Last Updated: April 9, 2015 - 3:02pm
ORANGEVILLE - Hospitals, school districts and the county lost phone service Thursday when a tree fell, starting a fire in a phone company's fiber optic cable near here, officials said....
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Last Updated: April 8, 2015 - 6:32pm
SHICKSHINNY - A car full of juvenile boys speeding down a hill smashed into a boat trailer Wednesday, flipping the boat, destroying a set of stairs on a nearby house and damaging a parked...
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Last Updated: April 8, 2015 - 5:42pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Two months after he was shot when intruders broke into his Fetterman Avenue apartment, a former Bloomsburg University student faces drug charges after police say he sold $800...
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Last Updated: April 7, 2015 - 6:16pm
MIFFLIN TWP. -- Passing motorists stopped to help a Bloomsburg man out of his overturned car on Interstate 80 Tuesday afternoon, police say.
Chae C. Hirleman, 19, was driving west in the...
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Last Updated: April 3, 2015 - 5:59pm
MILLVILLE -- When word that Millville's teachers planned a return to the picket lines spread through the student body, some planned a "sit-in" to protest another disruption to their school...
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Last Updated: April 3, 2015 - 11:37am
BUTLER TWP. - A man driving the wrong way on the southbound lanes of Interstate 81 slammed his Pontiac Grand Am into another car head-on, killing himself and two people in the other vehicle...
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Last Updated: April 1, 2015 - 1:20pm
CATAWISSA -- An alleged heroin dealer who escaped from police during a wild, high-speed car chase this weekend turned himself in to authorities Tuesday night.
"I didn't want to have to run...
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Last Updated: March 31, 2015 - 3:07pm
The calendar says it's spring, but a wintry mix of snow and sleet Tuesday afternoon has cancelled some after-school activities at local schools, according to TV and radio reports.
* Benton...
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Last Updated: March 31, 2015 - 1:54pm
MILTON -- If you're traveling west of here and planning to use Interstate 80 this afternoon, you'll want to find a new route.
The highway is closed in both directions across a 34-mile...
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Last Updated: March 30, 2015 - 3:28pm
ORANGEVILLE -- A man returning from work found his home filled with smoke and his two pets trapped inside Monday morning, a fire chief says.
The quick-thinking tenant left the doors and...
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Last Updated: March 29, 2015 - 7:55pm
LIME RIDGE -- A driver who raced away from police during a drug sting led officers on a wild, high-speed chase for 13 miles across Columbia County late Saturday, police said.
Jesse Lee...
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Last Updated: March 29, 2015 - 5:56pm
MILLVILLE -- A rural Benton man murdered his roommate after learning that the two were having sex with the same woman, police said.
Cea Jay Chattin, 25, confessed to state troopers on...
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Last Updated: March 27, 2015 - 10:47pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A Bloomsburg-area man was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter Friday for the stabbing death of his friend, escaping much more serious charges of first- and third-degree...
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Last Updated: March 26, 2015 - 8:00pm
FRANKLIN TWP. -- Southern Columbia will avert a planned teacher strike after drafting a tentative agreement Thursday, with five days to spare before educators were set to picket, officials...
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