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The PE Sneak Peek: Jan. 28, 2014

Here's a look at the stories that are keeping our reporters busy Tuesday: * A man crashed a truck and fled into the cold last night, setting police and firefighters on a search. We'll have the latest. * "It won't happen again," says a 76-year-old woman facing charges of drunken driving. "It was just a foolish thing to do." * The local people sickened on vacation will be getting reimbursement from Royal Caribbean. Read the details.

AG: At least 22 overdose on heroin mix now selling in Pa.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Twenty-two people have died in the past week in western Pennsylvania from a suspected overdose of a mix of heroin and the powerful narcotic fentanyl, Attorney General Kathleen Kane said Monday. Kane's tally came a day after Allegheny County's medical examiner said 17 people died over the past week and called the deaths a "major public health crisis."

NE Pa. jail guard fired over alleged assaults on female inmates

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- A northeastern Pennsylvania prison guard charged with sexually assaulting five female inmates has been fired. Lackawanna County prison officials said 49-year-old Joe Black of Dickson City was let go Friday after a hearing. Earlier this month, he was charged with assaulting the women at the county prison between 2002 and 2011.

Cold delays school openings

As of 6 a.m., it was 4 degrees Farenheit in Bloomsburg, but felt like -14 degrees, according to Accuweather. By 10 a.m., Accuweather predicts the temperature will climb to 8 degrees, and feel like 3 degrees out. Here's a list of schools trying to wait out the cold with a two-hour delay, according to wnep.com and whlmam.com * Benton Area, two-hour delay * Berwick Area, two-hour delay * Bloomsburg Area, two-hour delay * Bloomsburg Christian, two-hour delay * Central Columbia, two-hour delay

Bloomsburg University Salaries

Bloomsburg University is the largest employer in Columbia County with more than 900 permanent employees on staff. We've compiled the lists of what the university paid its workers for the following years: * 2014-15* 2013-14Back to What People Earn

Student sets self on fire in apparent suicide attempt

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (AP) -- A 16-year-old boy set himself on fire at a suburban Denver high school on Monday in an apparent suicide attempt that left him critically injured, authorities said. The boy didn't make any threats before starting the fire in the cafeteria at Standley Lake High School at about 7:15 a.m., Westminster Police Department spokeswoman Cheri Spottke said. A custodian was able to use a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze before it could spread, Spottke said. Several other students were in the cafeteria at the time, but none were injured.

The PE Sneak Peek: Jan. 27, 2014

Here's a look at the stories that are keeping our reporters busy Monday: * No day at the beach: Some local residents were aboard the cruise ship where hundreds where stricken by a stomach bug. See what we have on the story so far. * A convicted molester returns in handcuffs to face new charges. He "ruined my childhood," the alleged victim testifies.

Odd call: Blowing nose brings big buck running

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The deer hunter figured sneezing had blown his chance at a deer, but blowing his nose brought a big buck running. Ron Manning of Hinds County said he's hunted deer for 54 years and had never seen anything like what happened earlier this month -- though he did once see a deer that tried to eat grape bubble gum and got gum all over itself, he told The Clarion-Ledger (http://on.thec-l.com/1hAMlHh).

Police: Pa. teen stole car, gun, fired at trooper

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A 16-year-old boy allegedly stole a car and a gun and then fired once at a state trooper who stopped him on a Pennsylvania interstate Sunday morning, state police said. Sean Patrick Sellers, of Mifflinburg, is being charged as an adult after police said he fired once at Trooper Michael Quinn around 7 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 81 near Chambersburg, about 50 miles southwest of Harrisburg. The trooper fired back, but neither man was injured. Sellers was waiting to be arraigned Sunday night and it wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney.

Md. mall gunman was avid skater, no criminal past

COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) -- The gunman who killed two people at a Maryland mall was a teenage skateboarding enthusiast who had no criminal record before he showed up at the shopping center armed with a shotgun, plenty of ammunition and a backpack filled with crude homemade explosives, authorities said Sunday.