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Last Updated: January 4, 2017 - 12:54pm

MONTOUR TWP. — An off-duty police officer went on a rampage, threatening family members after drinking while on prescribed medications, arrest papers say.

It took three police...

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Last Updated: January 2, 2017 - 10:44am

The following schools have canceled school today, according to WNEP and WHLM:

• Berwick Area - CLOSED

• Northwest Area - CLOSED


Last Updated: December 30, 2016 - 4:21pm

ESPY — Brandi Boyer drove the quarter of a mile from her home to Taco Bell for lunch Friday afternoon and found out her house was on fire before she even placed her order. 

Boyer...

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Last Updated: December 29, 2016 - 5:27pm

ORANGE TWP. — A truck tractor with a million miles on it suddenly erupted in flames Thursday afternoon as it sat unoccupied in the yard at Tom Bowman Trucking here.

Flames poured...

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Last Updated: December 26, 2016 - 5:19pm

FISHING CREEK TWP. — The fire that tore through Paula Hosking’s home Christmas night left part of the small, two-story home in charred ruins. 

But that’s not what Hosking, 73, was...

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Last Updated: December 23, 2016 - 5:08pm

BERWICK – Saturday marks the end of The Salvation Army's kettle campaign to raise money for its programs for needy people in the area, but it's still about $5,000 short of its goal,...

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Last Updated: December 22, 2016 - 4:19pm

BLOOMSBURG — A judge praised a rural Catawissa woman whose recovery from addiction was profiled in a recent newspaper story but also cautioned her "never take it for granted.”

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Last Updated: December 21, 2016 - 2:56pm

BLOOMSBURG — State Police have reopened the investigation of a 42-year-old unsolved murder of a motorcycle gang member whose body was dumped along Byrnsville Road near Centralia June 7,...

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Last Updated: December 20, 2016 - 4:58pm

MONTOUR TWP. — A young man who worked at Bloomsburg University was killed in a four-vehicle accident along Route 11 here Tuesday morning, police say.

The wreck left several others...

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Last Updated: December 18, 2016 - 11:40am

LIBERTY TWP. — Liberty Valley Road was closed and power is knocked out at 475 homes and businesses after a vehicle hit a nearby utility pole, authorities said.

Liberty Valley Road...

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Last Updated: December 16, 2016 - 3:57pm

MAHONING TWP. — A McAdoo man who was thrown from his pickup truck when it flipped in a violent wreck along Route 11 has died, the coroner says.

Jeff Jones, 52, was pronounced dead...

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Last Updated: December 15, 2016 - 6:20pm

MAHONING TWP. — A man was seriously injured Thursday when he was thrown from his truck as it rolled several times along Route 11 near Sheetz, police say.

The man was rushed to...

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Last Updated: December 15, 2016 - 7:28pm

BLOOMSBURG — A former pharmacy technician and his roommate used prescriptions taken illegally from the CVS here and tried to redeem them at other area pharmacies, in hopes of getting a...

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Last Updated: December 14, 2016 - 5:17pm

BLOOMSBURG — Josh Lahr still carries a bullet embedded deep in his shoulder after he says a stranger shot him outside an apartment building along Millville Road last month.

The...

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