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Last Updated: March 4, 2019 - 4:24pm

BERWICK — Frank Sheptock, Berwick’s head football coach and athletic director, is resigning to take a new job with King’s College, the superintendent says.

Superintendent Wayne...

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Last Updated: March 4, 2019 - 4:06pm

Here are the school delays brought on by the snow overnight:

• Benton - two-hour delay

• Berwick - two-hour delay

• Bloomsburg - two-hour delay

• Central...

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Last Updated: March 1, 2019 - 5:59am

Here's a list of school delays due to this morning's snow:

• Benton - two-hour delay

• Berwick - two-hour delay 

• Bloomsburg - two-hour delay

• Central...

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Last Updated: February 26, 2019 - 9:09pm

MONTOUR TWP. — A woman was rescued from a frigid Susquehanna River after she jumped from the Catawissa river bridge here Tuesday evening.
Police say the woman is in critical...

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Last Updated: February 26, 2019 - 2:53pm

DANVILLE – A woman whose car rolled over on the road from Aristes to Mount Carmel on Monday was listed in critical condition at Geisinger Medical Center Tuesday, a spokesperson said....

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Last Updated: February 25, 2019 - 4:19pm

ELYSBURG — A Friday night fight between twin brothers at the home of their parents ended with one brother firing several rounds from a handgun into the grill of his twin’s pickup, court...

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Last Updated: February 22, 2019 - 4:34pm

BERWICK — Drug use here is skyrocketing, the police chief says, even though the amount of overall crime last year seemed to hold steady.

Berwick police made 109 heroin-related...

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Last Updated: February 21, 2019 - 5:45pm

ASHLAND — A fire has leveled five row homes and damaged three other structures in this borough, just under Columbia County's southern tip.

The fire, which started before 3 p.m. on...

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Last Updated: February 21, 2019 - 11:29am

Here's a list of the schools closing or delaying the opening bell today because of an overnight snow storm:

• Benton - CLOSED

• Berwick - CLOSED

• Bloomsburg -...

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Last Updated: February 20, 2019 - 2:51pm

BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a thief who broke into two town laundromats on Monday. 

Police said a white male entered the Wash...

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Last Updated: February 20, 2019 - 2:14pm

LIGHTSTREET — A Berwick man driving a service repair truck slammed into the rear of an oversize tractor trailer along I-80 Wednesday morning after the big rig lost engine power and began...

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Last Updated: February 20, 2019 - 1:01pm

As of 6:45 a.m., a number of schools have shut down due to the threat of snow. They include:

• Benton, CLOSED

• Berwick, CLOSED

• Bloomsburg, CLOSED

• Central...

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Last Updated: February 18, 2019 - 4:26pm

BLOOMSBURG — The owners of the Pizza Hut here plan to start rebuilding now that an insurance review of the damage done when a pickup truck smashed into the restaurant is complete.

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Last Updated: February 15, 2019 - 11:49am

BLOOMSBURG — A gunshot heard early Friday outside a student house on Pine Street sent police rushing into the neighborhood but no suspect or suspects could be located.

No one was...

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