LIME RIDGE — A 2-year-old girl was thrown from an SUV and critically injured when it slammed into a concrete highway barrier after being stuck by eastbound traffic on I-80 here Friday morning.
The child, 2-year-old Dana Isabella Serrano, of Ohio, had to be rescued from beneath the right rear of a 2011 Acura that was sideswiped in heavy eastbound truck traffic near the Berwick exit about 8:30 a.m.
BERWICK — Fire ripped through a mobile home early Monday morning, leaving a couple homeless, but alive.
Wilberto and Kathy Rosario were asleep when the blaze broke out at 1348 Seventh Ave. shortly before 3:45 a.m. Their son Hector, who was visiting from Florida, was staying in a camper nearby, woke up to see flames coming from the north side of the trailer.
“I banged on the door and woke my father and mother,” Hector Rosario said. “They went out the back door.”
He tried to put the fire out with a garden hose, “but the hose didn’t do nothing,” he said.
BLOOMSBURG – The man who drove a car through a crowd at a fundraiser last summer was given two life sentences and up to 380 years in prison Tuesday for killing one person and injuring 19 others, before driving home and beating his mother to death.
Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, 25, of Nescopeck, said nothing during the proceedings that included victim statements and stern words from President Judge Gary Norton.
BENTON — A woman shot a man in the small of his back with a small handgun during a domestic dispute at a Main Street apartment on Tuesday morning, police said.
The shooting shortly before 8 a.m. happened in a second-floor apartment at 300 Main St., Benton, near the corner of Main and Church streets. Two children were home when the shooting occurred, officers said.
The report of the shooting drew local police from across the county, and more than a dozen State Police cruisers.
Officers said the man is expected to survive and they have the woman in custody.
BUCKHORN — An Ohio man suspected of kidnapping a woman from her home in Cleveland was apprehended here Wednesday evening after he pulled a gun and fought with state troopers outside the Cracker Barrel restaurant, police say.
BUCKHORN – A Hemlock Township police sergeant was involved in a gunfire incident in the parking lot of the Home Depot here, and State Police are now investigating.
A witness at the scene said he saw a Nissan SUV hit a vehicle and try to hit a police officer and that he heard two shots fired.
MIFFLINVILLE — A mother and her 3-year-old son escaped serious injury when their car veered off the road, hit a utility pole and an embankment, then rolled.
Brittany Tersavige, 32, of Coal Township was driving the Pontiac Grand Am north on Route 339 toward Mifflinville at about 9:45 a.m. when she failed to navigate the left curve just past Aten Road.
DANVILLE — A bicyclist involved in a Nescopeck accident on Wednesday has been declared brain dead, and the Montour County Coroner's Office is seeking any information they can find on his identity, it said in a press release on Thursday.
DANVILLE — A California-based company plans to acquire Geisinger Health as part of a plan to launch a new system that it says will "expand access to value-based care in more communities across the country."
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Geisinger will launch a new group called Risant Health.