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Last Updated: September 28, 2016 - 1:50pm

SCRANTON – Geisinger Health System will buy a recently formed medical colllege here to form the new Geisinger Commonwealth College of Medicine, if regulatory agencies approve.

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Last Updated: September 26, 2016 - 6:22pm

SALEM TWP. — Baggies of rice with flyers from the Ku Klux Klan were left at the homes of at least seven Hispanic and black residents on the 800 block of East Third Street here Saturday...

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Last Updated: September 26, 2016 - 6:06pm

BLOOMSBURG — A convicted sex offender selling Nazi flags and vulgar stickers at the Bloomsburg Fair was forced to close up shop Monday afternoon.

First, officials confiscated 32...

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Last Updated: September 24, 2016 - 6:16am

BLOOMSBURG — A “sizeable” fire erupted in a building attached to the supply silos for Autoneum here, but firefighters quickly knocked it down.

It’s lucky it didn’t spread, said...

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Last Updated: September 23, 2016 - 4:06pm

BLOOMSBURG — Professors at Bloomsburg University and other state colleges will walk off the job Oct. 19 if they're still working under the terms of an expired contract, a union official...

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Last Updated: September 22, 2016 - 7:11pm

BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg head football coach Anthony Russo is serving a two-game suspension after a very heated, very public argument with the school’s superintendent, according to one...

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Last Updated: September 22, 2016 - 2:58pm

BLOOMSBURG — Police have taken two people into custody after probation officers discovered what appeared to be a one-pot meth lab bubbling inside an upstairs apartment in an Old Berwick...

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Last Updated: September 22, 2016 - 2:12pm

BLOOMSBURG — After months of contract negotiations, the union representing Bloomsburg University’s faculty plans to go on strike by Oct. 30 unless an agreement is reached, a release...

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Last Updated: September 21, 2016 - 3:16pm

BLOOMSBURG — A man told police he was walking down West Main Street on Wednesday afternoon with a $50 bill in his hand when a man came up behind him and struck him in the head, police...

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Last Updated: September 21, 2016 - 2:54pm

BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg University's President David Soltz will retire in the spring, spurring a national search for his replacement, an announcement Wednesday confirms.

After 9.5...

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Last Updated: September 20, 2016 - 11:40am

BERWICK — The large for-profit owner of Berwick Hospital Center acknowledged this week that it is exploring ways to improve its financial health amid reports it is considering the sale...

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Last Updated: September 19, 2016 - 6:01pm

FERNVILLE — Two little boys playing a game of hide-and-seek in a brushy area near their Walnut Street home prompted a scare here Monday when both slid down a muddy embankment.

The...

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Last Updated: September 19, 2016 - 8:11pm

TANK – A flatbed truck trying to avoid another tractor trailer who swerved into his path spilled his load of metal strips onto Interstate 80 near here Monday afternoon, shutting down the...

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Last Updated: September 18, 2016 - 11:42pm

BENTON — A Benton man beat and sexually assaulted a woman over several hours Sunday morning while holding scissors to her throat and threatening to kill her, police say.
The victim...

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