Last Updated: April 15, 2013 - 5:37pm
BOSTON - Four local runners - one from Berwick and three from Danville - all finished the Boston Marathon before an explosion ripped through the crowd gathered at the finish line, according...
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Last Updated: April 15, 2013 - 10:30pm
BOSTON (AP) -- Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 130 in a bloody scene of...
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Last Updated: April 12, 2013 - 10:43pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Randall Francis, the driver police say struck a woman walking across Main Street last Friday, turned himself in to authorities and expressed remorse through his lawyer.
"Not...
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Last Updated: April 11, 2013 - 5:22pm
NORTH CENTRE TWP. -- A bloodied driver who ran away after he crashed into a tree here was collared by police before he got very far Thursday afternoon.
The man, identified as Darrin Bellum...
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Last Updated: April 10, 2013 - 7:31pm
RIVERSIDE -- The roof of the Riverside Laundromat and Tanning Salon caught fire when it was struck by lighting during Wednesday's storm, a fire chief said.
Firefighters kept damage from...
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Last Updated: April 9, 2013 - 3:45pm
EVANSVILLE -- Police aren't sure how an unhelmeted 49-year-old man drove his motorcycle off Bogart's Hill Road here Tuesday afternoon, injuring himself badly enough that he had to be flown...
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Last Updated: April 9, 2013 - 1:33pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Police have charged a local man in a hit-and-run accident that injured a woman on Main Street last Friday, and they've issued a warrant for his arrest.
Randall Scott Francis...
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Last Updated: April 8, 2013 - 3:59pm
BERWICK -- A Berwick driver trying to elude police hopped out of his still-moving pickup truck and began running away on East Front Street, police say.
William A. Christensen, 43, of 508 W...
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Last Updated: April 5, 2013 - 9:04pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Police are looking for the driver who struck a woman crossing Main Street Friday afternoon and took off.
The hit-and-run pedestrian crash happened about 4:30 p.m. on East...
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Last Updated: April 4, 2013 - 7:20pm
A controlled burn at Fort Indiantown Gap sent clouds of smoke wafting through the air as far north as Danville and Bloomsburg Thursday evening, officials say.
Reports from Lebanon County...
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Last Updated: April 4, 2013 - 3:46pm
DANVILLE -- About a half dozen people who skipped jury duty without valid excuses were called before a judge Thursday to explain themselves.
All were made to stand before the bench and...
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Last Updated: April 2, 2013 - 2:34pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Two former Bloomsburg University field hockey players were sentenced to short stays in prison for the October 2011 beating of another young woman downtown.
Lauren McGinley...
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Last Updated: April 1, 2013 - 3:00pm
WILKES-BARRE -- Seven-time DUI offender Theodore "Teddy" Luciw was sentenced to 5-10 years in state prison for the January 2012 drunk-driving accident that killed 84-year-old widow Rachel...
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Last Updated: March 28, 2013 - 4:07pm
SHAMOKIN TWP. -- A Mount Carmel driver crossed over the double-yellow lines on Route 61 and crashed head-on into a dump truck, police say.
Jonathan Morgante, 28, was headed north just...
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