Last Updated: January 22, 2014 - 4:26pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A former Bloomsburg University student is not guilty of rape, a jury announced this afternoon.
Lemuel Darrell was acquitted to end a two-day trial in Columbia County Court....
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Last Updated: January 22, 2014 - 1:45pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A furnace exploded in a home in Bloomsburg early this morning, knocking a man who was sleeping in the first floor above it across the room, into a wall, officials said.
The...
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Last Updated: January 22, 2014 - 6:25am
The cold weather has every school district in the area delaying opening for two hours this morning. Here's the complete list, compiled from wnep.com and whlmam.com:
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Last Updated: January 21, 2014 - 6:38pm
BLOOMSBURG -- A woman who said she was raped by a friend in a college dorm admitted flirting and having slept in the same bed with him in the past.
But the woman, a Bloomsburg University...
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Last Updated: January 21, 2014 - 10:12am
A storm is shutting schools down early today, as forecasters expect between 2-4 inches of snow to fall in our area through evening hours.
All week, meteorologists have been trying to...
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Last Updated: January 20, 2014 - 3:35pm
SOUTH CENTRE TWP. -- Central Columbia students had a little fun at Berwick's expense Saturday night when the student section at the boys basketball game came dressed as characters from "...
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Last Updated: January 20, 2014 - 5:34pm
PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. -- Four people from a Bloomsburg University outdoors group doing a winter hike on New Hampshire's Mount Washington took shelter in a snow cave Sunday after they lost...
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Last Updated: January 17, 2014 - 6:55pm
LIME RIDGE -- A small fire in a laboratory testing area of the Del Monte pet food plant was quickly put out Friday afternoon, but not before a small amount of acid used for testing was...
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Last Updated: January 16, 2014 - 3:12pm
Central Columbia schools lowered flags today to half-staff in remembrance of former teacher, coach and athletic director Don Engle, who died Thursday morning, said Central Superintendent...
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Last Updated: January 16, 2014 - 6:03pm
DANVILLE -- Old knob-and-tube wiring is to blame for a Danville fire that destroyed a woman's home and killed her two cats, fire officials say.
Christine Fishburn was out running errands...
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Last Updated: January 16, 2014 - 2:32pm
BERWICK -- A man called 9-1-1 from a stolen phone early Thursday to report that someone was shooting at a Berwick Offray plant, police say.
The whole report was fake, but more than two...
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Last Updated: January 15, 2014 - 7:57pm
By SUSAN SCHWARTZ and PETER KENDRON
Press Enterprise Writers
BERWICK -- Police swarmed a car Wednesday after an officer spotted a suspect in a Christmas Eve robbery sitting in the...
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Last Updated: January 15, 2014 - 4:27pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Nathan Steimling was sentenced this morning to 41/2 to 10 years in prison in the drug death of friend Trichelle Grove, 23, Catawissa.
Steimling broke down and cried Wednesday...
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Last Updated: January 15, 2014 - 3:10pm
FRANKLIN TWP. -- Southern Columbia will pay $130,000 to settle a civil case claiming the district failed to protect an assault victim from intimidation by her attackers while all three...
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