Accused rapist commits suicide, DA says

DANVILLE -- A Danville man accused of raping a sleeping woman at a party this summer killed himself earlier this month, officials said. Bryan Jeremiah Deibert, 25, of Bald Top Heights, was set for a hearing Wednesday, but instead, the case was dropped. District Attorney Rebecca Warren was informed of his death by police, she said. An obituary for Deibert, a welder by trade and father of a young girl, says he died Dec. 4 at home.

Arrest made in Mifflin robbery

CATAWISSA -- The teen robbed at her family's Mifflinville Market over the weekend identified a suspect in a police lineup within 10 seconds, police say. That's fast for a witness, an officer said, but Courtney Disidoro was sure of who it was who flashed a knife at her and took $600 from the register. Seated before District Judge Craig Long Tuesday, the suspect, Andrew Klingerman, 22, pleaded for mercy before starting to weep, looking at his father Richard Klingerman in disbelief as the judge set his bail at $100,000.

Police investigating Bloom robbery

BLOOMSBURG -- A masked man demanded money from a clerk at the Uni-Mart convenience store on Lightstreet Road Tuesday afternoon and made off with "a couple hundred dollars," police said. The man did not show a weapon during the 1:10 p.m. robbery, Bloomsburg Police Ptlm. Matthew Golla said. Golla and other officers were inspecting footprints, believed to be those of the robber, on a snowy sidewalk outside the store near Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital, minutes after the heist. Officers were also reviewing surveillance video from inside the store in an attempt to identify the thief.

Stillwater man sentenced in fatal crash

Kyle Shaffer was sentenced today to 3.5 to 8 years in prison for a crash that killed his friend exactly two years ago. Russell Hack was killed when a truck the two were in rolled over near Stillwater. Shaffer, 29, of Frosty Hollow Road, Stillwater, was convicted in November of vehicular homicide while driving drunk. He testified that Hack was the one driving that night, but a Columbia County jury decided otherwise. Read tomorrow's Press Enterprise for the whole story.

New Berwick AD is familiar face

BERWICK -- Berwick Area School District has a new athletic director, and he's a familiar name to area sports fans -- Frank Sheptock, head football coach for Wilkes University . Sheptock beat 14 applicants for the job, said Superintendent Wayne Brookhart. He'll be paid an annual salary of $54,000, to be pro-rated over the remainder of the school year. That's more than the $42,848 the district paid its last athletic director, Timothy Honeywell. Sheptock has coached 18 years at Wilkes, becoming the private university's all-time winningest coach, Brookhart said.

Body in creek was BU student, coroner says

BLOOMSBURG -- The man who police found dead in Fishing Creek on Sunday night was a Bloomsburg University student from Willow Grove who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a coroner says. It appears Timothy Robinson, 21, shot himself with a handgun then slid down the bank of the creek, said Columbia County Deputy Coroner Ron Taylor. Police found him dead in the creek after finding his abandoned SUV nearby Sunday evening, Taylor said. Robinson was a junior at BU, university officials say. We'll update as we have more details and have a full story in Tuesday's Press Enterprise.

See photos of the Mifflinville robbery suspect

MIFFLINVILLE -- Police are continuing to search for a man who held up the Mifflinville Market at knifepoint Saturday evening. South Centre Township Police say the man appears to be 20 to 22 years old. He stands between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-8, and was wearing black or navy blue Adidas workout pants with white stripes, black-and-white shoes, a black jacket with a gray hood underneath and a gray mask. Police ask that anyone with information about this robbery contact the South Centre Township Police Department at 570-784-8552.(Photos provided by family of the store's owner.)

Body discovered near Fishing Creek in Bloomsburg

BLOOMSBURG -- Police discovered a body off of Fort McClure Boulevard near the old Streater Farm Sunday evening, and an investigation is underway, Town Police say. The body was found around 6:20 p.m., a release says. Police shut down the road soon after, and a search of the area was conducted. Few details were available late Sunday. Look for more in Monday's edition of the Press Enterprise.

Photos of Mifflinville robbery suspect

MIFFLINVILLE -- Police are continuing to search for a man who held up the Mifflinville Market at knifepoint Saturday evening. South Centre Township Police say the man appears to be 20 to 22 years old. He stands between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-8, and was wearing black or navy blue Adidas workout pants with white stripes, black-and-white shoes, a black jacket with a gray hood underneath and a gray mask. Police ask that anyone with information about this robbery contact the South Centre Township Police Department at 570-784-8552.(Photos provided by family of the store's owner.)

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