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Last Updated: February 27, 2016 - 10:19pm

DANVILLE — A family of seven was displaced after flames tore through the second story and attic of their home here Saturday night.

The Colemans were at home inside 405 Church St....

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Last Updated: February 27, 2016 - 8:01pm

BUCKHORN — A woman loaded a shopping cart with 30 containers of baby formula  — worth about $786 — and tried to walk out of Wal-Mart late Friday without paying, police say.

When...

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Last Updated: February 27, 2016 - 12:01pm

BLOOMSBURG — A man demanded valuables from three students living in a Glenn Avenue apartment before fleeing empty handed early this morning, police say.

Now authorities are...

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Last Updated: February 26, 2016 - 4:56pm

MAHONING TWP. — Dress-down days at Geisinger have ended so patients can more easily identify employees by their uniforms, a spokesman said.

The policy change was announced to...

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Last Updated: February 26, 2016 - 2:10pm

DANVILLE — The Danville High School girls' basketball team has a playoff game versus Mifflinburg at 6 tonight at Shikellamy High School. A listing in Friday's edition was incorrect. ...

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Last Updated: February 25, 2016 - 5:32pm

BLOOMSBURG – An alumnus has given $2.5 million to the Bloomsburg University Foundation and the school’s capital campaign, which will help support its business school’s supply-chain...

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Last Updated: February 25, 2016 - 4:31pm

CATAWISSA — A man who allegedly groped his 18-year-old home health aide assured a judge Thursday that he wouldn’t try to contact the victim.

“I don’t want nothing to do with her...

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Last Updated: February 24, 2016 - 5:07pm

BERWICK — A team of police and state agents arrested a man they say was making methamphetamine in the basement of the house he shared with his father and sister.

According to...

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Last Updated: February 24, 2016 - 11:47am

HARRISBURG — The Northumberland County prothonotary has been arrested and charged with stealing more than $12,000 from a scholarship and memorial fund for a wrestling coach, according to...

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Last Updated: February 23, 2016 - 4:51pm

BLOOMSBURG — A father has pleaded no contest to charges that he abused the youngest of his two small children when the boy was only 2 months old.

Matthew J. Sacks, 27, of 909...

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Last Updated: February 23, 2016 - 4:46am

DANVILLE — A masked man with a broken gun tried to rob the Burger King here Monday, but he fled without any cash.

It may be because an employee laughed at the robber and his...

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Last Updated: February 22, 2016 - 4:32pm

BERWICK — A Central Columbia teacher accused of groping a student agreed to send all charges on to county court Monday while the teen waited, ready to testify against him, in a nearby...

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Last Updated: February 22, 2016 - 11:32am

MIFFLINVILLE -- A tractor-trailer crash closed Interstate 80 eastbound between the Mifflinville and Conyngham interchanges for roughly five hours Monday morning, PennDOT says.

A...

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Last Updated: February 18, 2016 - 4:28pm

CATAWISSA — Two Columbia County prison guards charged with selling drugs to inmates and parolees are “actively addicted” to drugs themselves and in need of immediate drug recovery...

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