BLOOMSBURG — Flames erupted in the home of a professional musician Sunday morning, ruining both the trailer and an unknown number of musical instruments.
Jeff Eichner, 63, was at church when the fire began at his home at 52 Lincoln Ave. around 11:30 a.m.
DANVILLE — Danville’s quest to claim a state title in high school football will go on without Mike Brennan at the helm.
The long-time coach who most recently led the Ironmen to one of their best seasons in school history resigned from Danville on Thursday. He was approved to take over as Graduation Coach, a non-football coaching position, at Pottsville Area High School during during that school district's Wednesday night board meeting.
MEXICO — A Danville School District bus carrying a dozen children wound up hanging over a creek when its driver mistook a pull-off for nearby Narehood Road and slid off Mexico Road Thursday morning.
None of the children nor the driver appeared injured, but neighbors said they were scared after being removed from the unstable bus.
MONTOUR TWP. — Fire engulfed a woman's trailer home here early Sunday within minutes of her initially spotting smoke seeping out of heat vents on the floor.
“You could hardly breathe,” said Sheila Kressler, 60. She woke up to smoke filling her 80-foot trailer shortly after 2 a.m.
BLOOMSBURG — A Columbia County jury Friday convicted all three defendants of defiant trespass for their refusal to “mask up or leave” while attending a Southern Columbia school board meeting during the COVID pandemic.
Defense lawyer Greg Stapp said he expects to appeal the guilty verdicts against Elaine Barnhart, 72, Gary R. Krum, 71, and Kathrine Ann Detweiler, 46, all of the Catawissa area.
HARRISBURG — After being a staple of the Pennsylvania Farm Show for 11 years, collecting a series of royal titles, the reigning Rabbit Queen is preparing to step aside.
RUPERT - Fire burned a home to the ground early Thursday as firefighters struggled to get water up a steep hill to reach it.
The blaze at 86 Harp Lane, along a winding road off Hollow Road, was reported around 4 a.m.
Catawissa volunteers radioed they could see the glow from their firehouse more than a mile away.
COOPER TWP. — A woman apparently crashed her SUV into an embankment, sending it rolling across the highway, through a guardrail and down a 25-foot drop to the railroad tracks below.
But the woman, whom a relative identified as Aubree Shafer, emerged from the wreckage of her Kia Sportage with what looked like only minor injuries.
The accident happened around 1:20 p.m. Monday.
State Police stationed in Milton said the driver was headed west on River Drive toward Danville.
ARISTES — The ex-boyfriend of the woman shot to death in Geisinger Medical Center’s parking lot appears to have shot himself in the head while speeding down Route 42, the county coroner says.
David Morgan, 48, of Mount Carmel, then crashed his vehicle, which burst into flame, said Columbia County Coroner Jeremy Reese.
He was flung from the vehicle and died of the single gunshot wound and injuries from the collision, Reese said.
The autopsy was done Wednesday by Dr. Crystal Magno, a forensic pathologist with Forensic Pathology Associates in Allentown.
BERWICK — A boy playing with a lighter started a quick-moving fire that burned down his family’s home on Wednesday, his father said.
Terry Bogart, 48, of 1307 Rear Ferris Ave. said he was asleep in his mobile home when one of his 10-year-old twin boys ran in to tell him a curtain in the home was on fire around 10:20 a.m.