Michael Pahira

A non-discrimination ordinance passed by Luzerne County Council in June is caught in a battle to either repeal it or put it up for a county-wide vote on whether or not to keep it. While county residents and officials trade petitions, lawsuits and challenges, the fate of the law is uncertain.

Gov. Josh Shapiro portrays the state’s new budget as another example of Republicans and Democrats teaming up to “get stuff done.”

The lawyer representing Michael Bon says the trucker told him he was not tired at the time of the crash that killed Trooper Michael Pahira Jr., but had a history of seizures in his native Haiti.

Fellow police officers, family, friends, even the governor gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of a state trooper who died in the line of duty last week.

Hundreds of police officers joined family and friends of Trooper Michael Pahira Jr. to mourn his death Wednesday from a horrific traffic accident on I-81 last week.

Revelations that the tractor-trailer driver accused of striking and killing a state trooper on Interstate 81 in Northeast Pennsylvania was in the country illegally have put renewed focus on the requirements to obtain Commercial Driver's Licenses.

A trucker who fatally struck a Pa. state trooper on I-81 had been ordered to leave the U.S. But Michael Bon legally obtained a commercial drivers license in Massachusetts before being told to leave.

Michael Bon, 33, of Brockton, was arrested following the crash that killed Trooper Michael Pahira in Butler Township as he was inspecting a tractor-trailer on the right shoulder of the interstate at about 7 a.m.

A state trooper inspecting a tractor-trailer was killed when another tractor-trailer crashed into the scene during Wednesday morning rush hour.