BLOOMSBURG — A man appeared to be badly hurt Saturday when the car he was riding in skidded across Main Street and into the path of an oncoming Jeep.
An ambulance crew worked to treat him as firefighters used hydraulic tools to force open the door and pry the floor off of his feet, said Fire Chief Scott McBride.
BLOOMSBURG — Police took three people into custody while serving a search warrant from the Columbia County Drug Task Force on Tuesday morning in town.
About a block of West Main Street near Jefferson Street was shut down at 6 a.m. while Bloomsburg Police and the Columbia-Montour SWAT team served a “higher-than-normal-risk search warrant” at 157 W. Main St., Apt. 3E, town Police Chief Scott Price said.
HARRISBURG — A federal judge has denied Commonwealth University’s request that she either overturn a $3.9 million verdict or give the school, its president and the State System of Higher Education a new trial in a retaliatory firing case.
The court order issued Tuesday gives the defendants — the State System, Commonwealth University, President Bashar Hanna and former Provost James Krause — 30 days to appeal to a higher court.
BERWICK – A tractor-trailer accident here has shut down Route 11 after causing major damage to power lines, according to rescue crews.
A tractor trailer was eastbound on Route 11, West Front Street in the area, around 10:30 p.m. when it struck two telephone polls with transformers near the Celebration Villa of Berwick, according to West Berwick Fire Chief Tim Deitrich.
DANVILLE. — A pair of fatal crashes within seven hours of each other Friday shut down the westbound lanes of I-80 from Buckhorn to Limestoneville.
BLOOMSBURG – Faculty and coaches of Commonwealth University voted overwhelmingly this week that they have no confidence in university President Bashar Hanna’s leadership.
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PINE TWP. – Firefighters answered a call for a cabin on fire here shortly before 8 p.m. Monday night.
The cabin sat a few hundred feet to the side of a home at 552 Wolf House Hollow Road.
Unityville Fire Chief George Long said the structure was fully engulfed when he arrived. He had no other information as to whether the cabin was occupied or how the fire started Monday night.
DIVIDE — A man is dead after his car veered off a narrow snow-covered road Sunday and hit a tree.
The driver, whose name has not been released, was partially thrown from the Subaru Outback as it overturned, rescuers said.
It’s unclear when the accident on Pole Bridge Road, just north of Divide, took place.
Benton Fire Chief Ed Musser said a member of Jackson Township’s road crew didn’t see any sign of the crash around 8 a.m. when he was plowing and cindering the road after Saturday night’s sleet and snow.
VALLEY TWP. — A Bloomsburg woman died Thursday morning after her pickup truck crossed the median on Interstate 80 and was struck by a tractor trailer, State Police said.
Marlene Butters was driving a 2015 Dodge Ram 1500 west on the highway when, for unknown reasons, her pickup went across the median and into the eastbound lanes, troopers said.
HUNTINGTON MILLS — Volunteers from Luzerne and Columbia counties rushed through the snow Sunday to a four-alarm fire at a former chicken farm near here, the local fire chief says.
The call to 39 Ftorkowski Road, just north of here, came around 3 p.m. Sunday, said Dustin Thomas, chief of Huntington Valley Volunteer Fire Co.
The first volunteers arrived to find four empty barns ablaze and the nearest sources of water frozen, Thomas said.