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Last Updated: September 19, 2018 - 2:57pm

BLOOMSBURG — Millville Road at the iron bridge has reopened, a month and a week after high waters ripping down Fishing Creek tore up the area.

The waters moved asphalt in the...

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Last Updated: September 18, 2018 - 2:57pm

SOUTH CENTRE TWP. — A car went down a wooded embankment after colliding with an SUV on Old Berwick Road on Tuesday morning.

A thicket stopped the car from going further down....

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Last Updated: September 15, 2018 - 4:54pm

MIFFLIN TWP. — A contractor is scheduled to continue working on Interstate 80 eastbound here every night this week, weather permitting.

The work was set to start at 9 p.m. Sunday...

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Last Updated: September 11, 2018 - 4:37pm

MAIN TWP. — Rescue crews never found a driver — dead or alive —near a pickup truck found burning down an embankment off Mainville Drive late Monday night, fire officials said.

But...

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Last Updated: September 10, 2018 - 4:48pm

BLOOMSBURG — An Orangeville woman pleaded guilty Monday to stealing about $1,000 in cash raised during a benefit gun raffle staged by the Bloomsburg Elks Club.

Jodi Parcell, 51,...

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Last Updated: September 9, 2018 - 7:44am

BLOOMSBURG — Police here are seeking three men they say shot a fourth man here early Sunday morning.

Officers said they responded to a report of shots fired at 2:04 a.m. at East...

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Last Updated: September 8, 2018 - 9:48pm

MIFFLINVILLE — Weather permitting, a contractor will continue road work next week on Interstate 80 eastbound in Columbia County, PennDOT announced.

Beginning at 9 p.m. Sunday,...

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Last Updated: September 5, 2018 - 4:21pm

DANVILLE — A rural Danville woman who admitted to smoking marijuana daily to relieve chronic pain received a sentence of probation Wednesday from a judge who told her that even though...

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Last Updated: September 3, 2018 - 1:28pm

HETLERVILLE — A pickup towing a motorcycle on a small trailer left the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 on the downhill slope between the Columbia-Luzerne line and Tank, careened across...

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Last Updated: August 30, 2018 - 4:11pm

MOUNT CARMEL — An accident at a science class at Mount Carmel Area High School led to a teacher and two students being sent to the hospital, the school superintendent said.

The...

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Last Updated: August 30, 2018 - 5:14pm

SCOTT TWP. — John Andrezze was in the checkout line at Renco Ace Hardware Thursday afternoon when the building shook and he heard what sounded like a plane crash.

“And then I...

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Last Updated: August 29, 2018 - 5:28pm

CONYNGHAM TWP. — A mining company plans to reopen an anthracite mine located between Centralia and Mount Carmel, its president says.

The project should provide 25 to 30 United...

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Last Updated: August 28, 2018 - 5:39pm

BLOOMSBURG — Columbia County officials reluctantly conceded Tuesday they’ll be forced to spend up to $1 million to buy new voting machines after meeting with state election officials....

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Last Updated: August 24, 2018 - 1:59pm

SALEM TWP. — The contract between the unionized operations, maintenance, chemistry and radiation protection personnel at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant and Talen expires this...

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