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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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Last Updated: June 2, 2020 - 5:26pm

By 5 p.m., crowds had grown to a couple hundred protestors filling the area between Main Street and Third Street, displaying signs, with police keeping watch on the gathering.

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Last Updated: May 22, 2020 - 5:50pm

Montour County is among 17 Pennsylvania counties that on May 29 will move into the least-restrictive “green” phase of the state’s coronavirus mitigation measures, Gov. Tom Wolf announced...

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Last Updated: May 21, 2020 - 6:54pm

BERWICK — More than 20 feet of concrete soffit from the former Geppetto's crashed onto the sidewalk below on Thursday afternoon, leading the borough to close off the sidewalk around the...

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Last Updated: May 18, 2020 - 5:23pm

BERWICK — Police found a bloodied man in an apartment in the 100 block of North Mulberry Street this morning, setting off a daylong investigation that still wasn't completed as of late...

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Last Updated: May 18, 2020 - 5:29pm

BERWICK — An ongoing landlord-tenant dispute turned violent here Monday morning when police say an 81-year-old landlord tried to stab two people with a screwdriver and threatened another...

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