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Last Updated: December 4, 2016 - 11:13pm

BLOOMSBURG — A young man went to a friend’s house to watch the Eagles game this weekend and ended up being robbed at gunpoint, police say.
The visitor was at his friend’s 242 Penn...

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Last Updated: December 2, 2016 - 5:30pm

CATAWISSA — A man who was stumbling drunk after reportedly drinking a half bottle of rum and a half bottle of fireball on his 31st birthday allegedly threatened to burn down the...

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Last Updated: December 1, 2016 - 8:58pm

SOUTH CENTRE TWP. — A driver headed toward Berwick on Old Berwick Road slid his car underneath a turning tractor trailer on Thursday evening, peeling the top from his Ford Focus but...

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Last Updated: November 30, 2016 - 4:46pm

DANVILLE — After it received reports that a football coach was participating in prayer circles and organizing the singing of a hymn, a national group that promotes separation of church...

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Last Updated: November 29, 2016 - 4:37pm

VALLEY TWP. — The owner of the former Rudy’s Mart is getting sued for $37,911 by a furniture manufacturer, weeks after authorities accused the business of stiffing customers.

The...

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Last Updated: November 28, 2016 - 4:53pm

SCOTT TWP. — A Bloomsburg man who served six years in prison for slashing another man’s throat was arrested again after he attacked his friends, police say.

Anthony J. Russo III,...

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Last Updated: November 25, 2016 - 10:38am

If you're planning to head over to the Caldwell Consistory for TreeFest today, it's open 3-6 p.m., organizers say.

The event times were incorrect in Friday's print edition.

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Last Updated: November 23, 2016 - 5:32pm

BLOOMSBURG – The man who allegedly shot Joshua Lahr in the face earlier this week gave officials two different names as he was being arrested.

But police say his fingerprints,...

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Last Updated: November 22, 2016 - 2:49pm

BLOOMSBURG — The man who was shot in the face during an altercation here Monday night is in critical condition Tuesday, a hospital spokeswoman says.

Meanwhile, Cyree Cortez Young...

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Last Updated: November 21, 2016 - 9:42pm

BLOOMSBURG — Nate Wynings was in his apartment watching Shameless Monday night when he heard two men screaming and a pop that sounded like a handgun going off, he said

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Last Updated: November 21, 2016 - 4:11pm

BLOOMSBURG — A 23-year-old woman who was arrested on charges that she helped to steal nearly $11,000 from her boyfriend’s grandmother claims she was duped into thinking they had...

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Last Updated: November 21, 2016 - 4:58pm

BERWICK — Heat tape wrapped around a water pipe shorted out, causing a fire in a Berwick Hospital building Monday afternoon, according to fire officials.

The office, which houses...

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Last Updated: November 17, 2016 - 4:29pm

MAHONING TWP. – A man out of jail for a medical procedure fled Geisinger Medical Center on Thursday morning, police said.

But by Thursday afternoon, Richard Blaine Fobare, 55, was...

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Last Updated: November 16, 2016 - 8:29pm

SALEM TWP. — The first of the gas turbines for the new natural gas plant here are scheduled to arrive as an oversize load overnight between Thursday and Friday morning, the project...

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