A submitted photo printed on Page 9 of today's Press Enterprise shows a jack o' lantern mushroom, which is a toxic mushroom, according to multiple mushroom foragers who have contacted the Press Enterprise newsroom.
We'll have more on the difference between edible chicken of the woods mushrooms and toxic jack o' lanterns in Wednesday's paper.
By SUSAN SCHWARTZ
Press Enterprise Writer
BEACH HAVEN — Fire engulfed a house here late Sunday night, devouring the structure and killing a dog, the fire chief said.
However, no one was living in the house, which had recently been sold at a sheriff’s sale, said Salem Township Fire Chief Lee Smith.
The blaze at 129 Walnut Drive was reported around 11:30 p.m. by a neighbor, he said.
Officer Raymond Tonkinson was among the first at the scene; flames had already swallowed the two-story house.
BLOOMSBURG — Joseph Ten Eyck, who police say shot a man during a robbery attempt in town Friday night turned himself in to State Police Wednesday morning.
Ten Eyck, 19, 2890 Lackawanna Avenue, Bloomsburg, was arraigned by District Judge Russell Lawton on charges that include attempted homicide before being jailed for lack of $250,000 cash bail.
BLOOMSBURG — A man out for a walk came upon someone collapsed on a sidewalk with at least two gunshot wounds near Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital Friday night.
Police Chief Scott Price said a little more than an hour after the man was found, police had two crime scenes — the hospital parking lot and another off Irondale Road.
BERWICK – State Police evacuated the Sheetz here Friday for about three hours while they investigated a suspicious package left at the front of the building.
Police evacuated the Sheetz on West Front Street, Route 11, around 12:15 p.m. and deployed a robot at the scene. Soon after, an officer in protective gear approached the package.
A state trooper later told the Press Enterprise that the report of a bomb was deemed non-credible.
For a full story, read Saturday's edition of the Press Enterprise.
BLOOMSBURG — Witnesses told police a teen fired a gun before fleeing into the fairgrounds during a confrontation on Anthony Avenue Friday night.
Bloomsburg Police Chief Scott Price said officers were kept busy Friday with two possibly related incidents involving an ongoing “beef” between two groups of juveniles.
BLOOMSBURG — A teen fired a gun in the Staples parking lot here Tuesday night before fleeing in a car toward Fifth Street, the police chief said.
Press Enterprise Writer
BLOOMSBURG — Someone fired a gun in the Staples parking lot here Tuesday night before fleeing in a car toward Fifth Street, the police chief said.
Scott Price said no one was hit in what may have been a “drug deal gone bad” in the lot located in the Giant Plaza along Route 11 near the Scott Township line.
NANTICOKE — The friend found holding 17-year-old Hunter Sipple after the teen was shot was charged Tuesday with causing his death.
Michael Crawn Jr., 18, of Nanticoke, was playing with a gun when it discharged, sending a bullet through Hunter’s chest, charges say.
HARRISBURG — It took a jury just over six hours to decide the Bloomsburg University and the State System of Higher Education had wrongfully targeted and fired a business school dean after he helped a secretary report allegations of improper conduct by BU‘s president in 2018.
In all, the panel of four women and three men awarded Jeffrey Krug more than $3.9 million in total damages just after noon on Tuesday,