NASCAR program to honor state trooper, benefit fund director

Trooper Joshua Miller of the state police Swiftwater barracks was mortally wounded in a June 2009 shootout in Coolbaugh Township, helping rescue a 9-year-old boy from the father who had kidnapped him at gunpoint.

Fellow Trooper Robert Lombardo, who was with Miller at the time, likewise was wounded.

Lombardo and Angela Tullo of Pittston, director of the Tri-state Troopers’ Fund to benefit the families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, have been named this year’s ExtenZe Local Heroes and will be honored during today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Pocono Raceway.

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