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Last Updated: September 29, 2020 - 12:14pm

BERWICK — The Berwick Area School District has shut down in-person classes — and all extracurriculars — for at least the remainder of the week after a fifth COVID-19 case turned up in...

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Last Updated: September 16, 2020 - 1:28pm

BLOOMSBURG — The State System of Higher Education is looking at the possibility of combining certain aspects of Bloomsburg University with two other PASSHE schools, BU's president said...

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Last Updated: September 4, 2020 - 5:53pm

Columbia County’s sheriff’s department may help town and university police patrol Bloomsburg to break up large off-campus parties in an effort to prevent spread of coronavirus.

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Last Updated: September 2, 2020 - 6:28pm

BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg University has another 50 cases of COVID-19 among its students and staff, bringing the school's total to 218 cases, according to numbers the school released...

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Last Updated: August 27, 2020 - 1:45pm

BLOOMSBURG — Beginning Monday, Bloomsburg University will shift students almost entirely to online courses in response to an outbreak of coronavirus cases among students.

The...

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Last Updated: August 26, 2020 - 5:44pm

BLOOMSBURG — In two days, Bloomsburg University has recorded 40 more COVID-19 cases, pushing the total of BU-related cases to 90 less than two weeks since classes started, according to...

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Last Updated: August 26, 2020 - 4:30pm

MIFFLIN TWP. — A possible drug overdose death in a trailer court here over the weekend led to the seizure of 217 pounds of suspected crystal methamphetamine — believed to be the largest...

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Last Updated: August 19, 2020 - 5:32pm

Nine more cases of students with COVID-19 have been found at Bloomsburg University, school officials announced Wednesday.

That brings the total count to 10, just three days after...

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Last Updated: August 6, 2020 - 4:25pm

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf dropped a bombshell on the state’s high-school athletic programs this morning.

It’s his office’s recommendation that “we don’t do any sports until Jan....

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Last Updated: August 5, 2020 - 5:43pm

This is the application for a search warrant filed recently at...

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Last Updated: July 31, 2020 - 7:02pm

Eight months after a judge said there wasn’t enough evidence to hold Michael Allen Porth on charges of beating a woman to death, Porth is back in prison, along with another man accused...

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Last Updated: July 28, 2020 - 3:56pm

BLOOMSBURG — After months of uncertainty, The Bloomsburg Fair announced it has canceled this year’s event, saying the “concern for the health and safety of our community outweighs our...

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Last Updated: July 22, 2020 - 11:33am

An 83-year-old man was killed in his Cooper Township home late Tuesday, and state police have ruled the death a homicide.

W. John Ditzler died "during the late evening hours" in...

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Last Updated: July 20, 2020 - 7:01pm

BLOOMSBURG — A Facebook post by Bloomsburg Fair mocking state Health Secretary Rachel Levine sparked outrage Monday as it spread widely on social media.

The post featured photos...

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