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

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 they ran for help, charges say.

Now 48-year-old...

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Last Updated: July 7, 2017 - 5:13pm

BLOOMSBURG — Two Little League all-star teams whose Wednesday game ended in a controversial umpire call –...

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Last Updated: July 7, 2017 - 12:06pm

BERWICK – A man shot a rifle at police officers, and then set a booby-trapped house ablaze before trying to escape from a second-story window, officers say.

Barry Francioni was...

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Last Updated: July 5, 2017 - 5:32pm

CLEVELAND TWP. — An 11-year-old boy was sent to the hospital after an ATV carrying him and three teens slammed into a car here Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Xander Kemmerer...

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Last Updated: July 4, 2017 - 4:08pm

BENTON — After police handcuffed a man who had been knocking on doors in a trailer court here, he allegedly jumped head-first down a steep embankment in an escape attempt.

It took...

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Last Updated: July 3, 2017 - 3:48pm

Last Updated: June 30, 2017 - 3:26pm

BUCKHORN — Police are hoping the public can help them track down several suspects in a pair of thefts from Walmart.

First, in March two men and a woman, all white, allegedly stole...

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Last Updated: June 29, 2017 - 3:21pm

HARRISBURG — Montour County is getting one of a dozen marijuana growing and processing permits from the state.

But the first round of dispensaries won't include any in Columbia or...

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Last Updated: June 28, 2017 - 4:56pm

BRIAR CREEK TWP. — A woman who rushed out of a store to help people in a car accident Wednesday was stunned to find the victims included her granddaughter and three great-grandchildren...

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Last Updated: June 27, 2017 - 1:05pm

BERWICK – Henry Knorowski Jr. agreed to send charges that he threatened to kill police and an unnamed co-worker on to county court Monday.

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Last Updated: June 27, 2017 - 9:55am

BLOOMSBURG — A man faded in and out of consciousness early Tuesday after ramming a van head on into a traffic light pole around midnight at Bloomsburg Title & Tag, where Route 11...

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Last Updated: June 25, 2017 - 7:47pm

BERWICK — A man wanted for the alleged rape of a special-needs teenage girl surrendered to police last night and was jailed.
Lucas Rivera Contreras, 24, of Apt. 2, 801 Pine St., had...

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Last Updated: June 25, 2017 - 7:46pm

By LEON BOGDAN
Press Enterprise Writer
BENTON TWP. — Motorists traveling Red Rock Road Saturday evening complained to police of a startling sight: a naked man simulating a sex...

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Last Updated: June 25, 2017 - 6:46pm

BRIAR CREEK — A two-story, century-old brick home, scene of a recent shooting, was destroyed Sunday by a fire so intense, two volunteers had to be treated and Route 11 was shut down for...

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