Mifflinville Market robbed; police seek suspect

MIFFLINVILLE -- Police were searching for a masked man who flashed a knife at a store clerk at the Mifflinville Market and made off with cash from the register Saturday evening. Police said the man stepped up to the counter around 6:33 p.m. with a pack of cough drops as if he was going to check out. Instead, he pulled out a knife and demanded money, police say. He ran out of the store with the cash. It was unclear if he went from there on foot or in a car. Police were able to retrieve footage of the man in the store from a surveillance camera.

Mifflinville Market robbed; police seek suspect

MIFFLINVILLE -- Police were searching for a masked man who flashed a knife at a store clerk at the Mifflinville Market and made off with cash from the register Saturday evening. Police said the man stepped up to the counter around 6:33 p.m. with a pack of cough drops as if he was going to check out. Instead, he pulled out a knife and demanded money, police say. He ran out of the store with the cash. It was unclear if he went from there on foot or in a car. Police were able to retrieve footage of the man in the store from a surveillance camera.

Woman found dead in apartment; police investigate

MAHONING TWP. -- A woman was found dead in an apartment here Wednesday, but police don't know how she died. Until they do, they are treating the death as suspicious, said Mahoning Township Police Chief Robert Blee. Police got a call about the death about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, he said, and spent the next 10 hours gathering evidence and investigating. The death was reported by the woman's boyfriend, who was questioned at the police station, authorities said.

Ex-fair president wants job back, lower price for local residents

BLOOMSBURG -- Former Fair Board president Todd Lehman is running to unseat current President Paul Reichart, proposing a weekly pass for local residents to help ease the crunch of $8 admissions. "I'd like to see people come down and eat their lunches there like they used to," Lehman, 52, said. While Lehman would not directly criticize Reichart or the fair board's work in recovering from the September 2011 flooding that cancelled the fair for the first time ever, Lehman said he's heard from "hundreds" of vendors and fairgoers who are unhappy about slumping sales and attendance.

Burglars pose as water company, ransack house

BERWICK - A pair of men dressed in phony water company uniforms tricked a woman into letting them into her house, where one ransacked her second floor while the other kept her busy on the first floor. Police say one man was a Hispanic male, approximately 5 feet tall. The second man was a roughly 6-foot white male. Here's what police say happened: The two went to the rear door of a residence on Washington Street on Tuesday afternoon and told the woman who lived there that they were water company workers. They said they needed to come inside to check the pipes.

Walmart reopens after bomb scare

BUCKHORN: Walmart was evacuated Monday night and closed for several hours after the store was targeted with a bomb threat. The threat was made around 8 p.m. Monday. State Police swept through the store with bomb-sniffing dogs, Hemlock Township police reported. No explosives were found. Investigators gave the store clearance to reopen at 3 a.m. Tuesday, according to police. Hemlock Township Police are still investigating. Stay tuned for updates.

Nurse gave teen abortion pills, but attempt landed girl in ER, cops say

WASHINGTONVILLE -- A nurse gave a pregnant 16-year-old girl abortion pills, and the girl ended up in the emergency room with severe pain from what doctors called an "incomplete abortion," charges say. Jennifer A. Whalen, 38, of 15 1/2 Water St., Washingtonville, said the teen came to her in January 2012 to tell her she was pregnant and did not want to mother a child, court papers say. After the two couldn't find a local physician willing to perform the abortion, they set out searching online, police said.

Brutal Route 239 crash claims life of Shick-area man

UNION TWP. -- A Shickshinny-area man died in a grim car crash Saturday that one veteran firefighter called the worst he's ever seen. Jordan Sult crashed his black Chevrolet Cobalt about 2:30 p.m. along Route 239, about two miles north of Route 11, a deputy coroner confirmed. State Police say Sult was heading south toward Shickshinny when the car traveled up an embankment and flipped before hitting a utility pole. The passenger side of the car hit the pole as it flipped, said police. Firefighter Bob Bomboy said it was the worst damage he's seen in nearly 30 years of volunteering.

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