Last Updated: May 10, 2019 - 4:31pm
BLOOMSBURG — A suicidal man fired a shot inside a student housing apartment building early Friday morning before barricading himself in a bedroom, touching off a four-hour standoff with...
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Last Updated: May 8, 2019 - 4:19pm
SALEM TWP. — Bomboy Lane will be closed Thursday so that a subsided culvert under the road, near the Will-O-Bett Farms, can be replaced.
The metal culvert under the road has...
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Last Updated: May 7, 2019 - 4:46pm
CONYNGHAM TWP. — It may take workers two decades to finish the job they started in the past month — strip mining millions of tons of anthracite coal from 900 acres of land in Columbia...
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Last Updated: May 6, 2019 - 5:24pm
BERWICK — A one-vehicle crash in front of Bandits Roadhouse on West Front Street on Monday afternoon slowed traffic and sent one person to the hospital.
One of the bar’s owners...
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Last Updated: May 2, 2019 - 7:00pm
BLOOMSBURG — Columbia County is getting an additional $500,000 from the state to help smaller, flood-damaged communities with recovery projects that didn’t qualify for major disaster...
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Last Updated: April 30, 2019 - 5:37pm
BRIAR CREEK — A man previously accused of pushing a 10-year-old boy’s head through a trailer wall was back in court after allegedly sexually assaulting two young girls and giving them a...
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Last Updated: April 26, 2019 - 4:22pm
BLOOMSBURG — A female inmate is accused of sexually assaulting her cell mate at the Columbia County Prison last month, arrest papers say.
Christina Marie Bradley, 36, Scranton,...
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Last Updated: April 26, 2019 - 1:23pm
MIFFLIN TWP. – A contractor is scheduled to continue repairing and improving Route 339 from Market Street to Smith Hollow Road next week, PennDOT staff reported.
The work includes...
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Last Updated: April 23, 2019 - 4:03pm
SALEM TWP. — Two pickups collided on Route 11 near its intersection with Stone Church Road around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, shutting down the road and sending rescue crews rushing to the area...
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Last Updated: April 22, 2019 - 8:43pm
BERWICK — Carm DeFrancesco, former football coach at Danville and Mount Carmel, will be the next head football coach at Berwick Area High School.
The board voted Monday night —...
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Last Updated: April 17, 2019 - 4:23pm
BLOOMSBURG — For the first time in its history, the Bloomsburg Fair will crown a queen this year.
The queen will become an ambassador for the 164-year-old event, making...
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Last Updated: April 15, 2019 - 3:24pm
BENTON TWP. — A powerful early morning storm cut a path of destruction through the Benton area Monday, snapping trees, tossing trailers, and tearing roofs and porches from homes.
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Last Updated: April 15, 2019 - 12:52pm
Last Updated: April 12, 2019 - 5:20pm
CATAWISSA — A father of three who is engaged to be married surrendered Friday morning to face charges he sexually assaulted a 7-year-old girl.
Jonathan William Marra, who is 29,...
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