Stories from Tuesday, January 21, 2025
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Republican president pardons participants in Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump issued pardons for participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, including those...
BERWICK -- Homeless people here will have a warm place to stay on frigid nights through April, the borough council...
Columbia County official was to lower it again in honor of late president
BLOOMSBURG --The American flag in front of the Columbia County Courthouse was flying high Monday during the...
HUNTINGTON MILLS -- The property owner of a former chicken farm was badly burned during a four-alarm fire near here,...
BLOOMSBURG -- Convicted killer Anthony "Rocco" Franklin has filed yet another appeal of his conviction for murdering...
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TOPS 0784: 9-10:30 a.m., Bethany Church of Berwick, Summerhill Avenue; info: 570-784-3145.
Veterans Heritage Center: 10...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Firefighters quickly extinguished several brush fires that erupted Monday in Southern California...
Senate confirms Rubio
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate quickly confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state Monday, voting...
* The North Centre Township Supervisors will hold a public hearing Feb. 10 to consider raising the supervisors' annual...
1793: During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed by guillotine.
1950: Former...
* Actor Luke Grimes, 41.
* Singer Emma Bunton (Spice Girls), 49.
* Basketball Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon, 62.
*...
House Democrat dies at 45
HARRISBURG (AP) -- A Democrat in Pennsylvania's House of Representatives has died, the House...
TREASURE HUNT: 8-10-14-20-28
MIDDAY PICK TWO: 8-0; WILD: 7
MIDDAY PICK THREE: 4-9-3; WILD: 7
MIDDAY PICK FOUR: 4-6-3-0...
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Benton Borough Council is looking for someone to appoint to a vacant seat. Melissa Doucette, a Geisinger Health System...
SCRANTON -- Police have charged a man with shooting a grocery delivery driver who stopped at his home Saturday night,...
HARRISBURG -- The bitcoin-friendly administration of President Donald Trump and an expanding lobbying effort in...
HARRISBURG (AP) -- Healthcare costs in Pennsylvania are among the nation's least expensive, a PennLive story reports....
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Merck retiree enjoyed home renovation projects
Charles R. "Butch" Barnes, 77, of Mifflinville, passed away Jan. 17, 2025, at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.
Butch...
Former nursing assistant enjoyed gardening
Beverly A. (Ribble) Kingsbury, 88, of Boonsboro, Maryland, and formerly of Stillwater, Pennsylvania, died peacefully...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women's rights who led Planned...
Longtime nurse enjoyed travel with husband
Jean Marie (Ennis) Sacks, 71, of Jackson Township and formerly of the Philadelphia area, died Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025,...
The family of Fred Miller requests a card shower for his 90th birthday on Jan. 28.
Cards will reach him at 5...
ATLANTA (AP) -- A massive 70-member choir belted out "Hallelujah" at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day service Monday at his...
Frigid temperatures engulfed the South on Monday ahead of a winter storm that's expected to spread heavy snow and...
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At 95, there was no other way to describe Dalyce Curry, or "Momma Dee" to her large extended family, other than "...
Charge a dollar an hour to use the pickleball courts and I guarantee that you won't need 24. Bloomsburg man, email...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Carrie Underwood might not be Beyonce or Garth Brooks in the celebrity superstar ecosystem. But the...
TORONTO (AP) -- Canadian leaders expressed relief Monday broad tariffs were not applied to Canadian products on the...
A presidential inauguration is usually a symbol of the traditions that bind Americans together. Mainstream media...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Firefighters from the Navajo Nation worked through a haze of dust to cut away dirt from a narrow...
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As I write this, snow is falling outside my suburban New York window, and I feel like I just stored my gardening tools...
DEAR ABBY: I am a middle-aged slender woman born into a family of women who have always struggled with weight. Ever...
IF YOU WERE BORN TODAY You're deliberate and uncompromising. You do things your way. You're not one to follow after...
