BLOOMSBURG — A Jeep Patriot heading out of town smashed into a parked pickup truck and flipped onto its roof early Sunday morning.
County dispatchers said the accident on the 400 block of West Main Street happened just before 2:45 a.m.
DANVILLE — Firefighters from eight different companies scrambled to douse the flames that engulfed a vacant house, endangering neighboring homes early Sunday morning.
But they found their way blocked by electrical lines.
The two-alarm blaze at 210 Bloom Street was reported shortly after 3 a.m.
Ptlm. Devon St. Clair was one of the first at the scene. Flames were already coming out the back windows of the two-story building as he knocked on the doors in case someone was inside.
After no one responded, he made sure the neighbors were safely out.
ROCKEFELLER TWP. — A Danville man died Friday afternoon in a motorcycle crash, State Police say.
DANVILLE — The Downtown Danville Shoppers Shuttle program will be “on pause” beginning in May.
The free transportation pilot program was created in May 2022 through the collaboration of Danville Borough, the Danville Business Alliance, Fishing Creek Transportation and Geisinger.
LIBERTY TWP. —Wind blew embers from a burning barn to a second barn which also went up in flames Sunday night during a three-alarm fire.
Firemen from numerous volunteer companies in three counties rushed to the scene, just south of Mooresburg, only to be confronted by two fully-engulfed large structures that began partially collapsing at 877 Bald Top Road in western Montour County.
NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter, his lawyers said Thursday, producing the first criminal case against a former U.S. president and a jolt to Trump’s bid to retake the White House.
Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing and has repeatedly attacked the investigation, called the indictment “political persecution” and predicted it would damage Democrats in 2024.
BLOOMSBURG — Firefighters kept flames from spreading through a row of buildings on Main Street early Wednesday.
A fire broke out inside a recently rented one-story storefront at 10 W. Main St. around 1:30 a.m.
Colleen Tarantino sat in tears on the curb across the street as smoke poured from the spot she and husband Eric just put their life savings into.
The Bloomsburg couple recently rented the spot between Ding Tea and La Malbec with plans to open a restaurant, she said.
BUCKHORN — Geisinger is hitting the brakes on the planned construction of a standalone orthopaedics hospital here, it announced Tuesday.
DANVILLE — Montour County Commissioner Trevor Finn has been chosen as the the Democratic nominee to run for the vacant 108th District seat in the state House , which represents all Montour and sections of Northumberland County.