Crime and Courts
Published on January 25, 2024 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- A wanted Bloomsburg man had a baggie of methamphetamine on him when police spotted him at a local laundromat, charges say. Christopher...
Published on January 25, 2024 - Page 18
WASHINGTONVILLE -- Two men are facing charges after State Police pulled them over in Derry Township, finding loaded firearms and illegally harvested...
Published on January 24, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A federal lawsuit against Columbia County over the restraint chair death of a teen inmate in June 2019 will be allowed to proceed to...
Published on January 24, 2024 - Page 1
BERWICK -- A Berwick man is facing multiple charges after conservation officers say he lied to them about his identity, claiming he was his brother...
Published on January 24, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Bloomsburg man dropped another man's $1,200 smartphone down a storm drain following a bar fight downtown, arrest papers say. Now he's...
Published on January 24, 2024 - Page 3
SCOTT TWP. — Two people are each facing fines of $200 after being cited for harassment in separate incidents, district court papers say. Kayla...
Published on January 23, 2024 - Page 1
BRIAR CREEK -- A couple faces endangerment charges after a 4-month-old was burned here while they were arguing, police say.
Richard Leroy Smethers,...
Published on January 23, 2024 - Page 1
BERWICK -- A Berwick man accused of beating and imprisoning his girlfriend saw the charges against him dismissed Monday after she testified she didn'...
Published on January 23, 2024 - Page 3
BERWICK -- A woman who allegedly fired her gun repeatedly through a living room window toward a golf course shortly before her boyfriend fatally shot...
Published on January 23, 2024 - Page 3
BERWICK -- A Bloomsburg man allegedly had marijuana and drug paraphernalia when police and probation officers searched his home Dec. 31.
Bloomsburg...
Published on January 22, 2024 - Page 1
Press Enterprise staff report
BERWICK -- A borough man tried to break into his ex-girlfriend's residence here, kicking in her apartment door before...
Published on January 22, 2024 - Page 1
Press Enterprise staff report
BRIAR CREEK TWP. -- An Orangeville man is facing DUI and drug charges after police say he rolled his Jeep onto its roof...
Published on January 21, 2024 - Page 1
SOUTH CENTRE TWP. -- An argument over a living room chair Thursday led to a son being charged with harassing and making terroristic threats against...
Published on January 21, 2024 - Page 1
BERWICK -- A Berwick woman attacked her husband when he confronted her about her alcohol use around 11:50 p.m. on Jan. 8, police said.
Cerah Eliza...
Published on January 21, 2024 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- The following marriage licenses were issued during November 2023 in Columbia County:
* Keith Allen Leighow, Benton, son of the late...
Published on January 21, 2024 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- The following marriage licenses were issued during December in Columbia County:
* David Anthony Kasputis, Berwick, son of the late...
Published on January 21, 2024 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- The following divorces were granted during November in Columbia County:
* Amber Hess, Bloomsburg, from Brian Vincent, Bloomsburg;...
Published on January 21, 2024 - Page 5
LIME RIDGE -- A broken water main left 55 customers without water for several hours Saturday, the water company said.
Veolia spokeswoman Leigh Ann...
Published on January 20, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- The three new apartment buildings on the old Bloomsburg Mills property are at the center of a six-figure dispute over sewer fees.
On...
Published on January 20, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A rural Berwick man was found guilty Friday of choking and beating a longtime girlfriend, then endangering their two young girls in a...
Published on January 20, 2024 - Page 5
NORTH CENTRE TWP. -- A man arrested for allegedly abusing a former girlfriend a year ago now stands accused of beating his current girlfriend at his...
Published on January 19, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- The legal fight by three anti-maskers convicted and sentenced for defiant trespass at Southern Columbia Area is not over yet, their...
Published on January 19, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- One of two Bloomsburg University students charged in a fight that injured two other men on Lightstreet Road last fall has pleaded...
Published on January 18, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- Three people arrested and convicted for defying a mask mandate at a Southern Columbia Area school board meeting in September 2021 have...
Published on January 18, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A second person has been charged with squatting inside a downtown apartment with a woman here while it was vacant last summer.
Matthew...
Published on January 18, 2024 - Page 1
BERWICK -- A Berwick man is accused of accosting a woman and knocking her mother to the ground after forcing his way inside a residence in the 300...
Published on January 18, 2024 - Page 3
CATAWISSA -- Two borough residents face distribution and drug use charges after a confidential informant said children had gotten into their drug...
Published on January 17, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A man was convicted at trial Tuesday on six felony crimes for possessing artificially-made gun frames that could be used to make...
Published on January 16, 2024 - Page 1
ARISTES -- State Game Wardens caught a Girardville man allegedly hunting whitetail deer on state game lands on a Sunday in Conyngham Township....
Published on January 16, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Bloomsburg woman is charged with making a drug deal last summer and more recently possessing a pipe used to smoke drugs when picked...