Last Updated: April 4, 2014 - 3:52pm
RUSH TWP. -- Three children died in an overnight fire that destroyed a family's home, confirmed Northumberland County Coroner James Kelley. Two other children -- a 14-year-old girl and her...
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Last Updated: April 3, 2014 - 5:31pm
SOUTH CENTRE TWP. -- A teacher at Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech indecently assaulted a 17-year-old girl who had confided in him, grabbing her buttocks, massaging her thigh and pressing his...
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Last Updated: April 2, 2014 - 8:47pm
BERWICK -- A string of incidents in the Berwick area Wednesday involving a silver pickup drew a swarm of police cruisers to the Giant parking lot, where officers took a man into custody....
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Last Updated: April 2, 2014 - 5:22pm
FERNVILLE -- Neighbors awoke to flash grenades as a SWAT team and police officers raided a suspected drug house at 122 Ferncliff Road early Wednesday, arresting three people.
One woman...
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Last Updated: April 1, 2014 - 6:48pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A group of Kutztown University football players seemed OK with being asked to leave a closed fraternity party here before things suddenly turned violent, several BU students...
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Last Updated: April 1, 2014 - 11:28am
Archie Holsomback IV, 21, of Scranton, is the suspect accused of stealing and running up charges on a credit card belonging to a Russian exchange student at Bloomsburg University.
In a...
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Last Updated: March 31, 2014 - 11:46am
Hundreds of residents are still without power this morning after Sunday's unexpected snowstorm pummeled the region with ice and slush.
According to PPL, 1,180 customers are currently...
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Last Updated: March 31, 2014 - 1:29pm
FORKS -- A Jonestown man was screaming as he was cut out of his Geo Tracker Monday morning after the small SUV slid into a milk tanker along Route 487 here.
Police say black ice was to...
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Last Updated: March 31, 2014 - 2:16pm
Schools across the region have called for a two-hour delay as cleanup from yesterday's surprise snow continues. Here's the complete list as of 5 a.m., compiled from wnep.com and whlmam.com...
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Last Updated: March 30, 2014 - 7:40pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A surprise turn in the early spring weather quickly changed rain into heavy sleet and snow Sunday afternoon, covering roads in ice and causing a spate of car crashes across...
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Last Updated: March 29, 2014 - 6:07pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Authorities busted a suspected large-scale heroin distributor on Main Street here early Saturday, ending an extensive five-month investigation with four arrests, police say....
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Last Updated: March 27, 2014 - 3:55pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A section of land where Dillon Floral's greenhouses used to stand may hold a new home for Staples within two years if negotiations are successful, Dillon officials said.
They...
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Last Updated: March 27, 2014 - 11:13am
NANTICOKE - A threat received via computer closed Luzerne County Community College at 9:30 a.m., according to a press release from the campus.
The announcement asked "staff and students...
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Last Updated: March 26, 2014 - 4:18pm
MOCANAQUA TWP. -- A firefighter twice set the vacant half of his duplex house ablaze for "the rush," police say.
Corey Michael Davis, 20, of 30 Italy Street, was a member of the...
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