Last Updated: May 27, 2016 - 9:46am
PINE TWP. — A couple barely escaped their burning home here before dawn Friday morning, then watched helplessly, unable to call 9-1-1 as fire destroyed almost everything they owned....
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 25, 2016 - 1:43pm
FISHING CREEK TWP. — A 60-year-old woman died almost instantly Wednesday, officials say, when a pickup truck struck her bicycle from behind.
...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 24, 2016 - 4:16pm
MOUNT PLEASANT TWP. — A “debris field of poultry” was strewn across Interstate 80 east early Tuesday when a tractor trailer hauling live chickens struck a car and flipped over, police...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 23, 2016 - 5:05pm
BLOOMSBURG — Vandals armed with a pellet gun shot the windows out of at least 25 vehicles parked across half a dozen local municipalities, police say.
The crime spree was...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 21, 2016 - 4:13pm
SCOTT TWP. — Two injured teens had to be cut from a car after slamming into a parked van on Bentley Drive here Saturday afternoon.
Responders covered the pair with sheets to...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 21, 2016 - 11:23am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Secret Service officer shot a Schuylkill County man with a gun who approached a checkpoint outside the White House and refused to drop his weapon, the Secret...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 20, 2016 - 2:25pm
MONTOUR TWP. — A woman was dragged around 20 feet, clinging onto the side of a car as it sped off with her laptop computer near May’s Drive-In Restaurant here Thursday afternoon, police...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 19, 2016 - 5:02pm
SUGARLOAF TWP. — An Orangeville couple watched in dismay as a bicyclist collapsed and died while he riding past their small cabin in Elk Grove Thursday morning.
...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 19, 2016 - 12:27pm
BENTON — Benton schools were locked down for nearly half an hour this morning while drug-sniffing dogs were brought in for a random search, officials say.
But no illicit drugs...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 16, 2016 - 5:40pm
HEMLOCK TWP. — Georgie Moore heard a loud boom outside her house Monday morning and thought to herself, “…Not another wreck here.”
...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 12, 2016 - 7:16pm
BERWICK — Police served search warrants at two houses on Thursday afternoon, taking three people into custody on heroin charges, police said.
At 224 Line St., Apt. C, police said...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 12, 2016 - 3:28pm
BERWICK — Weis Markets may start selling beer at its grocery store here, if council members give their blessing to the idea Monday.
The company has requested permission to...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 11, 2016 - 4:20pm
BERWICK — The Berwick Theater could reopen – running first-run movies – as early as July after the Front Street landmark received a $140,000 federal grant for renovations.
...
READ MORE »
Last Updated: May 7, 2016 - 5:52pm
ORANGE TWP. — A Saturday afternoon fire heavily damaged the home Lori Ianneillo and her family built with their own hands...
READ MORE »
