Last Updated: September 16, 2022 - 12:36pm
BERWICK — The state Department of Health has ordered Berwick Hospital to shut down its emergency room as of 7 a.m. Saturday because of a lack of staff, according to the department.
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Last Updated: September 16, 2022 - 11:18am
DANVILLE — Motorists are advised that both lanes for Interstate 80 eastbound and the left (passing) lane of Interstate 80 westbound are closed at mile marker 227 due to a multi-vehicle...
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Last Updated: September 14, 2022 - 6:02pm
BLOOMSBURG — A man who police say shot a store owner during a brawl on Main Street early Sunday turned himself in on Wednesday and was sent to jail.
Kenneth Bruce Meeker, 21, of ...
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Last Updated: September 11, 2022 - 2:24pm
BLOOMSBURG — Police are looking for a man they say shot someone in the leg after a fight broke out among two men banned from a town bar and a nearby business owner early this morning....
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Last Updated: September 7, 2022 - 5:58pm
MONTOUR TWP. — A suicidal man leaped off the Catawissa bridge into the rain-swollen Susquehanna River on Wednesday morning, only to be plucked out of the water alive by emergency...
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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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