{"id":60219,"date":"2025-12-13T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60219\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:48:25","slug":"wilkes-barre-scranton-find-new-partners-to-offer-shelter-on-coldest-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60219\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkes-Barre, Scranton find new partners to offer shelter on coldest nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        Affidavit reveals details of Scranton machete attack that left two women dead, one wounded<\/p>\n<p>A man told police he smoked a hallucinogenic drug before killing two women and critically injuring another with a machete in a downtown Scranton apartment building Tuesday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2025-12-10\/police-two-killed-one-critically-wounded-in-stabbing-at-downtown-scranton-apartment-building\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to an arrest affidavit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Willie Marquis Woods, 38, also killed a service dog that belonged to one of the dead women, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre and Scranton find new partners to offer shelter on coldest nights<\/p>\n<p>Both Wilkes-Barre and Scranton have found alternative partners for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2025-12-07\/wilkes-barre-and-scranton-find-new-partners-to-offer-shelter-on-coldest-nights\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Code Blue program<\/a> that was previously organized by Keystone Mission in both cities.<\/p>\n<p>A Code Blue is issued on especially cold or snowy nights to establish an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton City Council approves Geisinger zoning changes on Tuesday at meeting<\/p>\n<p>Scranton City Council voted 3-2 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2025-12-09\/breaking-news-scranton-city-council-approves-geisinger-zoning-changes-tonight-at-meeting\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">approve Geisinger&#8217;s zoning change<\/a> after a more than two-hour-long public hearing, followed by a city council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2025-12-09\/scranton-city-council-to-hear-public-comment-may-vote-on-geisinger-cmc-zoning-change\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">amendment will allow the hospital system to build a five-story annex<\/a> on Colfax Avenue by changing its zoning from institutional to civic. Geisinger also plans to build a new parking garage next to the annex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Affidavit reveals details of Scranton machete attack that left two women dead, one wounded A man told police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-60219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60219","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=60219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}