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Last Updated: April 16, 2016 - 9:30pm

BLOOMSBURG — Temperatures in the 70s brought crowds swarming to the annual Block Party Saturday, the town-wide drinking bash that typically draws college-age party goers from miles...

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Last Updated: April 15, 2016 - 5:50pm

FAIRMOUNT TWP. — A drunken man with a gun who believed his wife was cheating on him held a family at gunpoint while looking for his rival, arrest papers say.

Steven E. Saxe, 37,...

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Last Updated: April 14, 2016 - 3:36pm

BERWICK — A 20-year-old man high on synthetic marijuana allegedly threw his infant son across the room.

Seamus Harry Ridgway appeared to be fighting back tears as he was arraigned...

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Last Updated: April 13, 2016 - 9:11pm

RUSH TWP. — A forensics archeological team will try to identify the human remains found along the Susquehanna River here Tuesday night, the coroner said.

Meanwhile, Steven...

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Last Updated: April 10, 2016 - 4:45pm

GREENWOOD TWP. — An Amish family on the way to Sunday services escaped serious harm when a car hit their horse-drawn buggy along Route 254 near the Greenwood Friends School.
Two...

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Last Updated: April 8, 2016 - 4:43pm

BLOOMSBURG — The union that represents Bloomsburg University's faculty as well as educators from the 13 other State System of Higher Education schools has taken the first step toward a...

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Last Updated: April 6, 2016 - 4:41pm

BLOOMSBURG — An accused killer's stay in Argentina as a fugitive may soon be coming to an end.

Anthony "Rocco" Franklin, whom authorities say terrorized and eventually murdered...

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Last Updated: April 5, 2016 - 2:10pm

LIGHTSTREET — A credit card belonging to a missing Philadelphia woman was swiped at a machine at the Sunoco convenience store off Interstate 80 here Tuesday morning, police say.

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Last Updated: April 3, 2016 - 5:52pm

BERWICK — Classes at Berwick Area School District have been cancelled for Monday after too many people called off work to attend Coach George Curry’s funeral...

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Last Updated: April 2, 2016 - 5:57am

BERWICK — School and borough flags were lowered to half-staff Friday as Berwick mourned the death of George Curry, the winningest football coach in Pennsylvania.

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Last Updated: March 31, 2016 - 4:28pm

CATAWISSA — A man followed a stranger’s car from Bloomsburg to Catawissa, then hopped out at a stoplight and threatened to kill the other driver, police say.

Christopher Benko, 41...

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Last Updated: March 28, 2016 - 4:47pm

BLOOMSBURG — A parole violator was charged Monday for illegally having a cell phone authorities say was given to him by a prison guard while he was locked up at Columbia County Prison....

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Last Updated: March 25, 2016 - 12:54pm

LIMESTONE TWP. — Officials have released the name of the woman who was killed in an early morning fire on Thursday in Montour County.

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Last Updated: March 25, 2016 - 12:03pm

DANVILLE – Geisinger Medical Center’s new chief medical officer is the first woman tasked with leading the hospital’s physicians in the facility’s 100-year history, officials say.

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