Crime and Courts
Published on November 25, 2025 - Page 3
BRIAR CREEK -- A Berwick man caught driving without a license at least 15 times told police there are "places he needs to be," when he was stopped in...
Published on November 24, 2025 - Page 1
BERWICK -- Police say a registered sex offender groped a homeless girl as she tried to fall asleep on his couch in September.
Court papers say Ralph...
Published on November 24, 2025 - Page 1
BERWICK -- A Berwick man locked himself and his children in a bedroom earlier this month to escape an angry ex-girlfriend, court papers say.
Sharon...
Published on November 23, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Berwick man was sentenced to state prison this week for stealing power tools and other work items on three occasions from Walmart in...
Published on November 23, 2025 - Page 1
BERWICK -- Police say a man stole more than $300 in cash from a weigh station cash box at a trash hauler site here.
On Oct. 28, around 11:30 a.m.,...
Published on November 22, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Sunbury man was sentenced Thursday to spend six months in Columbia County Prison for shooting a smoke shop owner in the knee during a...
Published on November 22, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A woman who admitted using another woman's debit card to buy ice cream and beer without her permission was sentenced to jail for five...
Published on November 22, 2025 - Page 1
BERWICK -- A Berwick man unable to speak coherently or stand upright was found to be drug-impaired when police were called to the area of Rosewood...
Published on November 22, 2025 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- A Bloomsburg man charged with stealing cash out of a wallet left behind by a customer at Exxon in Buckhorn was allowed to enter...
Published on November 22, 2025 - Page 5
BLOOMSBURG -- An Espy woman is accused of shoplifting a total of $250.82 in grocery items while shopping at Weis Markets here, according to arrest...
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Bloomsburg man is accused of using a hammer to break into gaming machines at The Arcade here, according to district court papers....
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 1
DANVILLE -- A Danville man was arrested after police say he struck a driver's vehicle with his skateboard during an Oct. 31 confrontation in the...
Published on November 20, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- Town Mayor Justin Hummel was the centerpiece Wednesday on the second day of a trial in a civil lawsuit between the town and the...
Published on November 20, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Bloomsburg woman used counterfeit $100 bills at Weis Markets where store officials linked her to shoplifting on numerous occasions...
Published on November 20, 2025 - Page 1
LIGHTSTREET -- A Danville man violated the "no contact" conditions of a protective court order by messaging threats to a woman about a new boyfriend...
Published on November 19, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A trial to determine if the Bloomsburg Fair may resume auto racing on its track began Tuesday, and included testimony that before the...
Published on November 19, 2025 - Page 1
WILLIAMSPORT -- An illegal immigrant from Guatemala arrested in Bloomsburg two years ago is being deported after pleading guilty here to illegally re...
Published on November 18, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A woman from Hughesville struggled with police officers, kicking one repeatedly in the wrist as she was being restrained during a...
Published on November 18, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Ralpho Township woman was driving drunk at more than twice the legal limit when she hit a tree head-on with her car in the 500 block...
Published on November 18, 2025 - Page 3
GLEN LYON -- State Police at Shickshinny are asking the public for help with any information regarding a weekend shooting death of a 20-year-old...
Published on November 18, 2025 - Page 5
LIMESTONE TWP. -- A Turbotville man was drunk when he crashed a car into a rock embankment along County Line Road here early Oct. 26, State Police at...
Published on November 17, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Danville man awaiting trial on charges of dealing methamphetamine here instead pleaded guilty Wednesday as a Columbia County jury...
Published on November 16, 2025 - Page 1
WASHINGTONVILLE -- A man here faces charges for stealing, then scrapping more than a ton of manganese plates, court papers state.
Chevie Sullivan-...
Published on November 16, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG --A Bloomsburg couple allegedly found in the basement of a home from where they had been ordered to stay away has been charged with...
Published on November 15, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A teen charged with murdering another boy in their Pine Township home in September will remain locked up in Columbia County Prison, a...
Published on November 14, 2025 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- A Berwick man has pleaded guilty to threatening a woman who had filed a protective court order against him. Eli Gilsky, 36, of 228-A W...
Published on November 13, 2025 - Page 1
BERWICK -- A man who formerly lived in Berwick is accused of raping a 4-year-old girl in a bedroom at his home here in July, arrest papers say....
Published on November 12, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Bloomsburg man was locked up after police say he strangled another man with a cell phone charging cord while shooting pool at a...
Published on November 12, 2025 - Page 1
BRIAR CREEK -- Police say a woman stole her dying father's debit card and charged more than $3,200 to it without permission before and after his...
Published on November 12, 2025 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- Three people were cited last weekend for underage alcohol violations here, district court papers say. Vanessa DeFalco, 19, and John...