ESPY — A kitchen fire at a duplex apartment on Lackawanna Avenue here left one dog dead and a cat missing, but the apartment's occupant escaped with only singed hair, he said

Daniel Jeremiah said he was lying on his couch around 4 p.m. Thursday when his apartment began to fill with smoke. He saw flames crawling up the kitchen wall, near to the only exit from his apartment. He ran for the door, having to yank it open after it got stuck. By the time he got it open, the heat from the flames had singed his hair.

BERWICK — A man pointed a gun at a clerk and stole more than thousand dollars worth of lottery tickets from a West Front Street gas station here Sunday morning.

He then ran off toward the Park Place Village housing development behind the gas station.

Now police are looking for a man clerk Pratham Patel descibed as a White man around his 20s, last seen wearing a green hoodie, black pants, gray shoes, black gloves and a black mask.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican David McCormick has won Pennsylvania’s pivotal U.S. Senate seat, as the former CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund beat three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Tuesday’s election after accusing the incumbent of supporting policies that led to inflation, domestic turmoil and war.

The battleground state contest pads Republicans' majority in the Senate, which they wrested from Democratic control this week.

UPDATE 9:20 P.M.: County officials have returned to the vote counting site, and expect to have counting resume by 10 p.m.

ORIGINAL STORY 9:05 P.M.

BLOOMSBURG — A bomb threat emailed to officials at Columbia County's Main Street County Annex has disrupted vote counting on election night, officials say.

But it's not going to stop the count, said Columbia County Chief Clerk Dave Witchey.

"We are counting tonight, until 1 a.m., until 2 a.m., we're going to count until whenever," he said."