Last Updated: March 17, 2013 - 3:04pm
BERWICK -- Fire ripped through a trailer in Berwick about 5:30 a.m. Sunday, but smoke alarms alerted the sleeping family inside, fire officials said.
Flames destroyed the mobile home at...
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Last Updated: March 15, 2013 - 8:42pm
BRIAR CREEK TWP. -- A 23-year-old man died in a fiery crash when the car he was driving veered off the road and hit a tree early Friday.
Police identified the victim as Curtis Tyrrell, 42...
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Last Updated: March 15, 2013 - 5:04am
LIGHTSTREET -- Denny's restaurant was evacuated Thursday night after a haze of smoke filled the kitchen area, firefighters said.
Crews were still using thermal-imaging cameras as of 9:50 p...
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Last Updated: March 14, 2013 - 3:52pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A man charged with delivering the punch that led to another man's brain trauma says he took the swing in self defense.
Justin Santore was walking down Center Street at 2:30 a...
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Last Updated: March 13, 2013 - 6:03pm
MAHONING TWP. -- Betty Yoder, a resident of Grandview Health Homes, said she was beset with grief in 2009 when her husband and primary caregiver died. That same year, she also lost a leg...
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Last Updated: March 13, 2013 - 3:24pm
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope. He is the first pontiff from Americas.
Bergoglio has chosen the name Pope Francis.
Cardinals elected the new...
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Last Updated: March 12, 2013 - 7:08pm
BERWICK -- Relatives of a man accused of stalking a teenage girl after her father put a stop to their sexual relationship say the girl lied about her age.
Christopher David Lyons Sr., 27,...
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Last Updated: March 13, 2013 - 1:03pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Town Police are looking for the man who was seen in the vicinity of a fight or assault on Iron Street near Main Street this past Friday, March 8, around 2:38 a.m.
The man...
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Last Updated: March 11, 2013 - 7:17pm
VALLEY TWP. -- A Danville woman who allegedly stabbed her boyfriend early Monday later said she would kill herself if she has to go to jail.
Despite that warning, Betty Jo Gross, 38, wound...
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Last Updated: March 9, 2013 - 6:11pm
HERSHEY - Benton senior Zain Retherford (138 pounds) won the second state wrestling title of his career, defeating former teammate Seth Lansberry of Line Mountain during the finals at the...
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Last Updated: April 10, 2013 - 5:35pm
BERWICK -- A man accused of making meth says the drug ingredients found at his house belonged to homeless people he had taken in.
"I'm innocent," said David J. Mackes, 39, Briar Creek,...
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Last Updated: March 8, 2013 - 9:04pm
HERSHEY -- Benton middleweights Zain Retherford (138 pounds) and Colt Cotten (145) punched their tickets to tomorrow's PIAA Class AA finals with victories during the semifinals on Friday...
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Last Updated: February 9, 2015 - 3:49pm
BENTON -- Just four days into his term, Calvin Musser stepped down from the Benton school board after the word "nigger" was discovered under the heading "favorite quotations" on his...
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Last Updated: March 7, 2013 - 6:32pm
HERSHEY -- Benton sits in second place in the team standings in the PIAA Class AA Championships. The Tigers have 14 points and trail only Bethlehem Catholic (20.5 points).
Southern...
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