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Last Updated: January 19, 2020 - 12:37pm

SOUTH CENTRE TWP. — Police here are seeking the public’s help in tracking down a burglar who stole about $595 from a convenience store’s coin gambling machines.

The theft took...

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Last Updated: January 18, 2020 - 6:14pm

VALLEY TWP. — A tractor trailer jack-knifed on westbound Interstate 80 here, rolling onto its side and blocking both lanes for hours.

Meanwhile, numerous small accidents plagued...

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Last Updated: January 15, 2020 - 2:53pm

RUSH TWP. — A Sunbury woman crawled out the window of her SUV after it plunged into the murky water of a pond off Sunbury Road here late Tuesday night, State Police said.

Kimberly...

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Last Updated: January 13, 2020 - 4:11pm

GREENWOOD TWP. — A family of five lost their home and most of their possessions after a fire tore through their small, one-story house north of Rohrsburg on Monday morning.

Evelyn...

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Last Updated: January 9, 2020 - 5:13pm

ELYSBURG — Knoebels will unveil a new ride for 2020 that will allow passengers to use their own muscle to help power cars. 

The 32-passenger ride, Tornado, is expected to be up...

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Last Updated: January 8, 2020 - 2:10pm

COOPER TWP. — Two State Troopers were slashed by a knife Tuesday night in a struggle with a man who had told his relatives he wanted to commit “suicide by cop,” police say.

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Last Updated: January 8, 2020 - 12:35pm

Snowy icy conditions have led to two-hour delays and closures at school districts throughout the area.

Benton - CLOSED

• Berwick -...

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Last Updated: January 7, 2020 - 5:40pm

JACKSON TWP. — A woman died when a car she was riding in went off Green Creek Road on Tuesday morning and hit three trees, police say.

A man had been driving with the woman in the...

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Last Updated: January 6, 2020 - 6:02pm

A major Pennsylvania hospital where three premature infants died in a bacterial outbreak last year routinely failed to sanitize the equipment it used to prepare donor breast milk,...

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Last Updated: January 6, 2020 - 4:18pm

DANVILLE — Montour County’s commissioners say the owners of a vacant and derelict hotel have had long enough to fix it — the county is stepping in.

The commissioners voted Monday...

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Last Updated: January 3, 2020 - 12:58pm

LIMESTONEVILLE – A multivehicle crash has shut down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 in Montour County west of Danville, officials say.

Traffic is being routed off the highway...

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Last Updated: December 31, 2019 - 11:51am

SALEM TWP. — Employees were evacuated Tuesday from the Leggett & Platt manufacturing plant outside Berwick after an electrician doing maintenance work sparked a fire inside the...

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Last Updated: December 30, 2019 - 11:21am

BERWICK — Flames ripped through a Fairview Avenue home before dawn Monday, but the couple who lived there was safe after leaving for an early breakfast out.

Janice and Tony...

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Last Updated: December 27, 2019 - 12:47pm

SALEM TWP. — A Wapwallopen teen lost control of his car and crashed into a utility pole, throwing live electrical wires onto another vehicle Friday morning, police say.

The 16-...

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