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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Police Looking for Two Men Who Stole Lottery Tickets from White Birch Golf Course

Photo from TamaquaArea.com/Rush Township Police

Can you help identify these two individuals?

Facebook went down for approximately 15 minutes Wednesday sending social media into a panic.

Twitter and other social media outlet users began using the hashtag #FacebookDown during the outage.

The outage last from approximately 3:45pm until 4:00pm.

This will be Facebook's third outage of the summer.

Do you think we rely on Social Media to heavily?

Home Depot Investigating "Massive" Data Breach

Did you shop at Home Depot over the last couple months? If so, your credit or debit card information may have been compromised.

Residents of Schuylkill County unhappy about cable provider dropping Big Ten Network.

Yuengling’s Ice Cream, recently reintroduced after a nearly 30-year hiatus, is looking for a few good men and women with excellent taste. It is holding a contest to find 12 “ultimate fans” who will serve as its official taste-testing team. The winners will help to choose the flavors that will appear on the shelves.

Family With Special Needs Child Moving On After Fire

WBRE caught up with the Wycheck Family, who lost their home in last week's fire in Mahanoy City

Biker Injured After Crash Near Brockton Tuesday

One male was taken to the hospital after crashing his motorcycle on Tuesday.

Where is the Tamaqua Area Weatherman?

Schuylkill County's Weatherman, Tamaqua Area Weatherman hasn't been seen on Facebook for months. Where did he go? Skook News has the exclusive look into where his whereabouts are.

Schuylkill County High School Football Power Rankings After Week #1

To date the Schuylkill County Musicians Group has featured close to 20 bands from the area. Featured bands/artists aren't chosen on a whim or are we paid by bands to be featured (as some people have accused of happening) We contact bands and ask bands that would like to be featured. We then look at the band and see its talent and history. Fortunately, We have not had to turn a band down to be a feature. We've had a few bands drag their feet getting us information but at the end of the day the one common factor is that Schuylkill County musicians are filled with talent, history and much more. Our features aren't just for Facebook, you can also read any of these features on our website (https://sites.google.com/site/schuylkillmusicians).