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Last Updated: December 18, 2015 - 12:13pm

BLOOMSBURG — Maria Sanutti-Spencer was sentenced Friday to life in prison, plus 54 years, for her role in killing her ex-husband Frank Spencer.

Sanutti-Spencer – who police say...

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Last Updated: December 16, 2015 - 7:40pm

BERWICK — Frank Sheptock will be the next head coach of the Berwick Bulldogs, the school board decided Wednesday night in a 7-2 vote.

Sheptock, the school's athletic director,  ...

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Last Updated: December 16, 2015 - 4:12pm

BRIAR CREEK TWP. – Police are looking for a man who allegedly stole $90 worth of gift cards that staff at the Giant here had bought for a bereaved employee.

They say workers had...

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Last Updated: December 10, 2015 - 3:38pm

BERWICK — Officers from the Berwick Police Department and the Office of the Attorney General juggled two unrelated drug busts Thursday — one that resulted in three arrests for meth-...

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Last Updated: December 10, 2015 - 1:14pm

An Argentinian judge has ruled that Anthony Rocco Franklin must return to the United States to face charges in the murder of Frank Spencer, according to a press release from Congressman...

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Last Updated: December 8, 2015 - 3:41pm

FISHING CREEK TWP. — A Stillwater man is in critical condition after his car smashed into a pole and then a tree before dawn Tuesday morning, officials say.

Timothy Moore was...

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Last Updated: December 8, 2015 - 4:20pm

BLOOMSBURG — An outage knocked out phone service on Tuesday morning and afternoon to some businesses, hospitals and government agencies in Columbia County Tuesday, including the Press...

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Last Updated: December 7, 2015 - 5:02pm

WASHINGTONVILLE — Firefighters battled a garage fire at 20 Water St. here on Monday afternoon.

The fire broke out around 2:30 p.m., and drew firefighters from Washingtonville,...

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Last Updated: December 7, 2015 - 2:10pm

HUNTINGTON TOWNSHIP — A woman and her three young sons escaped a fire that swept through their home early Sunday morning, but her husband died in the blaze.

Now the community is...

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Last Updated: December 3, 2015 - 8:09pm

POINT TWP. – Searchers discovered the body of a Riverside woman in the Susquehanna River near Northumberland late Thursday, marking the end of a four-day search.

Joyce Kotzen, 76...

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Last Updated: December 2, 2015 - 1:51pm

MAHONING TWP. — The police chief here has been charged with inhaling compressed air to get high, a practice known as "huffing," the state attorney general says.

Chad D. Thomas, 41...

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Last Updated: December 1, 2015 - 10:54am

RIVERSIDE — A search is underway in this borough across the river from Danville for a 76-year-old woman last seen Monday.

Joyce Kotzen disappeared about noon from her home on the...

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Last Updated: November 20, 2015 - 1:54pm

BLOOMSBURG — Maria Sanutti-Spencer is guilty of murdering her ex-husband, burning down his house and terrorizing his friends, a jury decided Friday.

Frank Spencer's family...

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Last Updated: November 19, 2015 - 5:43pm

BRIAR CREEK — A Bloomsburg-area man was killed and a Berwick woman seriously hurt Wednesday night in a crash on Route 11 near Rittenhouse Mill Road.

Thomas Tomaschik, 54, was...

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