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Last Updated: October 20, 2016 - 6:01pm

BLOOMSBURG — Some students at Bloomsburg University were starting to pack up and head for home Thursday morning, on the second day of a faculty strike that has all but canceled...

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Last Updated: October 19, 2016 - 4:25pm

BLOOMSBURG — On the first day of a historic faculty strike at Bloomsburg University, picketers greeted the afternoon with a brass band playing pep-rally-style on the steps of...

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Last Updated: October 17, 2016 - 6:11pm

RALPHO TWP. – A coroner has identified Ellen M. Sosnoski, 40, as the victim of a fatal Saturday morning fire on Mountain Road here.

Northumberland County Coroner James Kelley said...

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Last Updated: October 17, 2016 - 5:59pm

RALPHO TWP. — The body of a woman found in an Saturday morning fire on Mountain Road has been identified as 40-year-old Ellen Sosnoski, according to the Northumberland County coroner....

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Last Updated: October 15, 2016 - 10:46pm

HEMLOCK TWP. — Police are looking for a driver who turned into the path of a motorcyclist Saturday, then fled after the bike hit his car.

Gary Kressler, 72, was riding a 2015...

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Last Updated: October 15, 2016 - 10:39pm

OVERLOOK — Southern Columbia’s field hockey coach is feared dead after emergency personnel found a woman’s body at the scene of an early morning fire at a double-home here.

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Last Updated: October 15, 2016 - 10:40pm

MAHONING TWP. — A 12-year-old boy kidnapped at knife point was abandoned at the Geisinger Woodbine Outpatient Clinic, police here say.

Geisinger security officers called Mahoning...

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Last Updated: October 13, 2016 - 3:31pm

BERWICK — A pickup truck driven by a 17-year-old boy was T-boned by oncoming traffic, then hit a house before coming to rest back on Front Street early Thursday, police said.

Both...

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Last Updated: October 10, 2016 - 4:44pm

BRIAR CREEK TWP. — A 20-year-old man working on a car was pinned beneath the vehicle when the jack collapsed, but some quick-thinking bystanders were able to free him.

Steven...

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Last Updated: October 10, 2016 - 12:47pm

HEMLOCK TWP. — The Columbia County coroner has ruled three drug-related deaths this year as homicides, he said, and charges have been filed in two of the cases.

The third, in...

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Last Updated: October 7, 2016 - 3:22pm

BERWICK — Police raided a Spring Garden Avenue apartment early Friday, seizing 49 bags of heroin and a stolen assault rifle before taking two men into custody on drug-dealing charges. ...

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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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