DANVILLE — A man was led out of court in handcuffs Wednesday after a Montour County jury convicted him of child rape and five other sex crimes for assaulting a young girl in Anthony Township.
Brent James Kilgus, 36, a commercial truck driver from rural Turbotville, hung his head low as unanimous guilty verdicts were read after more than two hours of deliberations by a jury of five women and seven men.
SCOTT TWP. — The leaders of Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech took state officials on a tour of the school Tuesday as part of a visit meant to stress the importance of expanding job training for students.
At the school, 32 of the roughly 150 seniors go to work each day, earning roughly $16 to $18 per hour to start, rather than heading to a classroom. By the end of the year, that total should be up to 60 to 70 seniors, said Vo-Tech's Administrative Director David Bacher.
BLOOMSBURG — A high school student taking a Bloomsburg University course was leaving campus Friday in her SUV when she struck another BU student crossing Lightstreet Road on foot, police say.
The pedestrian, Bryan J. Raynor, 19, a sophomore accounting student from Gilbertsville, Montgomery County, suffered bruises to his face and hands.
Police say both the driver — a 17-year-old Millville High School student — and Raynor had signals saying they could enter the intersection, and it was raining heavily at the time.
BLOOMSBURG — A man entered the West Main Street apartment of a woman he didn’t know early Wednesday morning, saying someone with a knife was chasing him, police say.
The woman locked herself in her bedroom and texted a friend, asking him to call 9-1-1, charges state.
Soon, town police officers were forcing open her apartment door to make sure she was safe.
The intruder — allegedly Derrick Lee English, 36, of 320 W. Main St. — fled, and police found him hiding underneath a car on a nearby side street, showing signs that he was high on meth, charges state.
BLOOMSBURG — A Bloomsburg University senior from Lititz died at an off-campus student apartment on Monday, police and university officials say.
Sean Lenahan was a mass communications major and active member of the BU campus, serving as president of the BU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America and working in the Student Recreation Center, a release from BU said on Monday evening.
MADISON TWP. — A recently renovated farmhouse went up in flames Monday morning, and dozens of volunteer firefighters from three counties worked for hours to douse the blaze.
The two-story, four-bedroom house owned by Carl Slater was being rented out to a single tenant, Blaine Brown, who was not home at the time the fire broke out, officials said.
A passing motorist first spotted the flames at 74 Ants Hill Road, west of Jerseytown, about 10:45 a.m.
BLOOMSBURG — Prison staff violated prison policy when they kept 19-year-old Tyler Evans in a restraint chair for more than 8 hours without getting permission from the warden or mental health care staff, the warden and deputy warden testified Monday.
The teen died in restraint chair June 2 after 22 hours in the prison’s custody.
ORANGE TWP. — Police say a son killed his parents at a home at 273 Hartman Hollow Road on Thursday night.
Carl Ray Kressler, 18, is under arrest in connection with the deaths of Flint W. Kressler, 51, and Sharon J. Kressler, 60, according to a release from the State Police.
Around 10 p.m. Thursday, troopers from State Police at Bloomsburg were called to the home on Hartman Hollow, where they found Flint Kressler and Sharon Kressler dead of gunshot wounds.
After investigating, police determined Carl Kressler was responsible for their deaths, a press release states.
BERWICK — Two probation officers struggled with a man at 1540 First Ave. on Tuesday afternoon when he fought with them — grabbing for an officer's gun — as they tried to detain him, Berwick detectives say.
Justin Lindsay was still wrestling with the probation officers when police officers from Berwick, Orangeville, South Centre Township, Scott Township and the State Police descended en masse and wrestled him into submission, police said.
The man was taken away by ambulance and will be charged when he’s medically cleared.
DANVILLE — If all goes as planned, the Danville Police Dept. will move into its new headquarters on East Front Street some time in May, according to Officer in Charge Jonathan Swank.
The move will mean that the department’s seven police officers will go from having 3,000 square feet of space to nearly 10,000 square feet and will have access to the latest police technology, Swank said.
“The building used to be a bank,” Swank said of the department’s current location, “Our evidence locker used to be a safe. It’s secure, but it’s really small.”