Two local school districts are reeling after a weekend accident killed 38-year-old Sean Richmond. Richmond was killed around 6 o'clock Saturday night when he was struck by a tractor trailer on I-380 North in Tobyhanna Township. Richmond was part of four state wrestling championships at Easton High School. Steven Powell was his coach and says the loss is devastating. "You get so depressed and sad about the accident and death of Sean and then you think of Sean and it brings a smile to your face and I think everybody's going to remember Sean with a big smile. He was a model kid. To me, he was virtually a son," Powell says. Richmond was currently serving as Stroudsburg High School's wrestling coach and its athletic director as well. State police are investigating what happened. Richmond was on his way to Stroudsburg's prom at Kalahari Resorts when the accident happened.
Firefighters were called to Bethlehem Catholic High School this morning. Smoke was reported around 6 a.m. There's no word yet on the extent of any damage.
The I-78 Toll Bridge’s Pennsylvania-bound direction is scheduled to be reduced from three to two travel lanes this week. The lane closure is scheduled from Monday through Thursday, May 13-16, from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.
The Pennsylvania House has voted down a pair of bills on gun safety. One would have banned bump stock devices and the other aimed to curb gun trafficking. Both measures failed by a 101-100 vote. Democratic state representative Frank Burns of Cambria joined every Republican in opposing each measure.
The bribery trial of Democratic Senator Bob Menendez starts today in a downtown Manhattan courtroom. Menendez, along with two other businessmen, will be in attendance for the start of jury selection. The trial of Menendez's wife who is also charged starts in July while she recovers from an undisclosed medical procedure. The couple is accused of accepting $500,000 in cash, gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz, and home mortgage payments from businessmen who allegedly wanted the Senator's influence to help their businesses in Egypt and Qatar.