{"id":211690,"date":"2026-06-05T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211690\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:37:15","slug":"west-scranton-high-school-dedicates-memorial-for-classmates-gone-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211690\/","title":{"rendered":"West Scranton High School dedicates memorial for classmates gone ‘too soon’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering Rose: West Scranton classmates, family dedicate memorial to victim, others gone ‘too soon’<\/p>\n

Next week, Rose Hernandez would have worn Invader blue. <\/a>She would have sung the school\u2019s alma mater. She would have turned her tassel.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, roses lay in a place where students can now grieve a life cut short.<\/p>\n

Friends and family gathered in the courtyard at West Scranton High School to remember Rose and unveil a statue in her memory \u2014 and other students gone too soon.<\/p>\n

DA says Ex-Dunmore cop’s evidence tampering forced withdrawal of three Lackawanna County drug cases<\/p>\n

A former Dunmore police sergeant who took and used drugs from a borough evidence room<\/a> forced prosecutors to drop cases against three suspects, Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher said Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remembering Rose: West Scranton classmates, family dedicate memorial to victim, others gone ‘too soon’ Next week, Rose Hernandez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-211690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}