BLOOMSBURG — The 115-year-old Japanese beech tree at the corner of Third and Market streets is being taken down today, after two more limbs fell off of it in a week.
Matt Aucker, facilities manager for the Ben Franklin Technology Center, which owns the tree, watched from the wrap-around porch as arborists removed it.
The U.S. military struck three sites in Iran early Sunday, inserting itself into Israel’s effort to decapitating Iran's nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.
BERWICK — Gov. Joshua Shapiro came to Berwick today to announce the data center Amazon is building in neighboring Salem Township is part of an initial $20 billion the company is investing in Pennsylvania — the largest private investment in state history.
And there is more to come, Amazon said.
DANVILLE – Firefighters were training for water rescue here Sunday morning when they ended up recovering a woman's body from the Susquehanna.
Members of the Continental Fire Company, Danville, were suited up and ready to begin water rescue exercises in Mahoning Creek when the call came in about the body around 10:30 a.m.
Mahoning Township Detective Jason Bedinsky said the body of a middle-aged woman, wearing only black shorts and a multi-colored bra, was pulled from the water east of the Danville boat launch in the township.
By DREW MUMICH
Press Enterprise Writer
WASHINGTONVILLE – State Police say a 21-year-old Orangeville man who was killed in an accident on Route 54 Wednesday night failed to stop for a flagger before hitting an oversized load.
BLOOMSBURG — The town police officer investigating the case of a dog tossed from a truck in a “makeshift sack” found his suspect the next day when he spotted the vehicle parked at AutoZone in town.
Criminal charges are being lodged against Juan De Dios Figuereo, 62, of 863 Railroad St., Bloomsburg, court papers say.
ROME – Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first U.S. pope, selected Thursday by 133 cardinals from across the globe on the second day of the papal conclave in Rome.
The new pontiff, who will go by the name Leo XIV, greeted the thousands who jammed St. Peter’s Square from the red velvet-draped central balcony at St. Peter’s Square.
MIFFLINVILLE — A minor accident on Interstate 80 Sunday appears to have caused a second crash in which a tractor trailer hit three cars.
The second accident flipped one car over the guardrail; it landed on its roof. Another car was crushed. However, no one in either crash appeared to be seriously injured, witnesses said.
The first accident happened around 3:50 p.m. during a drizzly, foggy afternoon.
Trooper Nick Fiorey said a westbound driver hit the guardrail as he went around a bend in the highway between a rest area and the Mifflinville/Mainville interchange.
BLOOMSBURG — Someone set fire to an item inside a park pavilion overnight Friday, damaging a bench and frustrating town laborers who had already spent part of the week cleaning up messes made by vandals.
Public Works Director John Fritz said the latest act of vandalism could have burned down a pavilion next to the lagoon that has been in the park for 45 years.
HARRISBURG – Bashar Hanna will step down as Commonwealth University President effective July 31, he announced today.
Hanna will assume the role of vice chancellor for strategic initiatives for Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education the next day.
“This new opportunity is both humbling and exciting -- a chance to bring the lessons we've learned together at Bloomsburg, Lock Haven and Mansfield to a broader stage,” Hanna said in a statement.