Police: Woman set fire to motel

Last updated: July 10, 2017 - 3:02pm


Roxanne Purcell is charged with starting a fire that destroyed part of the Penn Motel in Cooper Township late Sunday night. (Press Enterprise/Keith Haupt)

COOPER TWP. — A woman set fire to her room at a motel in Danville late Sunday night, then told neighbors to “let it burn” when...


Last Updated: January 9, 2025 - 6:17pm

ESPY — A kitchen fire at a duplex apartment on Lackawanna Avenue here left one dog dead and a cat missing, but the apartment's occupant escaped with only singed hair, he said

...

READ MORE »

Last Updated: December 31, 2024 - 4:45pm

MOORESBURG — An early-morning fire left a 61-year-old woman homeless and mourning two dogs she feared were lost in...

READ MORE »

Last Updated: December 29, 2024 - 12:25pm

BERWICK — A man pointed a gun at a clerk and stole more than thousand dollars worth of lottery tickets from a West Front Street gas station here Sunday morning.

He then ran off...

READ MORE »

Advertisement

Here are past stories that may interest you...