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Last Updated: September 16, 2022 - 11:18am

DANVILLE — Motorists are advised that both lanes for Interstate 80 eastbound and the left (passing) lane of Interstate 80 westbound are closed at mile marker 227 due to a multi-vehicle...

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Last Updated: September 14, 2022 - 6:02pm

BLOOMSBURG — A man who police say shot a store owner during a brawl on Main Street early Sunday turned himself in on Wednesday and was sent to jail.

Kenneth Bruce Meeker, 21, of  ...

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Last Updated: September 11, 2022 - 2:24pm

BLOOMSBURG — Police are looking for a man they say shot someone in the leg after a fight broke out among two men banned from a town bar and a nearby business owner early this morning....

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Last Updated: September 7, 2022 - 5:58pm

MONTOUR TWP. — A suicidal man leaped off the Catawissa bridge into the rain-swollen Susquehanna River on Wednesday morning, only to be plucked out of the water alive by emergency...

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Last Updated: September 6, 2022 - 7:12pm

BLOOMSBURG — A Columbia County corrections officer inappropriately touched a female inmate in her cell, State Police say.

Now Joseph Rogutski, 59, of Mount Carmel is charged with...

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Last Updated: August 31, 2022 - 6:37pm

Bloomsburg police are looking for Adam Madara, who they say held a woman for hours against her will in her apartment and beat her.

They ask anyone who has information on Madara's...

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Last Updated: August 27, 2022 - 11:50am

BERWICK — Two teens were sent to local hospitals after an altercation at Crispin Field during Friday night’s game...

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Last Updated: August 23, 2022 - 6:23pm

CATAWISSA TWP. — A hit-and-run trucker smashed the supports that connected sidewalls to the roof on one of Columbia County’s historic covered bridges Tuesday morning, after ignoring...

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Last Updated: August 14, 2022 - 5:07pm

BERWICK — A 24-year-old man has confessed to driving through a crowd at a fundraiser in Berwick for victims of a fatal fire, then driving across the bridge and murdering his mother,...

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Last Updated: August 14, 2022 - 1:33am

UPDATE 1:33 a.m.: The person who died in when the car plowed into a crowd in Berwick was a 50-year-old woman from Wilkes-Barre, according to Columbia County Coroner Jeremy Reese. State...

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Last Updated: August 10, 2022 - 12:54pm

Last Updated: August 5, 2022 - 5:02pm

UPDATE, 4:45 P.M.

NESCOPECK— Recovery crews have pulled 10 bodies from the wreckage of  a home at 733 First St., Nescopeck, where a fire broke out early Friday,...

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Last Updated: July 22, 2022 - 3:01pm

NESCOPECK TWP. — A 72-year-old man was found dead Friday morning after his SUV crashed into a tree.

Luzerne County Coroner Francis Hacken said the death of the man appeared to be...

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Last Updated: July 10, 2022 - 8:26pm

BERWICK — A trash fire spread up the wall of the Wise Foods factory Sunday, but a pair of workers held the flames at bay until firefighters arrived.

The fire was reported shortly...

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