Last Updated: September 6, 2022 - 7:12pm
BLOOMSBURG — A Columbia County corrections officer inappropriately touched a female inmate in her cell, State Police say.
Now Joseph Rogutski, 59, of Mount Carmel is charged with...
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Last Updated: August 31, 2022 - 6:37pm
Bloomsburg police are looking for Adam Madara, who they say held a woman for hours against her will in her apartment and beat her.
They ask anyone who has information on Madara's...
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Last Updated: August 27, 2022 - 11:50am
BERWICK — Two teens were sent to local hospitals after an altercation at Crispin Field during Friday night’s game...
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Last Updated: August 23, 2022 - 6:23pm
CATAWISSA TWP. — A hit-and-run trucker smashed the supports that connected sidewalls to the roof on one of Columbia County’s historic covered bridges Tuesday morning, after ignoring...
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Last Updated: August 14, 2022 - 5:07pm
BERWICK — A 24-year-old man has confessed to driving through a crowd at a fundraiser in Berwick for victims of a fatal fire, then driving across the bridge and murdering his mother,...
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Last Updated: August 14, 2022 - 1:33am
UPDATE 1:33 a.m.: The person who died in when the car plowed into a crowd in Berwick was a 50-year-old woman from Wilkes-Barre, according to Columbia County Coroner Jeremy Reese. State...
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Last Updated: August 10, 2022 - 12:54pm
Last Updated: August 5, 2022 - 5:02pm
UPDATE, 4:45 P.M.
NESCOPECK— Recovery crews have pulled 10 bodies from the wreckage of a home at 733 First St., Nescopeck, where a fire broke out early Friday,...
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Last Updated: July 22, 2022 - 3:01pm
NESCOPECK TWP. — A 72-year-old man was found dead Friday morning after his SUV crashed into a tree.
Luzerne County Coroner Francis Hacken said the death of the man appeared to be...
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Last Updated: July 10, 2022 - 8:26pm
BERWICK — A trash fire spread up the wall of the Wise Foods factory Sunday, but a pair of workers held the flames at bay until firefighters arrived.
The fire was reported shortly...
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Last Updated: July 9, 2022 - 9:24pm
BLOOMSBURG — Two people died Saturday afternoon apparently after a car sped the wrong way down State Route 11 and slammed into another vehicle, police said.
Then the wrong-way car...
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Last Updated: June 24, 2022 - 6:41pm
Last Updated: June 17, 2022 - 5:11pm
MONTOUR TWP. — Two children were among several people rushed to the hospital Friday after two vans collided almost head-on on State Route 11, witnesses said.
However, one witness...
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Last Updated: June 14, 2022 - 11:51am
