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Last Updated: September 2, 2016 - 5:33pm

SUNBURY — Penn State football fans who get their cable TV through Service Electric Cablevision can rest easy:

They’ll get to watch the Nittany Lions’ 3:30 p.m. season opener today...

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Last Updated: September 1, 2016 - 3:14pm

BERWICK — For 41 years, Debra Gross has paid daily visits to older brother Richard Gross Jr.’s gravesite, keeping a promise she made after Richard was killed in a 1975 car crash at the...

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Last Updated: August 31, 2016 - 10:26am

Last Updated: August 30, 2016 - 2:45pm

DUNMORE — A Shickshinny woman has been charged in the death of a Luzerne man who was allegedly strangled inside a pickup with a set of jumper cables after he apparently overdosed on...

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Last Updated: August 30, 2016 - 2:32pm

BUCKHORN — A tractor-trailer hauling eggs tipped over Tuesday into a line of stopped traffic along Mall Boulevard at Buckhorn Road here, crushing the driver’s side of a pick-up truck and...

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Last Updated: August 29, 2016 - 11:57am

BENTON TWP. — For two months, Dan Keeney has smelled something odd at his farm along Pied Piper Road just outside of Benton, he says.

“I could smell something burning,” he said. “...

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Last Updated: August 28, 2016 - 2:54pm

BERWICK — An SUV crash into a utility pole knocked out power to 2,186 customers here Sunday, a PPL spokeswoman said.

Cody Turse, 23, of 128 Willow Drive, Berwick, was driving east...

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Last Updated: August 26, 2016 - 6:24pm

NESCOPECK — Robert Byrne had started hearing voices in his head and made threats to kill his pregnant girlfriend moments before he abducted their young daughter Friday, family and court...

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Last Updated: August 25, 2016 - 8:40pm

HUNLOCK TWP. — State Police are looking into the death of a woman struck by a van reportedly driven by her boyfriend, authorities said.

Stacey Kowalski, 49, Hunlock Creek,...

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Last Updated: August 25, 2016 - 7:56pm

BLOOMSBURG — As professors at Bloomsburg University prepare to vote on a possible strike, their union is urging them to make grades and course materials unavailable to students so that “...

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Last Updated: August 24, 2016 - 8:02pm

BERWICK — A water main break shut off water for an estimated 50 to 60 customers here and closed down busy Summerhill Avenue Wednesday evening.

A tanker of water for residents to...

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Last Updated: August 23, 2016 - 4:07pm

SCOTT TWP. — A drunken driver led police on a two-mile low-speed chase before being yanked out of his car by officers early Tuesday morning, charges say.

Julio C. Ayala, 32,...

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Last Updated: August 18, 2016 - 7:02pm

BENTON — A horse and buggy got away from its owner, smashing into two vehicles while it was on the loose without a driver, police say.

Levi B. Stoltzfus, 25, Benton, had left the...

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Last Updated: August 6, 2016 - 6:03pm

SALEM TWP. -- For the second consecutive Saturday, a masked man robbed the Food Express convenience store on East Fifth St., making off with cash and packs of Camel menthol cigarettes,...

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