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Last Updated: July 22, 2020 - 11:33am

An 83-year-old man was killed in his Cooper Township home late Tuesday, and state police have ruled the death a homicide.

W. John Ditzler died "during the late evening hours" in...

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Last Updated: July 20, 2020 - 7:01pm

BLOOMSBURG — A Facebook post by Bloomsburg Fair mocking state Health Secretary Rachel Levine sparked outrage Monday as it spread widely on social media.

The post featured photos...

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Last Updated: July 15, 2020 - 2:04pm

Fall sports for teams playing in the Pennsylvania State Athletics Conference, which includes Bloomsburg University, have been suspended until Jan. 1, officials announced Wednesday...

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Last Updated: July 6, 2020 - 6:54pm

Nikki Foley and her children lost everything in a fast-moving fire that engulfed their home early Monday morning.

They most urgently need a car seat and stroller for 1-year-old...

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Last Updated: July 6, 2020 - 8:06am

WAPWALLOPEN — A single mother raced up and down stairs to evacuate her five children from their burning house in the wee hours of the morning Monday.

Nikki Foley, 36, was able to...

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Last Updated: June 26, 2020 - 9:57am

MONTOUR TWP. — A boat crew found the body of a Mount Carmel man in the Susquehanna River on Friday morning, about two days after he went missing during a kayaking trip with friends....

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Last Updated: June 15, 2020 - 7:21pm

SALEM TWP. — A man arrested on a charge of child rape fled from the township police station here as an officer adjusted the man’s handcuffs after a video court proceeding, police say. ...

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Last Updated: June 15, 2020 - 2:10pm

STILLWATER — Four medical helicopters and a coroner were called to a violent two-vehicle crash on Route 487 Monday just south of Zion Church Road. 

A car with New York plates and...

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Last Updated: June 12, 2020 - 6:25pm

RIVERSIDE — Borough police here say they’re searching for Danny Hadidi, 4, and Dana Hadidi, 3 months old, who are missing from the borough. 

Both children have dark brown hair and...

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Last Updated: June 12, 2020 - 1:27pm

Luzerne County will become the final area county to move to Pennsylvania’s “green” phase of coronavirus mitigation measures when it joins others entering that designation June 19, the...

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Last Updated: June 11, 2020 - 10:49am

NESCOPECK TWP. — All lanes of Interstate 80 are shut down this morning between the interchange for Route 93 at Conyngham/Nesopeck in Luzerne County and the interchange for Route 339 in...

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Last Updated: June 5, 2020 - 5:27pm

BLOOMSBURG — Columbia and Northumberland counties will be among 12 statewide to join the Pennsylvania’s least-restrictive “green” phase of coronavirus mitigating regulations June 12, Gov...

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Last Updated: June 5, 2020 - 3:15pm

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The lockdown will get a little looser for Columbia and Northumberland county residents next Friday, when they will join Montour in the green phase of COVID-19...

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Last Updated: June 4, 2020 - 5:52pm

BLOOMSBURG — A black Bloomsburg University student went public this week with a thread of racist text messages shared among some of his white fraternity brothers that included the...

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