Last Updated: January 11, 2018 - 5:49pm
WAPWALLOPEN — A trio of dog breeders face 130 separate charges for keeping 11 German Shorthair Pointers in frigid outdoor kennels on a property near here, while more than a dozen more...
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Last Updated: January 10, 2018 - 2:15pm
NESCOPECK — An overnight leak in a small tank of propane here caused a two-hour delay Wednesday morning.
The valve on a recently-filled 20-pound tank had not been closed...
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Last Updated: January 10, 2018 - 2:12pm
NESCOPECK — An overnight leak in a small tank of propane here caused a two-hour delay Wednesday morning.
The valve on a recently-filled 20-pound tank had not been closed...
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Last Updated: January 9, 2018 - 4:53pm
BENTON — A borough police officer helped a woman overcome by smoke to escape from the enclosed back porch of a burning house on Colley Street here Tuesday. Then, he returned inside to...
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Last Updated: January 8, 2018 - 6:46pm
BLOOMSBURG — A rural Benton man has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to fatally shooting his roommate in the head three years ago, during what he claimed was a fight over a woman.
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Last Updated: January 8, 2018 - 11:19am
A number of schools have announced early dismissals due to weather. They are, so far:
• Berwick, early dismissal, secondary, 12:15 p.m., elementary, 1 p.m.
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Last Updated: January 5, 2018 - 12:14pm
BLOOMSBURG — AGAPE will open its warming shelter here this weekend to anyone seeking to get out of the cold weather.
Director Eileen Chapman said enough volunteers were available...
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Last Updated: January 5, 2018 - 10:55am
Extreme cold has schools delaying their opening or closing today. Here’s the current list:
• Benton - CLOSED
• Berwick - CLOSED
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Last Updated: January 4, 2018 - 8:30pm
BERWICK — Michael Crimi sat stone-faced as a district judge told him he could face the death...
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Last Updated: January 4, 2018 - 4:57pm
BRIAR CREEK TWP. — A fast-moving fire drove a family of three into the frigid outdoors before dawn Thursday.
Dan and Heather Hartzel and their grown son watched as flames...
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Last Updated: January 4, 2018 - 12:51pm
School districts across the area have announced delays this morning. Here's the list:
• Benton Area, two-hour delay
• Berwick Area, two-hour delay
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Last Updated: January 2, 2018 - 6:17pm
CONYNGHAM TWP. — More than a dozen dogs living in “horrific” conditions were seized by humane officers last weekend, after neighbors complained the animals had been left outside without...
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Last Updated: December 29, 2017 - 2:27pm
SOUTH CENTRE TWP. — A string of vending machine break-ins discovered this week has the police asking for the public’s help in catching the culprit.
On Christmas night, a vending...
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Last Updated: December 21, 2017 - 4:50pm
MAHONING TWP. — A lawsuit alleges that a former Geisinger doctor gnawed on the ears of a teenage girl and licked her face while acting as a mentor for a high school group at Geisinger...
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