Last Updated: May 23, 2014 - 12:02pm
TURBOT TWP. -- A man was charged this morning with shooting his wife to death two years ago, State Police say.
Charles Thomas Sr., 67, was charged with the murder of Patricia Ann Thomas...
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Last Updated: May 23, 2014 - 7:53am
BRIAR CREEK - A quick-moving fire gutted a mobile home in the trailer park across Route 11 from Majer's Home Improvements early Friday, officials said.
Neighbors said the home at 7465...
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Last Updated: May 22, 2014 - 3:20pm
DANVILLE -- Broken windows and dented cars are being reported as a hail storm lashes the area.
Damage appears heavy in the Danville area, our reporter there says.
Weather officials are...
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Last Updated: May 21, 2014 - 5:03pm
BERWICK -- Four people were arrested Wednesday afternoon here after a two-month investigation into a reported home invasion and robbery, police say.
A story from four different informants...
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Last Updated: May 21, 2014 - 4:21pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A father and son are each charged with aggravated assault in what police say was a severe beating of an owner at the Capitol Bar in a dispute over "watered-down drinks" during...
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Last Updated: May 22, 2014 - 3:29pm
SCOTT TWP. -- A convenience-store clerk is accused of giving her family and friends up to $900 in cigarettes and grocery items while stealing $150 more in smokes and drinks for herself....
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Last Updated: May 21, 2014 - 5:08pm
BLOOMSBURG -- All local counties are now taking same-sex marriage license applications after consultation with their lawyers.
Columbia and Northumberland counties have already had their...
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Last Updated: May 20, 2014 - 4:33pm
The offices responsible for marriage licenses in four local counties all say they're waiting for more information before they begin issuing licenses to same-sex couples.
Court officials in...
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Last Updated: May 20, 2014 - 4:28pm
BLOOMSBURG -- After working through lunch, a Columbia County jury reached a verdict in a DUI case but asked for pizza before returning to the courtroom Tuesday.
After several pies were...
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Last Updated: May 20, 2014 - 2:53pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Voting machines in two Columbia County precincts weren't working correctly this morning, so election judges quickly decided to switch over to paper ballots, said the county's...
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Last Updated: May 20, 2014 - 10:15am
BLOOMSBURG -- An early morning fire would have been a lot worse if some medics driving by hadn't smelled smoke and decided to look around, the fire chief said.
A fire had started in a...
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Last Updated: May 19, 2014 - 7:03pm
MOCANAQUA -- As fire made its way through a Main Street home, trapping a grandmother inside, Luzerne County's 9-1-1 dispatchers sent firefighters to the wrong location, costing at least...
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Last Updated: May 19, 2014 - 3:15pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A town man insisted he was innocent of raping a 12-year-old girl, but a judge found him guilty Monday and sent him off to jail.
"Tell 'em I love 'em. I didn't do this!"...
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Last Updated: May 16, 2014 - 5:22pm
MOCANAQUA -- Two youngsters playing with a lighter in their bedroom started the deadly fire that killed their grandmother on Thursday, investigators say.
The late-morning fire at 76 Main...
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