Last Updated: May 2, 2013 - 6:06pm
DANVILLE -- Janette Ruth Aikey had guarded inmates at a state prison in Muncy and at Columbia County's lockup before that.
But it was her third drunken driving arrest that has put Aikey,...
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Last Updated: May 1, 2013 - 4:07pm
ORANGEVILLE -- Brandon Kile beat his girlfriend's twin daughters until they were both covered in bruises, attacking them in the darkness while they slept, charges say.
Police say Kile...
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Last Updated: May 8, 2013 - 8:34pm
SHICKSHINNY -- A woman accused of conspiring with her former fiance to make meth says she bought him ingredients to cook the drug at least 50 times.
Erin Rai Vitz, 30, told a court...
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Last Updated: April 29, 2013 - 5:48pm
BUCKHORN -- Four men walked into Walmart around 5:30 a.m. Monday, smashed out product cases behind the electronics counter and left with new Apple iPhones, police said.
Two of the men...
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Last Updated: April 29, 2013 - 10:09am
SHICKSHINNY -- A family of four was asleep when fire broke out in their West Butler Street home overnight.
All managed to escape safely, including their two dogs.
A State Police fire...
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Last Updated: April 26, 2013 - 3:37pm
BLOOMSBURG - The town will test its emergency sirens at 3 p.m. This is just a test, and it will last approximately 60 seconds, said Chief Leo Sokoloski.
The town's sirens are located at...
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Last Updated: April 26, 2013 - 12:44pm
BLOOMSBURG - Bloomsburg University's fundraising arm plans to build a five-story office building downtown with the help of a big donor.
The Bloomsburg Foundation announced Friday morning...
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Last Updated: April 25, 2013 - 2:59pm
BRIAR CREEK TWP. -- An ambulance attempting to get to an ATV rider suffering a seizure got stuck on a muddy trail Thursday afternoon, forcing rescuers to devise new plans to get at the man...
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Last Updated: May 8, 2013 - 8:34pm
BLOOMSBURG -- Three convicted meth makers were ordered to serve state prison time for their involvement in the production of the dangerous drug.
"Why anyone would do this is beyond me,"...
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Last Updated: April 24, 2013 - 7:01pm
WILKES-BARRE -- A jury has convicted Gail Schneider of Berwick on charges that she set fire to an apartment building to exact revenge on a landlord.
Schneider, 44, was placed into shackles...
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Last Updated: April 24, 2013 - 5:05pm
DANVILLE -- A fire in a home just south of here killed at least a dozen cats Wednesday, the fire chief said.
The owner, Linda Long, lives in Allentown and wasn't at her summer home when...
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Last Updated: April 24, 2013 - 4:17pm
BERWICK -- Ousted Berwick police officer Christian Wilson will spend at least a month in prison for his theft of heroin packets from evidence while he was on the force.
Wilson, 30, and his...
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Last Updated: April 23, 2013 - 4:17pm
WILKES-BARRE -- A Berwick woman suspected of setting fire to an apartment building and putting two 92-year-old women in grave danger claimed innocence on the stand Tuesday.
But Gail...
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Last Updated: April 22, 2013 - 2:12pm
DANVILLE -- A Geisinger urologist was not negligent in his care of a prostate cancer patient who died days after surgery, a jury decided Monday.
Widow Elizabeth Schoppy had sued Dr. Daniel...
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