Last Updated: October 29, 2013 - 6:10pm
BERWICK -- Wise Foods was forced to evacuate workers Tuesday after fire broke out in the wall of one of its potato-chip fryers, officials said.
Employees shut off heat feeding the fryer...
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Last Updated: October 28, 2013 - 6:52pm
DANVILLE -- All charges were dropped against a father accused of suspected child abuse by violently shaking his infant son three years ago.
State prosecutors found there was not enough...
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Last Updated: October 26, 2013 - 3:45pm
Five people were rounded up and jailed Thursday when state agents raided an alleged meth lab at 130 Karns Road near Stillwater and discovered two containers bubbling with lithium and other...
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Last Updated: October 25, 2013 - 4:38pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Town shop owner Paul Chomiak and three others sold drugs and laundered more than $10 million in proceeds, federal investigators allege.
Chomiak and others sold drugs...
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Last Updated: October 25, 2013 - 4:23pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A frozen-food plant that employs 160 people will shut down early next year, a company spokeswoman says.
The employees at Windsor Foods' Bloomsburg plant on West 11th Street...
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Last Updated: October 25, 2013 - 3:17pm
MIFFLINVILLE -- A fire broke out in an East Third Street home while the homeowner was eating at McDonald's, neighbors said.
The fire broke out around 9:30 a.m. and damaged the first floor...
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Last Updated: October 24, 2013 - 5:53pm
BERWICK -- A malfunctioning wood stove caused a fire that burned a massive hole through a garage roof off Lasalle Street on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
James Daly just moved into...
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Last Updated: October 24, 2013 - 5:23pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Paul C. Chomiak, the owner two downtown shops, was taken into custody on drug charges during a morning raid Thursday at his East Fifth Street home by FBI agents and local drug...
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Last Updated: October 21, 2013 - 6:26pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Dale Hutchings, the former school crossing guard sentenced to 460 years in prison for molesting children, wants out of the state penitentiary, or at least a new trial. He says...
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Last Updated: October 20, 2013 - 12:11pm
BERWICK -- Police officers found a missing 71-year-old woman who'd been showing sings of confusion or possible dementia and wandered off from an East Front Street home late Friday night,...
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Last Updated: October 19, 2013 - 7:44pm
BERWICK -- A 71-year-old woman who'd been showing sings of confusion or possible dementia wandered off from an East Front Street home late Friday night and had not been seen since, family...
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Last Updated: October 18, 2013 - 5:51pm
BERWICK -- A man carried out two carjackings and one attempted carjacking over the course of 18 hours in Berwick, police say.
They captured Noah Frank Bomboy, 31, in Beach Haven after...
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Last Updated: October 17, 2013 - 3:00pm
DANVILLE -- A Danville man doused the steps of an apartment building with lighter fluid Wednesday night and set it ablaze with nine people inside.
Jeffery Lynn Shearer, 64, of 218 Mill St...
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Last Updated: October 17, 2013 - 3:54pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A Benton woman was taken to the hospital by helicopter after suffering multiple seizures following a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Central and Fifth Street Hollow...
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