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Last Updated: May 17, 2019 - 3:34pm

FISHING CREEK TWP. — The owner of a flood-damaged home decided to demolish the structure Friday morning — by setting it on fire, officials say.

The blaze not only destroyed the...

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Last Updated: May 17, 2019 - 2:51pm

UPDATE: Officers say Zachary Parker is in police custody.

BERWICK — Police arrested one man on drug charges after a raid on North Mulberry Street Thursday, but...

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Last Updated: May 16, 2019 - 2:14pm

BERWICK — Berwick police and members of the Columbia-Montour SWAT team raided a home on Mulberry Street Thursday morning, shutting down part of the road and forcing residents of all...

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Last Updated: May 15, 2019 - 5:52pm

MONTOUR TWP. — A cashier at Beer-N-More stole nearly $20,000 from the business, pocketing the cash from hundreds of sales on her register last year, arrest papers say.

Anita...

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Last Updated: May 13, 2019 - 4:24pm

BLOOMSBURG — A 19-year-old inmate from Columbia County Prison is in intensive care at Geisinger Medical Center after he suffered what appeared to be a seizure over the weekend,...

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Last Updated: May 10, 2019 - 4:31pm

BLOOMSBURG — A suicidal man fired a shot inside a student housing apartment building early Friday morning before barricading himself in a bedroom, touching off a four-hour standoff with...

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Last Updated: May 8, 2019 - 4:19pm

SALEM TWP. — Bomboy Lane will be closed Thursday so that a subsided culvert under the road, near the Will-O-Bett Farms, can be replaced.

The metal culvert under the road has...

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Last Updated: May 7, 2019 - 4:46pm

CONYNGHAM TWP. — It may take workers two decades to finish the job they started in the past month — strip mining millions of tons of anthracite coal from 900 acres of land in Columbia...

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Last Updated: May 6, 2019 - 5:24pm

BERWICK —  A one-vehicle crash in front of Bandits Roadhouse on West Front Street on Monday afternoon slowed traffic and sent one person to the hospital. 

One of the bar’s owners...

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Last Updated: May 2, 2019 - 7:00pm

BLOOMSBURG — Columbia County is getting an additional $500,000 from the state to help smaller, flood-damaged communities with recovery projects that didn’t qualify for major disaster...

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Last Updated: April 30, 2019 - 5:37pm

BRIAR CREEK  — A man previously accused of pushing a 10-year-old boy’s head through a trailer wall was back in court after allegedly sexually assaulting two young girls and giving them a...

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Last Updated: April 26, 2019 - 4:22pm

BLOOMSBURG — A female inmate is accused of sexually assaulting her cell mate at the Columbia County Prison last month, arrest papers say.

Christina Marie Bradley, 36, Scranton,...

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Last Updated: April 26, 2019 - 1:23pm

MIFFLIN TWP. – A contractor is scheduled to continue repairing and improving Route 339 from Market Street to Smith Hollow Road next week, PennDOT staff reported.

The work includes...

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Last Updated: April 23, 2019 - 4:03pm

SALEM TWP. — Two pickups collided on Route 11 near its intersection with Stone Church Road around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, shutting down the road and sending rescue crews rushing to the area...

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