Last Updated: December 2, 2014 - 2:33pm
An impending snowstorm has led some area school districts to announce early closings today. Here's the list so far, according to district websites, wnep.com and whlmam.com:
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Last Updated: December 1, 2014 - 3:29pm
BLOOMSBURG - Demolition began in earnest Monday on the historic Magee mansion at the town's floodprone west end.
Madonna Enterprises of Port Carbon is tearing down the 67-year-old...
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Last Updated: December 1, 2014 - 3:16pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Three schoolgirls helped police nab a man who exposed himself on several occasions near the elementary school on Fifth Street here, arrest papers say.
Robert L. Hixson Jr.,...
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Last Updated: November 26, 2014 - 8:42pm
BERWICK -- More than 2,200 homes and businesses lost power tonight in Berwick, and some may be without electricity going into Thanksgiving day, a PPL spokeswoman said.
Utility crews were...
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Last Updated: November 26, 2014 - 6:21am
Expected snow has closed schools across the area. Here's a local list, according to wnep.com and whlmam.com:
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Last Updated: November 25, 2014 - 9:32pm
BERWICK -- Two Berwick brothers jumped a "physically challenged" man from behind and knocked him to the ground in a brazen downtown robbery late Monday, police said.
Marvin and Troy...
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Last Updated: November 25, 2014 - 2:36pm
BERWICK -- A malfunctioning furnace in the visitor's field house at Crispin Field caught fire Tuesday afternoon, sending flames shooting through the ceiling, said Berwick Fire Chief Bill...
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Last Updated: November 24, 2014 - 12:06pm
BERWICK -- A Berwick driver who pulled into the path of another car says she thought the other driver was going to turn, police say.
Jessica Brannon, 20, of 738 W. Front St., Berwick,...
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Last Updated: November 24, 2014 - 11:57am
BERWICK -- An elderly man was taken to the hospital after he apparently passed out behind the wheel and crashed head-on into another vehicle, police say.
Matthew J. Creme, of 805 LaSalle...
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Last Updated: November 21, 2014 - 7:26pm
BERWICK -- Two repeat drug offenders went on a two-county ride Friday in a car filled with the ingredients for meth making, police said.
They didn't know Berwick police and agents from the...
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Last Updated: November 21, 2014 - 3:19pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Jaime Jo Brannon's attack on a fellow inmate with a cup of boiling water severely burned the woman, and Brannon was OK pleading guilty to the crime, saying there was "no...
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Last Updated: November 20, 2014 - 4:20pm
MIFFLINVILLE -- An SUV lost control on Interstate 80 just east of the Mifflinville exit, leaving a man and woman trapped in the upside-down SUV.
It appeared the vehicle, which was towing a...
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Last Updated: November 18, 2014 - 3:00pm
NESCOPECK -- A man jumped onto a moving car and hit his ex-girlfriend in the face in front of the elementary school the morning after they broke up, court papers say.
Russell T.C. Escobar...
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Last Updated: November 17, 2014 - 4:19pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A jury on Monday awarded a Lightstreet man nearly $765,000 in damages as a result of a freak accident in a large decayed maple branch dropped off a tree onto his Honda Civic...
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