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Last Updated: August 26, 2019 - 5:58pm

BERWICK — Police here are looking for a motorist who they say fled a traffic stop, leaving behind his shoes as well as 1,000 bags of suspected heroin.

Officer Brandon Shultz didn’...

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Last Updated: August 23, 2019 - 2:25pm

BLOOMSBURG — A self-employed heating and air conditioning contractor got up for work Friday only to look outside and discover someone had stolen his work van with all his tools inside,...

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Last Updated: August 22, 2019 - 12:36pm

BERWICK — A man robbed a convenience store on Freas Avenue at gunpoint Wednesday night, and police were searching for him as of press time.

The man had approached the rear of the...

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Last Updated: August 21, 2019 - 10:23pm

ORANGE TWP. — A camper who fell down an embankment into Fishing Creek late Tuesday night — setting off a massive search-and-rescue effort — was discovered lifeless along the shore just a...

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Last Updated: August 20, 2019 - 4:30pm

BERWICK — A man and two women were busted on drug conspiracy charges after Berwick police raided a trailer on North Mercer Street early Tuesday and seized crystal meth and heroin, along...

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Last Updated: August 15, 2019 - 4:08pm

BERWICK — A torrential downpour broke over the eastern half of Columbia County on Thursday afternoon, putting some borough streets under feet of water, downing trees and generally...

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Last Updated: August 14, 2019 - 3:46pm

SCOTT TWP. — A Berwick teen pulled a knife on two younger boys at the movie theater because he believed they were making fun of him — pointing at him and laughing, arrest papers say....

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Last Updated: August 9, 2019 - 4:51pm

BRIAR CREEK — A homeless teen with a knife attacked another homeless person living inside a tent here Friday morning, resulting in a wild melee that left both hospitalized with injuries...

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Last Updated: August 8, 2019 - 4:32pm

BLOOMSBURG — A suspected trafficker had two ounces of crystal meth along with other illegal drugs and a stolen handgun locked up in a safe when town police raided his home here Wednesday...

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Last Updated: August 5, 2019 - 5:28pm

SHICKSHINNY — A tractor trailer driver was injured when he lost control of his rig on Route 11 at Furnace Street here Monday morning, shearing off utility poles and scattering its load...

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Last Updated: August 2, 2019 - 4:47pm

SALEM TWP. — A man following his daughter to a garage crashed a car into the rear of the vehicle she was driving, setting off a chain-reaction accident that damaged six vehicles.

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Last Updated: July 29, 2019 - 4:35pm

BLOOMSBURG — Two workers were electrocuted at Bloomsburg’s water plant Monday morning when the boom of a crane truck came into contact with a power line. 

Both men — ages 19 and...

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Last Updated: July 26, 2019 - 4:39pm

CATAWISSA — A former township supervisor and secretary-treasurer in Conyngham Township on Columbia County’s southern tip stole $181,000 in public money over at least five years, police...

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Last Updated: July 25, 2019 - 4:02pm

BLOOMSBURG — Dozens of state corrections officers swept through Columbia County Prison Wednesday searching for drugs and weapons — but they turned up nothing major, said Prison Warden...

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