Southern's Julian Fleming heading to Ohio State

Southern Columbia wide receiver Julian Fleming announced via a Twitter video Friday morning that he'll be attending The Ohio State University for college.

The video, which opens with Fleming on the phone with his mother, included highlights from Fleming's career at Southern Columbia, and then shots from the colleges recruiting him, including Alabama, Clemson, Penn State and Ohio State.

It ends with Fleming saying "To you, I am a football player. To you, home is a place. To me, home is a feeling. Ohio State is home. Go Bucks!"

Man arrested, charged with hitting baby

BLOOMSBURG — A rural Catawissa man was locked up Monday after police say he struck his infant daughter in the side of the face while fighting with his girlfriend, arrest papers say.

Anthony Keen, 21, of 165 Mountain Road, struck the baby while attempting to punch Allison Jennings as the couple argued at 710 E. Second St. here.

Jennings told police that she was holding her daughter  when Keen began striking Jennings in the arms and body shortly before 2 p.m. One of his punches struck the child in the left side of the face, police state.

Stranded family rescued from Fishing Creek island

BLOOMSBURG — Rescuers managed to reach a family of five stranded on an island in Fishing Creek and bring them to safety late Monday.
The response began around 9 p.m. after the stranded people apparently summoned help.
Police and fire companies initially staged on Irondale Road, but couldn’t readily access the island from there. They moved to the Fernville side of the creek, where they reached the victims, who were about two miles from town along Creek Road.

Mom arraigned in alleged meth fire case

DANVILLE — A Danville woman whose Chamber Street residence was destroyed Tuesday in a fire caused by an alleged meth lab explosion is now locked up on charges that she participated in the drug making with her boyfriend and a friend.

Nikki K. Doebler, 40, had at first denied taking part in making the methamphetamine.

But on Wednesday, she told Danville police that while she was trying to break her addiction to the drug, she had been involved in making it, arrest papers say,

PennDOT hopes to reopen Route 11 south of Danville by tonight

POINT TWP. — A rock slide that shut down Route 11 on Tuesday about a half-mile south of Bald Top Road should be cleared enough by tonight to open two northbound lanes and one southbound lane, a PennDOT spokeswoman said.

The road has been shut down since Tuesday due to a rock slide.

Currently, it's closed from just north of the Point Drive-In movie theater to just south of Danville at the Montour County line.

A detour is in place using Ridge Road, Route 147, Route 642 and Route 54.

Six displaced by Danville fire

DANVILLE — A two-alarm fire chased six people out of a double-home in the 300 block of Chamber Street near Weis Markets here shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday, including an older couple who had lived in one side of the home for nearly four decades.

Kenneth Millar, 78, a retired textile worker, and his wife, Judith, 69, huddled in blankets on a street corner with other family members as about 80 volunteer firemen from three counties descended on the  smoky blaze that quickly spread through the second story of 321 Chamber St. 

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