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Last Updated: April 6, 2017 - 1:13pm

LIMESTONE TWP. – A man is in trouble with the police after he left a bomb threat in the restroom of his workplace at Great Dane Ltd. here because he was having a bad day and wanted to go...

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Last Updated: April 5, 2017 - 1:43pm

VALLEY TWP. — What at first seemed to be a robbery at the Red Roof Inn here Wednesday turned out to be a “lovers’ quarrel,” hotel employees say.

State Police converged on the...

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Last Updated: April 5, 2017 - 12:05pm

BUCKHORN — The Columbia Mall's Payless Shoe Store has escaped the ax, according to a company press release.

The Kansas-based discount shoe chain has declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

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Last Updated: April 4, 2017 - 12:50pm

NESCOPECK — A minor grease fire caused little damage to the Unicorn Restaurant on Third Street here Tuesday morning but forced the popular eatery to close indefinitely pending an...

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Last Updated: April 2, 2017 - 5:45pm

BERWICK — An electrical short in a heating system at the Schain building sent residents of the 100-unit apartment building to the streets Sunday afternoon.

Businesses on the first...

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Last Updated: March 30, 2017 - 4:30pm

BLOOMSBURG — Police say two men – one a Bloomsburg University basketball player – broke into an apartment on East Anthony Avenue in Bloomsburg early Wednesday, beat a woman and ransacked...

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Last Updated: March 28, 2017 - 4:46pm

NEWTON, Iowa — Penn State’s Zain Retherford has another accolade to add to his already overflowing mantle.

The Benton graduate has been honored as the 2017 Hodge Trophy Winner,...

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Last Updated: March 28, 2017 - 12:38pm

BLOOMSBURG — By Tax Day, accused murderer Anthony Rocco Franklin should be in U.S. custody, officials say.

Franklin had fled to Argentina after he was accused in the 2012 murder...

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Last Updated: March 27, 2017 - 4:50pm

BERWICK — Jackie Vital says she was just trying to help a couple with a sick child when she saw them in the medicine aisle of the grocery store earlier this month.

Instead, they...

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Last Updated: March 26, 2017 - 1:36am

BERWICK — Police were called to a shooting here Saturday night, but authorities say no one was hurt and it appeared to be an isolated incident.

Police Chief Ken Strish confirmed...

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Last Updated: March 22, 2017 - 5:22pm

BLOOMSBURG — Of the more than 400 citations given out during last year’s Block Party, one number glaringly stood out: 80 percent were issued to people who weren’t affiliated with...

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Last Updated: March 21, 2017 - 3:41pm

Last Updated: March 17, 2017 - 4:21pm

GREENWOOD TWP. –  Authorities continue to look for a man who lived in a house that burned down Thursday afternoon.

As of 1:30, they hadn't had a chance to search the basement at...

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Last Updated: March 17, 2017 - 12:59pm

BUCKHORN – The JCPenney at the Columbia Mall is one of 138 stores the department store chain is shutting down, according to a corporate announcement Friday.

Most stores will begin...

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