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Last Updated: November 7, 2018 - 12:37am

11:15 P.M. UPDATE

Here's a look at our other two local races, according to the state's election returns site.

With 95 percent of the state reporting:

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Last Updated: November 5, 2018 - 8:13am

BLOOMSBURG — The middle school here was evacuated before 8 a.m. due to a report of smoke in the boiler room.

Town fire volunteers traced the smoke to a transformer. They reported...

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Last Updated: November 2, 2018 - 3:39pm

BLOOMSBURG — A two-time challenger looks to unseat a long-term incumbent for Pennsylvania’s 109th legislative house when voters take to the polls on Tuesday.

Democrat Edward...

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Last Updated: November 2, 2018 - 11:02am

Two corrections of calendar items in our Friday edition:

-- The musical group Re-Creation will perform at 4:30 p.m. today (Friday) at Bloomsburg High School; the show is free. An...

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Last Updated: October 30, 2018 - 8:58pm

BERWICK — A small child was flown to Geisinger Medical after he was hit by a vehicle while trick-or-treating downtown Tuesday night.

Mayor Tim Burke, who was handing out candy...

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Last Updated: October 29, 2018 - 7:41pm

BEAVER TWP. — A 20-year-old man fatally shot himself after police say he beat his girlfriend and then barricaded himself in the basement of his family home along Beaver Valley Road on...

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Last Updated: October 25, 2018 - 4:35pm

MIFFLIN TWP. — A brazen thief stole more than $30,000 worth of equipment from a construction project using the contractor’s own machinery, police say.

Using a backhoe parked in...

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Last Updated: October 23, 2018 - 4:13pm

BEAVER TWP. — A farmer’s field was rigged with tire chains and a massive steel bolt in what appears to be a “cowardly” act of sabotage, Bloomsburg State Police say.

Randy Rhoads...

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Last Updated: October 20, 2018 - 4:50pm

BENTON — Scam artists have been posing as PPL staffers, calling local numbers here and demanding payment for what they claim are overdue accounts.

At least two places have...

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Last Updated: October 19, 2018 - 3:55pm

By LEON BOGDAN
Press Enterprise Writer
CATAWISSA TWP. -- Police continue to investigate whether the death by suicide of a 14-year-old girl here was caused by bullying, but so...

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Last Updated: October 18, 2018 - 4:45pm

ORANGEVILLE — A woman from Hunlock Creek was in critical condition after a head-on crash here Thursday morning that happened when her vehicle drifted into the path of a full-size pickup...

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Last Updated: October 16, 2018 - 1:40pm

1:30 p.m. update

BLOOMSBURG — After being advised by the judge of his right to testify in his own defense, murder defendant Anthony Rocco Franklin chose not to...

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Last Updated: October 15, 2018 - 2:40pm

2:30 p.m. update

BLOOMSBURG — A convicted thief and drug dealer, testifying via video from Florida, said he and...

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Last Updated: October 12, 2018 - 5:57pm

CATAWISSA - Wyatt Yohey was found by State Police in Shickshinny this afternoon at about 1 p.m. The 16-year-old, who has autism, had been missing since failing to get on a school bus on...

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