Last Updated: September 18, 2013 - 8:32pm
BERWICK - A fire broke out Wednesday evening at a container plant just after a piece of machinery restarted, workers said.
More than an hour after the fire began, firefighters from three...
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Last Updated: September 18, 2013 - 3:23pm
MAHONING TWP. -- A Shamokin-area man who allegedly threatened a Geisinger employee over a billing issue ranted before a court hearing Wednesday that he wanted a trial.
But when faced with...
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Last Updated: September 17, 2013 - 2:19pm
BENTON -- A man found stabbed and bloodied along a rural road here Aug. 28 is now behind bars himself, after baggies found inside his car tested positive for cocaine and methamphetamine,...
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Last Updated: September 16, 2013 - 6:52pm
BERWICK -- A mother who had taken her son's clothes basket to the laundromat found a shocking surprise mixed in with the garments: a bottle of methamphetamine, police say.
Jody Seltzer had...
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Last Updated: September 11, 2013 - 8:10pm
BENTON -- U.S. Marshals charged a Benton man with attempted homicide over an Aug. 28 stabbing that left a man covered in blood, looking for help.
Police were called to Rohrsburg Road that...
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Last Updated: September 11, 2013 - 6:15pm
BLOOMSBURG -- PPL crews were working to restore power to the Bloomsburg University campus Wednesday evening after an afternoon outage led the university to cancel classes for the remainder...
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Last Updated: September 11, 2013 - 3:33pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Just hours after Robert Q. Brown was granted his freedom after serving 15 months in prison, he was back in front of a judge on charges he smuggled a packet of heroin into the...
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Last Updated: September 10, 2013 - 10:49am
BERWICK - Someone called Children and Youth accusing Berwick football Coach George Curry of abusing a player after seeing this picture of Curry pushing on the pads of player Marty Grasley...
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Last Updated: September 10, 2013 - 11:33am
LIME RIDGE - Interstate 80 west reopened between Lime Ridge and Lightstreet around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, after it had been closed for hours due to cleanup from an overturned tanker truck....
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Last Updated: September 9, 2013 - 4:21pm
BERWICK -- A Nescopeck woman who crashed her car into a two-story building downtown said her shoes are to blame, police say.
Mary D. Bartko, 58, was driving a silver 2007 Pontiac sedan...
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Last Updated: September 6, 2013 - 4:57pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A Berwick surgeon entered a probation program Friday that eventually will wipe two-year-old drunken driving charges from his record.
Police found Mark Pyles drunk, with his...
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Last Updated: September 5, 2013 - 3:57pm
SCOTT TWP. -- A Bloomsburg man has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend and her unborn child in a fight over cigarettes.
Douglas William Beachel, 37, of 2706 Old Berwick Road,...
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Last Updated: September 5, 2013 - 2:34pm
BERWICK -- A woman whose grandson allegedly grabbed her arms so hard they bled says he was only trying to help her evict a squatter, and she wants the charges dropped.
Sandra Kinney says...
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Last Updated: September 5, 2013 - 1:38pm
BERWICK -- Somebody struck it rich Wednesday with a Powerball ticket bought here, the state lottery says.
The $1 million ticket was purchased at Fresh N Quik at 906 Market St. The store...
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