furniture.

• Small but important: A closed bridge could mean the difference between life and death for some residents, they say.

• The answer is in our genes: The federal government will give Geisinger millions to help build a new genetic database to track disease.