Eric Scicchitano

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State Reporter, CNHI
News Reporter, Daily Item

Shamokin

Crime and Justice, U.S. Regional

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Covers: Addiction and recovery, crime, education, business. I prefer issues impacting rural areas, especially the economically challenged.

I'm mostly on Twitter only for Sixers updates.

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Making amends on the edges of The Badlands

Social ills that mark the symptoms of heroin and opioid addiction are hidden no better in the shade of the el…

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Sunbury man's struggles in wake of doctor's arrest highlight depth of opioid crisis

A burning, stabbing pain shoots through the neck of Scott Dietrich, and he's all out of pain pills. "Like a h…

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Valley trio among baseball's elite

Long are the odds to become a professional baseball player. Longer still are the odds to be enshrined in the …

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Putting a face to recovery: New Columbia woman tells of addiction, sobriety

Enough light shone through the empty cardboard box inside which Tricia Dauberman hid in wait to surprise her …

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Opioid addiction driving foster placements

It's no coincidence the rise in children ordered into foster care came amid the spike in the ongoing heroin a…

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Finding Foster Families: Officials struggle to meet demand

Jerod Waller slides a backpack weighted with college texts from his shoulders, no doubt relieving the 19-year…

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Family struggles with overdose death

Teresa Stoker gently pulls a sterling silver necklace from beneath the neck of her gray sweatshirt and holds …

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Sounds of jackhammer tell tale of search

The staccato whack of a jackhammer sounded faint from inside the basement of a Front Street home Wednesday, w…

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Inspired by tragedy, teens fight to change gun culture

Seventeen people went to a Florida high school last month and didn’t live to see the school day through. The …

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