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Last Updated: March 28, 2019 - 6:17pm

BLOOMSBURG — A man considered armed and dangerous is being sought by Town Police as the suspect who fled officers Wednesday afternoon, dropping a loaded handgun as he fled the vicinity...

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Last Updated: March 27, 2019 - 4:40pm

DANVILLE — A piece of Geisinger Medical Center’s campus that has been there since the hospital’s founding 104 years ago will soon disappear when the building for its former School of...

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Last Updated: March 26, 2019 - 4:29pm

BERWICK — Police are looking for a Berwick man they say repeatedly locked two children in closets as punishment.

The youngsters, ages 9 and 5, also told police they slept in the...

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Last Updated: March 20, 2019 - 4:40pm

BLOOMSBURG — A longtime accounting specialist for the Columbia-Montour Boy Scouts of America pleaded guilty  Wednesday to stealing more than $5,000 from the local council.

Joyce A...

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Last Updated: March 19, 2019 - 1:18pm

BERWICK — A whim won a Berwick man $2.49 million dollars, according to a press release from the...

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Last Updated: March 18, 2019 - 4:14pm

CLEVELAND TWP. — A 70-year-old man who was cutting trees along side his driveway was killed when one landed on top of him, police say.

Donald Jeffrey of 622 Pine Swamp Road used...

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Last Updated: March 15, 2019 - 10:51am

ESPY — A small car careened into two homes along the 2300 block of Old Berwick Road here early Friday, damaging one of them extensively and sending the driver and two passengers to the...

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Last Updated: March 14, 2019 - 4:13pm

DANVILLE — The Danville Area School District will continue to pay resigned Superintendent Jason Bendle’s salary and health care for a full year, unless he finds other employment,...

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Last Updated: March 12, 2019 - 6:27pm

SALEM TWP. — A Berwick woman whose car drifted out onto East Front Street allegedly struck an ambulance transporting a man to the hospital here Tuesday morning.

Sheher Dano, 27,...

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Last Updated: March 11, 2019 - 11:57am

BERWICK — The winner of the biggest pot in the 27-year history of Cash 5 bought his or her ticket from the Sheetz convenience store in Berwick.

Someone who purchased a Cash 5 with...

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Last Updated: March 11, 2019 - 6:10am

BLOOMSBURG — An early morning fire Monday chased a woman from her house and brought firefighters from across the area to West 11th Street here.

Toni Kester, 51, was asleep in a...

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Last Updated: March 8, 2019 - 3:52pm

ELYSBURG — A chain-reaction crash sent one person to a hospital and damaged three vehicles Friday morning along Route 487 in the area of the Masonic Lodge.

Westbound traffic was...

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Last Updated: March 7, 2019 - 7:16pm

BERWICK — Holy Family School has been saved.

The Diocese of Harrisburg and Bishop Ronald W. Gainer announced Thursday night that they had reversed their decision to close the...

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Last Updated: March 7, 2019 - 4:45pm

BLOOMSBURG — If Gov. Tom Wolf manages to pass a severance tax through the state legislature, it could mean millions of dollars to help make Columbia County more floodproof, he said at a...

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