BERWICK — Berwick Offray is closing effective Aug. 26, leaving 380 people out of work, the company’s new owners told the state.
Sue Buchta, CEO of the ribbon and bow manufacturer, said in a letter to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry that the closure was “due to business needs.”
BERWICK — Police have arrested Vincent Lloyd Harp, 39, of Bloomsburg for killing his wife, according to a State Police press release.
Katlyn Harp, 33, had been missing since Thursday, June 19, when family said they last heard from her. That was also the day they said they last saw a location for her on a location-sharing app, at the home she shared with Vincent Harp at 20 Fairview Drive, north of Buckhorn.
BLOOMSBURG — The 115-year-old Japanese beech tree at the corner of Third and Market streets is being taken down today, after two more limbs fell off of it in a week.
Matt Aucker, facilities manager for the Ben Franklin Technology Center, which owns the tree, watched from the wrap-around porch as arborists removed it.
The U.S. military struck three sites in Iran early Sunday, inserting itself into Israel’s effort to decapitating Iran's nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.
BERWICK — Gov. Joshua Shapiro came to Berwick today to announce the data center Amazon is building in neighboring Salem Township is part of an initial $20 billion the company is investing in Pennsylvania — the largest private investment in state history.
And there is more to come, Amazon said.
DANVILLE – Firefighters were training for water rescue here Sunday morning when they ended up recovering a woman's body from the Susquehanna.
Members of the Continental Fire Company, Danville, were suited up and ready to begin water rescue exercises in Mahoning Creek when the call came in about the body around 10:30 a.m.
Mahoning Township Detective Jason Bedinsky said the body of a middle-aged woman, wearing only black shorts and a multi-colored bra, was pulled from the water east of the Danville boat launch in the township.
By DREW MUMICH
Press Enterprise Writer
WASHINGTONVILLE – State Police say a 21-year-old Orangeville man who was killed in an accident on Route 54 Wednesday night failed to stop for a flagger before hitting an oversized load.
BLOOMSBURG — The town police officer investigating the case of a dog tossed from a truck in a “makeshift sack” found his suspect the next day when he spotted the vehicle parked at AutoZone in town.
Criminal charges are being lodged against Juan De Dios Figuereo, 62, of 863 Railroad St., Bloomsburg, court papers say.
ROME – Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first U.S. pope, selected Thursday by 133 cardinals from across the globe on the second day of the papal conclave in Rome.
The new pontiff, who will go by the name Leo XIV, greeted the thousands who jammed St. Peter’s Square from the red velvet-draped central balcony at St. Peter’s Square.