November 7th, 2012 Edition
SHICKSHINNY — Northwest Area School District is going through a major change in leadership just as board members struggle with a possible...
ALMEDIA — Construction crews this month cleared a property the township has considered an eyesore for more than five years. Gregory Markle...
BLOOMSBURG — Stocking the bathrooms for the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds took $68,000 from the fair’s bottom line last year. That is three...
SCOTT TWP. — A woman told police her boyfriend threw her down and kicked her in the ribs during a fight at 17 Central Ave. here, arrest...
From staff and wire reports LEWISBURG — A day after being told it would lose $2.3 million in federal grant money meant to supply mental...
HALUPKI AND HALUSKI SALE: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., St. Mary’s Church, 1730 Fowler Ave., Berwick. Bookworms in Training Story Time: 10-10:30 a.m...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the outlines of a health care plan he wants Congress to take up. The...
U.S.: All options on table UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. and Iranian officials faced each other Thursday at the U.N. Security Council amid...
• Liberty Township supervisors will hold a hearing on Feb. 9 to consider a fire insurance escrow for fire damaged properties in the...
1865: Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decreed 400,000 acres of confiscated land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots...
• Singer-Songwriter Yebba, 31. • Baseball great Albert Pujols, 46. • Actor-producer-songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda, 46. • Model Kate...
Bill boosts prison-staff pay WASHINGTON (AP) — Corrections officers would get a 35% raise to counter staff shortages at federal prisons...
TREASURE HUNT: 3-5-13-20-24 MIDDAY PICK TWO: 2-6; WILD: 6 MIDDAY PICK THREE: 6-1-2; WILD: 6 MIDDAY PICK FOUR: 1-5-3-1; WILD: 6 MIDDAY...
The Mahoning Township Police Department has started using an ATM card skimming detector on ATMs and card readers throughout the township,...
DANVILLE — The following is a log of calls the Danville Police Department received Dec. 1-15. Monday, Dec. 1 • 12:32 a.m., 100 block of...
SCOTT TWP. — Ashlyn Slusarczyk, 20, of 336-B East St., Bloomsburg, was charged with possessing two THC cartridges and a vape device,...
BERWICK — Not Bread Alone Ministries will give away free food, no questions asked, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. today while supplies last....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more...
Gloria M. Shultz, 79, of Millertown Road, Bloomsburg, passed peacefully on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, at Geisinger Medical Center, surrounded...
Kathleen M. “Kay” (Hess) Mausteller, 99, formerly of Rupert, Bloomsburg, died early Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, at Sunset Healthcare in Scott...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senators from opposite parties are joining forces in a renewed push to ban members of Congress from trading stocks,...
SARAH BRUMFELD and HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press Writers A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged...
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV sought Thursday to console the families of Italian teenagers who were killed or injured in the New Year’s fire in...
NEW YORK (AP) — An appliance distributor is expanding a minifridge recall covering roughly 964,000 Frigidaire-branded products sold...
Wastewater testing can alert public health officials to measles infections days to months before cases are confirmed by doctors,...
DEAR ABBY: I am a senior woman in great shape. I am active, and I have never had a problem attracting men. Five years ago, I married a man...
1/07/26 - Just tried something to clean tarnished sterling silver jewelry and it did a wonderful job. Try this - take a small bowl and put...
Q: I’m 76, and I’ve taken an aspirin every day since I was 28 because of arthritis. Although cancer runs in my family on both sides, I’ve...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I have benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). In one of your recent columns, you touched upon the long-term use of tamsolusin...
IF YOU WERE BORN TODAY You put a lot of thought into what you say and do. You don’t enjoy wasting time or making too many mistakes. You...
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street steadied Thursday as stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry bounced back following an encouraging...
Meals and snacks with “GLP-1 Friendly” labels on the packaging are becoming more common in supermarkets as a growing number of Americans...
The discount grocery chain Aldi is expanding rapidly and plans to open more than 180 U.S. stores this year as more Americans skip nights...
You know what zombie movies never seem to have enough of? Dancing. That all changes with “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.” The dancing...
Imogen Poots has been thinking about a Sam Shepard quote: “People here have become the people they’re pretending to be.” After 20 years of...
Jodie Foster plays a self-assured psychoanalyst whose composure unravels after a patient dies in the genre-bending French film “A Private...
