Last Updated: May 20, 2019 - 3:10pm
SALEM TWP. — A group of residents from a trailer park off Stone Church Road here were stealing their neighbors’ mail and then using it to steal their identities, police say.
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Last Updated: May 19, 2019 - 6:11am
BLOOMSBURG — Flames quickly engulfed and leveled a double home in the 300 block of Fair Street near Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital early Sunday morning and spread to a college student...
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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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