Last Updated: April 26, 2013 - 3:37pm
BLOOMSBURG - The town will test its emergency sirens at 3 p.m. This is just a test, and it will last approximately 60 seconds, said Chief Leo Sokoloski.
The town's sirens are located at...
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Last Updated: April 26, 2013 - 12:44pm
BLOOMSBURG - Bloomsburg University's fundraising arm plans to build a five-story office building downtown with the help of a big donor.
The Bloomsburg Foundation announced Friday morning...
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Last Updated: April 25, 2013 - 2:59pm
BRIAR CREEK TWP. -- An ambulance attempting to get to an ATV rider suffering a seizure got stuck on a muddy trail Thursday afternoon, forcing rescuers to devise new plans to get at the man...
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Last Updated: May 8, 2013 - 8:34pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Three convicted meth makers were ordered to serve state prison time for their involvement in the production of the dangerous drug.
"Why anyone would do this is beyond me,"...
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Last Updated: April 24, 2013 - 7:01pm
WILKES-BARRE -- A jury has convicted Gail Schneider of Berwick on charges that she set fire to an apartment building to exact revenge on a landlord.
Schneider, 44, was placed into shackles...
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Last Updated: April 24, 2013 - 5:05pm
DANVILLE -- A fire in a home just south of here killed at least a dozen cats Wednesday, the fire chief said.
The owner, Linda Long, lives in Allentown and wasn't at her summer home when...
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Last Updated: April 24, 2013 - 4:17pm
BERWICK -- Ousted Berwick police officer Christian Wilson will spend at least a month in prison for his theft of heroin packets from evidence while he was on the force.
Wilson, 30, and his...
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Last Updated: April 23, 2013 - 4:17pm
WILKES-BARRE -- A Berwick woman suspected of setting fire to an apartment building and putting two 92-year-old women in grave danger claimed innocence on the stand Tuesday.
But Gail...
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Last Updated: April 22, 2013 - 2:12pm
DANVILLE -- A Geisinger urologist was not negligent in his care of a prostate cancer patient who died days after surgery, a jury decided Monday.
Widow Elizabeth Schoppy had sued Dr. Daniel...
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Last Updated: April 19, 2013 - 9:08pm
WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) -- A 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Friday evening after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed...
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Last Updated: April 19, 2013 - 12:27pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A suspected hit-and-run driver was wrong not to stop, and now wants to accept full responsibility for the accident, says his lawyer.
Randall Francis, 20, appeared at District...
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Last Updated: April 19, 2013 - 9:05pm
WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) -- The suspect being hunted in the Boston Marathon bombing was in a boat stored in Watertown, a law enforcement official said, and police in armored vehicles and...
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Last Updated: April 18, 2013 - 6:32pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A 53-year-old school custodian in Philadelphia stalked a Bloomsburg University coed, sending her hundreds of Tweets and even coming to town to see her, police say.
Keith Boyd...
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Last Updated: April 17, 2013 - 5:56pm
DANVILLE -- Phillip Schoppy was prone to blood clots after surgery, and Geisinger doctors should have taken steps to prevent a clot from killing him after his prostate was removed, an...
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