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Last Updated: May 27, 2019 - 11:13pm

BLOOMSBURG — Rescuers managed to reach a family of five stranded on an island in Fishing Creek and bring them to safety late Monday.
The response began around 9 p.m. after the...

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Last Updated: May 23, 2019 - 1:32pm

BUCKHORN — An online restaurant supply website will open a distribution center in Hemlock Township, bringing 400 new jobs to the area, Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Thursday.

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Last Updated: May 23, 2019 - 12:58pm

DANVILLE — A Danville woman whose Chamber Street residence was destroyed Tuesday in a fire caused by an alleged meth lab explosion is now locked up on charges that she participated in...

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Last Updated: May 22, 2019 - 3:02pm

POINT TWP. — A rock slide that shut down Route 11 on Tuesday about a half-mile south of Bald Top Road should be cleared enough by tonight to open two northbound lanes and one southbound...

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Last Updated: May 22, 2019 - 12:13am

We'll be posting the election results of all the contested countywide, township supervisor, borough council and school board races here tonight. Check back as results come in. ...

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Last Updated: May 21, 2019 - 1:38pm

DANVILLE — A two-alarm fire chased six people out of a double-home in the 300 block of Chamber Street near Weis Markets here shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday, including an older couple who...

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Last Updated: May 20, 2019 - 12:13pm

BLOOMSBURG — A cadaver dog found evidence of human remains at a Fair Street fire site on Monday, officials said.

And the coroner later confirmed that the body of an adult male had...

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Last Updated: May 20, 2019 - 3:10pm

SALEM TWP. — A group of residents from a trailer park off Stone Church Road here were stealing their neighbors’ mail and then using it to steal their identities, police say.

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Last Updated: May 19, 2019 - 6:11am

BLOOMSBURG — Flames quickly engulfed and leveled a double home in the 300 block of Fair Street near Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital early Sunday morning and spread to a college student...

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Last Updated: May 17, 2019 - 3:34pm

FISHING CREEK TWP. — The owner of a flood-damaged home decided to demolish the structure Friday morning — by setting it on fire, officials say.

The blaze not only destroyed the...

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Last Updated: May 17, 2019 - 2:51pm

UPDATE: Officers say Zachary Parker is in police custody.

BERWICK — Police arrested one man on drug charges after a raid on North Mulberry Street Thursday, but...

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Last Updated: May 16, 2019 - 2:14pm

BERWICK — Berwick police and members of the Columbia-Montour SWAT team raided a home on Mulberry Street Thursday morning, shutting down part of the road and forcing residents of all...

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Last Updated: May 15, 2019 - 5:52pm

MONTOUR TWP. — A cashier at Beer-N-More stole nearly $20,000 from the business, pocketing the cash from hundreds of sales on her register last year, arrest papers say.

Anita...

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Last Updated: May 13, 2019 - 4:24pm

BLOOMSBURG — A 19-year-old inmate from Columbia County Prison is in intensive care at Geisinger Medical Center after he suffered what appeared to be a seizure over the weekend,...

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