Last Updated: June 24, 2017 - 11:49pm
BERWICK — A Berwick man is wanted for the alleged rape of a young girl here, authorities said Saturday.
Police are looking for Lucas Rivera Contreras, 24, of 801 Pine St., and...
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Last Updated: June 23, 2017 - 5:44pm
WILKES-BARRE - A former Columbia County probation officer and his identical twin were given matching prison terms Friday for their role in a nationwide anabolic steroid ring, even though...
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Last Updated: June 23, 2017 - 12:56pm
Expected storms Friday night have delayed two fire companies' fireworks shows until Saturday.
• In Beach Haven, Salem Township Fire Department will have its fireworks display...
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Last Updated: June 22, 2017 - 4:14pm
NESCOPECK TWP. — A driver lost control of an SUV on a road that was undergoing maintenance, then plunged over a 12-foot-embankment into the Susquehanna River.
Meanwhile,...
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Last Updated: June 21, 2017 - 1:13pm
STONINGTON — The hunt is on for a suspected serial rapist who may be linked to several unsolved sexual assaults in Columbia and Northumberland counties in recent years, police say.
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Last Updated: June 20, 2017 - 4:56pm
DANVILLE — The state Department of Health has approved a Chicago firm’s plan to grow medical marijuana inside a long-vacant 50,000-square-foot section of the former TRW building on East...
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Last Updated: June 19, 2017 - 5:00pm
BENTON — Charges against a Benton senior who inadvertently brought a knife to school last month are being dropped, according to District Attorney Tom Leipold.
Cain Schlichter, 18...
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Last Updated: June 16, 2017 - 5:01pm
MADISON TWP. — An 18-year-old Hughesville man escaped serious injury Friday afternoon when his car was struck by an oncoming Chevrolet Suburban along Route 42 near HRI Inc., just north...
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Last Updated: June 15, 2017 - 5:46pm
BLOOMSBURG — Questions about the residency of Bloomsburg Council candidate Vince DeMelfi will get two airings next month –one before the county’s board of elections and one in county...
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Last Updated: June 14, 2017 - 10:53am
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Lou Barletta has played in every Congressional baseball game since becoming a member of the House of Representatives in 2011.
He sat out this year’s...
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Last Updated: June 13, 2017 - 8:48pm
Bloomsburg High School graduate Colton Hock is on a path that could lead to a Major League Baseball career.
Hock, a standout closer at Stanford for the past three seasons, was...
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Last Updated: June 13, 2017 - 7:06pm
DANVILLE — The business district here seems alluring even to bears.
A young black bear was spotted running along Mill Street Tuesday morning and wandering in other parts of the...
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Last Updated: June 12, 2017 - 5:39pm
FRANKLIN TWP. — A stretch of Route 487 was shut down on Monday afternoon after a pickup slammed into a utility pole.
The impact snapped the pole around 2:45 p.m. and brought down...
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Last Updated: June 8, 2017 - 4:47pm
BLOOMSBURG — A suspicious chemical odor led authorities to a home in the 700 block of Catherine Street on Thursday where they took three drug offenders into custody on warrants or...
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