Last Updated: October 15, 2016 - 10:40pm
MAHONING TWP. — A 12-year-old boy kidnapped at knife point was abandoned at the Geisinger Woodbine Outpatient Clinic, police here say.
Geisinger security officers called Mahoning...
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Last Updated: October 13, 2016 - 3:31pm
BERWICK — A pickup truck driven by a 17-year-old boy was T-boned by oncoming traffic, then hit a house before coming to rest back on Front Street early Thursday, police said.
Both...
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Last Updated: October 10, 2016 - 4:44pm
BRIAR CREEK TWP. — A 20-year-old man working on a car was pinned beneath the vehicle when the jack collapsed, but some quick-thinking bystanders were able to free him.
Steven...
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Last Updated: October 10, 2016 - 12:47pm
HEMLOCK TWP. — The Columbia County coroner has ruled three drug-related deaths this year as homicides, he said, and charges have been filed in two of the cases.
The third, in...
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Last Updated: October 7, 2016 - 3:22pm
BERWICK — Police raided a Spring Garden Avenue apartment early Friday, seizing 49 bags of heroin and a stolen assault rifle before taking two men into custody on drug-dealing charges. ...
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Last Updated: October 6, 2016 - 3:24pm
BLOOMSBURG — A man put a woman in a choke hold and slammed her to the sidewalk as he searched her for money, police say. And it all allegedly happened at the woman’s sister’s request....
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Last Updated: September 30, 2016 - 4:26pm
BRIAR CREEK TWP. — A fire marshal is investigating the cause of a late-night blaze that decimated a trailer home in Dogwood Terrace here Thursday.
Firefighters were called to 42...
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Last Updated: September 28, 2016 - 2:42pm
PINE TWP. — For a year, items in Nicole Stewart’s house — her underwear, her perfume bottles, and her jewelry dish — seemed to vanish or move, she says.
Her boyfriend, Dale...
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Last Updated: September 28, 2016 - 1:50pm
SCRANTON – Geisinger Health System will buy a recently formed medical colllege here to form the new Geisinger Commonwealth College of Medicine, if regulatory agencies approve.
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Last Updated: September 26, 2016 - 6:22pm
SALEM TWP. — Baggies of rice with flyers from the Ku Klux Klan were left at the homes of at least seven Hispanic and black residents on the 800 block of East Third Street here Saturday...
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Last Updated: September 26, 2016 - 6:06pm
BLOOMSBURG — A convicted sex offender selling Nazi flags and vulgar stickers at the Bloomsburg Fair was forced to close up shop Monday afternoon.
First, officials confiscated 32...
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Last Updated: September 24, 2016 - 6:16am
BLOOMSBURG — A “sizeable” fire erupted in a building attached to the supply silos for Autoneum here, but firefighters quickly knocked it down.
It’s lucky it didn’t spread, said...
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Last Updated: September 23, 2016 - 4:06pm
BLOOMSBURG — Professors at Bloomsburg University and other state colleges will walk off the job Oct. 19 if they're still working under the terms of an expired contract, a union official...
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Last Updated: September 22, 2016 - 7:11pm
BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg head football coach Anthony Russo is serving a two-game suspension after a very heated, very public argument with the school’s superintendent, according to one...
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