Man stricken at fair is still alive

BLOOMSBURG -- A man who suffered an apparent heart attack at the Bloomsburg Fair on Friday isn't dead, but is in critical condition at Geisinger Medical Center, the hospital reports. Fair officials had said that Mike McCullough, 48, couldn't be revived after collapsing near the Himalaya thrill ride Friday evening. But a Geisinger spokesman said that a hospital doctor who happened to be nearby administered CPR and has treated McCullough since he arrived at the Danville hospital. McCullough was listed in critical condition there Tuesday morning.

NRA membership swells at booth

MONDAY, Sept. 23, 1:45 p.m. -- Harry Jacobs at the NRA booth in Freedom Hall says more than 200 people have renewed or signed up for a new NRA membership since Friday's fair preview day. In the 15 years since he began setting up a stand at the fair, Jacobs said he usually signs up or renews 500 members each fair week. "I should be way beyond that this year if the weather holds up." Jacobs, speaking as a private citizen not an NRA spokesman, said the topic of the fair's aborted gun ban has been on people's minds this year.

Man held gun to girlfriend's head, cops say

BLOOMSBURG -- A Danville-area man pointed a loaded handgun at his girlfriend's head early Thursday, town police said. Now Steven M. Sebasovich 45, of 5 Normar Road in Valley Township, faces aggravated assault, harassment and other charges. He was waiting outside with a Taurus 9mm handgun when Heather Mowery returned home to 544 Iron St. about 6 a.m. from a friend's house, charges say. Mowery told police Sebasovich came at her with the gun leveled at her head, threatening to kill her.

Teen suspended for 'forgotten' knife

FOX CHAPEL (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania teenager says he was wrongly suspended from school after he realized he had forgotten about a hunting knife in his pocket at a high school football game and turned it over to a security guard. David Schaffner III, 16, said he was setting up a hunting site in the woods before he was dropped off at the Fox Chapel High School football game last Friday. Schaffner remembered he still had the knife with him when he saw a sign prohibiting weapons at the field, so he approached a security guard and gave him the knife.

Mostly fair weather

BLOOMSBURG -- The Bloomsburg Fair is here and that means rain, at least for one day this weekend. By Sunday, however, the skies will clear up and the temperatures should reach the low 70s through Wednesday. The gates open at 2 p.m. Friday, and that looks like a great day to hit the fair. It's going to be sunny and warm, with a high temperature of 77 degrees. Saturday morning will be cloudy with a chance of showers, and by 2 p.m., thunderstorms will have moved into the area, according to the National Weather Service. Here's the weather forecast through Wednesday:

Fire reported at Consolidated Container

BERWICK - A fire broke out Wednesday evening at a container plant just after a piece of machinery restarted, workers said. More than an hour after the fire began, firefighters from three counties remain at Consolidated Container at 910 Seventh Ave., Briar Creek Township, trying to quench the blaze. At its peak, flames had burst through a roughly 50-yard section of the roof of the building. It dates back to the 1800s, workers said.

Man charged in threats to Geisinger worker over bill wants plea, maybe

MAHONING TWP. -- A Shamokin-area man who allegedly threatened a Geisinger employee over a billing issue ranted before a court hearing Wednesday that he wanted a trial. But when faced with a hearing, he decided he'd take a plea deal. Aaron J. Bressi, 32, waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday after going back and forth between a plea and going to trial. When his attorney, Angie Mattis, presented him with papers to sign that would drop a harassment charge in return for him pleading "no contest" to making terroristic threats, Bressi balked.

Victim of August murder attempt now faces drug charges

BENTON -- A man found stabbed and bloodied along a rural road here Aug. 28 is now behind bars himself, after baggies found inside his car tested positive for cocaine and methamphetamine, police say. Domitilo Carlos Solorio, 37, a native of Mexico, told authorities he was also in this country illegally and had been deported in the past after border crossings in California and Texas. He was taken into custody by State Police investigators after being released from Geisinger Medical Center on Monday.

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