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of U.S. adults believe President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene...
In recent years, a shortage of vehicles, rising prices and high borrowing costs have made it challenging to purchase a new or used vehicle...
WASHINGTON — Organ donations from the recently deceased dropped last year for the first time in over a decade, resulting in fewer kidney...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer expects Republican President Donald Trump to try to interfere with the midterm...
SHICKSHINNY — Northwest Area School directors narrowly agreed to hire Greg Mullen as the district’s new football coach Thursday night....
“Things were a little gusty Thursday. According to the weather station at Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg’s campus, the wind hit gusts...
Lines between cop and criminal get murky in Joe Carnahan’s “The Rip.” It’s a crime thriller starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. In “The...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A group of mostly Democratic U.S. senators sent a letter Thursday to the U.S. Postal Service, voicing concern mail...
PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles need a new offensive coordinator. Ask most fans, commentators — and, privately, some players — and the change...
John Harbaugh and the New York Giants are working on an agreement to make him the team’s head coach, three people with knowledge of the...
By the Associated PressPITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby scored one of Pittsburgh’s three power-play goals and the Penguins beat the...
BERLIN — Paolo Banchero had 26 points and 13 rebounds, Franz Wagner had 18 points and nine rebounds in his return to the Magic lineup, and...
EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 25 15 .625 — Boston 24 15 .615 Toronto 25 17 .595 1 Philadelphia 22 17 .564...
STORRS, Conn. — Sarah Strong had 24 points, nine rebounds and five blocks, and top-ranked UConn extended its winning streak to 34 games...
Carlos Alcaraz knows what matters the most to him in 2026 and isn’t shy about telling the world: He wants to win the Australian Open to...
EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 45 29 13 3 61 160 116 Detroit 48 28 16 4 60 149 148 Montreal 47 26...
HONOLULU — Defending champion Nick Taylor was sharp with his irons and handled the par 3s at Waialae Country Club for an 8-under 62, giving...
PHILADELPHIA — The basketball was loose and headed out of bounds and the 76ers were losing — and lost, big — to Cleveland when Joel Embiid...
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Carson Beck was only 17 when he enrolled at Georgia. Just a kid, completely unaware of what the next six years would...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Two of Brock Purdy’s worst performances in an otherwise stellar career came when he matched up against a Mike...
Fernando Mendoza arrived on Indiana’s campus last January carrying huge expectations for himself and the program. Outsiders almost...
Jan. 16, 1996 • Southern Columbia’s wrestlers win four of the first five bouts against Line Mountain, but the Eagles knock off previously...
Today BASKETBALL High school boys CCCS at Meadowbrook Chr...7:30 p.m. High school girls CCCS at Meadowbrook Chr........6 p.m. Berwick...
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 6:30 p.m. CBSSN — Toledo at Kent St. FS1 — Creighton at Providence 8 p.m. FOX — Baylor at Kansas 8:30 p.m...
BENTON — Benton had pins from Kaleb Collae (127 pounds), Gunner Sternhagen (133), Keaton Brokenshire (139) and Brady Thomas (172) and the...
BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with SS Ricky Duran, SS Edward Suazo, SS Johenssy Colome, C...
EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OL SOL Pts GF GA Providence 34 25 8 1 0 51 110 73 WB/Scranton 37 24 10 1 2 51 119 94...
NEW YORK (AP) — As a child growing up in Italy, Lidia Bastianich recalls seeing one particular cookbook in just about everyone’s kitchen....
In Tuscany, schiacciata — which is pronounced skee-ah-CHA-tah and roughly means “crushed,” “flattened” or “squashed” — is a versatile word...
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street In Sicily and Calabria, street vendors baste thick swordfish chops with a blend of lemon juice and olive...
We’re pleased to report the American middle class is indeed “hollowing out”— because ever more Americans are earning their way into higher...
ROSE: Catawissa Township officials — in particular, Secretary Tracy Miller — deserve applause for persistence in seeking funds to repave...
“The time has long since passed for silence to be acceptable in this country from Republicans.” — an Illinois U.S. Representative after the...
The recent article in the Press Enterprise made it seem like some Bloomsburg Fair directors feel the conflict with the town is a property...
BEIJING (AP) — In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young...