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Last Updated: August 24, 2015 - 5:22pm

BERWICK — A man holding an 8-inch kitchen knife above his head got within four feet of another man before a police officer’s bullet pierced his left shoulder, charges say.

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Last Updated: August 18, 2015 - 4:33pm

DANVILLE — A tractor-trailer that failed to brake for slowed traffic at a work site slammed into the back of another rig just before 3 p.m. Tuesday about two miles east of the Danville...

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Last Updated: August 17, 2015 - 12:34pm

BERWICK — Berwick Police Officer Reagan Rafferty was justified in firing his gun this weekend in an altercation that critically injured a man, the district attorney says.

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Last Updated: August 16, 2015 - 2:37pm

BERWICK — A police officer responding to a fight between two men late Saturday night on Spring Garden Avenue shot one of the men in the shoulder when the man ignored commands to drop a...

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Last Updated: August 14, 2015 - 5:20pm

BUCKHORN — Two landscapers survived a wild wreck on Interstate 80, when their flatbed pickup was run over by a tractor-trailer carrying a heavy load of railroad ties.

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Last Updated: August 13, 2015 - 9:43pm

BERWICK — A search party of family and friends Thursday found the body of a man who had gone missing earlier in the week after going on a fishing trip with a young boy, they said.

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Last Updated: August 12, 2015 - 6:40pm

BERWICK — A man fleeing state parole officers crashed a van into a truck, then jumped out and fled on foot, leaving the van to crash.

Weston Cox, 27, took off in the van when...

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Last Updated: August 11, 2015 - 10:54am

BERWICK — A Berwick man abandoned a 6-year-old boy and a mobile meth lab near the river Sunday night, police say.

Todd Forshey, 41, of 232 W. Eighth St., was supposed to be...

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Last Updated: August 9, 2015 - 5:40pm

MIFFLIN TWP. — A 20-year-old Nescopeck man was killed after he lost control of his truck, landing upside down in Drake's Pond early Sunday morning.

Kyle Jeffrey Douthat broke his...

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Last Updated: August 7, 2015 - 7:01pm

BERWICK — A long-standing feud between two Berwick men erupted in gunfire Thursday, and now one is in jail charged with attempted homicide.

Roy “Chief” James III, 622 W. Front St...

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Last Updated: August 6, 2015 - 8:54pm

SCOTT TWP. — The driver who crashed into Roberts Automotive Service Center on Lightstreet Road two weeks ago was under the influence of alcohol and drugs, charges say.

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Last Updated: August 4, 2015 - 3:22pm

DORRANCE TWP. — A Wapwallopen man died in a motorcycle crash late Monday along Blue Ridge Trail and Hollow Road here, State Police  say.

Stanley L. Harmon, 66, lost control of a...

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Last Updated: August 3, 2015 - 4:56pm

DANVILLE — A Bloomsburg-area motorcyclist whose bike was clipped by an oncoming car on Route 487 died in the hospital later last night, according to an obituary.

Alan Nagle, 63,...

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Last Updated: July 27, 2015 - 1:30pm

BLOOMSBURG — Police serving a search warrant Sunday night made a grisly discovery — a decomposing body.

Christopher Cameron, 23, had been dead “for a while,” said Bloomsburg...

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