Q: I've never understood clean-focused Americans' fear of bidets! For me, bidets are almost the best part of travel in...
DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband and I booked a cruise for March with stops in Singapore; Vietnam; Hong Kong; Taipei, Taiwan...
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"How cold is it?
"It's so cold this morning some school districts -- among them, Berwick, Berwick, Danville and Vo-Tech...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fresh off President Donald Trump's inauguration, the Senate on Monday passed a bill that would...
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No team or record is safe from the back’s greatness
PHILADELPHIA -- Saquon Barkley hit the Eagles' record book -- the one he keeps adding his name in -- last week to learn...
Ohio St. holds off late rally by Notre Dame
ATLANTA -- Instead of crying over another collapse, Ohio State can celebrate another national title after holding off a...
In Japan, he’s more than just a baseball superstar
TOKYO -- Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan.
Back home, he's a wellspring of...
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BOSTON -- Charlie Coyle scored a pair of third-period goals, stealing the spotlight from fellow Boston University...
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Toronto 47 29 16 2 60 147 134
Florida 47 27 17 3 57 153 142
Tampa Bay...
A wild week of upsets and court stormings led to a massive shakeup in the AP Top 25.
One constant: Auburn.
The Tigers...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Jaren Jackson Jr. had 24 points, including 15 in the fourth quarter, and Desmond Bane added 22 points...
MELBOURNE, Australia -- First came the medical timeouts, one each for Jannik Sinner and Holger Rune with the...
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division W L Pct GB
Boston 30 13 .698 --
New York 28 16 .636 2
Philadelphia 15 26 .366 14...
South Carolina has so far cruised through the difficult part of its conference schedule and remained No. 2 in the...
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and total...
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and...
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NANTERRE, France -- Officially, Indiana will be the home team on the scoreboard when it plays San Antonio in Paris.
The...
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Novak Djokovic got the mea culpas he wanted from the Australian Open's local broadcaster and...
NEW YORK -- Three-time NHL MVP Connor McDavid has been suspended three games for cross-checking Vancouver's Conor...
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Jan. 21, 1995
* Melissa Brecht scores a game-high 27 points, pushing the Bloomsburg Christian girls basketball team to...
Today
BASKETBALL
High school boys
Berwick at Wyoming Sem.... 7:15 p.m.
Bloomsburg at Warrior Run... 7:30 p.m.
Central...
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball
American League TORONTO BLUE JAYS -- Agreed to terms on a five-year contract with OF...
MIFFLINBURG -- Delaney Zentner was one of three Bloomsburg players to post double-digit points, scoring a game-high...
Schedule-winners
Jan. 2-5 -- The Sentry (Hideki Matsuyama)
Jan. 9-12 -- Sony Open in Hawaii (Nick Taylor)
Jan. 16-19...
CHAMPIONS HOCKEY LEAGUE
1 p.m.
NHLN -- Playoffs: Sparta Prague at Farjestad Karlstad, Semifinal - Return Game
3:30 p.m...
Wild-card Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 11 Houston 32, L.A. Chargers 12
Baltimore 28, Pittsburgh 14 Sunday, Jan. 12 Buffalo...
Jan. 21 -- Baseball Writers' Association of America Hall of Fame vote announcement, Cooperstown, N.Y., 6 p.m.
Jan. 27-...
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InsideSources.com
Millions watched President Trump deliver his second inaugural address Monday. Over the years, some of...
It appears Berwick's Eagle Hose Company effectively has been declared dead. Earlier this month, the association that...
When the Sunday hunting bill was passed by the state Legislature and then signed by then-Governor Tom Wolf in 2019, a...
American Legion Post 40 located along Northumberland Street, Danville, has been honoring past and present veterans...
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PennDOT staffer says dream job comes with a few road hazards
( EDITOR'S NOTE: Through a production error, we cut off a section of Reporter Susan Schwartz 's column regarding a...
Credit card defaults are on the rise for Americans, reaching the highest level in 14 years. U.S. credit card defaults...
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