Last Updated: October 6, 2016 - 3:24pm
BLOOMSBURG — A man put a woman in a choke hold and slammed her to the sidewalk as he searched her for money, police say. And it all allegedly happened at the woman’s sister’s request....
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Last Updated: September 30, 2016 - 4:26pm
BRIAR CREEK TWP. — A fire marshal is investigating the cause of a late-night blaze that decimated a trailer home in Dogwood Terrace here Thursday.
Firefighters were called to 42...
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Last Updated: September 28, 2016 - 2:42pm
PINE TWP. — For a year, items in Nicole Stewart’s house — her underwear, her perfume bottles, and her jewelry dish — seemed to vanish or move, she says.
Her boyfriend, Dale...
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Last Updated: September 28, 2016 - 1:50pm
SCRANTON – Geisinger Health System will buy a recently formed medical colllege here to form the new Geisinger Commonwealth College of Medicine, if regulatory agencies approve.
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Last Updated: September 26, 2016 - 6:22pm
SALEM TWP. — Baggies of rice with flyers from the Ku Klux Klan were left at the homes of at least seven Hispanic and black residents on the 800 block of East Third Street here Saturday...
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Last Updated: September 26, 2016 - 6:06pm
BLOOMSBURG — A convicted sex offender selling Nazi flags and vulgar stickers at the Bloomsburg Fair was forced to close up shop Monday afternoon.
First, officials confiscated 32...
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Last Updated: September 24, 2016 - 6:16am
BLOOMSBURG — A “sizeable” fire erupted in a building attached to the supply silos for Autoneum here, but firefighters quickly knocked it down.
It’s lucky it didn’t spread, said...
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Last Updated: September 23, 2016 - 4:06pm
BLOOMSBURG — Professors at Bloomsburg University and other state colleges will walk off the job Oct. 19 if they're still working under the terms of an expired contract, a union official...
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Last Updated: September 22, 2016 - 7:11pm
BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg head football coach Anthony Russo is serving a two-game suspension after a very heated, very public argument with the school’s superintendent, according to one...
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Last Updated: September 22, 2016 - 2:58pm
BLOOMSBURG — Police have taken two people into custody after probation officers discovered what appeared to be a one-pot meth lab bubbling inside an upstairs apartment in an Old Berwick...
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Last Updated: September 22, 2016 - 2:12pm
BLOOMSBURG — After months of contract negotiations, the union representing Bloomsburg University’s faculty plans to go on strike by Oct. 30 unless an agreement is reached, a release...
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Last Updated: September 21, 2016 - 3:16pm
BLOOMSBURG — A man told police he was walking down West Main Street on Wednesday afternoon with a $50 bill in his hand when a man came up behind him and struck him in the head, police...
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Last Updated: September 21, 2016 - 2:54pm
BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg University's President David Soltz will retire in the spring, spurring a national search for his replacement, an announcement Wednesday confirms.
After 9.5...
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Last Updated: September 20, 2016 - 11:40am
BERWICK — The large for-profit owner of Berwick Hospital Center acknowledged this week that it is exploring ways to improve its financial health amid reports it is considering the sale...
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