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Last Updated: February 25, 2019 - 4:19pm

ELYSBURG — A Friday night fight between twin brothers at the home of their parents ended with one brother firing several rounds from a handgun into the grill of his twin’s pickup, court...

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Last Updated: February 22, 2019 - 4:34pm

BERWICK — Drug use here is skyrocketing, the police chief says, even though the amount of overall crime last year seemed to hold steady.

Berwick police made 109 heroin-related...

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Last Updated: February 21, 2019 - 5:45pm

ASHLAND — A fire has leveled five row homes and damaged three other structures in this borough, just under Columbia County's southern tip.

The fire, which started before 3 p.m. on...

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Last Updated: February 21, 2019 - 11:29am

Here's a list of the schools closing or delaying the opening bell today because of an overnight snow storm:

• Benton - CLOSED

• Berwick - CLOSED

• Bloomsburg -...

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Last Updated: February 20, 2019 - 2:51pm

BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a thief who broke into two town laundromats on Monday. 

Police said a white male entered the Wash...

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Last Updated: February 20, 2019 - 2:14pm

LIGHTSTREET — A Berwick man driving a service repair truck slammed into the rear of an oversize tractor trailer along I-80 Wednesday morning after the big rig lost engine power and began...

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Last Updated: February 20, 2019 - 1:01pm

As of 6:45 a.m., a number of schools have shut down due to the threat of snow. They include:

• Benton, CLOSED

• Berwick, CLOSED

• Bloomsburg, CLOSED

• Central...

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Last Updated: February 18, 2019 - 4:26pm

BLOOMSBURG — The owners of the Pizza Hut here plan to start rebuilding now that an insurance review of the damage done when a pickup truck smashed into the restaurant is complete.

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Last Updated: February 15, 2019 - 11:49am

BLOOMSBURG — A gunshot heard early Friday outside a student house on Pine Street sent police rushing into the neighborhood but no suspect or suspects could be located.

No one was...

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Last Updated: February 14, 2019 - 5:01pm

BLOOMSBURG — The driver charged with killing a man in a head-on crash while high hobbled into court Wednesday morning, using crutches to keep the weight off the foot and knee he broke in...

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Last Updated: February 13, 2019 - 4:50pm

BLOOMSBURG — Two people accused of using children as lookouts while they burglarized laundromats here have sent their charges on to Columbia County court.

Prosecutors offered a...

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Last Updated: February 12, 2019 - 10:15pm

Several school districts in the Press Enterprise coverage area are on a two-hour delay Wednesday due to Tuesday’s storm:
• Benton Area
• Berwick Area
• Bloomsburg Area...

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Last Updated: February 12, 2019 - 5:11pm

BLOOMSBURG — Two teenagers who caused at least $7,650 in damages and stole artifacts from buildings at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds told police they were “bored” and went on a crime spree...

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Last Updated: February 11, 2019 - 5:58pm

MIFFLIN TWP. — Don’t take Interstate 80 west through Mifflinville on Valentine’s Day if you’re in a hurry to get home to your sweetie; the left lane will be closed as workers clean up a...

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