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Former Social Worker Charged with Fraud

A former social worker in Bradford County is charged with an insurance fraud scheme.

Sherri Brinskelle of North Carolina was arrested Wednesday.

Investigators said Brinskelle submitted more than $100,000 in false claims to medical assistance and private insurance companies for more than four years when she worked in Bradford County.

 

  

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Weather Related Cancellations

Due to the snow and icy conditions, several planned events have been canceled:

 

Bradford County

Towanda Area Clergy Association Lenten Luncheon canceled.

 

Luzerne County

The PIAA District II AAAA boys basketball playoff game scheduled for Wednesday, February 29 between Delaware Valley and Hazleton Area has been postponed. The game is rescheduled for Thursday, March 1, 6 p.m. at Pittston Area High School.

 

Monroe County

Meals on Wheels is not deliver Wednesday

 

Pike County

The PIAA District II AAAA boys basketball playoff game scheduled for Wednesday, February 29 between Delaware Valley and Hazleton Area has been postponed. The game is rescheduled for Thursday, March 1, 6 p.m. at Pittston Area High School.

Layoffs Announced at Bradford County Plant

Global Tungsten and Powders Corporation in Bradford County announced it will be reducing 150 positions.

PSP: Man Posing as Trooper

State police said they know who is responsible for posing as a trooper in Bradford County.

Authorities said the suspect was following a commercial vehicle on Route 414 near Towanda last week.

Troopers said the suspect called the owner of the company vehicle, identified himself as a state troopers and demanded the owner contact the driver and tell him to pull over.

State police have not yet released the suspect's name.

 

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DEP Fines Chesapeake Energy for Contaminating Streams, Creeks

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has issued a $565,000 fine to gas driller Chesapeake Energy because of violations at three of the company's sites last year, including a well blowout in Bradford County.

In all three of those instances, state officials said Chesapeake Energy contaminated streams and creeks.

In one of those cases, it took days for Chesapeake to get a blown-out gas well under control.

That was in April of last year near Rroy in Bradford County.

Newswatch 16 spent days covering the blow-out that happened during Chesapeake's fracking operation at a well pad in LeRoy Township.

Fluids from the well made their way into nearby Towanda Creek, according to the DEP.

It took Chesapeake two days to stop the flow from the well and four more days to get the well fully under control.

Natural Gas Impact Fee Ready for Governor's Signature

After three years of bickering in Harrisburg, a bill imposing a fee on natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania is now heading to Governor Tom Corbett's desk.

It's called an impact fee. It passed the state House late Wednesday afternoon and the state Senate Tuesday.

The governor said he will sign it.

Pennsylvania is the only major natural gas producing state that doesn't have a tax on that gas drilling and production.

This isn't considered a tax, but the passing of this bill means for the first time, the state and local municipalities will make money directly off the drilling.

Drilling a natural gas well in Pennsylvania will now carry a price tag, the impact fee.

Here are the estimates for what that will mean.

Each well will earn between $190,000 to $355,000 over 15 years. The first year, that's expected to bring in $190 million statewide.

Deadbeat Drivers: Uninsured and Behind the Wheel

Hundreds of thousands of drivers in Pennsylvania are driving without car insurance.

That means they are breaking the law as soon as they get behind the wheel, and when they' ae blamed for a crash, their action can break the bank accounts of their victims. 

It is worse when a victim needs medical attention.

Eight-year-old Destiny Miller was walking with her cousins outside their mobile home park in Bradford County in July.

Neighbor Ronald Chesla was driving home in his girlfriend`s car when he took a turn too wide and plowed into the children.

"People are running up to the house, scared," recalled Destiny' mother, Kathy Miller.  "(They screamed) 'Destiny just got hit, Destiny just got hit.'"

Destiny's cousins had minor injuries.

Emergency crews flew her to Geisinger Medical Center near Danville where was unconscious and in critical condition. She survived after days in intensive care.